They were replaced by two last-placed team of 2023 Belarusian Premier League (Belshina Bobruisk).
Third-placed club Football Center Brest initially confirmed their intentions to get promoted, but in February withdrew their application due to apparent conflict between club's owner and ABFF.
[1] On 11 February 2024, Zhodino-Yuzhnoye announced that the club withdrew from the league and ceased to exist.
For 2024 season, the First League included three best teams of 2023 Reserves Championships (Dinamo-2 Minsk, BATE-2 Borisov and Torpedo-BelAZ-2 Zhodino) as well as Shakhtyor-2 Soligorsk (which became direct successor to Shakhtyor Petrikov).
[3][4][5][6] In addition, a special team (ABFF U-17) was created under direct management from ABFF to develop youth players as candidates for Belarus national under-19 football team.