1997 Belarusian First League

Belarusian First League 1997 Gomel GomelBATE Borisov Lokomotiv VitebskStroitel Starye Dorogi BATE 10–0 Stroitel Bereza 1–7 BATE BATE 10–0 Stroitel 240 677 1996 1998 1997 Belarusian First League was the seventh season of 2nd level football championship in Belarus. It started in April and ended in November 1997. Team changes from 1996 season Two best teams of 1996 Belarusian First League (Transmash Mogilev and Kommunalnik Slonim) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. They were replaced by two lowest-placed teams of 1996 Premier League (Obuvshchik Lida and Vedrich Rechitsa). No teams relegated to lower level by league position due to required league expansion back to 16 clubs. Three clubs were initially promoted from the Second League (BATE Borisov and Veino Mogilev Raion as the winners of their respective groups, and Dnepr Rogachev as a winner of additional play-offs between group runners-up). FC Kobrin withdrew from the league to amateur level during off-season due to financial troubles and were replaced by Beloozyorsk (who previously lost promotion play-offs against Dnepr Rogachev). Before the start of the season Obuvshchik Lida were renamed to FC Lida, Vedrich Rechitsa updated their name to Vedrich-97 Rechitsa, Kommunalnik Pinsk were renamed to Pinsk-900, Khimik Svetlogorsk to Kommunalnik Svetlogorsk, Stroitel Bereza to FC Bereza and newcomers FC Beloozyorsk to Belenergostroy Beloozyorsk. Overview Two best teams of the season (Gomel and BATE Borisov) were promoted to the Premier League. Two lowest placed teams (Lokomotiv Vitebsk and Stroitel Starye Dorogi were relegated to the Second League. Teams and locations Belarus 450 right Location of teams in 1997 Belarusian First League Belarus 53.9 27.5667 Dinamo-Juni left Belarus 52.1167 26.1 Pinsk-900 Belarus 53.6667 23.8333 Kardan-Flyers Belarus 52.6333 29.7333 Kommunalnik Belarus 55.1833 30.1667 Lokomotiv Belarus 52.4453 30.9842 Gomel right Belarus 54.1 28.35 Torpedo bottom Belarus 53.0394 28.265 Stroitel Belarus 54.5 30.4 Orsha Belarus 52.55 24.9667 Bereza left Belarus 53.8872 25.3028 Lida top Belarus 52.3639 30.3947 Vedrich-97 left Belarus 54.2333 28.5 BATE Belarus 53.82 30.3833 Veino right Belarus 52.45 25.1667 Belenergostroy Belarus 53.1 30.05 Dnepr right TeamLocationPosition in 1996LidaLida1Premier League, 15Vedrich-97Rechitsa2Premier League, 16KommunalnikSvetlogorsk3GomelGomel4Pinsk-900Pinsk5Dinamo-JuniMinsk6TorpedoZhodino7OrshaOrsha8LokomotivVitebsk9Kardan-FlyersGrodno10BerezaBereza11StroitelStarye Dorogi13BATEBorisov14Second League, Group A, 1VeinoMogilev Raion15Second League, Group B, 1BelenergostroyBeloozyorsk16Second League, Group A, 2DneprRogachev17Second League, Group B, 2 League table main WDL PR GOM Gomel BAT BATE Borisov LID Lida BER Bereza TZH Torpedo Zhodino V97 Vedrich-97 Rechitsa KHI Kommunalnik Svetlogorsk VOL Pinsk-900 DJM Dinamo-Juni Minsk BCR Kardan-Flyers Grodno VEI Veino Mogilev Raion BEL Belenergostroy Beloozyorsk DRO Dnepr Rogachev ORS Orsha LVI Lokomotiv Vitebsk SSD Stroitel Starye Dorogi 27 1 2 83 9 P 25 3 2 92 15 P 20 5 5 59 24 15 6 9 36 34 14 8 8 37 25 13 7 10 44 43 13 6 11 43 42 12 8 10 43 36 12 7 11 45 42 9 7 14 36 50 9 4 17 27 53 6 9 15 37 58 6 8 16 30 63 7 3 20 34 61 5 7 18 17 50 R 0 5 25 14 81 R green1 Promotion to Belarusian Premier League P P red1 Relegation to Belarusian Second League R R complete rsssf.com 1st points; 2nd matches won; 3rd head-to-head (points, matches won, goal difference, goals scored); 4th goal difference; 5th goals scored Top goalscorers RankGoalscorerTeamGoals1Belarus Mikalay RyndzyukBATE Borisov302Belarus Ihar FralowGomel193Belarus Andrey YusipetsGomel184Belarus Vitaly ShimkoBATE Borisov145Georgia 1990 Zviad BurdzenidzeLida13Belarus Alyaksandr DavidovichKardan-Flyers Grodno13 See also 1997 Belarusian Premier League 1996–97 Belarusian Cup 1997–98 Belarusian Cup External links RSSSF Category:Belarusian First League seasons 2 Belarus Belarus