BELARUSIAN FOOTBALL - UPDATE

PREMIER LEAGUE

Friday 18th September 

Smolevichy-STI 0-6 Rukh Brest (145) 

Neman Grodno 2-0 FC Minsk (1,300) 

Saturday 19th September

Vitebsk 1-1 Belshina (600) 

Dynamo Brest 2-1 Energetyk-BGU (2,542) 

Gorodeya 1-3 Torpedo BelAZ (405) 

Sunday 20th September

Isloch 2-1 Dynamo Minsk (to be confirmed) 

Slutsk 1-3 BATE Borisov (547) 

Slavia Mozyr 1-0 Shakhtyor (915) 

The Premier League title race swung in BATE's favour this weekend as they won 1-3 at Slutsk through two goals form Maksim Skavysh and a very rare goal from defender Egor Filipenko - It was only his eight goal for BATE in his seven seasons with the club. 

Shakhtyor fell to a defeat at Slavia Mozyr whose goal was scored by Russian Islam Tlupov on his debut for the club. 

FIRST LEAGUE 

Saturday 19th September

Khimik Svetlogorsk 1-2 Volna (95) 

Granit 1-1 Orsha (60) 

Smorgon 0-2 Slonim (350) 

Gomel 1-0 Sputnik (1,500)

Sunday 20th September

Naftan 1-2 Krumkachy (700) 

Lokomotiv Gomel 1-1 Arsenal (370)

Oshmyany 3-2 Lida (300) 

Sputnik, despite their 1-0 defeat at Gomel, still lead the first league by two points to Krumkachy who in turn are five points ahead of Arsenal who have drawn their last three games in row. 

SECOND LEAGUE 

Saturday 19th September

 
GROUP A 

Kronon 4-2 Chayka Zelva (120) 

Meliorator Zhitkovichi 0-3 Ostrovets (140) 

Ivatsevichi 0-2 Molodechno (100) 

Pershiy Regien 1-7 Baranovichi (25) 

Dynamo Malorita 4-0 Stenles Pinsk (100) 

GROUP B 

Viktoriya Maryina Horka 6-0 Polotsk (60) 

Osipovichy 3-0 Zhlobin (50) 

SMI Autotrans 4-2 Bumprom (15) 

Sunday 20th September

GROUP B 

Energosbyt-BSATU 1-7 Shakhtyor Petrikov (25) 

Dnepr Mogilev 0-1 Dnepr Rogachev (600) 

In group B their was a real surprise result at Dnepr Mogilev lost their first league game of the season to Dnepr Rogachev. Prior to the 0-1 defeat Mogilev had scored 95 goals and let in just 8 goals in a sixteen game winning run. 

TOP SCORERS LIST 

PREMIER LEAGUE 

Maksim Skavysh (BATE Borisov) - 13 goals 

Jasubrbek Yaxshiboev (Engergetyk 9/Shakhtyor 4) - 13 goals 

Gegam Kadimyan (Neman Grodno) - 9 goals

Vitali Lisakovich (Shakhtyor) - 9 goals + 

Zoran Marusic (Neman) - 9 goals 

Pavel Nekhaychik (BATE) - 9 goals 

Ion Nicolaescu (Vitebesk) - 9 goals 

Gabriel Ramos (Torpedo Zhodino) - 9 goals 

Nikolay Yanush (Isloch) - 9 goals 

+ Now plays for Lokomotiv Moscow  

FIRST LEAGUE

Andrey Solovey (Lokomotiv Gomel) - 12 goals 

Yan Senkevich (Lida) - 10 goals *

Artem Vaskov (Gomel) - 10 goals 

* Now plays for Gorodeya in the Premier League. 

SECOND LEAGUE

Kirill Sidorenko (DNEPR Mogilev) - 26 goals 

Dimitri Khlebosolov (Baranovichi) - 22 goals 

Aleksey Khodnevich (Shakhtyor Petrikov) - 19 goals  

In the Second League former Belshina forward Kirill Sidorenko is having a great season for DNEPR Mogilev hitting the net 26 times so far. He is followed by Dimitri Khlebosolov who is another former Belshina player who is on 22 goals. He has also played for Neman Grodno, Slavia Mozyr and Vitebsk amongst other clubs.     His father Andrey is the current head coach of the club and also played for Belshina during his playing career which saw him gain six full Belarus International caps. Third in the list is Aleksey Khodnevich who is 32 years of age and has played in the lower leagues in Belarus for all of his career.