Football league season
The 2011 Belarusian Premier League was the 21st season of top-tier football in Belarus . It began in April and ended in November 2011. BATE Borisov were the defending champions.
Teams
Locations of teams in the 2011 Belarusian Premier League
Partizan Minsk were relegated to the Belarusian First League after finishing the 2010 season in last place, ending a seven-year tenure in the league. They were replaced by 2010 First League champions Gomel , who make their immediate return to the highest football league of Belarus. Torpedo Zhodino as 11th-placed team had to compete in the relegation/promotion playoffs against First League runners-up SKVICH Minsk . They successfully retained their Premier League spot after defeating SKVICH 3–1 on aggregate. In early 2011 they were renamed to Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino.
Team summaries
Team
Location
Venue
Capacity
Position in 2010
BATE
Borisov
City Stadium
5,402
1
Belshina
Bobruisk
Spartak Stadium (Bobruisk) [1]
3,700
6
Dinamo Brest
Brest
OSK Brestskiy
10,060
5
Dinamo Minsk
Minsk
Dinamo-Yuni Stadium [2]
4,500
4
Dnepr
Mogilev
Spartak Stadium (Mogilev)
7,350
8
Gomel
Gomel
Central Stadium [3]
14,307
First League , 1
Minsk
Minsk
Torpedo Stadium (Minsk) [4]
1,650
3
Naftan
Novopolotsk
Atlant Stadium [5]
4,500
7
Neman
Grodno
Neman Stadium
8,500
10
Shakhtyor
Soligorsk
Stroitel Stadium
4,200
2
Torpedo-BelAZ
Zhodino
Torpedo Stadium (Zhodino)
3,020
11
Vitebsk
Vitebsk
Vitebsky CSK
8,350
9
League table
Source:
football.by 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
(C) Champions;
(R) Relegated
Notes:
Relegation playoffs
Vitebsk will play a two-legged relegation play-off against Partizan Minsk , the runners-up of the 2011 Belarusian First League for one spot in the 2012 Premier League .
Results
Each team will play three times against every other team for a total of 33 matches.
First and second round
Source:
football.by Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Third round
Source:
football.by Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Top goalscorers
Updated to games played on 27 November 2011 Source: football.by Archived 2012-08-20 at the Wayback Machine
Awards
Player of the month
See also
References
^ a b c d "Premier League - 2011" . WhoScored.com . WhoScored.com. Retrieved 13 December 2011 .
^ Best in April. Shitov's defense , pressball.by, retrieved 4 May 2011
^ Best in May. Stasevich's philosophy , pressball.by, retrieved 31 May 2011
^ Best in June. Yuri Tsygalko: thanks to Malofeyev , pressball.by, retrieved 30 June 2011
^ Best in July. Pavel Nekhaichik: without BATE I'm nobody , pressball.by, retrieved 4 August 2011
^ Best in August. Artyom Solovey: Minsk captivity , pressball.by, retrieved 1 September 2011
^ Best in September. Star of David , pressball.by, retrieved 6 October 2011
^ Red October. Renan Bressan: a pleasure , pressball.by, retrieved 3 November 2011
^ Best in November. Dmitri Komarovsky: cloudless autumn , pressball.by, retrieved 30 November 2011
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