2013 Belarusian First League

The 2013 Belarusian First League is the 23rd season of 2nd level football in Belarus. It started in April and finished in November 2013.

Belarusian First League
Season2013
ChampionsSlutsk
PromotedSlutsk
RelegatedSKVICH Minsk
Polotsk
Matches played238
Goals scored644 (2.71 per match)
Top goalscorerSyarhey Krot (17)
Biggest home winSmolevichi 9–0 Polotsk
Biggest away winPolotsk 0–8 Gorodeya
Highest scoringSmolevichi 9–0 Polotsk
← 2012
2014 →

Team changes from 2012 season

The winners of last season (Dnepr Mogilev) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. No teams relegated directly from the Premier League as it was expanded from 11 to 12 teams.

The runners-up of last season (Gorodeya) lost the promotion/relegation play-off to Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino (11th-placed Premier League team) and both clubs stayed in their respective leagues.

One team that finished at the bottom of 2012 season table (Rudensk) relegated to the Second League. To compensate for Premier League and First League club withdrawals from last year, they were replaced by three best teams of 2012 Second League (Smolevichi-STI, Slonim and Isloch Minsk Raion) and the league was expanded from 15 to 16 clubs.

DSK Gomel withdrew from the league and disbanded due to lack of financing. They were replaced by Minsk-2, who finished 5th in last year's Second League. Gomelzheldortrans, Second League 4th team, declined invitation due to insufficient financing.

Teams summary
Location of teams in 2013 Belarusian First League
Team Location Position in 2012
Gorodeya Gorodeya 2
Vitebsk Vitebsk 3
SKVICH Minsk 4
Slutsk Slutsk 5
Granit Mikashevichi 6
Vedrich-97 Rechitsa 7
Volna Pinsk 8
Bereza-2010 Bereza 9
Smorgon Smorgon 10
Lida Lida 11
Polotsk Polotsk 12
Khimik Svetlogorsk 13
Smolevichi-STI Smolevichi Second League, 1
Slonim Slonim Second League, 2
Isloch Minsk Raion Minsk Raion Second League, 3
Minsk-2 Minsk Second League, 5

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Slutsk (P) 30 19 9 2 54 19 +35 66 Promotion to Belarusian Premier League
2 Gorodeya 30 18 6 6 68 32 +36 60 Qualification for promotion play-off
3 Vitebsk 30 16 7 7 40 29 +11 55
4 Lida 30 15 7 8 53 38 +15 52
5 Bereza-2010 30 14 8 8 44 30 +14 50
6 Smorgon 30 13 7 10 45 35 +10 46
7 Granit Mikashevichi 30 12 9 9 42 31 +11 45
8 Smolevichi-STI 30 12 8 10 50 37 +13 44
9 Isloch Minsk Raion 30 11 8 11 39 37 +2 41
10 Khimik Svetlogorsk 30 11 8 11 37 36 +1 41
11 Volna Pinsk 30 11 6 13 30 41 −11 39
12 Vedrich-97 Rechitsa 30 9 12 9 47 36 +11 39
13 Slonim 30 7 13 10 38 45 −7 34
14 Minsk-2 30 7 5 18 32 49 −17 26
15 SKVICH Minsk (R) 30 3 3 24 21 63 −42 12 Relegation to Belarusian Second League
16 Polotsk (R) 30 2 4 24 10 92 −82 10
Source: football.by
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd matches won; 3rd head-to-head (points, matches won, goal difference, goals scored); 4th goal difference; 5th goals scored
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated.

Promotion play-offs

The 11th placed team of 2013 Premier League Dnepr Mogilev played a two-legged relegation play-off against the runners-up of 2013 Belarusian First League Gorodeya for one spot in the 2014 Premier League and won the series 3–1 on aggregate.

Results
Home \ Away BER GRD GRA ISL KHI LID MIN POL SKV SLO SLU SML SMR V97 VIT VOL
Bereza-2010 0–2 4–1 2–1 0–1 0–2 3–0 7–0 1–0 1–0 1–1 2–1 1–1 5–3 0–0 0–0
Gorodeya 3–1 2–2 1–0 5–3 0–2 2–0 2–1 3–2 6–2 1–1 6–1 1–0 1–1 3–1 4–0
Granit Mikashevichi 5–1 1–1 3–1 2–0 2–0 0–0 0–1 1–0 1–1 1–2 0–1 3–2 3–0 0–1 2–1
Isloch Minsk Raion 1–2 1–0 2–2 0–1 2–1 2–1 6–0 2–1 1–0 0–2 1–1 0–0 2–3 2–1 2–2
Khimik Svetlogorsk 1–0 0–0 1–0 0–1 1–1 0–0 6–0 2–0 1–0 1–1 0–0 0–0 0–1 0–2 2–2
Lida 0–3 0–2 1–3 0–2 3–0 2–0 5–0 3–0 3–1 1–3 2–1 1–4 2–1 1–1 2–0
Minsk-2 1–1 1–2 1–0 1–1 2–3 0–1 1–0 4–1 1–2 1–2 2–1 1–0 2–1 0–1 0–2
Polotsk 0–2 0–8 0–4 1–2 0–1 1–1 0–4 1–5 0–0 2–1 0–1 1–2 1–5 0–4 0–3
SKVICH Minsk 0–2 0–5 0–0 0–2 0–1 1–2 4–3 0–0 0–2 1–2 0–3 0–3 0–4 1–2 3–0
Slonim 0–0 2–2 2–2 2–2 2–1 2–2 2–1 3–0[lower-alpha 1] 2–1 0–0 0–1 1–1 3–3 1–4 1–2
Slutsk 2–0 1–0 2–1 3–0 1–0 3–3 3–1 3–0 5–1 1–1 0–0 1–0 0–0 1–0 0–1
Smolevichi-STI 1–2 4–0 1–2 0–0 1–6 0–3 3–3 9–0 2–0 5–1 1–1 3–1 3–0 0–1 1–1
Smorgon 0–1 2–1 3–0 4–2 4–2 0–3 2–1 3–0[lower-alpha 2] 0–0 3–2 0–4 0–1 0–0 4–0 1–0
Vedrich-97 Rechitsa 2–2 1–2 0–0 0–0 1–1 3–3 4–0 0–0 3–0 0–0 0–1 2–1 1–1 2–0 5–0
Vitebsk 1–0 1–0 0–0 2–1 5–2 0–0 1–0 2–1 2–0 0–0 1–4 1–1 3–2 2–1 0–1
Volna Pinsk 0–0 1–2 0–1 1–0 2–0 2–3 3–0 2–0 1–0 0–3 0–3 0–2 1–2 1–0 1–1
Source: football.by
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. Awarded to Slonim as Polotsk did not show up for the game.
  2. Awarded to Smorgon as Polotsk did not show up for the game.

Top goalscorers
Rank Goalscorer Team Goals
1 Syarhey Krot Smorgon 17
2 Dzmitry Kavalyonak Granit Mikashevichi / Lida 15
3 Dzmitry Lebedzew Gorodeya 12
4 Ilya Pukhov Gorodeya 11
Denis Trapashko Smolevichi-STI 11

Updated to games played on 23 November 2013
Source: football.by

See also
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