From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
The month closes with Yegor Kortsov out in front — 10 goals in 5 games, and Arsenal Dzerzhinsk have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
Yegor Kortsov is the division's player of the month — 8.80
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Arsenal Dzerzhinsk man on 8.80 with 10 goal contributions.
Market1 Aug 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Slavia Mozyr waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Isloch is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
Young player of the month: Mark Mokin — 7.80
7.80 across the month and 5 goal contributions from a Arsenal Dzerzhinsk player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Market1 Aug 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Torpedo-BelAZ can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Aug 2027
The bid was some way short and Torpedo-BelAZ did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market1 Aug 2027
Nikita Kukhtik has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Niva they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
Nobody made more than Mark Mokin this month
4 assists, 7.80, and a Arsenal Dzerzhinsk player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
Highest marks in the league belong to a Smorgon man
Dmitry Vorobjov averaged 9.29 over 3 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
5 goals in 5 appearances for BATE, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
8 in 3 for Smorgon. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
A productive month at Dinamo Minsk — 5 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Jul 2027
6 goals in 4 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Neman have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2027
Marked 8.30 across it, 7 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Neman have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Market1 Jul 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around BATE people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2027
Young player of the month: Dzmitry Korzun — 7.30
7.30 across the month and 2 goal contributions from a Gomel player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Market1 Jul 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Neman can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Jul 2027
Only the photograph left for Ilya Rabeshko
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ilya Rabeshko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Niva the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2027
Anton Kovalev leads the division for assists — 7.46
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Fakel player marked 7.46, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Jul 2027
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2027
Viktar Sivakov is the division's best-marked player — 8.48
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.48 across 3 matches for BATE.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2027
3 goals in 4 appearances for Slutsk leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2027
Yegor Kortsov up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Arsenal Dzerzhinsk — 4 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Jul 2027
3 goals in 3 appearances for Dinamo Minsk leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Jun 2027
The month closes with Egor Karpitskiy out in front — 8 goals in 5 games, and Dnepr Mogilev have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2027
Egor Karpitskiy is the division's player of the month — 8.40
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Dnepr Mogilev man on 8.40 with 10 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2027
7.89 across the month and 5 goal contributions from a Gomel player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Market1 Jun 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Vitebsk, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Jun 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Niva is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2027
5 assists, 7.38, and a Gomel player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2027
Egor Karpitskiy is the division's best-marked player — 8.40
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.40 across 5 matches for Dnepr Mogilev.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2027
4 goals in 5 appearances for Slutsk, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2027
4 appearances, 5 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2027
A productive month at Dinamo Brest — 3 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2027
5 goals in 4 appearances for Gomel, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Market1 Jun 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Vladislav Vasiljev has his answer from Arsenal Dzerzhinsk; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 May 2027
Artem Stankevich is the division’s leading scorer
5 goals in 4 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Smorgon have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Scoring charts1 May 2027
Marked 8.47 across it, 9 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Smorgon have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 May 2027
Young player of the month: Artem Stankevich — 8.06
8.06 across the month and 7 goal contributions from a Smorgon player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Market1 May 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Niva, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 May 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Niva is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 May 2027
The division’s top provider is Dmitry Vorobjov — 8.47
5 assists across the month from a Smorgon player marked 8.47. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Scoring charts1 May 2027
Highest marks in the league belong to a Smorgon man
Dmitry Vorobjov averaged 8.47 over 4 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Scoring charts1 May 2027
4 in 4 for BATE. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 May 2027
4 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 May 2027
3 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 May 2027
6.76 over 4 games. Nobody frames a team-of-the-month selection and everybody who has been in one remembers the month they were.
Market1 May 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Pavel Vakulich has his answer from Niva; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Apr 2027
The month closes with Dmitry Vorobjov out in front — 6 goals in 4 games, and Smorgon have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2027
Marked 8.60 across it, 6 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Smorgon have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2027
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Dinamo Brest
Egor Khralenkov was marked 6.94 and had a hand in 2 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Apr 2027
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Moustapha Djimet had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market1 Apr 2027
Only the photograph left for Nikita Kukhtik
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nikita Kukhtik will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Niva the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2027
3 assists across the month from a Smorgon player marked 7.04. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Market1 Apr 2027
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Osipovichi moved on, Andrey Yakimov reports back to Neman, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Market1 Apr 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Torpedo-BelAZ can pretend not to have heard.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2027
Highest marks in the league belong to a Smorgon man
Dmitry Vorobjov averaged 8.60 over 4 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2027
3 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2027
3 in 3 for Dinamo Minsk. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2027
4 goals in 3 appearances for Dinamo Minsk leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Mar 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Neman people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market1 Mar 2027
BATE come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Slavia Mozyr did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market1 Mar 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at BATE, and it is not being withdrawn.
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Steady
Market1 Feb 2027
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Kirill Premudrov had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market1 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market1 Feb 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Molodechno waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Isloch is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Jan 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Vitebsk, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Jan 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Slutsk is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Jan 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Dec 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Niva, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Niva is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Dec 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Evgeniy Barsukov has his answer from Gomel; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Nov 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Artem Tolkin
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artem Tolkin will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slutsk the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Nov 2026
Andrey Yakimov is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Neman has been clear about where Andrey Yakimov stands, which is more than many ever get.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Dmitry Vorobjov is the division’s leading scorer
6 goals in 3 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Smorgon have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Dmitry Vorobjov is the division's player of the month — 9.07
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Smorgon man on 9.07 with 7 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Young player of the month: Artem Stankevich — 7.47
7.47 across the month and 4 goal contributions from a Smorgon player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Market1 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slutsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market1 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Orsha waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Neman is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Vladislav Fedosov leads the division for assists — 7.23
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Slutsk player marked 7.23, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Oct 2026
Gomel come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Smorgon did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Dmitry Vorobjov is the division's best-marked player — 9.07
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 9.07 across 3 matches for Smorgon.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
A productive month at Slutsk — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Alexandr Butko up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Isloch — 3 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
4 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 4 goals in 5 appearances for BATE.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Marked 7.81 across it, 5 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. BATE have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Arsenal Dzerzhinsk
Mark Mokin was marked 7.13 and had a hand in 2 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Sep 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market1 Sep 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Vitebsk have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market1 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market1 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slutsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
The division’s top provider is Jean Charles Yao — 7.73
2 assists across the month from a BATE player marked 7.73. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Highest marks in the league belong to a Smorgon man
Dmitry Vorobjov averaged 8.25 over 3 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
A productive month at BATE — 3 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
4 in 5 for Slavia Mozyr. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
A productive month at Slutsk — 4 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.