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2015 Belarusian Premier League

Summary

The 2015 Belarusian Premier League was the 25th season of top-tier football in Belarus. It began on 10 April 2015 and ended on 8 November 2015. BATE Borisov were the defending champions, having won their 11th league title last year, and secured a 12th.

Belarusian Premier League
Season2015
ChampionsBATE Borisov
Champions LeagueBATE Borisov
Europa LeagueDinamo Minsk
Shakhtyor Soligorsk
Matches played182
Goals scored436 (2.4 per match)
Top goalscorerMikalay Yanush (15)
Biggest home winBATE 7–1 Neman
(22 August 2015)
Biggest away winSlavia 1–6 Slutsk
(3 October 2015)
Highest scoringSlavia 3–5 BATE
(10 July 2015)
BATE 7–1 Neman
(22 August 2015)
Longest winning runBATE (7),
Dinamo Minsk (7),
Minsk (7)
Longest unbeaten runBATE (14)
Longest winless runGomel (12)
Longest losing runNaftan (6)
Gomel (6)
Dinamo Brest (6)
← 2014
2016 →

Format edit

Following the league expansion from 12 to 14 clubs, the league format returned to a regular double-round robin tournament with no second phase. Only one lowest-placed team was relegated and replaced by three best teams of First League, to expand the top level to 16 teams for 2016.

Teams edit

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Locations of teams in the 2015 Belarusian Premier League

Two best teams of 2014 First League (Granit Mikashevichi and Slavia Mozyr) were promoted to the league, which was expanded from 12 to 14 clubs.

The last-placed team of 2014 Premier League (Dnepr Mogilev) were relegated after they lost relegation/promotion playoffs against First League third-placed team Vitebsk (who were promoted to replace Dnepr).

Team Location Venue Capacity Position in 2014
BATE Borisov Borisov Arena[1] 13,126 1
Belshina Bobruisk Spartak Stadium 3,700 10
Dinamo Brest Brest OSK Brestskiy 10,162 11
Dinamo Minsk Minsk Traktor Stadium 17,600 2
Gomel Gomel Central Stadium 14,307 6
Granit Mikashevichi Polesye Stadium (Luninets) 3,090 First League, 1
Minsk Minsk FC Minsk Stadium[2] 3,000 7
Naftan Novopolotsk Atlant Stadium 4,500 5
Neman Grodno Neman Stadium 8,479 8
Shakhtyor Soligorsk Stroitel Stadium 4,200 3
Slavia Mozyr Yunost Stadium 5,353 First League, 2
Slutsk Slutsk City Stadium (Slutsk) 1,896 9
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino Torpedo Stadium (Zhodino) 6,524 4
Vitebsk Vitebsk Vitebsky CSK 8,144 First League, 3
  1. ^
    One game played at City Stadium in Borisov.
  2. ^
    Two games played at Torpedo Stadium and two games at Traktor Stadium (both in Minsk).

League table edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 BATE Borisov (C) 26 20 5 1 44 11 +33 65 Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2 Dinamo Minsk 26 15 8 3 36 13 +23 53 Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round
3 Shakhtyor Soligorsk 26 14 7 5 47 27 +20 49
4 Belshina Bobruisk 26 12 7 7 39 19 +20 43
5 Granit Mikashevichi 26 12 6 8 30 32 −2 42
6 Minsk 26 12 4 10 29 28 +1 40
7 Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino 26 10 6 10 31 29 +2 36 Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round[a]
8 Neman Grodno 26 8 8 10 21 32 −11 32
9 Naftan Novopolotsk 26 8 6 12 34 35 −1 30
10 Slavia Mozyr 26 7 5 14 33 50 −17 26
11 Slutsk 26 6 7 13 26 30 −4 25
12 Dinamo Brest 26 7 3 16 23 42 −19 24
13 Vitebsk 26 4 9 13 21 47 −26 21
14 Gomel (R) 26 5 3 18 22 41 −19 18 Relegation to the Belarusian First League
Source: football.by, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head matches won; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Head-to-head goals scored; 6) Goal difference; 7) Matches won; 8) Goals scored; 9) Draw.[1][2]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino qualified for the Europa League second qualifying round by winning the 2015–16 Belarusian Cup.

Results edit

Each team will play twice against every other team for a total of 26 matches.

Home \ Away BAT BSH DBR DMI GOM GRA MIN NAF NEM SHA SLA SLU TZH VIT
BATE Borisov 1–0 1–0 0–1 2–0 1–1 1–0 2–1 7–1 1–1 1–0 4–1 1–0 4–0
Belshina Bobruisk 0–1 2–0 0–2 3–1 0–1 4–0 1–1 0–0 3–1 2–0 2–0 1–0 1–1
Dinamo Brest 0–1 2–1 1–0 0–4 0–0 1–0 0–1 1–3 3–2 1–2 1–1 2–1 3–2
Dinamo Minsk 0–2 0–0 4–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 2–1 2–0 1–0 2–0 2–0 4–0 0–0
Gomel 0–0 2–0 2–0 1–2 1–2 3–0 1–4 0–0 1–3 0–2 1–3 0–2 2–0
Granit Mikashevichi 0–1 1–5 1–0 0–0 1–0 2–0 3–0 0–1 2–3 3–2 1–0 2–1 1–1
Minsk 1–2 2–1 2–1 0–3 1–0 5–0 0–0 2–0 1–0 2–1 2–0 0–2 3–2
Naftan Novopolotsk 1–2 0–2 1–0 2–2 3–1 0–0 0–1 1–2 3–4 1–1 0–1 0–2 3–0
Neman Grodno 0–1 1–3 2–1 1–1 1–0 2–0 1–1 3–1 0–1 3–1 0–4 0–1 0–1
Shakhtyor Soligorsk 0–0 0–0 2–1 0–0 4–1 1–1 1–0 1–0 3–0 6–1 2–0 3–1 4–1
Slavia Mozyr 3–5 1–4 3–0 2–4 3–1 2–0 0–0 0–3 0–0 1–1 1–6 1–2 4–0
Slutsk 0–1 0–0 1–1 0–1 0–0 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–0 0–2 3–1 1–1 4–2
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino 0–0 0–3 1–3 1–0 3–0 2–3 2–0 3–3 0–0 3–0 0–1 0–0 3–1
Vitebsk 0–2 1–1 2–0 0–0 1–0 2–3 0–4 1–3 0–0 2–2 0–0 1–0 0–0
Source: football.by
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers edit

Rank Goalscorer Team Goals
1   Mikalay Yanush Shakhtyor Soligorsk 15
2   Uladzimir Khvashchynski Minsk 10
  Chigozie Udoji Dinamo Minsk 10
4   Denis Laptev Slavia Mozyr 9
  Vitali Rodionov BATE Borisov 9
  Fatos Bećiraj Dinamo Minsk 9
  Vadzim Dzemidovich Naftan Novopolotsk / Torpedo Zhodino 9
8   Raman Vasilyuk Dinamo Brest 8
  Serhiy Rozhok Belshina Bobruisk 8
  Roman Volkov Naftan Novopolotsk 8
  Yahor Zubovich Slutsk 8

Updated to games played on 8 November 2015
Source: football.by Archived 2015-05-19 at the Wayback Machine

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Premier League 2015 - Season rules". Scoresway. Archived from the original on 27 May 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  2. ^ "Регламент чемпионата Республики Беларусь по футболу сезона 2015 года среди команд высшей и первой лиги" [Regulations of the Republic of Belarus championship football season in 2015 and the highest among the teams first league] (in Russian). Football Federation of Belarus. 27 March 2015. p. 20. Archived from the original (pdf) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2015.

External links edit

  • Official site (in Russian)

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