Belarusian Premier League
Season2010
ChampionsBATE Borisov
RelegatedPartizan Minsk
Champions LeagueBATE Borisov
Europa LeagueShakhtyor Soligorsk
Minsk
Matches played198
Goals scored498 (2.52 per match)
Top goalscorerBrazil Renan Bressan
(15 goals)
Biggest home winBATE 6–0 Partizan
Biggest away winNeman 0–5 BATE
Vitebsk 1–6 BATE
Highest scoringNaftan 4–4 Partizan
Longest winning runBATE, Dinamo Minsk
(6 games each)
Longest unbeaten runBATE (13 games)
Longest winless runNaftan, Vitebsk, Partizan
(13 games each)
Longest losing runTorpedo, Partizan
(7 games each)
← 2009
2011 →

The 2010 Belarusian Premier League was the 20th season of top-tier football in Belarus. It started on April 3 and ended on 20 November 2010. BATE Borisov are the defending champions.

Teams

2010 Belarusian Premier League is located in Belarus
Dinamo Minsk Minsk Partizan
Dnepr
Dinamo Brest
Neman
Shakhtyor
BATE
Torpedo
Naftan
Vitebsk
Belshina
Location of teams in 2010 Belarusian Premier League

Gomel, Granit Mikashevichi and Smorgon were relegated to the Belarusian First League after finishing the 2009 season in the last three places. Due to the league reduction from 14 to 12 teams, only 2009 First League winners Belshina Bobruisk were promoted to the Premier League.

Team summaries

Team Location Venue Capacity Position in 2009
BATE Borisov City Stadium 5,402 1
Dinamo Minsk Minsk Dinamo-Yuni Stadium[1] 4,500 2
Dnepr Mogilev Spartak Stadium (Mogilev) 7,350 3
Naftan Novopolotsk Atlant Stadium[2] 5,300 4
Dinamo Brest Brest OSK Brestskiy 10,162 5
Shakhtyor Soligorsk Stroitel Stadium 4,200 6
Neman Grodno Neman Stadium 8,500 7
Torpedo Zhodino Torpedo Stadium (Zhodino) 3,020 8
Minsk Minsk Dinamo Stadium[3] 36,900 9
Vitebsk Vitebsk Vitebsky CSK 8,300 10
Partizan Minsk Traktor Stadium 17,600 11
Belshina Bobruisk Spartak Stadium (Bobruisk)[4] 3,700 First League, 1
  1. ^
    One game played at Dinamo Stadium and one at Traktor Stadium.
  2. ^
    Two games played at Vitebsky CSK in Vitebsk due to renovation works at Atlant Stadium.
  3. ^
    Four games played at Torpedo Stadium in Minsk.
  4. ^
    One game played at Spartak Stadium in Mogilev.

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 BATE Borisov (C) 33 21 9 3 64 18 +46 72 Qualification for Champions League second qualifying round
2 Shakhtyor Soligorsk 33 19 9 5 51 23 +28 66 Qualification for Europa League second qualifying round
3 Minsk 33 18 6 9 59 32 +27 60 Qualification for Europa League first qualifying round
4 Dinamo Minsk 33 17 5 11 49 34 +15 56
5 Dinamo Brest 33 12 10 11 48 40 +8 46
6 Belshina Bobruisk 33 12 9 12 31 42 −11 45
7 Naftan Novopolotsk 33 11 11 11 41 34 +7 44
8 Dnepr Mogilev 33 11 7 15 40 53 −13 40
9 Vitebsk 33 7 11 15 31 52 −21 32
10 Neman Grodno 33 7 10 16 27 42 −15 31
11 Torpedo Zhodino (O) 33 7 7 19 33 58 −25 28 Qualification to relegation play-offs
12 Partizan Minsk (R) 33 5 8 20 24 70 −46 23 Relegation to Belarusian First League
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.
FC Gomel of the Belarusian First League were the winners of the 2010–11 Belarusian Cup competition and qualified for the third qualifying round of UEFA Europa League.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated

Relegation play-offs

Torpedo Zhodino played a two-legged relegation play-off against SKVICH Minsk, the runners-up of 2010 Belarusian First League for one spot in the 2011 Premier League. Torpedo Zhodino won the play-off 3–1 on aggregate and retained their spot in the top flight.

SKVICH Minsk1 – 3Torpedo Zhodino
Minsk
Torpedo Zhodino0 – 0SKVICH Minsk
Zhodino

Results

First and second round

Home \ Away BAT BSH DBR DMI DNE MIN NAF NEM PAR SHA TZH VIT
BATE Borisov 2–0 1–0 1–3 3–0 1–2 1–1 0–0 6–0 2–0 1–0 4–0
Belshina Bobruisk 0–1 1–0 0–2 2–1 1–0 1–0 0–2 2–0 1–0 2–0 0–0
Dinamo Brest 1–4 1–1 1–2 2–3 2–1 0–0 4–0 1–1 1–1 3–2 5–2
Dinamo Minsk 0–1 3–0 2–2 3–0 0–2 0–0 1–0 0–0 0–1 5–1 1–1
Dnepr Mogilev 0–2 1–3 2–1 1–0 1–5 1–0 0–0 3–0 0–2 3–1 0–0
Minsk 0–0 3–1 1–1 0–2 2–1 3–1 3–1 3–0 0–2 2–1 5–1
Naftan Novopolotsk 0–2 4–0 3–1 0–2 5–0 0–0 4–1 1–0 0–2 1–1 0–0
Neman Grodno 0–5 2–2 0–0 0–1 1–2 0–1 0–0 0–1 0–0 0–0 0–0
Partizan Minsk 1–1 1–2 0–3 0–2 1–0 1–4 1–1 0–4 0–2 2–3 0–2
Shakhtyor Soligorsk 0–0 1–1 2–0 2–4 0–0 1–0 0–0 4–1 1–0 4–1 1–1
Torpedo Zhodino 0–1 1–2 0–1 2–0 2–3 0–4 1–4 2–0 2–2 1–1 0–4
Vitebsk 0–0 0–0 0–1 3–1 1–1 0–3 4–2 2–2 0–1 1–3 0–2
Source: football.by
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Third round

Home \ Away BAT BSH DBR DMI DNE MIN NAF NEM PAR SHA TZH VIT
BATE Borisov 2–0 4–0 2–1 1–0 1–2
Belshina Bobruisk 1–3 1–1 2–0 1–1 1–3 1–1
Dinamo Brest 2–0 2–1 4–0 3–1 2–0
Dinamo Minsk 4–0 2–0 2–1 1–0 5–1 0–2
Dnepr Mogilev 2–3 1–1 3–0 1–0 0–1
Minsk 2–2 0–0 2–0 2–0 1–2
Naftan Novopolotsk 1–0 2–0 1–2 2–1 4–4 1–0
Neman Grodno 1–1 2–0 2–0 2–1 3–0
Partizan Minsk 1–1 0–0 4–3 1–3 1–0 0–1
Shakhtyor Soligorsk 1–1 3–0 3–2 0–1 4–0 2–1
Torpedo Zhodino 1–1 3–1 1–1 0–2 0–1
Vitebsk 1–6 0–2 1–1 1–3 2–0 0–1
Source: football.by
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank Name Team Goals
1 Brazil Renan Bressan BATE Borisov 15
2 Belarus Dzmitry Kavalyonak Neman Grodno 12
3 Belarus Andrey Razin Minsk 11
4 Belarus Dzmitry Asipenka Minsk 10
Belarus Mikalay Yanush Dinamo Brest 10
6 Belarus Andrey Sheryakov Minsk 9
Belarus Vladimir Yurchenko Dnepr Mogilev 9
Belarus Maksim Skavysh BATE Borisov 9
Russia Aleksandr Alumona BATE Borisov / Shakhtyor Soligorsk 9
Belarus Pavel Sitko Shakhtyor Soligorsk 9
Belarus Syarhey Kislyak Dinamo Minsk 9
Belarus Artur Lyavitski Torpedo Zhodino 9
Belarus Dzmitry Mazalewski Dinamo Brest 9

Updated to games played on 21 November 2010
Source: football.by Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine

See also

External links

Belarusian Premier League
2010 in Belarusian football
2009–10 in European men's football (UEFA)
2010–11 in European men's football (UEFA)
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