2026 Belarusian Premier League
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| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Dates | 20 March – November 2026 |
← 2025 2027 → | |
The 2026 Belarusian Premier League is the 36th season of top-tier football in Belarus. Maxline Vitebsk enter the season as defending champions after winning their first title in 2025 as a newly promoted side.[1]
Three teams were relegated following the 2025 Belarusian Premier League season: Molodechno and Slutsk were relegated directly as the bottom two teams, while Smorgon was relegated after losing the promotion/relegation play-off.[2]
They were replaced by three teams from the 2025 Belarusian First League: Baranovichi and Dnepr Mogilev, the champions and runners-up respectively, and Belshina Bobruisk, who won the promotion play-off.[3]
| Team | Location | Venue | Capacity | Position in 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenal | Dzerzhinsk | City Stadium | 1,000 | 10th |
| Baranovichi | Baranovichi | Lokomotiv Stadium | 3,749 | 1st (First League) |
| BATE | Borisov | Borisov Arena | 13,126 | 7th |
| Belshina Bobruisk | Bobruisk | Spartak Stadium | 3,700 | 4th (First League) |
| Dinamo Brest | Brest | OSK Brestsky | 10,037 | 5th |
| Dinamo Minsk | Minsk | Dinamo Stadium | 22,246 | 2nd |
| Dnepr Mogilev | Mogilev | Spartak Stadium | 7,350 | 2nd (First League) |
| Gomel | Gomel | Central Stadium | 14,307 | 6th |
| Isloch | Minsk | FC Minsk Stadium | 3,050 | 9th |
| Maxline Vitebsk | Vitebsk | Vitebsky CSK | 8,046 | 1st |
| Minsk | Minsk | FC Minsk Stadium | 3,050 | 12th |
| Naftan | Novopolotsk | Atlant Stadium | 4,522 | 13th |
| Neman | Grodno | Neman Stadium | 8,479 | 4th |
| Slavia | Mozyr | Yunost Stadium | 5,300 | 3rd |
| Torpedo-BelAZ | Zhodino | Torpedo Stadium | 6,524 | 8th |
| Vitebsk | Vitebsk | Vitebsky CSK | 8,046 | 11th |
League table
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dinamo Minsk | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 13 | Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round |
| 2 | Neman Grodno | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | +5 | 11 | Qualification for the Conference League first qualifying round |
| 3 | Maxline Vitebsk | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 11 | |
| 4 | Gomel | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 10 | |
| 5 | Arsenal Dzerzhinsk | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 9 | |
| 6 | Isloch Minsk Raion | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 8 | |
| 7 | Vitebsk | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 8 | |
| 8 | Minsk | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 7 | |
| 9 | Dynamo Brest | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 7 | |
| 10 | Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 5 | |
| 11 | Dnepr Mogilev | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 5 | |
| 12 | Slavia Mozyr | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 5 | |
| 13 | BATE Borisov | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| 14 | Belshina Bobruisk | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 3 | Qualification for the Relegation play-off |
| 15 | Naftan Novopolotsk | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 2 | Relegation to the Belarusian First League |
| 16 | Baranovichi | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 15 | −13 | 0 |
Results
Each team plays home-and-away once against every other team for a total of 30 matches played each.[5]
Promotion/relegation play-off
The fourteenth-placed team of the 2026 Belarusian Premier League will face the third-placed team of the 2026 Belarusian First League in a two-legged play-off at the end of the season for a spot in the 2027 Belarusian Premier League.
First leg
| 14th-placed team | v | 3rd-placed First League team |
|---|---|---|
Second leg
| 3rd-placed First League team | v | 14th-placed team |
|---|---|---|
Season statistics
Top scorers
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals[6] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Ilya Vasin |
Arsenal Dzerzhinsk | 2 | |
 Karen Vardanyan |
Dinamo Minsk | |||
 Gulzhigit Alykulov | ||||
| Tsimafei Simanenka |
Gomel | |||
| 2 | 31 players | |||
Attendances
| Rank | Club | Total attendance | Average attendance[7] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dinamo Brest | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Maxline Vitebsk | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Dinamo Minsk | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Slavia Mozyr | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Neman Grodno | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | BATE Borisov | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Gomel | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Vitebsk | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Baranovichi | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Dnepr Mogilev | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Belshina Bobruisk | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Minsk | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | Naftan Novopolotsk | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Isloch | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | Arsenal Dzerzhinsk | 0 | 0 |