2012 Belarusian First League

Belarusian First League
Season 2012
Champions Dnepr Mogilev
Promoted Dnepr Mogilev
Relegated Rudensk
Matches played 208
Goals scored 573 (2.75 per match)
Top goalscorer Yuri Markhel (29)
Biggest home win SKVICH 7–0 DSK;
SKVICH 7–0 Polotsk
Biggest away win Rudensk 0–8 Slutsk
Highest scoring Bereza-2010 8–2 Volna
2011
2013

The 2012 Belarusian First League is the 22nd season of 2nd level football in Belarus. It started in April and finished in November 2012.

Team changes from 2011 season

The winners of last season (Slavia Mozyr) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. They were replaced by last-placed team of 2011 Belarusian Premier League table (Dnepr Mogilev).

The runners-up of last season (Partizan Minsk) won the promotion/relegation play-off against Vitebsk (11th-placed Premier League team). Partizan Minsk were thus promoted to Premier League and replaced in the First League by Vitebsk.

Two teams that finished at the bottom of 2011 season table (Belcard Grodno and Baranovichi) relegated to the Second League. They were replaced by two best teams of 2011 Second League (Bereza-2010 and Lida).

Klechesk Kletsk withdrew from the league due to lack of financing and joined Second League. No team was invited to replace them and the league was reduced to 15 teams for the season.

Teams and venues

Team Location Position in 2011
Vitebsk Vitebsk 1Premier League, 11
Dnepr Mogilev 2Premier League, 12
Gorodeya Gorodeya 3
SKVICH Minsk 4
Slutsk Slutsk 5
Vedrich-97 Rechitsa 6
Volna Pinsk 7
Granit Mikashevichi 8
Polotsk Polotsk 10
Smorgon Smorgon 11
DSK Gomel 12
Rudensk Rudensk 13
Khimik Svetlogorsk 14
Lida Lida 15Second League, 1
Bereza-2010 Bereza 16Second League, 2

League table

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Promotion or relegation
1 Dnepr Mogilev (P) 28 20 3 5 75 22+53 63 Promotion to 2013 Premier League
2 Gorodeya (A) 28 18 6 4 49 21+28 60 Qualification to promotion play-off
3 Vitebsk 28 19 2 7 57 30+27 59
4 SKVICH Minsk 28 16 7 5 61 19+42 55
5 Slutsk 28 15 7 6 59 27+32 52
6 Granit Mikashevichi 28 14 8 6 41 23+18 50
7 Vedrich-97 Rechytsa 28 9 12 7 40 24+16 39
8 Volna Pinsk 28 8 10 10 24 4521 34
9 Bereza-2010 28 9 6 13 41 487 33
10 Smorgon 28 7 10 11 23 329 31
11 Lida 28 8 6 14 32 4917 30
12 Polotsk 28 7 5 16 24 5531 26
13 Khimik Svetlogorsk 28 5 9 14 29 5223 24
14 DSK Gomel (R) 28 1 5 22 9 6253 8 Disbanded
15 Rudensk (R) 28 4 4 20 15 7055 71

Updated to games played on 17 November 2012.
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
1Rudensk were deducted 9 points due to significant delays in players' payments.
(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.

Promotion play-offs

The 11th placed team of 2012 Premier League (Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino) played a two-legged relegation play-off against the runners-up of 2012 Belarusian First League Gorodeya for one spot in the 2013 Premier League and won the series 4–1 on aggregate.

Results

Home ╲ Away[1] BER DNE DSKGRDGRAKHILIDPOLRUDSKVSLUSMRV97VITVOL
Bereza-2010 21 10 21 10 33 30 00 41 11 12 11 11 12 82
Dnepr Mogilev 32 40 31 20 61 00 50 50 10 31 30 21 60 40
DSK Gomel 00 03 04 11 13 13 01 20 03 13 04 00 01 02
Gorodeya 21 32 20 11 21 20 10 30 10 31 10 00 20 40
Granit Mikashevichi 40 10 20 00 11 21 21 22 01 41 00 21 10 01
Khimik Svetlogorsk 21 23 22 00 12 02 23 02 02 03 11 00 12 22
Lida 13 26 10 12 01 22 11 10 11 01 30 11 05 40
Polotsk 41 03 10 02 21 20 01 01 13 12 00 05 14 11
Rudensk 01 03 21 05 05 11 04 12 22 08 10 06 01 03
SKVICH Minsk 71 21 70 11 22 20 302 70 21 00 50 01 10 00
Slutsk 40 22 60 11 20 20 50 40 10 02 10 22 01 11
Smorgon 10 21 20 01 13 01 22 10 10 12 11 11 21 00
Vedrich-97 Rechytsa 10 01 00 01 00 02 51 30 21 30 31 22 03 11
Vitebsk 21 00 20 63 12 50 20 43 50 10 03 00 21 41
Volna Pinsk 21 02 303 10 03 01 10 00 00 05 11 10 00 13

Updated to games played on 17 November 2012.
Source: football.by
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
2 Awarded to SKVICH as Lida did not show up for the game.
3 Awarded to Volna as DSK did not show up for the game.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank Goalscorer Team Goals
1 Belarus Yuri Markhel SKVICH Minsk 29
2 Belarus Dmitry Gomza Vitebsk 16
3 Belarus Anton Matsveenka Dnepr Mogilev 14
4 Latvia Igors Sļesarčuks Dnepr Mogilev 12
5 Belarus Uladzimir Shakaw Dnepr Mogilev / Gorodeya 11
Belarus Mikalay Zyanko Dnepr Mogilev 11
Belarus Sergey Gerasimenko Bereza-2010 11
8 Belarus Ihar Makaraw Slutsk 10
Belarus Vladimir Yurchenko Dnepr Mogilev 10
Belarus Alyaksandr Dzegtseraw Vitebsk 10

Updated to games played on 17 November 2012
Source: football.by

See also

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