2013 Belarusian First League

Belarusian First League
Season 2013
Champions Slutsk
Promoted Slutsk
Relegated SKVICH Minsk
Polotsk
Matches played 238
Goals scored 644 (2.71 per match)
Top goalscorer Syarhey Krot (17)
Biggest home win Smolevichi 9–0 Polotsk
Biggest away win Polotsk 0–8 Gorodeya
Highest scoring Smolevichi 9–0 Polotsk
← 2012
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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 2012 season table (Rudensk) relegated to the Second League. To compensate for Premier League and First League club withdrawals from last year, they were replaced by three best teams of 2012 Second League (Smolevichi-STI, Slonim and Isloch Minsk Raion) and the league was expanded from 15 to 16 clubs.

DSK Gomel withdrew from the league and disbanded due to lack of financing. They were replaced by Minsk-2, who finished 5th in last year's Second League. Gomelzheldortrans, Second League 4th team, declined invitation due to insufficient financing.

Teams summary

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 14Second League, 1
Slonim Slonim 15Second League, 2
Isloch Minsk Raion Minsk Raion 16Second League, 3
Minsk-2 Minsk 17Second 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 2014 Premier League
2 Gorodeya (A) 30 18 6 6 68 32+36 60 Qualification to 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 Rechytsa 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 2014 Belarusian Second League
16 Polotsk (R) 30 2 4 24 10 92−82 10

Updated to games played on 23 November 2013.
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
(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 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[1] BER GRD GRAISLKHILIDMINPOLSKVSLOSLUSMLSMRV97VITVOL
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 3–03 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 3–02 0–0 3–2 0–4 0–1 0–0 4–0 1–0
Vedrich-97 Rechytsa 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

Updated to games played on 23 November 2013.
Source: football.by
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
3 Awarded to Slonim as Polotsk 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 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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