2024 Belarusian First League is the 34th season of 2nd level football in

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. It started in April and ended in November 2024.

Team changes from 2023 season

Two best teams of 2023 Belarusian First League ( Arsenal Dzerzhinsk and Dnepr Mogilev) were promoted to

Belarusian Premier League The Belarusian Premier League (, ''Vyšejšaja Liha'' or ''Vysheyshaya Liga''; ; "Top League"), also called the BETERA Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Belarus and the highest level of the B ...

. They were replaced by the last-placed team of

2023 Belarusian Premier League The 2023 Belarusian Premier League was the 33rd season of top-tier football in Belarus. Shakhtyor Soligorsk were the defending champions (although they were stripped of their title as a result of a match-fixing scandal). The winners ( Dinamo Mi ...

( Belshina Bobruisk). Third-placed club

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won the promotion/relegation play-off against Energetik-BGU Minsk and got promoted as well, while Energetik-BGU relegated to the First League to replace Vitebsk. Last placed team of the last season (

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) relegated to the Second League. Three clubs were supposed to get promoted from the Second League. 2023 Second League champions Partizan Soligorsk and runners-up Krumkachy Minsk did not apply for the First League license due to insufficient financing. Third-placed club

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initially confirmed their intentions to get promoted, but in February withdrew their application due to apparent conflict between club's owner and ABFF. For the first time in history of the First League, no club got promoted from the Second League. On 11 February 2024, Zhodino-Yuzhnoye announced that the club withdrew from the league and ceased to exist. At a series of ABFF executive committee meetings in January–March 2024 it was decided that Belarusian Premier League Reserves Championship will be abolished and reserve teams of Premier League clubs are to be integrated into First and Second leagues as farm clubs, with a maximum of 4 farm clubs in the First League. For 2024 season, the First League included three best teams of 2023 Reserves Championships ( Dinamo-2 Minsk, BATE-2 Borisov and Torpedo-BelAZ-2 Zhodino) as well as Shakhtyor-2 Soligorsk (which became direct successor to Shakhtyor Petrikov). In addition, a special team ( ABFF U-17) was created under direct management from ABFF to develop youth players as candidates for

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Team changes from 2023 season

Teams summary

League table

Results

Top goalscorers

See also

References

External links