Belarusian Premier League

{{short description|Men's association football top division of Belarus}}

{{Infobox football league

| logo = Belarus Premier League logo.png

| pixels = 180px

| country = Belarus

| confed = UEFA

| founded = {{Start date and age|df=yes|1992}}

| teams = 16

| relegation = Belarusian First League

| levels = 1

| domest_cup = Belarusian Cup
Belarusian Super Cup

| confed_cup = UEFA Champions League
UEFA Conference League

| champions = Dinamo Minsk (9th title)

| most successful club = BATE Borisov (15 titles)

| top goalscorer = Raman Vasilyuk (218 goals)

| tv = Belarus 5

| season = 2024

| website = [https://abff.by/en/ abff.by]

| current = 2025 Belarusian Premier League

}}

The Belarusian Premier League ({{langx|be|Вышэйшая ліга}}, Vyšejšaja Liha or Vysheyshaya Liga; {{langx|ru|Высшая лига}}; "Top League"), also called the BETERA Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Belarus and the highest level of the Belarusian football league system. It is organized by the Belarusian Football Federation. The number of teams in the competition has varied over the years from as high as 17 (1992–93 season) to as low as 11 (2012). {{As of|2025|post=,}} the league included 16 teams. Each team plays every other team twice during the course of the season. At the end of the season, the two teams with the fewest points are automatically relegated to the Belarusian First League, while the third worst team plays a promotion-relegation playoff against the third best team from the second tier. The top two teams from the Belarusian First League automatically win promotion to the Premier League. Dinamo Minsk are the current champions, after winning their ninth championship title in 2024.

History

The Belarusian Premier League was organized in 1992. The first participants were: Dinamo Minsk, the only Belarusian side in the former Soviet Top League, five teams from the lower tiers of the Soviet league system and represented other five regional centers of Belarus, and ten teams who were previous competitors in the Belarusian SSR First League.

After the league creation, it was decided to change its schedule from a Soviet-style summer season to a European-style winter season. In 1995, the winter season experiment was proven unsuccessful due to poor weather and field conditions in Belarus in the late autumn and early spring. The season was changed back to summer. Every season since 1996 has been played in the summer. Throughout the 2000s, the number of competing teams has changed several times. 2012 season was played with only 11 teams due to last minute withdrawal of Partizan Minsk.

In its earliest years, the league was dominated by Dinamo Minsk, who won the league five times in a row between 1992 and 1995. During the next ten seasons, seven different teams finished as champions: Slavia Mozyr (1996 as MPKC Mozyr, 2000), Dinamo Minsk (1997, 2004), Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev (1998), BATE Borisov (1999, 2002), Belshina Bobruisk (2001), Gomel (2003), Shakhtyor Soligorsk (2005). Since 2006, BATE Borisov has dominated the league, winning 13 championships in a row (2006–2018).

In March 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all the other football leagues in Europe were postponed, and by the end of the month, the Belarusian Premier League was the only top-flight league in the continent that was still playing.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/sports/soccer/soccer-belarus-coronavirus.html/ |title=All Alone, Belarus Plays On |last=Smith |first=Rory |date=24 March 2020 |work=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200824164640/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/sports/soccer/soccer-belarus-coronavirus.html/ |url-status=live |archive-date=24 August 2020 |access-date=24 August 2020}} Due to this, the league gained substantially increased viewership from abroad, with fans from all over the world watching the games online, due to the league being the only significant professional football available; the league signed new television rights deals with networks from countries including Russia and India.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52084121/ |title=Coronavirus: Belarus Premier League attracts global attention as it plays on |author= |date=29 March 2020 |work=BBC News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200824163441/https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/52084121 |url-status=live |archive-date=24 August 2020 |access-date=24 August 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/mar/29/belarus-football-continues-coronavirus-premier-league/ |title=Last league standing: Belarusian football basks in new-found popularity |author= |date=29 March 2020 |work=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200824163704/https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/mar/29/belarus-football-continues-coronavirus-premier-league |url-status=live |archive-date=24 August 2020 |access-date=24 August 2020}} Matches were also streamed on the Belarusian Football Federation's YouTube channel.{{Cite web|last=Harris|first=Christopher|date=2020-04-12|title=Belarusian Premier League streaming live games on YouTube for free|url=https://worldsoccertalk.com/2020/04/12/belarusian-premier-league-streaming-live-games-on-youtube-for-free/|access-date=2021-03-20|website=World Soccer Talk|language=en-US}} British betting companies also offered odds for the various matches,{{clarify|date=August 2020 |reason=Did they offer odds before the pandemic, or did they only start in 2020?}} as the league's profile, previously relatively unknown outside of the country, grew a larger audience due to sporting inactivity elsewhere.{{cite web |url=https://betting.betfair.com/football/belarusian-premier-league/belarusian-premier-league-betting-tips-predictions-and-teams-to-watch-310320-982.html |title=Belarusian Premier League: Betting tips, predictions and teams to watch |last=Pettigrove |first=Jason |date=3 April 2020 |publisher=Betfair |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200827143451/https://betting.betfair.com/football/belarusian-premier-league/belarusian-premier-league-betting-tips-predictions-and-teams-to-watch-310320-982.html |url-status=live |archive-date=27 August 2020 |access-date=27 August 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.888sport.com/blog/football/belarusian-premier-league-betting-guide-tips-belarus-football-odds |title=Belarusian Premier League Betting: Tips, News & Belarus Football Guide |last=McMahon |first=Alex |date=9 April 2020 |publisher=888sport |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200827143706/https://www.888sport.com/blog/football/belarusian-premier-league-betting-guide-tips-belarus-football-odds |url-status=live |archive-date=27 August 2020 |access-date=27 August 2020}}

Premier League in 2024

{{Location map+|Belarus|width=450|float=right

|caption=Locations of the 2024 Belarusian Premier League teams

|places=

{{Location map~|Belarus|lat=53.9 |long=27.566667 |label=Minsk|position=top|marksize=12}}

{{Location map~|Belarus|lat=54.193056 |long=28.475278 |label=BATE|position=top}}

{{Location map~|Belarus|lat=52.089828 |long=23.683914 |label=Dynamo Brest|position=right}}

{{Location map~|Belarus|lat=53.688861 |long=23.82072 |label=Neman|position=right}}

{{Location map~|Belarus|lat=52.798333 |long=27.538333 |label=Shakhtyor|position=right}}

{{Location map~|Belarus|lat=54.092222 |long=28.32 |label={{nowrap| Torpedo-BelAZ}}|position=bottom}}

{{Location map~|Belarus|lat=55.1983 |long=30.2292 |label=Vitebsk|position=left}}

{{Location map~|Belarus|lat=53.021389 |long=27.546111 |label=Slutsk|position=left}}

{{Location map~|Belarus|lat=52.038889 |long=29.277083 |label=Slavia|position=right}}

{{Location map~|Belarus|lat=52.445278 |long=30.984167 |label=Gomel|position=left}}

{{Location map~|Belarus|lat=54.4836 |long=26.4 |label=Smorgon|position=right}}

{{Location map~|Belarus|lat=53.6833 |long=27.1333|label=Arsenal|position=left}}

{{Location map~|Belarus|lat=53.9 |long=30.3333|label=Dnepr|position=bottom}}

{{Location map~|Belarus|mark=TransparentPlaceholder.png|lat=56.1 |long=23 |label=Minsk clubs:
Dinamo Minsk
Isloch
Minsk}}

}}

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left"

!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)

= Soviet era champions =

1922: Minsk (city team)
1923: Unknown
1924: Minsk (city team)
1925: Unknown
1926: Bobruisk (city team)
1927: Unknown
1928: Gomel (city team)
1929–32: Unknown
1933: Gomel (city team)
1934: BVO{{efn|a team of the Belarusian Military District}} (Minsk)
1935: BVO (Minsk)
1936: BVO (Minsk)
1937: Dinamo (Minsk)
1938: Dinamo (Minsk)
1939: Dinamo (Minsk)
1940: DKA{{efn|a team of the Home of the Red Army (Home of the Red Army is a special organization and used to include sports section preceding the Army Sports Club (SKA))}} (Minsk)
1941–44: Unknown
1945: Dinamo (Minsk)
1946: ODO (Minsk)
1947: Torpedo (Minsk)
1948: Traktor MTZ (Minsk)
1949: Traktor MTZ (Minsk)
1950: ODO (Minsk)
1951: Dinamo (Minsk)
1952: ODO (Minsk)
1953: Spartak (Minsk)
1954: ODO (Pinsk)
1955: FSM (Minsk)
1956: Spartak (Minsk)
1957: Sputnik (Minsk)
1958: Spartak (Bobruisk)
1959: Minsk (city team)
1960: Sputnik (Minsk)
1961: Volna (Pinsk)
1962: Torpedo (Minsk)
1963: Naroch' (Molodechno)
1964: SKA (Minsk)
1965: SKA (Minsk)
1966: Torpedo (Minsk)
1967: Torpedo (Minsk)
1968: Sputnik (Minsk)
1969: Torpedo (Minsk)
1970: Torpedo (Zhodino)
1971: Torpedo (Zhodino)
1972: Stroitel' (Bobruisk)
1973: Stroitel' (Bobruisk)
1974: BATE (Borisov)
1975: Dinamo (Minsk)
1976: BATE (Borisov)
1977: Sputnik (Minsk)
1978: Shinnik (Bobruisk)
1979: BATE (Borisov)
1980: Torpedo (Zhodino)
1981: Torpedo (Zhodino)
1982: Torpedo (Mogilev)
1983: Obuvschik (Lida)
1984: Orbita (Minsk)
1985: Obuvschik (Lida)
1986: Obuvschik (Lida)
1987: Shinnik (Bobruisk)
1988: Sputnik (Minsk)
1989: Obuvschik (Lida)
1990: Sputnik (Minsk)
1991: Metallurg (Molodechno)

Champions and top scorers

class="wikitable"
width=60\|Season !width=170\|Champion !width=170\|Runner-up !width=170\|Third place !Top scorer
{{center\|1992}} \| Dinamo Minsk (1) \| Dnepr Mogilev \| Dinamo Brest \| {{flagicon\|Belarus\|1991}} Andrey Skorobogatko (Dnepr Mogilev) (11)
{{center\|1992–93}} \| Dinamo Minsk (2) \| KIM Vitebsk \| Belarus Minsk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus\|1991}} Sergey Baranovsky (Dinamo Minsk) (19) {{flagicon\|Belarus\|1991}} Miroslav Romaschenko (Vedrich Rechitsa / Dnepr Mogilev) (19)
{{center\|1993–94}} \| Dinamo Minsk (3) \| Dinamo-93 Minsk \| KIM Vitebsk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus\|1991}} Pyotr Kachuro (Dinamo-93 Minsk / Dinamo Minsk) (21)
{{center\|1994–95}} \| Dinamo Minsk (4) \| Dvina Vitebsk \| Dinamo-93 Minsk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus\|1991}} Pavel Shavrov (Dinamo-93 Minsk) (19)
{{center\|1995}} \| Dinamo Minsk (5) \| MPKC Mozyr \| Dinamo-93 Minsk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus\|1995}} Sergey Yaromko (MPKC Mozyr) (16)
{{center\|1996}} \| MPKC Mozyr (1) \| Dinamo Minsk \| Belshina Bobruisk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus\|1995}} Andrey Khlebasolaw (Belshina Bobruisk) (34)
{{center\|1997}} \| Dinamo Minsk (6) \| Belshina Bobruisk \| Lokomotiv-96 Vitebsk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus\|1995}} Andrey Khlebasolaw (Belshina Bobruisk) (19)
{{center\|1998}} \| Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev (1) \| BATE Borisov \| Belshina Bobruisk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus\|1995}} Sergey Yaromko (Torpedo Minsk) (19)
{{center\|1999}} \| BATE Borisov (1) \| Slavia Mozyr \| Gomel \| {{flagicon\|Belarus\|1995}} Valery Strypeykis (Slavia Mozyr) (21)
{{center\|2000}} \| Slavia Mozyr (2) \| BATE Borisov \| Dinamo Minsk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus\|1995}} Raman Vasilyuk (Slavia Mozyr) (31)
{{center\|2001}} \| Belshina Bobruisk (1) \| Dinamo Minsk \| BATE Borisov \| {{flagicon\|Russia}} Sergei Davydov (Neman-Belcard Grodno) (25)
{{center\|2002}} \| BATE Borisov (2) \| Neman Grodno \| Shakhtyor Soligorsk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus\|1995}} Valery Strypeykis (Belshina Bobruisk) (18)
{{center\|2003}} \| Gomel (1) \| BATE Borisov \| Dinamo Minsk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus\|1995}} Gennadi Bliznyuk (Gomel) (18) {{flagicon\|Belarus\|1995}} Sergei Kornilenko (Dinamo Minsk) (18)
{{center\|2004}} \| Dinamo Minsk (7) \| BATE Borisov \| Shakhtyor Soligorsk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus\|1995}} Valery Strypeykis (Naftan Novopolotsk) (18)
{{center\|2005}} \| Shakhtyor Soligorsk (1) \| Dinamo Minsk \| MTZ-RIPO Minsk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus\|1995}} Valery Strypeykis (Naftan Novopolotsk) (16)
{{center\|2006}} \| BATE Borisov (3) \| Dinamo Minsk \| Shakhtyor Soligorsk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus\|1995}} Alyaksandr Klimenka (Shakhtyor Soligorsk) (17)
{{center\|2007}} \| BATE Borisov (4) \| Gomel \| Shakhtyor Soligorsk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus\|1995}} Raman Vasilyuk (Gomel) (24)
{{center\|2008}} \| BATE Borisov (5) \| Dinamo Minsk \| MTZ-RIPO Minsk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus\|1995}} Gennadi Bliznyuk (BATE Borisov) (16) {{flagicon\|Belarus\|1995}} Vitali Rodionov (BATE Borisov) (16)
{{center\|2009}} \| BATE Borisov (6) \| Dinamo Minsk \| Dnepr Mogilev \| {{flagicon\|Brazil}} Maycon (Gomel) (15)
{{center\|2010}} \| BATE Borisov (7) \| Shakhtyor Soligorsk \| Minsk \| {{flagicon\|Brazil}} Renan Bressan (BATE Borisov) (15)
{{center\|2011}} \| BATE Borisov (8) \| Shakhtyor Soligorsk \| Gomel \| {{flagicon\|Brazil}} Renan Bressan (BATE Borisov) (13)
{{center\|2012}} \| BATE Borisov (9) \| Shakhtyor Soligorsk \| Dinamo Minsk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus}} Dzmitry Asipenka (Shakhtyor Soligorsk) (14)
{{center\|2013}} \| BATE Borisov (10) \| Shakhtyor Soligorsk \| Dinamo Minsk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus}} Vitali Rodionov (BATE Borisov) (14)
{{center\|2014}} \| BATE Borisov (11) \| Dinamo Minsk \| Shakhtyor Soligorsk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus}} Mikalay Yanush (Shakhtyor Soligorsk) (15)
{{center\|2015}} \| BATE Borisov (12) \| Dinamo Minsk \| Shakhtyor Soligorsk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus}} Mikalay Yanush (Shakhtyor Soligorsk) (15)
{{center\|2016}} \| BATE Borisov (13) \| Shakhtyor Soligorsk \| Dinamo Minsk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus}} Vitali Rodionov (BATE Borisov) (16) {{flagicon\|Belarus}} Mikhail Gordeichuk (BATE Borisov) (16)
{{center\|2017}} \| BATE Borisov (14) \| Dinamo Minsk \| Shakhtyor Soligorsk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus}} Mikhail Gordeichuk (BATE Borisov) (18)
{{center\|2018}} \| BATE Borisov (15) \| Shakhtyor Soligorsk \| Dinamo Minsk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus}} Pavel Savitski (Dinamo Brest) (15)
{{center\|2019}} \| Dynamo Brest (1) \| BATE Borisov \| Shakhtyor Soligorsk \| {{flagicon\|Belarus}} Ilya Shkurin (Energetik-BGU Minsk) (19)
{{center\|2020}} \| Shakhtyor Soligorsk (2) \| BATE Borisov \| Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino \| {{flagicon\|Belarus}} Maksim Skavysh (BATE Borisov) (19)
{{center\|2021}} \| Shakhtyor Soligorsk (3) \| BATE Borisov \| Dinamo Minsk \| {{flagicon\|Gambia}} Dembo Darboe (Shakhtyor Soligorsk) (19)
{{center\|2022}} \| ~~Shakhtyor Soligorsk~~ \| ~~Energetik-BGU Minsk~~ \| BATE Borisov \| {{flagicon\|Uzbekistan}} Bobur Abdikholikov (Energetik-BGU Minsk) (26)
{{center\|2023}} \| Dinamo Minsk (8) \| Neman Grodno \| Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino \| {{flagicon\|Belarus}} Vladislav Morozov (Dinamo Minsk) (16)
{{center\|2024}} \| Dinamo Minsk (9) \| \| \|

class="wikitable"

width=60|Season

!width=170|Champion

!width=170|Runner-up

!width=170|Third place

!Top scorer

| Dinamo Minsk (1)

| Dnepr Mogilev

| Dinamo Brest

| {{flagicon|Belarus|1991}} Andrey Skorobogatko (Dnepr Mogilev) (11)

| Dinamo Minsk (2)

| KIM Vitebsk

| Belarus Minsk

| {{flagicon|Belarus|1991}} Sergey Baranovsky (Dinamo Minsk) (19)
{{flagicon|Belarus|1991}} Miroslav Romaschenko (Vedrich Rechitsa / Dnepr Mogilev) (19)

| Dinamo Minsk (3)

| Dinamo-93 Minsk

| KIM Vitebsk

| {{flagicon|Belarus|1991}} Pyotr Kachuro (Dinamo-93 Minsk / Dinamo Minsk) (21)

| Dinamo Minsk (4)

| Dvina Vitebsk

| Dinamo-93 Minsk

| {{flagicon|Belarus|1991}} Pavel Shavrov (Dinamo-93 Minsk) (19)

| Dinamo Minsk (5)

| MPKC Mozyr

| Dinamo-93 Minsk

| {{flagicon|Belarus|1995}} Sergey Yaromko (MPKC Mozyr) (16)

| MPKC Mozyr (1)

| Dinamo Minsk

| Belshina Bobruisk

| {{flagicon|Belarus|1995}} Andrey Khlebasolaw (Belshina Bobruisk) (34)

| Dinamo Minsk (6)

| Belshina Bobruisk

| Lokomotiv-96 Vitebsk

| {{flagicon|Belarus|1995}} Andrey Khlebasolaw (Belshina Bobruisk) (19)

| Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev (1)

| BATE Borisov

| Belshina Bobruisk

| {{flagicon|Belarus|1995}} Sergey Yaromko (Torpedo Minsk) (19)

| BATE Borisov (1)

| Slavia Mozyr

| Gomel

| {{flagicon|Belarus|1995}} Valery Strypeykis (Slavia Mozyr) (21)

| Slavia Mozyr (2)

| BATE Borisov

| Dinamo Minsk

| {{flagicon|Belarus|1995}} Raman Vasilyuk (Slavia Mozyr) (31)

| Belshina Bobruisk (1)

| Dinamo Minsk

| BATE Borisov

| {{flagicon|Russia}} Sergei Davydov (Neman-Belcard Grodno) (25)

| BATE Borisov (2)

| Neman Grodno

| Shakhtyor Soligorsk

| {{flagicon|Belarus|1995}} Valery Strypeykis (Belshina Bobruisk) (18)

| Gomel (1)

| BATE Borisov

| Dinamo Minsk

| {{flagicon|Belarus|1995}} Gennadi Bliznyuk (Gomel) (18)
{{flagicon|Belarus|1995}} Sergei Kornilenko (Dinamo Minsk) (18)

| Dinamo Minsk (7)

| BATE Borisov

| Shakhtyor Soligorsk

| {{flagicon|Belarus|1995}} Valery Strypeykis (Naftan Novopolotsk) (18)

| Shakhtyor Soligorsk (1)

| Dinamo Minsk

| MTZ-RIPO Minsk

| {{flagicon|Belarus|1995}} Valery Strypeykis (Naftan Novopolotsk) (16)

| BATE Borisov (3)

| Dinamo Minsk

| Shakhtyor Soligorsk

| {{flagicon|Belarus|1995}} Alyaksandr Klimenka (Shakhtyor Soligorsk) (17)

| BATE Borisov (4)

| Gomel

| Shakhtyor Soligorsk

| {{flagicon|Belarus|1995}} Raman Vasilyuk (Gomel) (24)

| BATE Borisov (5)

| Dinamo Minsk

| MTZ-RIPO Minsk

| {{flagicon|Belarus|1995}} Gennadi Bliznyuk (BATE Borisov) (16)
{{flagicon|Belarus|1995}} Vitali Rodionov (BATE Borisov) (16)

| BATE Borisov (6)

| Dinamo Minsk

| Dnepr Mogilev

| {{flagicon|Brazil}} Maycon (Gomel) (15)

| BATE Borisov (7)

| Shakhtyor Soligorsk

| Minsk

| {{flagicon|Brazil}} Renan Bressan (BATE Borisov) (15)

| BATE Borisov (8)

| Shakhtyor Soligorsk

| Gomel

| {{flagicon|Brazil}} Renan Bressan (BATE Borisov) (13)

| BATE Borisov (9)

| Shakhtyor Soligorsk

| Dinamo Minsk

| {{flagicon|Belarus}} Dzmitry Asipenka (Shakhtyor Soligorsk) (14)

| BATE Borisov (10)

| Shakhtyor Soligorsk

| Dinamo Minsk

| {{flagicon|Belarus}} Vitali Rodionov (BATE Borisov) (14)

| BATE Borisov (11)

| Dinamo Minsk

| Shakhtyor Soligorsk

| {{flagicon|Belarus}} Mikalay Yanush (Shakhtyor Soligorsk) (15)

| BATE Borisov (12)

| Dinamo Minsk

| Shakhtyor Soligorsk

| {{flagicon|Belarus}} Mikalay Yanush (Shakhtyor Soligorsk) (15)

| BATE Borisov (13)

| Shakhtyor Soligorsk

| Dinamo Minsk

| {{flagicon|Belarus}} Vitali Rodionov (BATE Borisov) (16)
{{flagicon|Belarus}} Mikhail Gordeichuk (BATE Borisov) (16)

| BATE Borisov (14)

| Dinamo Minsk

| Shakhtyor Soligorsk

| {{flagicon|Belarus}} Mikhail Gordeichuk (BATE Borisov) (18)

| BATE Borisov (15)

| Shakhtyor Soligorsk

| Dinamo Minsk

| {{flagicon|Belarus}} Pavel Savitski (Dinamo Brest) (15)

| Dynamo Brest (1)

| BATE Borisov

| Shakhtyor Soligorsk

| {{flagicon|Belarus}} Ilya Shkurin (Energetik-BGU Minsk) (19)

| Shakhtyor Soligorsk (2)

| BATE Borisov

| Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino

| {{flagicon|Belarus}} Maksim Skavysh (BATE Borisov) (19)

| Shakhtyor Soligorsk (3)

| BATE Borisov

| Dinamo Minsk

| {{flagicon|Gambia}} Dembo Darboe (Shakhtyor Soligorsk) (19)

| ~~Shakhtyor Soligorsk~~

| ~~Energetik-BGU Minsk~~

| BATE Borisov

| {{flagicon|Uzbekistan}} Bobur Abdikholikov (Energetik-BGU Minsk) (26)

| Dinamo Minsk (8)

| Neman Grodno

| Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino

| {{flagicon|Belarus}} Vladislav Morozov (Dinamo Minsk) (16)

| Dinamo Minsk (9)

Performances

=Performance by club=

class="wikitable sortable"
width=140 \|Teams !width=360\|Champion !width=360\|Runner-up !width=360\|Third place
BATE Borisov \|15 (1999, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018) \|7 (1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2019, 2020, 2021) \|2 (2001, 2022)
Dinamo Minsk \|9 (1992, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995, 1997, 2004, 2023, 2024) \|9 (1996, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2017) \|7 (2000, 2003, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2021)
Shakhtyor Soligorsk \|3 (2005, 2020, 2021) \|6 (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018) \|8 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019)
Slavia Mozyr \|2 (1996, 2000) \|2 (1995, 1999) \|–
Gomel \|1 (2003) \|1 (2007) \|2 (1999, 2011)
Belshina Bobruisk \|1 (2001) \|1 (1997) \|2 (1996, 1998)
Dnepr Mogilev \|1 (1998) \|1 (1992) \|1 (2009)
Dynamo Brest \|1 (2019) \|– \|1 (1992)
Vitebsk \|– \|2 (1992–93, 1994–95) \|2 (1993–94, 1997)
Neman Grodno \|– \|2 (2002, 2023) \|–
Dinamo-93 Minsk \|– \|1 (1993–94) \|3 (1992–93, 1994–95, 1995)
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino \|– \|– \|2 (2020, 2023)
Partizan Minsk \|– \|– \|2 (2005, 2008)
Minsk \|– \|– \|1 (2010)

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width=140 |Teams

!width=360|Champion

!width=360|Runner-up

!width=360|Third place

BATE Borisov

|15 (1999, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)

|7 (1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2019, 2020, 2021)

|2 (2001, 2022)

Dinamo Minsk

|9 (1992, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995, 1997, 2004, 2023, 2024)

|9 (1996, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2017)

|7 (2000, 2003, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2021)

Shakhtyor Soligorsk

|3 (2005, 2020, 2021)

|6 (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018)

|8 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019)

Slavia Mozyr

|2 (1996, 2000)

|2 (1995, 1999)

|–

Gomel

|1 (2003)

|1 (2007)

|2 (1999, 2011)

Belshina Bobruisk

|1 (2001)

|1 (1997)

|2 (1996, 1998)

Dnepr Mogilev

|1 (1998)

|1 (1992)

|1 (2009)

Dynamo Brest

|1 (2019)

|–

|1 (1992)

Vitebsk

|–

|2 (1992–93, 1994–95)

|2 (1993–94, 1997)

Neman Grodno

|–

|2 (2002, 2023)

|–

Dinamo-93 Minsk

|–

|1 (1993–94)

|3 (1992–93, 1994–95, 1995)

Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino

|–

|2 (2020, 2023)

Partizan Minsk

|–

|2 (2005, 2008)

Minsk

|–

|1 (2010)

All-time table

:As of end of 2023 season.

class="wikitable sortable static-row-numbers" style="text-align:right;" !width=200\|Club¹ !Seasons !width=55\|Debut !width=55\|Last Season !width=30\|{{Tooltip\|Pld\|Played}}² !width=30\|{{Tooltip\|W\|Won}} !width=30\|{{Tooltip\|D\|Drawn}} !width=30\|{{Tooltip\|L\|Lost}} !width=70\|Goals !Points³ !Best Result
style="text-align: left;"\|Dinamo Minsk \|33	1992	—	939	560	202	177	1701–794	1882	1st (1992, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995, 1997, 2004, 2023, 2024)
style="text-align: left;"\|BATE Borisov \|26	1998	—	758	496	157	105	1493–598	1645	1st (1999, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
style="text-align: left;"\|Shakhtyor Soligorsk \|33	1992	—	939	467	222	252	1413–921	1578	1st (2005, 2020, 2021)(2022)
style="text-align: left;"\|Neman Grodno \|33	1992	—	940	349	243	348	1080–1115	1290	2nd (2002, 2023)
style="text-align: left;"\|Dinamo Brest \|33	1992	—	939	333	232	374	1179–1235	1231	1st (2019)
style="text-align: left;"\|Gomel \|27	1992	—	739	290	167	282	1043–929	1037	1st (2003)
style="text-align: left;"\|Vitebsk \|27	1992	2022	761	271	201	289	859–933	1014	2nd (1992–93, 1994–95)
style="text-align: left;"\|Dnepr Mogilev \|26	1992	2022	737	264	179	284	934–962	971	1st (1998)
style="text-align: left;"\|Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino \|24	1992	—	689	260	182	247	822–789	962	3rd (2020, 2023)
style="text-align: left;"\|Belshina Bobruisk \|23	1993–94	2023	666	233	151	282	876–952	839	1st (2001)
style="text-align: left;"\|Slavia Mozyr \|21	1995	—	596	217	143	246	826–878	764	1st (1996, 2000)
style="text-align: left;"\|Naftan Novopolotsk \|22	1996	—	643	196	136	311	744–1002	719	4th (2009)
style="text-align: left;"\|Minsk \|16	2007	—	474	161	121	191	566–609	605	3rd (2010)
style="text-align: left;"\|Torpedo Minsk \|15	1992	2019	428	158	115	155	481–475	589	4th (2002, 2003)
style="text-align: left;"\|Dinamo-93 Minsk \|7	1992–93	1998	181	99	43	39	296–157	340	2nd (1993–94)
style="text-align: left;"\|Slutsk \|10	2014	—	293	86	74	133	284–394	332	7th (2017)
style="text-align: left;"\|Isloch Minsk Raion \|8	2016	—	236	92	53	91	292–313	329	4th (2023)
style="text-align: left;"\|Molodechno-2000 \|12	1992	2003	323	80	80	163	339–490	320	4th (1994–95)
style="text-align: left;"\|Partizan Minsk \|7	2004	2010	198	80	42	76	288–281	282	3rd (2005, 2008)
style="text-align: left;"\|Torpedo-Kadino Mogilev \|10	1992	2000	271	64	76	131	266–444	268	7th (1992)
style="text-align: left;"\|Energetik-BGU Minsk \|9	2002	2023	258	71	58	129	305–451	248	2nd (2022)
style="text-align: left;"\|Gorodeya \|5	2016	2020	149	44	50	55	162–184	182	7th (2019)
style="text-align: left;"\|Vedrich-97 Rechitsa \|8	1992	2001	208	46	44	118	167–327	182	8th (1992)
style="text-align: left;"\|Darida Minsk Raion \|6	2003	2008	168	44	38	86	165–252	170	8th (2006)
style="text-align: left;"\|Bobruisk \|5	1992	1995	122	44	34	44	119–145	166	4th (1992)
style="text-align: left;"\|Lida \|7	1992	2000	182	38	46	98	144–289	160	8th (1994–95)
style="text-align: left;"\|Granit Mikashevichi \|4	2008	2016	112	31	35	46	112–161	128	5th (2015)
style="text-align: left;"\|Smorgon \|5	2007	—	139	28	38	73	112–239	124	8th (2008)
style="text-align: left;"\|Ataka Minsk \|3	1995	1997	75	29	16	30	86–93	103	4th (1995)
style="text-align: left;"\|Rukh Brest \|2	2020	2021	59	26	21	12	106–66	99	5th (2021)
style="text-align: left;"\|Lokomotiv Minsk \|4	2003	2008	112	23	25	64	100–187	94	11th (2005)
style="text-align: left;"\|Lokomotiv Vitebsk \|4	1992	1994–95	107	22	27	58	82–181	93	10th (1993–94)
style="text-align: left;"\|Kommunalnik Slonim \|3	1997	2000	89	15	17	57	66–191	62	11th (1997)
style="text-align: left;"\|Stroitel Starye Dorogi \|3	1992	1993–94	77	14	18	45	48–117	60	14th (1992, 1992–93)
style="text-align: left;"\|Krumkachy Minsk \|2	2016	2017	60	14	16	30	50–86	58	11th (2016)
style="text-align: left;"\|Smolevichi \|2	2018	2020	59	8	14	37	48–111	38	15th (2018)
style="text-align: left;"\|Transmash Mogilev \|1	1997	1997	30	8	4	18	30–52	28	14th (1997)
style="text-align: left;"\|Dnyapro Mogilev \|1	2019	2019	29	7	6	16	29–42	25	14th (2019)
style="text-align: left;"\|Luch Minsk \|1	2018	2018	30	4	12	14	24–44	24	13th (2018)
style="text-align: left;"\|Arsenal Dzerzhinsk \|1	2022	2022	30	5	8	17	18–42	23	14th (2022)
style="text-align: left;"\|Savit Mogilev \|1	2008	2008	30	5	6	19	28–61	21	15th (2008)
style="text-align: left;"\|Svisloch-Krovlya Osipovichi \|1	1999	1999	30	4	4	22	24–74	16	15th (1999)
style="text-align: left;"\|Sputnik Rechitsa \|1	2021	2021	15	2	1	12	12–37	7	16th (2021)

For clubs that have been renamed, their name at the time of their most recent season in the Premier League is given. The current members are listed in bold.
Includes 2002 championship play-off, 2004 relegation play-off, 14 games of Dinamo-93 in 1998 season, 15 games of Torpedo Minsk in 2019 season, and 15 games of Sputnik Rechitsa in 2021 season.
For the purposes of this table, each win is worth 3 points. The three-points system was adopted in fall 1995 season.

Player of the year

Belarusian Premier League Player of the year is an annual award given by a sports newspaper Pressball.

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!width=80|Season

!width=200|Player

!width=200|Club

|{{flagicon|BLR|1991}} Valyantsin Byalkevich

|Dinamo Minsk

|{{flagicon|BLR|1991}} Sergey Gotsmanov

|Dinamo Minsk

|{{flagicon|BLR|1991}} Yury Shukanov

|Dinamo Minsk

|{{flagicon|BLR|1991}} Valyantsin Byalkevich

|Dinamo Minsk

|{{flagicon|BLR|1995}} Valyantsin Byalkevich

|Dinamo Minsk

|{{flagicon|BLR|1995}} Alyaksandr Kulchy

|MPKC Mozyr

|{{flagicon|BLR|1995}} Andrei Lavrik

|Dinamo Minsk

|{{flagicon|RUS}} Oleg Kononov

|Torpedo Minsk

|{{flagicon|RUS}} Dmitri Karsakov

|Slavia Mozyr

|{{flagicon|BLR|1995}} Aleksandr Lisovskiy

|BATE Borisov

|{{flagicon|BLR|1995}} Vitali Kutuzov

|BATE Borisov

|{{flagicon|BLR|1995}} Dzmitry Likhtarovich

|BATE Borisov

|{{flagicon|BLR|1995}} Timofei Kalachev

|Shakhtyor Soligorsk

|{{flagicon|BLR|1995}} Andrey Razin

|Dinamo Minsk

|{{flagicon|BLR|1995}} Vital Valadzyankow

|Dinamo Minsk

|{{flagicon|BLR|1995}} Oleg Strakhanovich

|MTZ-RIPO Minsk

|{{flagicon|BLR|1995}} Raman Vasilyuk

|Gomel

|{{flagicon|BLR|1995}} Vitali Rodionov

|BATE Borisov

|{{flagicon|BLR|1995}} Sergey Krivets

|BATE Borisov

|{{flagicon|BRA}} Renan Bressan

|BATE Borisov

|{{flagicon|BRA}} Renan Bressan

|BATE Borisov

|{{flagicon|BLR}} Stanislaw Drahun

|Dinamo Minsk

|{{flagicon|BLR}} Alexander Hleb

|BATE Borisov

|{{flagicon|BLR}} Ihar Stasevich

|Dinamo Minsk

|{{flagicon|BLR}} Ihar Stasevich

|BATE Borisov

|{{flagicon|BLR}} Ihar Stasevich

|BATE Borisov

|{{flagicon|BLR}} Mikhail Gordeichuk

|BATE Borisov

|{{flagicon|BLR}} Ihar Stasevich

|BATE Borisov

|{{flagicon|BLR}} Ihar Stasevich

|BATE Borisov

Reserves League

An annual league competition is organized for the reserve teams of Premier League clubs since 2001. This tournament was won by the reserves of Dinamo Minsk (9 titles), Gomel (2 titles), Shakhtyor Soligorsk (2 titles), BATE Borisov (1 title), Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino (1 title) and Dnepr Mogilev (1 title).

Notes

References

External links

{{official website|https://championship.abff.by/en/male/tournaments/1/}}
[https://abff.by/en/ Belarusian Football Federation]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20150708033640/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesw/witrchamp.html RSSSF.com] – List of Champions (archived)

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