2024 Belarusian Premier League
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9th Premier League title
Shakhtyor Soligorsk
| Season | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Dates | 14 March 2024–7 December 2024[1] |
| Champions | Dinamo Minsk 9th Premier League title |
| Relegated | Dnepr Mogilev Shakhtyor Soligorsk |
| Champions League | Dinamo Minsk |
| Conference League | Dynamo Brest Neman Grodno Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino |
| Matches | 104 |
| Goals | 244 (2.35 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Rody Effaghe (17 goals) |
| Biggest home win | BATE Borisov 6–0 Slutsk (31 May 2024) |
| Biggest away win | Slutsk 0–5 Dinamo Minsk (15 June 2024) |
| Highest scoring | Dynamo Brest 6–1 Dnepr Mogilev (15 June 2024) |
| Longest winning run | 4 matches Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino Neman Grodno Slavia Mozyr |
| Longest unbeaten run | 13 matches Dinamo Minsk |
| Longest winless run | 13 matches Minsk |
| Longest losing run | 7 matches Shakhtyor Soligorsk |
← 2023 2025 →
All statistics correct as of 23 June 2024. | |
The 2024 Belarusian Premier League (also written as Belarusbank Vyšejšaja Liha for sponsorship reasons[2][3]) was the 34th season of top-tier football in Belarus.
Dinamo Minsk successfully defended their title, winning for the second time in a row.[4]
The league consisted of sixteen teams; the top thirteen teams from the previous season, and three teams promoted from the 2023 Belarusian First League. Dinamo Minsk entered the season as defending champions.
Arsenal Dzerzhinsk and Dnepr Mogilev were promoted as champions and runners-up of the 2023 First League (replacing the bottom-placed Premier League team Belshina Bobruisk). Third-placed First League team Vitebsk defeated the second-bottom Premier League team Energetik-BGU Minsk in the 2023 Belarusian Premier League play-off, taking their place in the league.
| Team | Location | Venue | Capacity | Position in 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenal Dzerzhinsk | Dzerzhinsk | City Stadium | 1,000 | 1st (First League) |
| BATE Borisov | Borisov | Borisov Arena | 13,126 | 5th |
| Dynamo Brest | Brest | OSK Brestsky | 10,169 | 10th |
| Dinamo Minsk | Minsk | Dinamo Stadium | 22,000 | 1st |
| Dnepr Mogilev | Mogilev | Spartak Stadium | 7,350 | 2nd (First League) |
| Gomel | Gomel | Central Stadium | 14,307 | 6th |
| Isloch Minsk Raion | Minsk | FC Minsk Stadium | 3,000 | 4th |
| Minsk | Minsk | FC Minsk Stadium | 3,000 | 9th |
| Naftan Novopolotsk | Novopolotsk | Atlant Stadium | 5,300 | 12th |
| Neman Grodno | Grodno | Neman Stadium | 8,479 | 2nd |
| Shakhtyor Soligorsk | Soligorsk | Stroitel Stadium | 4,200 | 13th |
| Slavia Mozyr | Mozyr | Yunost Stadium | 5,300 | 7th |
| Slutsk | Slutsk | City Stadium | 1,896 | 8th |
| Smorgon | Smorgon | Yunost Stadium | 3,200 | 11th |
| Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino | Zhodino | Torpedo Stadium | 6,524 | 3rd |
| Vitebsk | Vitebsk | Vitebsky CSK | 8,144 | 3rd (First League) |
League table
Results
Each team plays home-and-away once against every other team for a total of 30 matches played each.
Belarusian Premier League play-off
The fourteenth-placed team (Naftan Novopolotsk) faced the third-placed team of the 2024 Belarusian First League (Niva Dolbizno) in a two-legged play-off for the final place in the 2025 Belarusian Premier League.
First leg
| 4 December 2024 | Niva Dolbizno | 1–3 | Naftan Novopolotsk | Dolbizno |
| 12:00 BST | Yushchenko |
Pranovich Paparyha |
Stadium: City Stadium |
Second leg
| 7 December 2024 | Naftan Novopolotsk | 2–0 (5–1 agg.) | Niva Dolbizno | Novopolotsk |
| 11:00 BST | Paparyha Suchkow |
Stadium: Atlant Stadium |