2006 Belarusian First League

2006 Belarusian First League was the sixteenth season of 2nd level football championship in Belarus. It started in April and ended in October 2006.

Belarusian First League
Season2006
ChampionsMinsk
PromotedMinsk
Smorgon
RelegatedLida
Bereza
← 2005
2007 →

Team changes from 2005 season

Two best teams of the last season (Belshina Bobruisk and Lokomotiv Vitebsk) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. They were replaced by two teams that finished at the bottom of 2005 Belarusian Premier League table (Zvezda-BGU Minsk and Slavia Mozyr).

Two lowest placed teams of 2005 season (Orsha and Dnepr-DUSSh-1 Rogachev) relegated to the Second League. They were replaced by two best teams of 2005 Second League (Torpedo-SKA Minsk and Pinsk-900).

Before the start of the season Smena Minsk was transformed into new club FC Minsk, which overtook Smena's First League allocation, bypassing the Second League. Newly promoted Torpedo-SKA Minsk was disbanded with some of its facilities being inherited by Minsk.

Slavia Mozyr and ZLiN Gomel merged into Mozyr-ZLiN, a club became a successor of Slavia Mozyr (and was eventually renamed into such).

Torpedo-Kadino Mogilev withdrew from the league and disbanded due to lack of financing. They were replaced by additionally promoted Polotsk, who finished 5th in last year's Second League. Two teams that finished above Polotsk and were also eligible for additional promotion (Spartak Shklov and Vertikal Kalinkovichi) refused the invitation due to insufficient financing. No other teams were promoted and the league was reduced from 16 to 14 clubs.

Granit Mikashevichi changed their name to FC Mikashevichi and Pinsk-900 to Volna Pinsk prior to the season.

Teams and locations
Location of teams in 2006 Belarusian First League
Team Location Position in 2005
Zvezda-BGU Minsk Premier League, 13
Mozyr-ZLiN Mozyr Premier League, 14
Smorgon Smorgon 3
Minsk Minsk 5
Mikashevichi Mikashevichi 6
Khimik Svetlogorsk 7
Vedrich-97 Rechitsa 8
Baranovichi Baranovichi 9
Lida Lida 10
Veras Nesvizh 11
Kommunalnik Slonim 13
Bereza Bereza 14
Volna Pinsk Second League, 2
Polotsk Polotsk Second League, 5

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Minsk (P) 26 17 5 4 44 13 +31 56 Promotion to Belarusian Premier League
2 Smorgon (P) 26 16 7 3 57 27 +30 55
3 Khimik Svetlogorsk 26 14 7 5 48 30 +18 49
4 Mozyr-ZLiN 26 11 10 5 44 24 +20 43
5 Mikashevichi 26 12 4 10 38 33 +5 40
6 Polotsk 26 11 4 11 36 41 −5 37
7 Vedrich-97 Rechitsa 26 10 6 10 31 32 −1 36
8 Volna Pinsk 26 10 4 12 47 48 −1 34
9 Veras Nesvizh 26 9 5 12 27 33 −6 32
10 Baranovichi 26 8 8 10 27 42 −15 32
11 Kommunalnik Slonim 26 7 5 14 32 44 −12 26
12 Zvezda-BGU Minsk 26 5 10 11 32 39 −7 25
13 Lida (R) 26 6 5 15 23 45 −22 23 Relegation to Belarusian Second League
14 Bereza (R) 26 3 6 17 23 58 −35 15
Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd matches won; 3rd head-to-head (points, matches won, goal difference, goals scored); 4th goal difference; 5th goals scored
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated.

Top goalscorers
Rank Goalscorer Team Goals
1 Dzmitry Vyarstak Smorgon 19
2 Yury Aleshchanka Polotsk 18
3 Andrey Sherakow Mikashevichi 15
4 Dmitry Gavrilovich Khimik Svetlogorsk 14
Dzmitry Asipenka Smorgon 14

See also
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