Belarusian Premier League Reserves Championship


Belarusian Premier League Reserves Championship is an annual competition for the reserve teams of Belarusian Premier League clubs.
Current: 2020 Belarusian Premier League Reserves Championship

History

The competition was established in 2001. Prior to 2001, most of Belarusian Premier League clubs had their reserve teams or affiliated farm clubs playing in lower divisions of Belarus football league system. After the reserve league creation, all Premier League clubs created the new reserve teams to participate in it, and most of old reserve teams were folded, either immediately or in next several years.
Several Premier League clubs with developed youth system still continue running separate farm clubs in the First or Second League, most notably Minsk-2 and Bereza-2010. Furthermore, a number of clubs, that have relegated from Premier League and thus lost a spot in a Reserves League, continued running the reserve team in the Second League for some time. As of 2014, only one such team is active.

Format

The format of each season of the league is virtually identical to that of respective Premier League season. There is no promotion or relegation depending on the season's final table. Instead, only the reserve teams of current Premier League members are admitted for each season. Match schedule of each season follows closely the calendar of Premier League, except all games are played one day earlier than seniors' game. For the 2013 and 2014 seasons, only the First Phase fixtures counted as a Championship games. Fixtures of the Second Phase were played as a part of Belarusian Reserves Cup.

Belarusian Reserves Cup

For the 2013 and 2014 seasons, the Premier League format included two phases: 12 teams in a double round-robin league followed by a Championship playoff group and Relegation playoff group. The same groups were used for the Reserves Cup tournament. Winners of both groups played a final game at the end of the season.

Winners

SeasonWinnerRunner-upThird place
2001GomelTorpedo-MAZ MinskBATE Borisov
2002Dnepr-Transmash MogilevDinamo MinskTorpedo-MAZ Minsk
2003Torpedo ZhodinoTorpedo-SKA MinskBATE Borisov
2004Dinamo MinskDinamo BrestTorpedo-SKA Minsk
2005Dinamo MinskBATE BorisovShakhtyor Soligorsk
2006Dinamo MinskBATE BorisovDinamo Brest
2007Dinamo MinskNeman GrodnoGomel
2008Shakhtyor SoligorskLokomotiv MinskBATE Borisov
2009Dinamo MinskTorpedo ZhodinoNaftan Novopolotsk
2010Dinamo MinskShakhtyor SoligorskNaftan Novopolotsk
2011BATE BorisovDinamo MinskGomel
2012GomelDinamo MinskShakhtyor Soligorsk
2013Shakhtyor SoligorskBATE BorisovDinamo Minsk
2014Dinamo MinskGomelBATE Borisov
2015MinskBATE BorisovNaftan Novopolotsk
2016MinskShakhtyor SoligorskBATE Borisov
2017Shakhtyor SoligorskDinamo BrestDinamo Minsk
2018Dinamo MinskDinamo BrestBATE Borisov

TeamsChampionRunner-upThird place
Dinamo Minsk8 3 2
Shakhtyor Soligorsk3 2 2
Gomel2 1 2
Minsk2 00
BATE Borisov1 4 6
Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino1 1 0
Dnepr Mogilev1 00
Dinamo Brest03 1
Torpedo-SKA Minsk02 2
Neman Grodno01 0
Lokomotiv Minsk01 0
Naftan Novopolotsk003

Cup Finals

YearWinnersRunners-up
2013Shakhtyor SoligorskMinsk
2014MinskGomel