The 2010 Belarusian First League is the 20th season of 2nd level football in Belarus. It started on April 17 and ended on November 13, 2010.
Team changes from 2009 season The winners of last season (Belshina Bobruisk) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. Due to reduction of Premier League, the promoted team was replaced by three teams that finished at the bottom of 2009 Belarusian Premier League table (Gomel, Granit Mikashevichi and Smorgon). The First League was expanded from 14 to 16 teams.
One team that finished at the bottom of 2009 season table (Spartak Shklov) relegated to the Second League. They were replaced by one best team of 2009 Second League (Rudensk).
Teams and venues
TeamLocationPosition in 2009GomelGomelPremier league, 12GranitMikashevichiPremier league, 13SmorgonSmorgonPremier league, 14VolnaPinsk2DSKGomel3VerasNesvizh4SKVICHMinsk5BaranovichiBaranovichi6KhimikSvetlogorsk7Vedrich-97Rechitsa8BelcardGrodno9KommunalnikSlonim10LidaLida11PolotskPolotsk12SlaviaMozyr13RudenskMaryina GorkaSecond league, 1
League table
Promotion play-offs The 11th placed team of 2010 Premier League Torpedo Zhodino played a two-legged relegation play-off against the runners-up of 2010 Belarusian First League SKVICH Minsk for one spot in the 2011 Premier League. Torpedo Zhodino won the play-off 3–1 on aggregate and both teams retained their spots in respective leagues.
Results
Top goalscorers
RankNameTeamGoals 1 Yuri MarkhelSKVICH Minsk 28 2 Dmitri PlatonovGomel 25 3 Kirill Shreitor Granit Mikashevichi 19 4 Vadim BoikoGranit Mikashevichi 12 Andrey MarozawDSK Gomel 12 Roman VolkovVolna Pinsk 12 7 Syarhey KazekaGomel 11 8 Sergey ZabolotskyDSK Gomel 9 Kirill PavlyuchekGomel 9 Aleksandr LuzhankovSmorgon 9 Sergey ShalimoRudensk 9 Dmitry KharitonchikSlavia Mozyr 9 Andrey DashukKhimik Svetlogorsk 9
Updated to games played on 13 November 2010 Source: football.by
See also 2010 Belarusian Premier League 2009–10 Belarusian Cup 2010–11 Belarusian Cup
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