2001 Belarusian Premier League

Sergei Davydov (25)
Biggest home win	Slavia 6–0 Lokomotiv-96
Biggest away win	0–4 – 3 games; ; 1–5 – 1 game
Highest scoring	BATE 6–3 Molodechno-2000; ; Slavia 6–3 Vedrich-97
	← 2000 2002 →

The 2001 Belarusian Premier League was the 11th season of top-tier football in Belarus. It started on April 11 and ended on November 7, 2001. Slavia Mozyr were the defending champions.

Team changes from 2000 season

Due to league reduction from 16 to 14 teams, three worst placed teams in 2000 –

Torpedo-Kadino Mogilev and Kommunalnik Slonim relegated to the First League, while only one team, winners of 2000 First League Molodechno, replaced them. Molodechno changed their name to Molodechno-2000 following the promotion. Naftan-Devon Novopolotsk

Belshina Bobruisk won their 1st champions title and qualified for the next season's Champions League. The championship runners-up Dinamo Minsk and 2001-02 Cup winners Gomel qualified for UEFA Cup. Teams finished on the last two places, Naftan Novopolotsk and Vedrich-97 Rechitsa relegated to the First League.

Dinamo Brest

Team	Location	Venue	Capacity	Position in 2000
Slavia	Mozyr	Yunost Stadium	5,250	1
BATE	Borisov	City Stadium (Borisov)	5,500	2
Dinamo Minsk	Minsk	Dinamo Stadium (Minsk)	40,000	3
Neman-Belcard	Grodno	Neman Stadium	14,000	4
Shakhtyor	Soligorsk	Stroitel Stadium	5,000	5
Gomel	Gomel	Luch Stadium^[1]	5,000	6
Dnepr-Transmash	Mogilev	Spartak Stadium (Mogilev)	7,700	7
Torpedo-MAZ	Minsk	Torpedo Stadium (Minsk)	5,200	8
Belshina	Bobruisk	Spartak Stadium (Bobruisk)	2,000	9
Dinamo Brest	Brest	OSK Brestsky	3,000	10
Lokomotiv-96	Vitebsk	Dinamo Stadium (Vitebsk)^[2]	5,250	11
Vedrich-97	Rechitsa	Central Stadium (Rechitsa)	5,500	12
Naftan	Novopolotsk	Atlant Stadium	6,500	13
Molodechno-2000	Molodechno	City Stadium (Molodechno)	5,650	First league, 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Belshina Bobruisk (C)	26	17	4	5	43	20	+23	55	Qualification for Champions League first qualifying round
2	Dinamo Minsk	26	16	5	5	52	21	+31	53	Qualification for UEFA Cup qualifying round
3	BATE Borisov	26	16	3	7	54	31	+23	51	Qualification for Intertoto Cup first round
4	Neman-Belcard Grodno	26	14	8	4	44	20	+24	50
5	Shakhtyor Soligorsk	26	13	7	6	43	24	+19	46
6	Gomel	26	13	5	8	36	24	+12	44	Qualification for UEFA Cup qualifying round^[a]
7	Slavia Mozyr	26	13	5	8	49	27	+22	44
8	Torpedo-MAZ Minsk	26	10	7	9	31	32	−1	37
9	Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev	26	8	7	11	29	37	−8	31
10	Molodechno-2000	26	8	5	13	23	47	−24	29
11	Dinamo Brest	26	8	5	13	26	38	−12	29
12	Lokomotiv-96 Vitebsk	26	4	7	15	18	51	−33	19
13	Naftan Novopolotsk (R)	26	4	2	20	18	51	−33	14	Relegation to Belarusian First League
14	Vedrich-97 Rechitsa (R)	26	2	2	22	17	60	−43	8	Relegation to Belarusian First League

Home \ Away	BAT	BSH	DBR	DMI	DNE	GOM	LVI	MOL	NAF	NEM	SHA	SLA	TMI	VED
BATE Borisov		0–1	2–1	1–3	2–0	1–0	2–0	6–3	4–1	1–1	0–0	3–2	5–2	3–0
Belshina Bobruisk	2–3		3–2	1–2	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	3–1	2–0
Dinamo Brest	1–0	0–2		2–1	0–0	0–3	3–1	0–0	3–0	0–3	2–1	1–0	1–3	0–0
Dinamo Minsk	2–0	0–1	1–1		0–1	3–0	4–0	3–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	0–1	3–1	4–1
Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev	2–3	0–3	2–0	4–3		0–0	1–1	4–2	1–1	0–2	2–2	1–2	3–1	0–2
Gomel	0–1	3–2	1–0	0–4	2–0		5–0	3–0	2–0	2–1	3–1	3–1	2–3	0–0
Lokomotiv-96 Vitebsk	0–3	1–1	0–0	1–3	1–1	0–1		1–1	4–0	1–1	1–2	0–4	1–0	2–0
Molodechno-2000	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–3	2–1	1–0	0–1		2–1	0–3	0–0	0–4	1–1	2–0
Naftan Novopolotsk	1–1	1–3	2–1	1–2	0–1	0–1	2–1	0–1		1–2	0–3	0–2	1–2	2–0
Neman-Belcard Grodno	4–2	2–2	3–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	3–0	5–0		1–0	1–1	1–0	2–0
Shakhtyor Soligorsk	1–0	4–2	4–1	2–2	1–0	3–1	0–0	4–1	3–0	4–1		1–1	1–1	1–0
Slavia Mozyr	1–3	1–0	2–3	0–0	4–2	0–0	6–0	4–0	3–0	0–1	2–0		1–1	6–3
Torpedo-MAZ Minsk	1–4	0–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	5–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–2	2–0		1–0
Vedrich-97 Rechitsa	0–3	0–3	2–3	0–3	1–2	2–4	3–1	1–2	0–3	1–5	0–3	0–1	1–2

Round	Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup
First round	Dinamo Minsk	7–1	Hobscheid	6–0	1–1
Second round	Dinamo Minsk	3–0	Hapoel Haifa	2–0	1–0
Third round	Wolfsburg	4–3	Dinamo Minsk	4–3	0–0
2001–02 UEFA Cup
Qualifying round	Shakhtyor Soligorsk	2–5	CSKA Sofia	1–2	1–3
	Ružomberok	3–1	Belshina Bobruisk	3–1	0–0
	Dinamo Tbilisi	2–5	BATE Borisov	2–1	0–4
First round	BATE Borisov	0–6	Milan	0–2	0–4
2001–02 UEFA Champions League
First qualifying round	VB Vágur	0–5	Slavia Mozyr	0–0	0–5
Second qualifying round	Slavia Mozyr	0–2	Inter Bratislava	0–1	0–1

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Sergei Davydov	Neman-Belcard Grodno	25
2	Vitali Kutuzov	BATE Borisov	14
3	Petr Katchouro	Dinamo Minsk	12
4	Viktor Borel	Gomel	11
	Ihor Chumachenko	Dinamo Minsk, Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev	11
	Syarhey Nikiforenka	Shakhtyor Soligorsk	11
	Valery Strypeykis	Slavia Mozyr	11
8	Vadzim Boyka	Dinamo Brest	10
	Artem Kontsevoy	BATE Borisov	10
	Aleksandr Sednev	Belshina Bobruisk	10