2000 Belarusian First League

Belarusian First League
Season 2000
Champions Molodechno
Promoted Molodechno
Relegated Traktor Minsk
Veino-Dnepr
Polesye Kozenki
Matches played 240
Goals scored 704 (2.93 per match)
1999
2001

2000 Belarusian First League was the tenth season of 2nd level football championship in Belarus. It started in April and ended in November 2000.

Team changes from 1999 season

Two best teams of 1999 Belarusian First League (Kommunalnik Slonim and Vedrich-97 Rechytsa) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. Pinsk-900 and Vitbich-Dinamo-Energo Vitebsk relegated to the Second League.

Promoted and relegated teams were replaced by two newcomers from the Second League (Traktor Minsk and Luninets) and two teams relegated from Premier League (Molodechno and Svisloch-Krovlya Osipovichi).

Before the start of the season Kommunalnik Svetlogorsk were renamed to Khimik Svetlogorsk.

Overview

This season winners Molodechno were promoted to the Premier League. Four lowest placed teams (Traktor Minsk, Khimik Svetlogorsk, Veino-Dnepr and Polesye Kozenki) were initially relegated to the Second League, although Khimik Svetlogorsk later avoided relegation due to withdrawal of two other teams before 2001 season.

Teams and locations

Team Location Position in 1999
Svisloch-Krovlya Osipovichi 1Premier League, 15
Molodechno Molodechno 2Premier League, 16
Dinamo-Juni Minsk 3
Khimik Svetlogorsk 4
Granit Mikashevichi 5
Neman Mosty 6
Torpedo Zhodino 7
Keramik Bereza 8
Orsha Orsha 9
Rogachev Rogachev 10
ZLiN Gomel 11
Zvezda-VA-BGU Minsk 12
Polesye Kozenki 13
Veino-Dnepr Mogilev Raion 14
Traktor Minsk 15Second League, Group A, 1
Luninets Luninets 16Second League, Group B, 1
Location of teams in 1999 Belarusian First League

League table

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Promotion or relegation
1 Molodechno (P) 30 23 5 2 76 16+60 74 Promotion to Premier League
2 Luninets 30 18 8 4 51 18+33 62
3 Neman Mosty 30 17 4 9 57 30+27 55
4 Zvezda-VA-BGU Minsk 30 15 7 8 47 35+12 52
5 Granit Mikashevichi 30 15 4 11 46 40+6 49
6 Keramik Bereza 30 14 6 10 59 42+17 48
7 Torpedo Zhodino 30 13 6 11 44 36+8 45
8 Svisloch-Krovlya Osipovichi 30 13 5 12 40 39+1 44
9 Orsha 30 12 8 10 48 44+4 44
10 Rogachev 30 10 11 9 40 433 41
11 Dinamo-Juni Minsk 30 11 5 14 44 473 38
12 ZLiN Gomel 30 10 8 12 30 25+5 38
13 Traktor Minsk (R) 30 10 7 13 43 41+2 37 Relegation to Second League
14 Khimik Svetlogorsk 30 9 9 12 40 433 36
15 Veino-Dnepr Mogilev Raion (R) 30 2 2 26 25 8358 8 Relegation to Second League
16 Polesye Kozenki (R) 30 0 1 29 14 122108 1

Source: rsssf.com
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
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

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