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2004 Belarusian Premier League
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| competition | Belarusian Premier League |
| season | 2004 |
| winners | Dinamo Minsk |
| relegated | Lokomotiv Vitebsk |
| Belshina | |
| continentalcup1 | Champions League |
| continentalcup1 qualifiers | Dinamo Minsk |
| continentalcup2 | UEFA Cup |
| continentalcup2 qualifiers | MTZ-RIPO Minsk |
| BATE Borisov | |
| continentalcup3 | Intertoto Cup |
| continentalcup3 qualifiers | Neman |
| league topscorer | BLR Valery Strypeykis (18) |
| biggest home win | MTZ-RIPO 6–0 Lokomotiv Vitebsk |
| biggest away win | Belshina 0–5 BATE; |
| MTZ-RIPO 0–5 Torpedo Zhodino | |
| highest scoring | 5–2 – 3 games; |
| 6–1 – 1 game | |
| matches | 241 |
| total goals | 652 |
| prevseason | 2003 |
| nextseason | 2005 |
Belshina BATE Borisov MTZ-RIPO 0–5 Torpedo Zhodino 6–1 – 1 game The 2004 Belarusian Premier League was the 14th season of top-tier football in Belarus. It started on April 15 and ended on November 11, 2004. Gomel were the defending champions.
Team changes from 2003 season
Two lowest placed teams in 2003 (Lokomotiv Minsk and Molodechno-2000) relegated and were replaced by two best teams from 2003 First League: newcomers MTZ-RIPO Minsk and Lokomotiv Vitebsk, who previously competed in Premiere League as KIM, Dvina and Lokomotiv-96 and is a different team from Lokomotiv Vitebsk, who relegated to First League in 1995 and after a few seasons in First and Second Leagues was disbanded in late 2000.
Overview
Dinamo Minsk won their 7th champions title and qualified for the next season's Champions League. The championship runners-up BATE Borisov and 2004–05 Cup winners MTZ-RIPO Minsk qualified for UEFA Cup. 2001 champions Belshina Bobruisk finished on last place and directly relegated to the First League. Lokomotiv Vitebsk and MTZ-RIPO Minsk shared 14th and 15th places with equal number of points and had to play one-legged play-off on a neutral ground to determine who will relegate and who will stay. Lokomotiv Vitebsk lost the game and relegated to the First League. Torpedo-SKA Minsk, who finished 6th, lost financial support from their sponsor in early 2005 and, after losing almost all their main squad and not having funds to pay entrance fee for next season's Premiere League, had to relegate to Second League.
Teams and venues
| Team | Location | Venue | Capacity | Position in 2003 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gomel | Gomel | Central Stadium | 10,600 | 1 |
| BATE | Borisov | City Stadium (Borisov) | 5,500 | 2 |
| Dinamo Minsk | Minsk | Dinamo Stadium | 40,000 | 3 |
| Torpedo-SKA | Minsk | Torpedo Stadium (Minsk) | 5,200 | 4 |
| Shakhtyor | Soligorsk | Stroitel Stadium | 3,000 | 5 |
| Torpedo | Zhodino | Torpedo Stadium (Zhodino) | 2,020 | 6 |
| Neman | Grodno | Neman Stadium | 6,300 | 7 |
| Naftan | Novopolotsk | Atlant Stadium | 5,300 | 8 |
| Dnepr-Transmash | Mogilev | Spartak Stadium (Mogilev) | 6,800 | 9 |
| Belshina | Bobruisk | Spartak Stadium (Bobruisk) | 3,000 | 10 |
| Dinamo Brest | Brest | OSK Brestskiy | 3,000 | 11 |
| Zvezda-VA-BGU | Minsk | Traktor Stadium | 17,600 | 12 |
| Darida | Minsk Raion | Darida Stadium | 3,000 | 13 |
| Slavia | Mozyr | Yunost Stadium | 5,300 | 14 |
| Lokomotiv | Vitebsk | Vitebsky CSK | 8,100 | First league, 1 |
| MTZ-RIPO | Minsk | Traktor Stadium | 17,600 | First league, 2 |
Table
Relegation play-off
Mkhitaryan Fedorchenko Parfenov
Results
Belarusian clubs in European Cups
| Round | Team #1 | Agg. | Team #2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 UEFA Intertoto Cup | |||||
| First round | Odra Wodzisław Poland | 1–2 | BLR Dinamo Minsk | 1–0 | 0–2 |
| Second round | Dinamo Minsk BLR | 4–3 | SCG Smederevo | 1–2 | 3–1 (aet) |
| Third round | Lille France | 4–3 | BLR Dinamo Minsk | 2–1 | 2–2 |
| 2004–05 UEFA Cup | |||||
| First qualifying round | Nistru Otaci Moldova | 3–2 | BLR Shakhtyor Soligorsk | 1–1 | 2–1 |
| BATE Borisov BLR | 2–4 | Georgia Dinamo Tbilisi | 2–3 | 0–1 | |
| 2004–05 UEFA Champions League | |||||
| First qualifying round | Gomel BLR | 1–2 | Albania Tirana | 0–2 | 1–0 |
Top scorers
| Rank | Name | Team | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BLR Valery Strypeykis | Naftan Novopolotsk | 18 |
| 2 | BLR Raman Vasilyuk | Dinamo Brest | 17 |
| 3 | RUS Aleksandr Sokolov | Darida Minsk Raion | 16 |
| 4 | BLR Yawhen Zuew | Torpedo Zhodino | 15 |
| 5 | Ukraine Vitaliy Bondarev | Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev | 14 |
| BLR Artsyom Hancharyk | Shakhtyor Soligorsk | 14 | |
| 7 | BLR Oleg Strakhanovich | BATE Borisov | 13 |
| 8 | Brazil Edu | Torpedo-SKA Minsk | 12 |
| BLR Dzmitry Parfyonaw | MTZ-RIPO Minsk | 12 | |
| BLR Andrey Razin | Dinamo Minsk | 12 |
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