Belarusian Premier League Reserves Championship

Belarusian Premier League Reserves Championship is an annual competition for the reserve teams of Belarusian Premier League clubs. Current: 2020 Belarusian Premier League Reserves Championship

History

The competition was established in 2001. Prior to 2001, most of Belarusian Premier League clubs had their reserve teams or affiliated farm clubs playing in lower divisions of Belarus football league system. After the reserve league creation, all Premier League clubs created the new reserve teams to participate in it, and most of old reserve teams were folded, either immediately or in next several years.

Several Premier League clubs with developed youth system still continue running separate farm clubs in the First or Second League, most notably Minsk-2 and Bereza-2010 (current Dinamo Minsk farm club). Furthermore, a number of clubs, that have relegated from Premier League and thus lost a spot in a Reserves League, continued running the reserve team in the Second League for some time. As of 2014, only one such team (Vitebsk-2) is active.

Format

The format of each season of the league is virtually identical to that of respective Premier League season. There is no promotion or relegation depending on the season's final table. Instead, only the reserve teams of current Premier League members are admitted for each season. Match schedule of each season follows closely the calendar of Premier League, except all games are played one day earlier than seniors' game. For the 2013 and 2014 seasons, only the First Phase fixtures counted as a Championship games. Fixtures of the Second Phase were played as a part of Belarusian Reserves Cup.

Belarusian Reserves Cup

For the 2013 and 2014 seasons, the Premier League format included two phases: 12 teams in a double round-robin league followed by a Championship playoff group and Relegation playoff group. The same groups were used for the Reserves Cup tournament. Winners of both groups played a final game at the end of the season.

Winners
Season Winner Runner-up Third place
2001 Gomel Torpedo-MAZ Minsk BATE Borisov
2002 Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev Dinamo Minsk Torpedo-MAZ Minsk
2003 Torpedo Zhodino Torpedo-SKA Minsk BATE Borisov
2004 Dinamo Minsk Dinamo Brest Torpedo-SKA Minsk
2005 Dinamo Minsk BATE Borisov Shakhtyor Soligorsk
2006 Dinamo Minsk BATE Borisov Dinamo Brest
2007 Dinamo Minsk Neman Grodno Gomel
2008 Shakhtyor Soligorsk Lokomotiv Minsk BATE Borisov
2009 Dinamo Minsk Torpedo Zhodino Naftan Novopolotsk
2010 Dinamo Minsk Shakhtyor Soligorsk Naftan Novopolotsk
2011 BATE Borisov Dinamo Minsk Gomel
2012 Gomel Dinamo Minsk Shakhtyor Soligorsk
2013 Shakhtyor Soligorsk BATE Borisov Dinamo Minsk
2014 Dinamo Minsk Gomel BATE Borisov
2015 Minsk BATE Borisov Naftan Novopolotsk
2016 Minsk Shakhtyor Soligorsk BATE Borisov
2017 Shakhtyor Soligorsk Dinamo Brest Dinamo Minsk
2018 Dinamo Minsk Dinamo Brest BATE Borisov
2019 BATE Borisov Dinamo Minsk Minsk
2020 Dinamo Minsk Minsk Shakhtyor Soligorsk
Teams Champion Runner-up Third place
Dinamo Minsk 9 (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2020) 4 (2002, 2011, 2012, 2019) 2 (2013, 2017)
Shakhtyor Soligorsk 3 (2008, 2013, 2017) 2 (2010, 2016) 2 (2005, 2012)
Gomel 2 (2001, 2012) 1 (2014) 2 (2007, 2011)
Minsk 2 (2015, 2016) 0 0
BATE Borisov 1 (2011) 4 (2005, 2006, 2013, 2015) 6 (2001, 2003, 2008, 2014, 2016, 2018)
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino 1 (2003) 1 (2009) 0
Dnepr Mogilev 1 (2002) 0 0
Dinamo Brest 0 3 (2004, 2017, 2018) 1 (2006)
Torpedo-SKA Minsk 0 2 (2001, 2003) 2 (2002, 2004)
Neman Grodno 0 1 (2007) 0
Lokomotiv Minsk 0 1 (2008) 0
Naftan Novopolotsk 0 0 3 (2009, 2010, 2015)

Cup Finals
Year Winners Runners-up
2013 Shakhtyor Soligorsk Minsk
2014 Minsk Gomel
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