2022 Belarusian Premier League

The 2022 Belarusian Premier League was the 32nd season of top-tier football in Belarus. Shakhtyor Soligorsk defended their championship winning the fourth league title in club history. The title was subsequently stripped on May 11, 2023 following a match-fixing scandal.[1]

Belarusian Premier League
Season2022
Dates18 March – 12 November 2022
ChampionsShakhtyor Soligorsk
RelegatedVitebsk
Dnepr Mogilev
Champions LeagueBATE Borisov
Conference LeagueDinamo Minsk
Isloch Minsk Raion
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino
Matches played240
Goals scored615 (2.56 per match)
Top goalscorerBobur Abdikholikov
(26 goals)
Biggest home winEnergetik-BGU Minsk 5–0 Slavia Mozyr
(29 May 2022)
Minsk 5–0 Slavia Mozyr
(18 October 2022)
Slavia Mozyr 5–0 Dnepr Mogilev
(12 November 2022)
Biggest away winDnepr Mogilev 0–7 Shakhtyor Soligorsk
(15 August 2022)
Highest scoringDynamo Brest 4–4 Vitebsk
(29 October 2022)
Longest winning run6 matches
Shakhtyor Soligorsk
Longest unbeaten run15 matches
Dinamo Minsk
Longest winless run12 matches
Dynamo Brest
Vitebsk
Longest losing run9 matches
Dnepr Mogilev
← 2021
2023 →
All statistics correct as of 12 November 2022.

Teams

The 15th-placed team of the last season Smorgon was relegated to the 2022 Belarusian First League, ending their one-year stay in the top division. Sputnik Rechitsa were excluded from the league halfway through the last season and will not play in any league in 2022. Smorgon and Sputnik were replaced by two best teams of 2021 Belarusian First League (Arsenal Dzerzhinsk, promoted to the top-flight for the first time in their history and Belshina Bobruisk, promoted after a one-year absence).

On 28 February 2022 Rukh Brest withdrew from the league, citing financial troubles caused by international sanctions upon club's owner Alexander Zaytsev and an undisclosed Russian company co-owning the club.[2] A few days later they were replaced by Dnepr Mogilev (5th-placed team of last year's First League season).

Team Location Venue Capacity Position in 2021
Arsenal Dzerzhinsk Gorodeya Stadium (Gorodeya) 1,625 1st (First League)
BATE Borisov Borisov Arena 12,896 2nd
Belshina Bobruisk Spartak Stadium 3,700 2nd (First League)
Gomel Gomel Central Stadium 14,307 4th
Dinamo Brest Brest OSK Brestsky 10,060 6th
Dinamo Minsk Minsk Dinamo Stadium 22,000 3rd
Dnepr Mogilev Spartak Stadium 7,350 5th (First League)
Energetik-BGU Minsk RCOR-BGU Stadium 1,500 13th
Isloch Minsk Raion FC Minsk Stadium 3,000 10th
Minsk Minsk FC Minsk Stadium 3,000 12th
Neman Grodno Neman Stadium 8,500 11th
Shakhtyor Soligorsk Stroitel Stadium 4,200 1st
Slavia Mozyr Yunost Stadium 5,300 14th
Slutsk Slutsk City Stadium 1,896 9th
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino Torpedo Stadium 3,020 8th
Vitebsk Vitebsk Vitebsky CSK 8,100 7th
Locations of the 2022 Belarusian Premier League teams

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Shakhtyor Soligorsk 30 20 5 5 55 17 +38 65 Excluded from European Competitions[lower-alpha 1]
2 Energetik-BGU Minsk 30 18 6 6 50 27 +23 60
3 BATE Borisov 30 16 11 3 51 21 +30 59 Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round[lower-alpha 1]
4 Dinamo Minsk 30 16 11 3 50 25 +25 59 Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round or first qualifying round[lower-alpha 1]
5 Isloch Minsk Raion 30 16 6 8 51 33 +18 54 Qualification for the Europa Conference League first qualifying round[lower-alpha 1]
6 Minsk 30 12 8 10 47 43 +4 44
7 Gomel 30 12 7 11 36 37 −1 43
8 Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino 30 11 10 9 35 32 +3 43 Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round or first qualifying round[lower-alpha 2]
9 Neman Grodno 30 9 13 8 39 36 +3 40
10 Slavia Mozyr 30 10 7 13 42 46 −4 37
11 Slutsk 30 7 11 12 26 41 −15 32
12 Belshina Bobruisk 30 6 12 12 37 50 −13 30
13 Dynamo Brest 30 5 12 13 29 43 −14 27
14 Arsenal Dzerzhinsk (R) 30 5 8 17 18 42 −24 23 Qualification to relegation play-offs
15 Vitebsk (R) 30 4 10 16 28 49 −21 22 Relegation to the Belarusian First League
16 Dnepr Mogilev (R) 30 3 3 24 21 73 −52 12
Source: football.by Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Matches won; 7) Goals scored.
(R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. Shakktyor Soligorsk and Energetik-BGU Minsk were both found guilty of match-fixing by the Football Federation of Belarus and were denied UEFA licenses. As a result, the Champions league spot reserved to the first-placed team was awarded to the third-placed team (BATE Borisov) and the Europa Conference League spots reserved to the second and third-placed teams were awarded to the fourth and fifth-placed teams (Dinamo Minsk and Isloch Minsk Raion).
  2. The eighth-placed team, Torpedo BelAZ Zhodino, qualified to the Europa Conference League as their opponents in the 2022–23 Belarusian Cup final, BATE Borisov, qualified for the Champions League and the sixth and seventh-placed teams, Minsk and Gomel, failed to obtain UEFA licenses. Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino will enter the second qualifying round if they win the cup, otherwise they will enter the first qualifying round and Dinamo Minsk will enter the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round.

Results

Each team plays home-and-away once against every other team for a total of 30 matches played each.

Home \ Away ARS BAT BSH DBR DMI DNE ENE GOM ISL FCM NEM SHA SLA SLU TZH VIT
Arsenal Dzerzhinsk — 0–2 0–0 0–2 0–1 1–0 0–2 1–2 1–3 0–0 1–1 1–2 3–2 1–1 1–2 0–0
BATE Borisov 1–2 — 2–2 4–1 0–0 2–1 1–1 2–1 0–1 3–2 2–1 0–2 4–0 4–0 1–1 2–1
Belshina Bobruisk 1–0 0–3 — 2–2 0–0 0–0 0–1 2–3 2–1 2–2 1–0 1–2 1–4 0–2 1–3 2–2
Dynamo Brest 0–0 0–3 1–1 — 1–3 4–0 1–2 1–1 2–2 3–1 0–0 1–1 1–3 0–0 0–1 4–4
Dinamo Minsk 1–1 2–2 0–0 0–0 — 4–0 1–4 3–0 1–2 3–1 2–0 1–0 0–0 1–1 2–2 2–1
Dnepr Mogilev 0–1 0–3 4–3 2–0 0–2 — 0–2 0–4 0–2 2–4 1–3 0–7 1–3 1–2 0–1 2–1
Energetik-BGU Minsk 0–1 0–2 3–1 0–0 1–3 1–1 — 0–0 1–2 2–0 2–1 0–1 5–0 1–1 3–1 3–1
Gomel 4–1 0–1 0–3 1–0 0–1 3–1 1–2 — 3–1 0–3 3–0 0–3 0–2 1–0 1–0 1–0
Isloch Minsk Raion 2–1 0–0 2–0 1–2 2–2 3–2 2–3 1–1 — 2–0 1–1 1–1 0–2 1–2 3–0 2–0
Minsk 2–0 2–2 2–4 2–0 0–1 1–0 0–0 1–1 1–5 — 3–2 1–0 5–0 1–0 1–0 2–0
Neman Grodno 2–0 0–0 2–2 2–1 2–3 2–0 1–4 3–0 1–0 1–1 — 1–1 2–0 1–0 2–0 1–1
Shakhtyor Soligorsk 3–0 0–1 4–1 2–0 1–0 4–0 0–1 1–0 1–0 2–1 2–2 — 1–1 2–1 0–1 2–0
Slavia Mozyr 1–1 0–3 2–0 3–1 1–2 5–0 0–1 0–1 0–1 4–2 1–1 1–3 — 1–1 2–2 0–2
Slutsk 1–0 0–0 0–0 2–0 0–5 2–2 1–2 2–2 2–4 2–4 0–0 0–1 1–0 — 1–1 0–2
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino 1–0 0–0 1–3 0–0 3–4 1–0 4–0 1–1 0–1 1–1 2–2 0–1 1–1 3–0 — 1–0
Vitebsk 3–0 1–1 2–2 0–1 0–0 2–1 0–3 1–1 1–3 1–1 2–2 0–5 0–3 0–1 0–1 —
Source: Football Federation of Belarus (in Russian) Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-offs

The 14th-place finisher of this season (Arsenal Dzerzhinsk) plays a two-legged relegation play-off against the third-placed team of the 2022 Belarusian First League (Rogachev) for a spot in the 2023 Premier League.

Arsenal Dzerzhinsk3–2Rogachev
  • Senko 13'
  • Guletskiy 45' (pen.)
  • Rassadkin 84'
 Report
  • Kortsov 54', 89' (pen.)
Rogachev3–1Arsenal Dzerzhinsk
Referee: Sergey Krasnikov

Rogachev won 5–4 on aggregate.

Top scorers
As of 12 November 2022[3]
Rank Player Club Goals
1 Uzbekistan Bobur Abdikholikov Energetik-BGU Minsk 26
2 Belarus Uladzimir Khvashchynski Minsk 21
3 Belarus Ivan Bakhar Dinamo Minsk 11
4 Belarus Gleb Zherdev Slavia Mozyr 10
Belarus Stanislaw Drahun BATE Borisov
Niger Daniel Sosah Isloch Minsk Raion
7 Belarus Maksim Skavysh Shakhtyor Soligorsk 9
Russia Ilya Vasilyev Belshina
Belarus Pavel Savitski Neman Grodno
10 Montenegro Dušan Bakić Dinamo Minsk 8
Belarus Yahor Zubovich Neman Grodno
Belarus Yegor Bogomolsky Minsk
Belarus Alyaksandr Makas Gomel
Belarus Valery Gorbachik Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino

Awards

Player of the Week

References
  1. "Федэрацыя футбола пазбавіла салігорскі "Шахцёр" чэмпіёнства 2022 года". euradio.fm. 11 May 2023.
  2. ООО «Футбольный клуб РУХ» информирует, что учредителем Клуба является российская компания (in Russian)
  3. Flashscore
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