The fifth season of the Belarusian Premier League, Belarus's top-tier football league, ran from 10 July to 6 November 1995. Dinamo Minsk were the defending champions.
Team changes from 1994–95 season Gomselmash Gomel and Lokomotiv Vitebsk, who finished on 15th and 16th places, relegated to Belarusian First League. They were replaced by two newcomers: First League 1994–95 winners MPKC Mozyr and runners-up Ataka-Aura Minsk.
Overview The championship was played as a single round-robin tournament in the second half of 1995 due to change of the league schedule from winter to summer starting from 1996. This also was the first season with 3-point system. Dinamo Minsk won the championship for the 5th time in a row and qualified for the next season's UEFA Cup, as the Champions League was limited to 23 highest-ranked European national leagues which did not include Belarus. The championship runners-up and 1995–96 Cup winners MPKC Mozyr qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup. The bronze medalists Dinamo-93 Minsk also qualified for UEFA Cup. Bobruisk, who finished in the last place, relegated and eventually dissolved immediately after the season.
Teams and venues
TeamLocationVenueCapacityPosition in 1994–95Dinamo MinskMinskDinamo Stadium (Minsk)50,0501Dvina VitebskVitebskDinamo Stadium (Vitebsk)5,5002Dinamo-93 MinskMinskTraktor Stadium25,0003MolodechnoMolodechnoCity Stadium5,6004Dnepr MogilevMogilevSpartak Stadium (Mogilev)12,0005Torpedo MinskMinskTorpedo Stadium (Minsk)5,0006Neman GrodnoGrodnoNeman Stadium14,0007ObuvshchikLidaObuvshchik Stadium3,5008Vedrich RechitsaRechytsaRechitsadrev Stadium5,5009Dinamo BrestBrestDinamo Stadium (Brest)10,50010Torpedo MogilevMogilevTorpedo Stadium (Mogilev)6,00011BobruiskBobruiskSpartak Stadium (Bobruisk)4,80012Shinnik BobruiskBobruiskSpartak Stadium (Bobruisk)4,80013Shakhtyor SoligorskSoligorskStroitel Stadium5,00014MPKC MozyrMozyrYunost Stadium7,500First league, 1Ataka-Aura MinskMinskTraktor Stadium25,000First league, 2
Table
Promotion/relegation play-off Shinnik Bobruisk had to play two-legged play-off with First League runners-up Kommunalnik Pinsk. Shinnik won and both teams remained in their respective leagues.
Team #1Agg.Team #11st leg2nd legShinnik Bobruisk3–2Kommunalnik Pinsk0–23–0
Results
Belarusian clubs in European Cups RoundTeam #1Agg.Team #11st leg2nd leg1995 UEFA Intertoto CupGroup stageDnepr Mogilev 2–1 Bečej2–1Pogoń Szczecin 3–3 Dnepr Mogilev3–3Dnepr Mogilev 2–2 Cannes2–2Farul Constanţa 2–0 Dnepr Mogilev2–01995–96 UEFA CupPreliminary roundUniversitatea Craiova 0–0 (p) Dinamo Minsk0–00–0 (aet, p.1–3)First roundAustria Wien 1–3 Dinamo Minsk1–20–1Second roundWerder Bremen 6–2 Dinamo Minsk5–01–21995–96 UEFA Cup Winners' CupQualifying roundDinamo-93 Minsk 2–3 Molde1–11–2
Top scorers RankNameTeamGoals 1 Sergey Yaromko MPKC Mozyr 16 2 Pyotr Kachura Dinamo Minsk 15 3 Valyantsin Byalkevich Dinamo Minsk 11 4 Pavel Shavrov Dinamo-93 Minsk 10 Maksim Romaschenko MPKC Mozyr 10 6 Aleksandr Gavlush Ataka-Aura Minsk 7 Vladimir Nevinsky Dnepr Mogilev 7 8 Vitaliy Kozyak Molodechno 6 Uladzimir Makowski Molodechno 6 Yuriy Lagodich Dinamo Brest 6 Vladimir Putrash Shinnik Bobruisk 6 Vladimir Solodukhin Dnepr Mogilev 6
See also 1995 Belarusian First League 1995–96 Belarusian Cup
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