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 Belshina Bobruisk) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. They were replaced by 15th-placed team of 2021 Belarusian Premier League (Smorgon). 16th-placed Premier League team Sputnik Rechitsa disbanded, leaving a vacancy in the First League.
Due to low number of participants, no team has relegated to the Second League. In attempt to bring the number of teams to 16, 5 best teams were initially promoted from the Second League (Ostrovets, Rogachev, Partizan Soligorsk, Osipovichi and BGU Minsk). After Partizan Soligorsk and BGU Minsk refused promotion due to insufficient financing, promotion was offered to Molodechno and Malorita.Первая лига собрана! Не БГУ, "Стэнлес" и "Бумпром", а "Осиповичи", "Малорита" и "Молодечно"
In the following months before the start of the season, Dnepr Mogilev was promoted to Premier League to replace Rukh Brest (who withdrew from the league due to international sanctions against its owners), Krumkachy Minsk were denied First League license and withdrew to the Second League for upcoming season, while Malorita stepped down from their initially accepted promotion and returned to the Second League due to financial reasons. Extra promotion spot was offered to Bumprom Gomel, but the team declined. Thus the number of participants was finalized at 13.Чертова дюжина. Календарь первой лиги
Teams summary
TeamLocationPosition in 2021SmorgonSmorgonPremier League, 15Volna PinskPinsk4Lokomotiv GomelGomel6Shakhtyor PetrikovPetrikov7Naftan NovopolotskNovopolotsk8OrshaOrsha9BaranovichiBaranovichi10LidaLida11Slonim-2017Slonim12OstrovetsOstrovetsSecond League, 1RogachevRogachevSecond League, 2OsipovichiOsipovichiSecond League, 4MolodechnoMolodechnoSecond League, 9
League table
Results
Top goalscorers RankGoalscorerTeamGoals1 Maksim KovalevichShakhtyor Petrikov13 Yury KazlowNaftan Novopolotsk133 Yegor KortsovRogachev124 Kirill ZabelinLida11 Ilya TrachynskiRogachev11 Vladislav KabachevskiyOrsha11 Denis KovalevichShakhtyor Petrikov11 Updated to games played on 12 November 2022 Source: football.by
See also 2022 Belarusian Premier League 2021–22 Belarusian Cup 2022–23 Belarusian Cup
References
External links Official site