The 2020 Belarusian Premier League was the 30th season of top-tier football in

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. Dynamo Brest were the defending champions, having won their first league title last year. Shakhtyor Soligorsk became champions on the last play date by beating

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4–2. Meanwhile, BATE Borisov didn't win and drew 0–0 at Dinamo Minsk so Shaktyor Soligorsk finished 1 point above BATE in the table and will play in the

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. By late March 2020, it was the only European top-flight league being contested, as all others were suspended due to the

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; games were played with crowds. As a result, this led to substantially increased viewership from all over the world, due to sporting inactivity elsewhere.

Teams

The 15th-placed team of the last season

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was relegated to the 2020 Belarusian First League. Torpedo Minsk were excluded from the league halfway through the last season and will not play in any league in 2020. Gomel and Torpedo were replaced by two best teams of

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( Belshina Bobruisk and

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). 14-placed team of the last season ( Dnyapro Mogilev) were relegated after they lost relegation/promotion playoffs against First League third-placed team Rukh Brest (who were promoted to replace Dnyapro).

Personnel

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Each team plays home-and-away once against every other team for a total of 30 matches played each.

Relegation play-offs

The 14th-place finisher of this season (

Slutsk Slutsk ( officially transliterated as Sluck, be, Слуцк; russian: Слуцк; pl, Słuck, lt, Sluckas, Yiddish/Hebrew: סלוצק ''Slutsk'') is a city in Belarus, located on the Sluch River south of Minsk. As of 2022, its population i ...

) were played a two-legged relegation play-off against the third-placed team of the 2020 Belarusian First League ( Krumkachy Minsk) for a spot in the 2021 Premier League. Leg 1 Leg 2

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

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Hat-tricks

Disciplinary

Most yellow cards: (10) * Syarhey Kislyak ( Dynamo Brest) Most red cards: (2) * Hayk Mosakhanian ( Energetik-BGU) * Gaby Kiki ( Dynamo Brest) * Marat Burayev (

) * Aleksandr Svirepa ( Energetik-BGU) * Yevgeniy Yudchits ( Energetik-BGU) * Yury Kazlow (

)

Awards

Weekly awards

Player of the Week

Goal of the Week

Monthly awards

Manager of the Month

Goal of the Month

Player of the Month

References

External links

* {{2020–21 in European football (UEFA)

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