1998 Belarusian Premier League

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Dinamo Brest 6–3 Molodechno
← 1997
→

The 1998 Belarusian Premier League was the eighth season of top-tier football in Belarus. It started on April 12 and ended on October 31, 1998. Dinamo Minsk were the defending champions.

Team changes from 1997 season

Two worst teams of the last season (Torpedo-Kadino Mogilev and Shakhtyor Soligorsk) relegated to the First League. They were replaced by two best clubs of 1996 First League (FC Gomel and BATE Borisov).

In the early days of January it was announced that

BFF announced that Ataka Minsk were excluded from the league and that two vacant places (left by Transmash and Ataka) are being filled by Torpedo-Kadino Mogilev and Shakhtyor Soligorsk
, both of whom were spared from relegation.

Before the start of the season, MPKC Mozyr changed their name to Slavia Mozyr.

Overview

1998–99 Cup winners Belshina Bobruisk qualified for UEFA Cup. Kommunalnik Slonim finished on last, 15th place and relegated to First League. Dinamo-93 Minsk
dissolved and withdrew from the championship after 15 rounds. They were excluded from the final table and their results were annulled.

Teams and venues

Belshina
Neman
Lokomotiv-96
Shakhtyor
Molodechno
Slavia
Naftan-Devon
Kommunalnik
Gomel
BATE
class=notpageimage|
Location of teams in 1998 Belarusian Premier League
Team Location Venue Capacity Position in 1997
Dinamo Minsk Minsk Dinamo Stadium (Minsk)[1] 40,000 1
Belshina
Bobruisk
 Spartak Stadium (Bobruisk) 2,500 2
Lokomotiv-96 Vitebsk Dinamo Stadium (Vitebsk)[2] 5,500 3
Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev Spartak Stadium (Mogilev)[3] 11,200 4
Dinamo-93 Minsk Orbita Stadium[4] 2,000 5
Slavia
Mozyr
Yunost Stadium (Mozyr)
 6,500 6
Dinamo Brest
 Brest Dinamo Stadium (Brest) 3,000 7
Torpedo Minsk Torpedo Stadium (Minsk)[5] 5,000 8
Naftan-Devon Novopolotsk Atlant Stadium 6,500 9
Neman Grodno Neman Stadium 15,000 10
Kommunalnik Slonim Yunost Stadium (Slonim) 2,000 11
Molodechno
Molodechno
 City Stadium (Molodechno) 5,500 13
Torpedo-Kadino Mogilev Torpedo Stadium (Mogilev)[6] 7,000 15
Shakhtyor
Soligorsk
 Stroitel Stadium 5,000 16
Gomel Gomel Central Stadium 10,000 First league, 1
BATE Borisov
City Stadium (Borisov)[7]
 3,500 First league, 2
  1. ^
    Three games played at Orbita Stadium.
  2. ^
    Last ten games played at City Stadium in Orsha, after club's own Dinamo Stadium was closed for renovation.
  3. ^
    One game played at Khimvolokno Stadium.
  4. ^
    Before club's withdrawal from the league, they played four games at Orbita Stadium, three games at Kamvolschik Stadium and one at GFC Smena.
  5. ^
    First seven games played at Kamvolschik Stadium.
  6. ^
    One game played at Khimvolokno Stadium.
  7. ^
    One game played at Orbita Stadium in Minsk.

Table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev (C) 28 21 4 3 55 14 +41 67 Qualification for Champions League second qualifying round
2 BATE Borisov 28 18 4 6 50 25 +25 58 Qualification for UEFA Cup qualifying round[a]
3 Belshina Bobruisk 28 17 6 5 47 17 +30 57
4 Lokomotiv-96 Vitebsk 28 14 6 8 35 24 +11 48 Qualification for Intertoto Cup first round
5 Gomel 28 12 9 7 36 30 +6 45
6 Slavia Mozyr 28 12 9 7 41 36 +5 45
7 Torpedo Minsk 28 12 8 8 44 22 +22 44
8 Dinamo Minsk 28 11 6 11 39 38 +1 39
9
Dinamo Brest
 28 12 2 14 40 40 0 38
10 Neman Grodno 28 8 7 13 27 44 −17 31
11 Shakhtyor Soligorsk 28 8 6 14 33 54 −21 30
12 Torpedo-Kadino Mogilev 28 7 8 13 30 40 −10 29
13 Naftan-Devon Novopolotsk 28 7 4 17 33 47 −14 25
14 Molodechno 28 4 4 20 21 51 −30 16
15 Kommunalnik Slonim (R) 28 3 5 20 14 63 −49 14 Relegation to Belarusian First League
D Dinamo-93 Minsk[b] (D) 15 4 6 5 19 23 −4 18 Dissolved
Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd matches won; 3rd head-to-head
(C) Champions; (D) Dissolved; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Belshina Bobruisk qualified for the UEFA Cup qualifying round by winning the 1998–99 Belarusian Cup.
  2. ^ Dinamo-93 Minsk withdrew after 15 rounds. All their games were annulled and the team was excluded from the final table.

Results

Home \ Away BAT BSH
DBR
 DMI D93 DNE GOM KOM LVI MOL NAF NEM SHA SLA TMI TMO
BATE Borisov 1–0 6–0 3–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 1–3 3–0 2–1 3–0 2–0 2–0 0–1 4–1
Belshina Bobruisk 4–0 2–0 4–2 1–1 2–0 5–1 1–0 1–0 6–0 0–0 2–1 4–4 1–0 2–1
Dinamo Brest
 0–3 0–3 0–1 3–1[a] 2–0 2–1 0–0 0–1 6–3 1–0 1–2 5–0 1–2 4–0 1–1
Dinamo Minsk 2–0 0–0 0–5 2–1 2–2 3–0 1–1 0–0 1–2 1–2 1–2 3–1 0–0 2–1
Dinamo-93 Minsk 1–1[a] 0–0[a] 5–1[a] 0–4[a] 1–1[a] 3–1[a] 4–0[a] 0–0[a]
Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev 1–0 1–0 2–0 3–1 3–0 4–0 2–0 5–0 2–0 3–0 4–0 1–1 1–0 2–2
Gomel 0–0 1–0 1–0 4–3 1–2[a] 1–2 2–1 3–0 1–0 2–0 2–0 2–1 0–0 2–1 0–0
Kommunalnik Slonim 1–3 1–1 1–0 1–0 0–5 0–3 2–3 3–1 0–0 1–2 0–0 0–2 0–0 0–2
Lokomotiv-96 Vitebsk 0–0 1–0 0–1 1–0 3–0[b] 0–1 2–1 2–0 1–2 2–1 3–0 1–2 3–0 1–0 1–1
Molodechno 1–2 0–1 0–2 0–3 1–1[a] 1–2 0–0 5–2 1–2 0–0 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2
Naftan-Devon Novopolotsk 0–1 0–1 1–3 0–2 4–0[a] 0–1 2–0 4–0 1–1 5–1 5–2 4–4 0–1 1–5 3–1
Neman Grodno 1–2 0–2 2–1 1–4 0–0[a] 0–1 1–1 2–0 0–0 2–0 1–0 2–3 1–1 0–0 1–3
Shakhtyor Soligorsk 3–5 0–1 1–3 0–1 1–3 1–2 2–0 1–1 1–0 2–0 0–0 2–2 0–3 3–1
Slavia Mozyr 2–2 1–0 1–2 0–0 1–3 1–1 2–0 2–1 1–2 3–2 3–2 4–1 0–2 2–1
Torpedo Minsk 0–1 1–1 5–0 3–4 0–0 3–1 6–0 0–1 1–1 2–0 3–1 4–0 0–0 2–2
Torpedo-Kadino Mogilev 3–1 0–2 1–0 1–0 3–1[a] 0–1 2–2 3–0 0–3 0–1 0–1 0–0 1–1 0–3 0–1
Source: rsssf.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Annulled after Dinamo-93 withdrew from competition.
  2. ^ Originally awarded as a 3–0 win for Lokomotiv-96, after Dinamo-93 boycotted the game due to significant salary delays. Annulled after Dinamo-93 withdrew from competition.

Belarusian clubs in European Cups

Round Team #1 Agg. Team #1 1st leg 2nd leg
1998 UEFA Intertoto Cup
First round Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev Belarus 2–10 Hungary Debrecen 2–4 0–6
1998–99 UEFA Cup
First qualifying round Belshina Bobruisk Belarus 1–3 Bulgaria CSKA Sofia 0–0 1–3
1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
Qualifying round Levski Sofia Bulgaria 9–2 Belarus Lokomotiv-96 Vitebsk 8–1 1–1
1998–99 UEFA Champions League
First qualifying round Skonto Riga Latvia 2–1 Belarus Dinamo Minsk 0–0 2–1

Top scorers

Rank Name Team Goals
1 Belarus Sergey Yaromko Torpedo Minsk 19
2 Belarus Valery Strypeykis Naftan-Devon Novopolotsk 18
Belarus Raman Vasilyuk
Dinamo Brest
 18
4 Belarus Pavel Shavrov Dinamo-93 Minsk / Shakhtyor Soligorsk 15
5 Belarus Dzmitry Balashow Belshina Bobruisk 14
6 Belarus Dzmitry Aharodnik Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev 13
7 Belarus Ihor Chumachenko Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev 10
8 Belarus Alyaksandr Baranaw BATE Borisov 9
Belarus Sergey Vekhtev Lokomotiv-96 Vitebsk 9
Belarus Dmitry Denisyuk Slavia Mozyr 9
Belarus Yawhen Kazlow Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev 9
Belarus Oleg Kononov Torpedo Minsk 9

See also

External links