2013 Belarusian First League

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

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

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

Slonim and Isloch Minsk Raion
) and the league was expanded from 15 to 16 clubs.

Gomelzheldortrans
, Second League 4th team, declined invitation due to insufficient financing.

Teams summary

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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[a] 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[b] 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 Belarus Syarhey Krot Smorgon 17
2 Belarus Dzmitry Kavalyonak
Granit Mikashevichi / Lida
 15
3 Belarus Dzmitry Lebedzew Gorodeya 12
4 Belarus Ilya Pukhov Gorodeya 11
Belarus Denis Trapashko
Smolevichi-STI
 11

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

See also

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