The 2021 Belarusian Premier League was the 31st season of top-tier football in Belarus. 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 2020 season (Belshina Bobruisk and Smolevichi) 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 Gomel (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.
TeamLocationVenueCapacityPosition in 2020BATEBorisovBorisov Arena13,1212ndGomelGomelCentral Stadium (Gomel)14,3072nd (First League)Dinamo BrestBrestOSK Brestsky10,0604thDinamo MinskMinskDinamo Stadium22,3246thEnergetik-BGUMinskCity Stadium (Borisov)5,40210thIslochMinsk RaionCity Stadium (Molodechno)4,8007thMinskMinskTraktor Stadium17,60011thNemanGrodnoNeman Stadium8,4795thRukhBrestOSK Brestsky10,0608thShakhtyorSoligorskStroitel Stadium4,2001stSlaviaMozyrYunost Stadium (Mozyr)5,1339thSlutskSlutskCity Stadium (Slutsk)1,89614thSmorgonSmorgonYunost Stadium (Smorgon)2,6256th (First League)SputnikRechitsaCentral Stadium (Rechitsa)3,5501st (First League)Torpedo-BelAZZhodinoTorpedo Stadium6,5243rdVitebskVitebskVitebsky CSK8,20012th
Personnel Team Manager Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt Sponsor (Chest) BATE Borisov Vitaly Zhukovsky Pavel Nyakhaychyk Adidas Minsk Tractor Works Dynamo Brest Syarhey Kavalchuk Edhar Alyakhnovich Saller RUPP-Granit Dinamo Minsk Artsyom Chelyadzinski (caretaker) Igor Shitov Saller None Energetik-BGU Vladimir Belyavskiy Yevgeniy Yudchits Adidas Belenergo Gomel Ivan Bionchik Ruslan Yudenkov Joma Belorusneft Isloch Minsk Raion Artsyom Radzkow Dzmitry Kamarowski Joma Hyundai Minsk Fyodor Shcherbachenko Syarhey Vyeramko Macron Minsk Tractor Works Neman Grodno Valery Zhukowski Saller None Rukh Brest Kirill Alshevsky Artsyom Rakhmanaw Joma Belgosstrakh Shakhtyor Soligorsk Roman Hryhorchuk Alyaksandr Hutar Jako Belaruskali Slavia Mozyr Mihail Martsinovich Mikhail Baranovsky Joma Mozyr Oil Refinery Slutsk Aleksandr Brazevich Ilya Branovets Hummel Slutsk Sugar Refinery Smorgon Vyacheslav Geraschenko Artur Valikayev Masita Maxline Sputnik Rechitsa Viktor Kumykov Ihar Yasinski Macron Stroidiapazon Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino Yuri Puntus Andrey Khachaturyan Adidas BelAZ Vitebsk Yevgeniy Chernukhin Artsyom Skitaw Macron None
Managerial changes TeamOutgoing managerManner of departureDate of vacancyPosition in tableIncoming managerDate of appointmentFC Dinamo Minsk Leonid KuchukResigned28 May 20214th Artsyom Chelyadzinski (caretaker)3 June 2021FC Sputnik Rechitsa Vyacheslav LevchukMutual Consent 4 June 202116th Viktor Kumykov 4 June 2021
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 Flashscore RankPlayerClubGoals1 Dembo DarboeShakhtyor Soligorsk192 Andrey SoloveyGomel173 Maksim SkavyshBATE Borisov134 Stanislav BilenkyiDynamo Brest115 Ablaye MbengueDinamo Minsk106 Steven AlfredSlutsk9 Dzyanis LaptsewRukh Brest Ruslan TeverovVitebsk9 Dmitry GomzaGomel8 Dzmitry KamarowskiIsloch Francis NarhSlavia Mozyr
Hat-tricks
Player For Against Result Date Rukh Brest Smorgon 5–0 (H) Shakhtyor Soligorsk Rukh Brest 4‒1 (H) Dinamo Minsk Slavia Mozyr 4–0 (H) Gomel Slutsk 4–1 (A)
Disciplinary
Most yellow cards: (8) Júlio César (Vitebsk) Giorgi Kantaria (Neman Grodno) Alimardon Shukurov (Neman Grodno) Vladislav Yatskevich (Smorgon) Igor Tymonyuk (Slavia Mozyr) Most red cards: (2) Júlio César (Vitebsk) Sulley Muniru (Minsk) Alyaksey Hawrylovich (Neman Grodno)
Awards Weekly awards Player of the Week Player of The WeekWeekPlayerClubReference1 Syarhey KislyakDinamo Minsk 2 Dzmitry KamarowskiIsloch 3 Shokhboz UmarovBATE Borisov4 Andrey SoloveyGomel 5 Dzyanis LaptsewRukh Brest6 Dembo DarboeShakhtyor Soligorsk7 Alyaksandr SachywkaShakhtyor Soligorsk8 Júlio CésarVitebsk9 Denis GruzhevskiyTorpedo-BelAZ Zhodino 10 Ruslan YudenkovGomel 11 Andrey SoloveyGomel
Goal of the Week Goal of The WeekWeekPlayerClubReference1 Shokhboz UmarovBATE Borisov2 Alyaksandr SachywkaShakhtyor Soligorsk3 Artsyom VaskowGomel4 Nikola AntićShakhtyor Soligorsk5 Aleksandr ShestyukDynamo Brest6 Mikita NyakrasawGomel7 Stanislav BilenkyiDynamo Brest8 Vadim PobudeyGomel9 Pavel SedkoDynamo Brest10 Ruslan YudenkovGomel 11 Shokhboz UmarovBATE Borisov
Monthly awards
Player of the Month Player of The MonthMonthPlayerClubReferenceApril Dembo DarboeShakhtyor Soligorsk
Goal of the Month Goal of The MonthMonthPlayerClubReferenceApril Aleksandr ShestyukDynamo Brest
Manager of the Month Manager of The MonthMonthPlayerClubReferenceApril Roman HryhorchukShakhtyor Soligorsk
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