2025 Belarusian Premier League
| Season | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Dates | 13 March – 30 November[1] |
| Champions | Maxline Vitebsk 1st Premier League title |
| Relegated | Smorgon Slutsk Molodechno |
| Champions League | Maxline Vitebsk |
| Conference League | Dinamo Minsk |
| Matches | 240 |
| Goals | 611 (2.55 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Aleksandr Shestyuk (17 goals) |
| Biggest home win | Naftan 5–0 Molodechno (19 September 2025) |
← 2024 2026 →
All statistics correct as of 9 November 2025. | |
The 2025 Belarusian Premier League is the 35th season of top-tier football in Belarus. Maxline Vitebsk won the Belarusian Premier League title for the first time as a newly promoted side.
Teams
[edit]The bottom-placed teams from the 2024 season (Dnepr Mogilev and Shakhtyor Soligorsk) were relegated to the First League. They were replaced by Molodechno and Maxline Vitebsk, champions and runners-up of the 2024 Belarusian First League respectively.
14th-placed team of the last season (Naftan Novopolotsk) defended their spot in Premier League by defeating Niva Dolbizno in relegation/promotion playoffs.
| Team | Location | Venue | Capacity | Position in 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenal | Dzerzhinsk | City Stadium | 1,000 | 10th |
| BATE | Borisov | Borisov Arena | 13,126 | 8th |
| Dinamo Brest | Brest | OSK Brestsky | 10,037 | 4th |
| Dinamo Minsk | Minsk | Dinamo Stadium | 22,246 | 1st |
| Gomel | Gomel | Central Stadium | 14,307 | 6th |
| Isloch | Minsk | FC Minsk Stadium | 3,050 | 7th |
| Maxline Vitebsk | Vitebsk | Vitebsky CSK | 8,046 | 2nd (First League) |
| Minsk | Minsk | FC Minsk Stadium | 3,050 | 13th |
| Molodechno | Molodechno | City Stadium | 4,560 | 1st (First League) |
| Naftan | Novopolotsk | Atlant Stadium | 4,522 | 14th |
| Neman | Grodno | Neman Stadium | 8,479 | 2nd |
| Slavia | Mozyr | Yunost Stadium | 5,300 | 11th |
| Slutsk | Slutsk | City Stadium | 1,896 | 9th |
| Smorgon | Smorgon | Yunost Stadium | 3,200 | 12th |
| Torpedo-BelAZ | Zhodino | Torpedo Stadium | 6,524 | 3rd |
| Vitebsk | Vitebsk | Vitebsky CSK | 8,046 | 5th |
League table
[edit]| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maxline Vitebsk (C) | 30 | 21 | 5 | 4 | 53 | 18 | +35 | 68 | Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round |
| 2 | Dinamo Minsk | 30 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 52 | 27 | +25 | 63 | Qualification for the Conference League first qualifying round |
| 3 | Slavia Mozyr | 30 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 53 | 32 | +21 | 57 | |
| 4 | Dynamo Brest | 30 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 42 | 30 | +12 | 51 | |
| 5 | Minsk | 30 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 48 | 47 | +1 | 51 | |
| 6 | Isloch Minsk Raion | 30 | 12 | 13 | 5 | 45 | 26 | +19 | 49 | |
| 7 | Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino | 30 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 43 | 30 | +13 | 49 | |
| 8 | Neman Grodno | 30 | 14 | 3 | 13 | 41 | 31 | +10 | 45 | |
| 9 | Gomel | 30 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 35 | 34 | +1 | 43 | |
| 10 | BATE Borisov | 30 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 38 | 43 | −5 | 40 | |
| 11 | Arsenal Dzerzhinsk | 30 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 27 | 35 | −8 | 33 | |
| 12 | Vitebsk | 30 | 9 | 4 | 17 | 37 | 46 | −9 | 28[a] | |
| 13 | Naftan Novopolotsk | 30 | 8 | 4 | 18 | 35 | 55 | −20 | 28 | |
| 14 | Smorgon (R) | 30 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 23 | 43 | −20 | 28 | Qualification for the Belarusian Premier League play-off |
| 15 | Slutsk (R) | 30 | 5 | 6 | 19 | 20 | 51 | −31 | 21 | Relegation to the Belarusian First League |
| 16 | Molodechno (R) | 30 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 19 | 63 | −44 | 11 |
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Matches won; 7) Goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
- ^ Decision of the ABFF Control and Disciplinary and Ethics Committee dated 12.11.2025, football club "Vitebsk" was deprived of 3 tournament points in the Football Championship of the Republic of Belarus 2025 among the top league teams.
Results
[edit]Each team plays home-and-away once against every other team for a total of 30 matches played each.
Belarusian Premier League play-off
[edit]The fourteenth-placed team (Smorgon) face the fourth-placed team of the 2025 Belarusian First League (Belshina Bobruisk) in a two-legged play-off for the final place in the 2026 Belarusian Premier League. Belshina Bobruisk would be in play-off instead of third-placed team Lokomotiv Gomel, since Lokomotiv Gomel cannot promote to Belarusian Premier League.[2]
First leg
[edit]| 3 December 2025 | Smorgon | 1–0 | Belshina Bobruisk | Smorgon |
| 13:30 GMT+3 | Aleksey Dayneko  10' |
Stadium: Yunost Stadium Referee: Dmitriy Dmitriev |
Second leg
[edit]| 6 December 2025 | Belshina Bobruisk | 1–0 (a.e.t.) (1–1 agg.) (6–5 p) | Smorgon | Bobruisk |
| 14:00 GMT+3 | Vladislav Solanovich 81' |
Stadium: Spartak Stadium Attendance: 1,200 Referee: Sergey Stetsurin | ||
| Penalties | ||||
Pavel Seleznev  Arseniy Achapovskiy  Vadim Balbukh Nikita Golub Vladislav Solanovich Pavel Dubovskiy Ilya Vikhrov |
Sékou Doumbia Ilya Bogdanovich Alikhan Fazylov Aleksey Dayneko Vladimir Maslovskiy Vladislav Chebotar Vladimir Tonkevich |
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Attendances
[edit]| # | Football club | Average attendance[3] |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dynamo Brest | 6,741 |
| 2 | Maxline Vitebsk | 4,245 |
| 3 | Dinamo Minsk | 4,049 |
| 4 | Slaviya-Mozyr' | 3,098 |
| 5 | Neman Grodno | 2,964 |
| 6 | BATE | 2,871 |
| 7 | Gomel' | 2,306 |
| 8 | Torpedo Zhodino | 2,149 |
| 9 | Vitebsk | 1,389 |
| 10 | Smorgon' | 1,321 |
| 11 | Slutsk | 1,200 |
| 12 | FC Minsk | 812 |
| 13 | Naftan Novopolotsk | 788 |
| 14 | Maladechna | 679 |
| 15 | Isloch' | 576 |
| 16 | Arsenal Dziarzhynsk | 432 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Полный календарь чемпионата Беларуси-2025" [Full calendar of the championship of Belarus-2025]. football.by (in Belarusian). 18 February 2025. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
- ^ "В переходных матчах за право выступать в высшей лиге в сезоне-2026 может сыграть не третья, а четвертая команда первой лиги". football.by. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
- ^ https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/aveblr.htm
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