The 2021 Belarusian Premier League was the 31st season of top-tier football in

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. Shakhtyor Soligorsk were the defending champions, having won their second league title last year. Shakhtyor Soligorsk won their third Belarusian Premier League title.

Teams

The bottom two teams from the

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season ( Belshina Bobruisk and

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) were relegated to the First League (both relegated after one-year in the top flight). They were replaced by Sputnik Rechitsa (promoted to the top-flight for the first time in their history) and

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(promoted after a one-year absence), champions and runners-up of the 2020 Belarusian First League respectively. In the winter 2020/21, Gorodeya (who finished 13th last year) dissolved and left a Premier League spot vacant. Smorgon (6th-placed team of last year's First League season, promoted after an eleven-year absence) were admitted to fill the vacancy, after Krumkachy Minsk (First League 3rd-placed team) were denied Premier League license, and another two clubs ( Arsenal Dzerzhinsk and Lokomotiv Gomel) rejected the opportunity due to insufficient financing.

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 ( Slavia Mozyr) played a two-legged relegation play-off against the third-placed team of the 2021 Belarusian First League ( Krumkachy Minsk) for a spot in the 2022 Premier League. Leg 1 Leg 2

Statistics

Top goalscorers

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Hat-tricks

Disciplinary

Most yellow cards: (8) * Júlio César (

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) * Giorgi Kantaria ( Neman Grodno) * Alimardon Shukurov ( Neman Grodno) * Vladislav Yatskevich ( Smorgon) * Igor Tymonyuk ( Slavia Mozyr) Most red cards: (2) * Júlio César (

) * Sulley Muniru (

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) * Alyaksey Hawrylovich ( Neman Grodno)

Awards

Weekly awards

Player of the Week

Goal of the Week

Monthly awards

Player of the Month

Goal of the Month

Manager of the Month

References

External links

* {{2021–22 in European football (UEFA)

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