# 2015 Belarusian First League

The 2015 Belarusian First League is the 25th season of 2nd level football in Belarus. It started in April and finished in November 2015.

## Team changes from 2014 season

Two best teams of 2014 Belarusian First League (Granit Mikashevichi and Slavia Mozyr) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. No team has relegated from Premier League directly due to its expansion from 12 to 14 clubs.
Last season's third-placed team Vitebsk won the promotion/relegation play-offs against Dnepr Mogilev (last team of Premier League) and were also promoted to Premier League. Dnepr Mogilev replaced Vitebsk in the First League
Volna Pinsk, who finished 16th last year, relegated to the Second League. To compensate for Premier League expansion, they were replaced by three best teams of 2014 Second League (Baranovichi, Krumkachy Minsk and Orsha).
Before the start of the season, FC Minsk announced that their farm-club Minsk-2 will be folded. Kobrin, who finished 5th in 2014 Second League, were invited to replace Minsk-2 (after Zhlobin, who finished 4th in Second League, declined invitation).

## Teams summary

| Team | Location | Position in 2014 |
| Dnepr Mogilev | Mogilev | Premier League, 12 |
| Smorgon | Smorgon | 4 |
| Rechitsa-2014 | Rechitsa | 5 |
| Gorodeya | Gorodeya | 6 |
| Isloch | Minsk Raion | 7 |
| Khimik | Svetlogorsk | 8 |
| Zvezda-BGU | Minsk | 9 |
| Smolevichi-STI | Smolevichi | 10 |
| Gomelzheldortrans | Gomel | 11 |
| Bereza-2010 | Bereza | 12 |
| Lida | Lida | 14 |
| Slonim | Slonim | 15 |
| Baranovichi | Baranovichi | Second League, 1 |
| Krumkachy | Minsk | Second League, 2 |
| Orsha | Orsha | Second League, 3 |
| Kobrin | Kobrin | Second League, 5 |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Isloch Minsk Raion (P) | 30 | 20 | 9 | 1 | 76 | 24 | +52 | 69 | Promotion to the Belarusian Premier League |
| 2 | Gorodeya (P) | 30 | 21 | 5 | 4 | 73 | 25 | +48 | 68 | Promotion to the Belarusian Premier League |
| 3 | Krumkachy Minsk (P) | 30 | 19 | 3 | 8 | 67 | 45 | +22 | 60 | Promotion to the Belarusian Premier League |
| 4 | Dnepr Mogilev | 30 | 17 | 5 | 8 | 48 | 21 | +27 | 56 | |
| 5 | Smorgon | 30 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 60 | 41 | +19 | 53 | |
| 6 | Lida | 30 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 60 | 53 | +7 | 50 | |
| 7 | Smolevichi-STI | 30 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 47 | 37 | +10 | 47 | |
| 8 | Gomelzheldortrans | 30 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 45 | 39 | +6 | 44 | |
| 9 | Slonim | 30 | 13 | 2 | 15 | 41 | 55 | −14 | 41 | |
| 10 | Zvezda-BGU Minsk | 30 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 47 | 47 | 0 | 40 | |
| 11 | Bereza-2010 | 30 | 10 | 4 | 16 | 39 | 43 | −4 | 34 | |
| 12 | Khimik Svetlogorsk | 30 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 42 | 50 | −8 | 34 | |
| 13 | Baranovichi | 30 | 8 | 8 | 14 | 36 | 49 | −13 | 32 | |
| 14 | Orsha | 30 | 3 | 8 | 19 | 24 | 70 | −46 | 17 | |
| 15 | Kobrin | 30 | 4 | 3 | 23 | 23 | 77 | −54 | 15 | |
| 16 | Rechitsa-2014 (R) | 30 | 2 | 5 | 23 | 14 | 66 | −52 | 11 | Relegation to the Belarusian Second League |

## Results

| Home \ Away | BAR | BER | DNE | GZH | GRD | ISL | KHI | KOB | KRU | LID | ORS | RCH | SLO | SML | SMR | ZVE |
| Baranovichi | | 3–1 | 0–4 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 5–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 |
| Bereza-2010 | 2–1 | | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–4 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 |
| Dnepr Mogilev | 4–1 | 3–0 | | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 4–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 |
| Gomelzheldortrans | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | | 2–3 | 0–4 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 3–3 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 4–1 |
| Gorodeya | 2–3 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | | 4–0 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 6–1 | 1–2 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 6–1 | 1–0 |
| Isloch Minsk Raion | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | | 4–0 | 6–0 | 3–2 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 |
| Khimik Svetlogorsk | 0–1 | 2–4 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 0–2 | | 2–0 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 4–0 | 3–1 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 4–2 |
| Kobrin | 2–2 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–7 | 3–1 | | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 2–0 |
| Krumkachy Minsk | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 8–3 | 0–3 | 2–3 | 3–3 | 3–0 | | 2–0 | 2–1 | 7–0 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 4–2 | 2–2 |
| Lida | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–4 | 0–3 | 2–2 | 7–2 | 0–3 | | 2–1 | 2–0 | 6–4 | 3–0 | 4–6 | 2–0 |
| Orsha | 0–0 | 1–8 | 0–2 | 0–4 | 0–4 | 0–4 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 2–2 | | 3–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 |
| Rechitsa-2014 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–4 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | | 0–2 | 0–4 | 0–4 | 1–1 |
| Slonim | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–5 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 0–4 | 0–4 | 3–0 | 2–1 | | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 |
| Smolevichi-STI | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 3–3 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 5–0 | 0–1 | 0–4 | 3–3 | 2–0 | 1–2 | | 4–2 | 1–1 |
| Smorgon | 2–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 2–3 | 6–0 | 4–1 | 5–1 | 0–2 | | 0–2 |
| Zvezda-BGU Minsk | 4–2 | 3–2 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 3–3 | 4–1 | 7–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 1–4 | |
* ↑ Awarded to Orsha as Kobrin did not show up for the game.

## Top goalscorers

| Rank | Goalscorer | Team | Goals |
| 1 | Aleksandr Alumona | Isloch Minsk Raion | 20 |
| 2 | Dzmitry Lebedzew | Gorodeya | 19 |
| 2 | Aleksey Khodnevich | Zvezda-BGU Minsk / Smolevichi-STI | 19 |
| 4 | Syarhey Koshal | Krumkachy Minsk | 17 |
| 5 | Yevgeniy Shikavka | Krumkachy Minsk | 16 |
| 5 | Uladzimir Shakaw | Slonim | 16 |
Updated to games played on 15 November 2015 Source: football.by