2006 Belarusian First League
2006 Belarusian First League was the sixteenth season of 2nd level football championship in Belarus. It started in April and ended in October 2006.Two best teams of the last season were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. They were replaced by two teams that finished at the bottom of 2005 Belarusian Premier League table.
Two lowest placed teams of 2005 season relegated to the Second League. They were replaced by two best teams of 2005 Second League.
Before the start of the season Smena Minsk was transformed into new club FC Minsk, which overtook Smena's First League allocation, bypassing the Second League. Newly promoted Torpedo-SKA Minsk was disbanded with some of its facilities being inherited by Minsk.
Slavia Mozyr and ZLiN Gomel merged into Mozyr-ZLiN, a club became a successor of Slavia Mozyr.
Torpedo-Kadino Mogilev withdrew from the league and disbanded due to lack of financing. They were replaced by additionally promoted Polotsk, who finished 5th in last year's Second League. Two teams that finished above Polotsk and were also eligible for additional promotion refused the invitation due to insufficient financing. No other teams were promoted and the league was reduced from 16 to 14 clubs.
Granit Mikashevichi changed their name to FC Mikashevichi and Pinsk-900 to Volna Pinsk prior to the season.Teams and locations
Team | Location | Position in 2005 |
Zvezda-BGU | Minsk | Premier League, 13 |
Mozyr-ZLiN | Mozyr | Premier League, 14 |
Smorgon | Smorgon | 3 |
Minsk | Minsk | 5 |
Mikashevichi | Mikashevichi | 6 |
Khimik | Svetlogorsk | 7 |
Vedrich-97 | Rechitsa | 8 |
Baranovichi | Baranovichi | 9 |
Lida | Lida | 10 |
Veras | Nesvizh | 11 |
Kommunalnik | Slonim | 13 |
Bereza | Bereza | 14 |
Volna | Pinsk | Second League, 2 |
Polotsk | Polotsk | Second League, 5 |
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