2008 Belarusian First League was the 18th season of 2nd level football championship in Belarus. It started in April and ended in November 2008.
Team changes from 2007 season Three top teams of last season (Savit Mogilev, Granit Mikashevichi and Lokomotiv Minsk) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. Due to expansion of Premier League, the promoted teams were replaced by only one team that finished at the bottom of 2007 Belarusian Premier League table (Minsk).
One team that finished at the bottom of 2007 season table (Zvezda-BGU Minsk) relegated to the Second League. To compensate for the Premier League expansion, they were replaced by three best teams of 2007 Second League (PMC Postavy, Lida and Spartak Shklov).
Mozyr changed their name to Slavia Mozyr prior to the season.
Teams and locations
TeamLocationPosition in 2007MinskMinskPremier League, 13BelshinaBobruisk4KhimikSvetlogorsk5VerasNesvizh6VolnaPinsk7Dinamo-BelcardGrodno8BaranovichiBaranovichi9Vedrich-97Rechitsa10PolotskPolotsk11KommunalnikSlonim12SlaviaMozyr13PMCPostavySecond League, 1LidaLidaSecond League, 2SpartakShklovSecond League, 3
League table
Top goalscorers RankGoalscorerTeamGoals1 Syarhey KoshalMinsk162 Sergey ZabolotskyKhimik Svetlogorsk153 Dzmitry AsipenkaMinsk14 Dmitri KhlebosolovBaranovichi145 Anatoly TikhonchikVeras Nesvizh13
See also 2008 Belarusian Premier League 2007–08 Belarusian Cup 2008–09 Belarusian Cup
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