# 2018 Belarusian First League

2018 Belarusian First League is the 28th season of 2nd level football in Belarus. It started in April and finished in November 2018.

## Team changes from 2017 season

Two best teams of 2017 Belarusian First League (Luch Minsk and Smolevichi-STI) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. They were replaced by two lowest placed teams of 2017 Belarusian Premier League table (Slavia Mozyr and Naftan Novopolotsk).
Two lowest placed teams of the last season (Osipovichi and Neman-Agro Stolbtsy) relegated to the Second League. They were replaced by two best teams of 2017 Second League (UAS Zhitkovichi and Chist).
In March 2018, Torpedo Minsk were granted additional promotion to Belarusian Premier League to replace Krumkachy Minsk (who failed to obtain a Premier League and were demoted to the Second League). Torpedo were not replaced any other team due to the lack of applicants, and the league was reduced to 15 clubs for the season.

## Teams summary

| Team | Location | Position in 2017 |
| Slavia Mozyr | Mozyr | Premier League, 15 |
| Naftan Novopolotsk | Novopolotsk | Premier League, 16 |
| Lokomotiv Gomel | Gomel | 4 |
| Belshina Bobruisk | Bobruisk | 5 |
| Energetik-BGU Minsk | Minsk | 6 |
| Volna Pinsk | Pinsk | 7 |
| Granit Mikashevichi | Mikashevichi | 8 |
| Khimik Svetlogorsk | Svetlogorsk | 9 |
| Orsha | Orsha | 10 |
| Slonim-2017 | Slonim | 11 |
| Baranovichi | Baranovichi | 12 |
| Smorgon | Smorgon | 13 |
| Lida | Lida | 14 |
| UAS Zhitkovichi | Zhitkovichi | Second League, 1 |
| Chist | Chist | Second League, 2 |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Slavia Mozyr (P) | 28 | 21 | 7 | 0 | 69 | 13 | +56 | 70 | Promotion to the Belarusian Premier League |
| 2 | Energetik-BGU Minsk (P) | 28 | 21 | 4 | 3 | 69 | 23 | +46 | 67 | Promotion to the Belarusian Premier League |
| 3 | Belshina Bobruisk | 28 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 59 | 23 | +36 | 59 | |
| 4 | Lida | 28 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 45 | 18 | +27 | 58 | |
| 5 | Naftan Novopolotsk | 28 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 28 | 24 | +4 | 41 | |
| 6 | Lokomotiv Gomel | 28 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 44 | 29 | +15 | 40 | |
| 7 | Slonim-2017 | 28 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 37 | 37 | 0 | 36 | |
| 8 | Granit Mikashevichi | 28 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 28 | 34 | −6 | 34 | |
| 9 | Khimik Svetlogorsk | 28 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 32 | 40 | −8 | 32 | |
| 10 | UAS Zhitkovichi | 28 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 23 | 38 | −15 | 28 | |
| 11 | Smorgon | 28 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 19 | 44 | −25 | 28 | |
| 12 | Orsha | 28 | 8 | 3 | 17 | 33 | 53 | −20 | 27 | |
| 13 | Volna Pinsk | 28 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 23 | 49 | −26 | 25 | |
| 14 | Baranovichi | 28 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 17 | 42 | −25 | 19 | |
| 15 | Chist (R) | 28 | 1 | 7 | 20 | 30 | 89 | −59 | 10 | Relegation to the Belarusian Second League |
* ↑ Granit were deducted 1 point due to delayed salary payments.

## Results

| Home \ Away | BAR | BSH | CHI | ENE | GRA | KHI | LID | LGM | NAF | ORS | SLA | SLO | SMR | UAS | VOL |
| Baranovichi | — | 1–2 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 |
| Belshina Bobruisk | 5–1 | — | 5–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 6–0 |
| Chist | 0–1 | 0–5 | — | 0–7 | 2–2 | 1–4 | 1–2 | 0–6 | 1–3 | 2–3 | 1–6 | 1–5 | 2–4 | 0–0 | 3–1 |
| Energetik-BGU Minsk | 3–1 | 2–2 | 5–1 | — | 3–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 4–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 5–1 | 2–1 |
| Granit Mikashevichi | 0–0 | 0–1 | 3–3 | 0–4 | — | 4–1 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Khimik Svetlogorsk | 3–0 | 1–3 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | — | 0–0 | 1–4 | 2–2 | 3–2 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 |
| Lida | 2–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 4–0 | — | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 4–1 |
| Lokomotiv Gomel | 4–0 | 3–2 | 5–2 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | — | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 3–0 |
| Naftan Novopolotsk | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | — | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 |
| Orsha | 1–3 | 2–1 | 5–2 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 1–3 | — | 1–5 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 3–0 |
| Slavia Mozyr | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 4–0 | 6–2 | — | 3–1 | 6–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 |
| Slonim-2017 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–4 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–4 | — | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 |
| Smorgon | 1–0 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 1–4 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–5 | — | 1–1 | 0–0 |
| UAS Zhitkovichi | 0–1 | 0–5 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | — | 1–2 |
| Volna Pinsk | 4–2 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–4 | 2–2 | 1–2 | — |
* ↑ Chist were awarded a 0–3 loss for not showing up for away game against Khimik Svetlogorsk.
* ↑ Match between Lida and Energetik-BGU Minsk (originally 0–1) awarded 3–0 to Lida as Energetik-BGU used a suspended player.

## Top goalscorers

| Rank | Goalscorer | Team | Goals |
| 1 | Vsevolod Sadovsky | Energetik-BGU Minsk | 21 |
| 2 | Dmitry Gomza | Belshina Bobruisk | 17 |
| 3 | Yevgeniy Yudchits | Energetik-BGU Minsk | 13 |
| 3 | Maksym Slyusar | Slavia Mozyr | 13 |
| 5 | Dmitry Baiduk | Belshina Bobruisk | 11 |
Updated to games played on 10 November 2018 Source: football.by