The 2023
Belarusian Premier League
The Belarusian Premier League or the Vyšejšaja Liha or the Vysheyshaya Liga ( be, Вышэйшая ліга, russian: Высшая лига, "Top League") is the top division of professional football in Belarus, and is organized by the Belarusi ...
was the 33rd season of top-tier
football
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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 Minsk, their eighth title win) qualified for the
2024–25 Champions League first qualifying round. The
2023–24 Belarusian Cup
The 2023–24 Belarusian Cup was the 33rd season of Belarus's annual knock-out cup football competition. The winners qualified for the 2024–25 Conference League second qualifying round.
Neman Grodno won the cup on 25 May 2024 (their second B ...
winners qualify for the
2024–25 Conference League second qualifying round. The second and third-placed teams (
Neman Grodno and
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino) (or fourth-placed team,
Isloch Minsk Raion, if the Belarusian Cup winners finish in the top three of the Belarusian Premier League) qualify for the
2024–25 Conference League first qualifying round. The fourteenth-placed team (
Energetik-BGU Minsk) qualified for the
Belarusian Premier League play-off, losing and being relegated to the
2024 Belarusian First League. They were joined by the bottom-placed team (
Belshina Bobruisk).
Teams
The bottom-placed teams from the
2022
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season (
Vitebsk and
Dnepr Mogilev
FC Dnepr Mogilev ( be, ФК Дняпро Магілёў, ''FK Dniapro Mahilyow''; russian: ФК Днепр Могилёв) is a Belarusian association football, football team, playing in the city of Mogilev. Their home stadium is Spartak Stadium ...
) were relegated to the
First League. They were replaced by
Naftan Novopolotsk and
Smorgon, champions and runners-up of the
2022 Belarusian First League
The 2022 Belarusian First League is the 32nd season of second tier football in Belarus. It started in April and ended in November 2022.
Team changes from 2021 season
Two best teams of 2021 Belarusian First League (Arsenal Dzerzhinsk and Belshin ...
respectively.
14th-placed team of the last season (
Arsenal Dzerzhinsk
FC Arsenal Dzerzhinsk ( be, ФК Арсенал Дзяржынск, russian: ФК Арсенал Дзержинск) is a association football, football team from Dzyarzhynsk, Dzerzhinsk, Minsk Oblast, Belarus, currently playing in the Belarusian ...
) were relegated after they lost relegation/promotion playoffs against First League third-placed team
Maxline Rogachev. Despite winning the play-off,
Maxline Rogachev were denied Premier League license
Maxline can't play in the 2023 top flight
/ref> and remained in the First League. As no other potential replacement team applied for the license, it was decided to play 2023 season with just 15 clubs.
League table
Results
Each team plays home-and-away once against every other team for a total of 28 matches over 30 matchdays.
Belarusian Premier League play-off
The fourteenth-placed club ( Energetik-BGU Minsk) faced the third-placed club from the 2023 Belarusian First League ( Vitebsk) for the final place in the following season's Belarusian Premier League.
First leg
Second leg
Statistics
Top scorers
References
External links
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2023
Events
Predicted and scheduled events
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