A Lyga

A Lyga

Country	Lithuania
Confederation	UEFA
Founded	1991
Number of teams	8 (2016)
Level on pyramid	1
Relegation to	I Lyga
Domestic cup(s)	Lithuanian Football Cup Lithuanian Supercup
International cup(s)	Champions League Europa League
Current champions	Žalgiris Vilnius (2015 A Lyga)
Most championships	FBK Kaunas (8 titles)
TV partners	TV6 TV3 Futbolo.tv
2016 A Lyga

The A Lyga, called SMScredit.lt A lyga for commercial reasons,^[1] is the top division of professional football in Lithuania. It is organized by LFF (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Futbolo Federacija). League size has varied between 8 and 12 teams over the past few years; for its 2016 season, the league features 8 teams. The season usually kicks off in late March/early April every year; because of the harsh climate there are no games in the winter.

Clubs (2016)

The following clubs are participating in the 2016 season.

Locations of the 2016 A Lyga teams

Club	Location	Position in 2015	Top division titles	Last top division title
Atlantas	Klaipėda	3rd	4	1984
Lietava	Jonava	1st (1 Lyga)	0	-
Kauno Žalgiris	Kaunas	5th	0	-
Stumbras	Kaunas	7th	0	-
Sūduva	Marijampolė	4th	0	-
Trakai	Trakai	2nd	0	-
Utenis	Utena	6th	0	-
Žalgiris	Vilnius	1st	6	2015

Results

Interbellum and WWII

Seasons

Season	Winner	Runner-up	Third place
Interbellum (Independent Lithuania)
1922	LFLS Kaunas	LFLS Šančiai	LFLS-2 Kaunas
1923	LFLS Kaunas	KSK Kaunas	Kovas Kaunas
1924	Kovas Kaunas	Sportverein Klaipėda	LFLS Kaunas / MTV Klaipėda
1925	Kovas Kaunas	LFLS Šiauliai	Freya Klaipėda
1926	Kovas Kaunas	KSS Klaipėda	LFLS Šiauliai
1927	LFLS Kaunas	Sportverein Pagėgiai	LFLS Šiauliai
1928	KSS Klaipėda	LFLS Kaunas	LDS Šiauliai
1929	KSS Klaipėda	LFLS Kaunas	KSK Kultus Kaunas / Freya Klaipėda
1930	KSS Klaipėda	LFLS Kaunas	Sveikata Kybartai / Makabi Šiauliai
1931	KSS Klaipėda	Kovas Kaunas	Freya Klaipėda
1932	LFLS Kaunas	KSS Klaipėda	LGSF Kaunas
1933	Kovas Kaunas	LFLS Kaunas	LGSF Kaunas
1934	MSK Kaunas	LFLS Kaunas	LGSF Kaunas
1935	Kovas Kaunas	KSS Klaipėda	Sakalas Šiauliai / Šaulys Ukmergė
1936	Kovas Kaunas	LFLS Kaunas	LGSF Kaunas
1937	KSS Klaipėda	Kovas Kaunas	LFLS Kaunas
1937–38	KSS Klaipėda	LGSF Kaunas	Švyturys Klaipėda
1938–39	LGSF Kaunas	Kovas Kaunas	KSS Telšiai
1939–40	Competition abandoned
World War II (1st Soviet and German Occupations)
1941	Competition not finished due to World War II (Spartakas Kaunas had the best record)
1942	LFLS Kaunas	MSK Panevėžys	Gubernija Šiauliai / LFLS Vilnius
1942–43	Tauras Kaunas	MSK Panevėžys	Gubernija Šiauliai / LGSF Vilnius
1943–44	Competition not finished due to World War II (Tauras Kaunas had the best record)

Note: In 1924–1930, 1935, 1942, 1942–1943 and 1945 seasons there was no unified league and winners were decided using either a play–off format or a single game between winners of separate divisions.

Performance by club

Club	Winner	Runner-up	3rd	Winning Seasons
Kovas Kaunas	6	4	1	1924, 1925, 1926, 1933, 1935, 1936
KSS Klaipėda	6	3	1	1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1937, 1937–38
LFLS Kaunas	5	6	2	1922, 1923, 1927, 1932, 1942
LGSF Kaunas	1	1	4	1938–39
MSK Kaunas	1	–	–	1934
Tauras Kaunas	1	–	–	1942–43

All champions from this period are defunct.

Lithuanian SSR Championship

The competition was not contested by teams participating in the Soviet Union football league system.

Seasons

Season	Winner	Runner-up	Third place	Top scorer (Team)	Goals
1945	Spartakas Kaunas	Dinamo Vilnius	Sodyba Klaipėda / Spartakas Šiauliai	?
1946	Dinamo Kaunas	Spartakas Kaunas	Lokomotyvas Panevėžys	?
1947	Lokomotyvas Kaunas	Spartakas Šiauliai	Žalgiris Klaipėda	?
1948	Elnias Šiauliai	Žalgiris Tauragė	Spartakas Vilnius	?
1949	Elnias Šiauliai	Inkaras Kaunas	Vėliava Šiauliai	?
1950	Inkaras Kaunas	Elnias Šiauliai	Audra Klaipėda	?
1951	Inkaras Kaunas	Elnias Šiauliai	Audiniai Kaunas	?
1952	Karininkų Namai Vilnius	Inkaras Kaunas	Elnias Šiauliai	?
1953	Elnias Šiauliai	Inkaras Kaunas	Lima Kaunas	?
1954	Inkaras Kaunas	Lima Kaunas	Elnias Šiauliai	?
1955	Lima Kaunas	Raudonasis Spalis Kaunas	Elfa Vilnius	?
1956	Linų Audiniai Plungė	Elnias Šiauliai	MSK Panevėžys	Algimantas Lucinavičius (MSK Panevėžys)	28
1957	Elnias Šiauliai	Inkaras Kaunas	Linų Audiniai Plungė	Petras Škėlovas (Raudonasis Spalis Kaunas)	22
1958	Elnias Šiauliai	Raudonoji Žvaigždė Vilnius	Spartakas Vilnius	Petras Škėlovas (Raudonasis Spalis Kaunas)	11
1958–59	Raudonoji Žvaigždė Vilnius	KKI Kaunas	Elnias Šiauliai	?
1959–60	Elnias Šiauliai	Raudonoji Žvaigždė Vilnius	Linų Audiniai Plungė	Raimondas Prikockis (Elnias Šiauliai) A. Stankevičius (Spartakas-2 Vilnius)	15
1960–61	Elnias Šiauliai	Baltija Klaipėda	Inkaras Kaunas	Algimantas Lucinavičius (Laisvė Kretinga)	22
1961–62	FK Atletas Kaunas	Granitas Klaipėda	Inkaras Kaunas	Romualdas Kazlauskas (MSK Panevėžys)	22
1962–63	Statyba Panevėžys	Politechnika Kaunas	Inkaras Kaunas	Vytautas Juknys (Politechnika Kaunas)	23
1964	Inkaras Kaunas	Statyba Panevėžys	FK Minija Kretinga	Petras Siniakovas (Inkaras Kaunas)	26
1965	Inkaras Kaunas	Saliutas Vilnius	Statyba Panevėžys	Petras Siniakovas (Inkaras Kaunas)	26
1966	Nevėžis Kėdainiai	Statybininkas Šiauliai	Saliutas Vilnius	Petras Siniakovas (Inkaras Kaunas)	19
1967	Saliutas Vilnius	Inkaras Kaunas	Nevėžis Kėdainiai	S. Kuncevičius (Žalgiris Naujoji Vilnia) J. Mėlinauskas (Inkaras Kaunas) Kornelijus Skeivys (Statybininkas Šiauliai) Romas Skeivys (Statybininkas Šiauliai)	13
1968	Statyba Panevėžys	Nevėžis Kėdainiai	Statybininkas Šiauliai	Romas Jokubaitis (Statyba Panevėžys)	18
1969	Statybininkas Šiauliai	Nevėžis Kėdainiai	Inkaras Kaunas	V. Paura (Nevėžis Kėdainiai)	17
1970	FK Atletas Kaunas	Politechnika Kaunas	Nevėžis Kėdainiai	Vytautas Dirmeikis (FK Atletas Kaunas)	20
1971	Pažanga Vilnius	Atlantas Klaipėda	Vienybė Ukmergė	R. Daunoravičius (Vienybė Ukmergė) E. Milius (FK Minija Kretinga)	13
1972	Nevėžis Kėdainiai	Pažanga Vilnius	Dainava Alytus	R. Balčiūnas (Pažanga Vilnius)	13
1973	Nevėžis Kėdainiai	Atlantas Klaipėda	Dainava Alytus	?
1974	Tauras Šiauliai	Vienybė Ukmergė	Atmosfera Mažeikiai	R. Daunoravičius (Vienybė Ukmergė)	20
1975	Dainava Alytus	Pažanga Vilnius	Sūduva Kapsukas	Eugenijus Kurguznikovas (Sūduva Kapsukas) V. Ščerbakovas (Atletas Kaunas)	17
1976	Atmosfera Mažeikiai	Vienybė Ukmergė	Pažanga Vilnius	?
1977	Statybininkas Šiauliai	Kelininkas Kaunas	Atmosfera Mažeikiai	R. Daunoravičius (Vienybė Ukmergė) Romas Šiaulys (Atmosfera Mažeikiai)	15
1978	Atlantas Klaipėda	Statybininkas Šiauliai	Banga Kaunas	R. Nausėda (Atletas Kaunas)	13
1979	Atmosfera Mažeikiai	Kelininkas Kaunas	Nevėžis Kėdainiai	?
1980	Atlantas Klaipėda	Tauras Šiauliai	Politechnika Kaunas	Edvardas Maliauskas (Atlantas Klaipėda)	16
1981	Atlantas Klaipėda	Kelininkas Kaunas	Pažanga Vilnius	Vitalijus Stankevičius (Inkaras Kaunas)	21
1982	Pažanga Vilnius	Atlantas Klaipėda	Tauras Šiauliai	Edvardas Maliauskas (Atlantas Klaipėda)	17
1983	Pažanga Vilnius	Atlantas Klaipėda	Tauras Šiauliai	Rimantas Viktoravičius (Tauras Šiauliai)	21
1984	Atlantas Klaipėda	Ekranas Panevėžys	SRT Vilnius	Jurijus Gordejevas (Atlantas Klaipėda)	17
1985	Ekranas Panevėžys	Atlantas Klaipėda	SRT Vilnius	K. Valantiejus (SRT Vilnius)	16
1986	Banga Kaunas	Atlantas Klaipėda	Ekranas Panevėžys	G. Anilionis (Banga Kaunas)	17
1987	Tauras Tauragė	SRT Vilnius	Inkaras Kaunas	Jurijus Gordejevas (SRT Vilnius)	23
1988	SRT Vilnius	Inkaras Kaunas	Ekranas Panevėžys	Remigijus Bubliauskas (Tauras Tauragė) Jurijus Gordejevas (SRT Vilnius) Saulius Vertelis (Atmosfera Mažeikiai)	20
1989	Banga Kaunas	Ekranas Panevėžys	Sirijus Klaipėda	A. Vertelis (Atmosfera Mažeikiai)	17

Note: Some clubs like Žalgiris Vilnius played in Soviet Divisions like Soviet Top League instead of Lithuanian SSR Divisions.

Performance by club

Club	Winner	Runner-up	3rd	Winning Seasons
Elnias Šiauliai^†	7	3	3	1948, 1949, 1953, 1957, 1958, 1959–60, 1960–61
Inkaras Kaunas^†	5	6	5	1950, 1951, 1954, 1964, 1965
Atlantas Klaipėda	4	7	-	1978, 1980, 1981, 1984
Karininkų Namai / Raudonoji Žvaigždė / Saliutas Vilnius^†	3	3	1	1952, 1958–59, 1967
Nevėžis Kėdainiai	3	2	3	1966, 1972, 1973
Pažanga Vilnius^†	3	2	2	1971, 1982, 1983
Statybininkas Šiauliai^†	2	2	1	1969, 1977
Statyba Panevėžys^†	2	1	3	1962–63, 1968
FK Atletas Kaunas^†	2	1	-	1961–62, 1970
Atmosfera Mažeikiai^†	2	-	2	1976, 1979
Banga Kaunas^†	2	-	1	1986, 1989
Ekranas Panevėžys^†	1	2	2	1985
Tauras Šiauliai^†	1	1	2	1974
SRT Vilnius^†	1	1	2	1988
Lima Kaunas^†	1	1	1	1955
Spartakas Kaunas^†	1	1	-	1945
Tauras Tauragė^†	1	1	-	1987
Linų Audiniai Plungė	1	-	2	1956
Dainava Alytus	1	-	2	1975
Dinamo Kaunas^†	1	-	-	1946
Lokomotyvas Kaunas^†	1	-	-	1947

Clubs currently playing in A Lyga are written in Bold.
^† - Defunct clubs.

A Lyga

Seasons

Season	Winner	Runner-up	Third place	Top scorer (Team)	Goals
1990	Sirijus Klaipėda	Ekranas Panevėžys	Žalgiris Vilnius	Dalius Bajorūnas (Tauras Šiauliai)	22
1991	Žalgiris Vilnius	Lietuvos Makabi Vilnius	Banga Kaunas	Egidijus Meidus (Vilija Kaunas)	13
1991–92	Žalgiris Vilnius	FK Panerys Vilnius	Sirijus Klaipėda	Remigijus Pocius (Granitas Klaipėda & Sakalas Šiauliai) Vaidotas Šlekys (Ekranas Panevėžys)	14
1992–93	Ekranas Panevėžys	Žalgiris Vilnius	FK Panerys Vilnius	Vaidotas Šlekys (Ekranas Panevėžys)	16
1993–94	ROMAR Mažeikiai	Žalgiris-EBSW Vilnius	Ekranas Panevėžys	Vaidotas Šlekys (Ekranas Panevėžys) Robertas Žalys (FBK Kaunas)	16
1994–95	Inkaras-Grifas Kaunas	Žalgiris-EBSW Vilnius	ROMAR Mažeikiai	Eimantas Poderis (Žalgiris Vilnius & Inkaras Kaunas)	24
1995–96	Inkaras-Grifas Kaunas	Kareda-Sakalas Šiauliai	Žalgiris Vilnius	Edgaras Jankauskas (Žalgiris Vilnius)	25
1996–97	Kareda Šiauliai	Žalgiris Vilnius	Inkaras-Grifas Kaunas	Remigijus Pocius (Kareda Šiauliai)	14
1997–98	Kareda Šiauliai	Žalgiris Vilnius	Ekranas Panevėžys	Vidas Dančenka (Kareda Šiauliai)	26
1998–99	Žalgiris Vilnius	Kareda Šiauliai	FBK Kaunas	Artūras Fomenka (Kareda Šiauliai)	14
1999	Žalgiris Kaunas	Žalgiris Vilnius	Atlantas Klaipėda	Nerijus Vasiliauskas (Žalgiris Vilnius)	10
2000	FBK Kaunas	Žalgiris Vilnius	Atlantas Klaipėda	Andrius Velička (FBK Kaunas)	26
2001	FBK Kaunas	Atlantas Klaipėda	Žalgiris Vilnius	Remigijus Pocius (FBK Kaunas)	22
2002	FBK Kaunas	Atlantas Klaipėda	Ekranas Panevėžys	Audrius Šlekys (FBK Kaunas)	19
2003	FBK Kaunas	Ekranas Panevėžys	Vėtra Rūdiškės	Ričardas Beniušis (Atlantas Klaipėda & FBK Kaunas)	16
2004	FBK Kaunas	Ekranas Panevėžys	Atlantas Klaipėda	Povilas Lukšys (Ekranas Panevėžys)	19
2005	Ekranas Panevėžys	FBK Kaunas	Sūduva Marijampolė	Mantas Savėnas (Ekranas Panevėžys)	27
2006	FBK Kaunas	Ekranas Panevėžys	Vėtra Vilnius	Serhiy Kuznetsov (Vėtra Vilnius)	18
2007	FBK Kaunas	Sūduva Marijampolė	Ekranas Panevėžys	Povilas Lukšys (Ekranas Panevėžys)	26
2008	Ekranas Panevėžys	FBK Kaunas	Vėtra Vilnius	Rafael Ledesma (FBK Kaunas)	14
2009	Ekranas Panevėžys	Vėtra Vilnius	Sūduva Marijampolė	Valdas Trakys (Ekranas Panevėžys)	20
2010	Ekranas Panevėžys	Sūduva Marijampolė	Žalgiris Vilnius	Povilas Lukšys (Sūduva Marijampolė)	16
2011	Ekranas Panevėžys	Žalgiris Vilnius	Sūduva Marijampolė	Deivydas Matulevičius (Žalgiris Vilnius)	19
2012	Ekranas Panevėžys	Žalgiris Vilnius	Sūduva Marijampolė	Artūras Rimkevičius (Šiauliai)	35
2013	Žalgiris Vilnius	Atlantas Klaipėda	Ekranas Panevėžys	Nerijus Valskis (Sūduva Marijampolė)	27
2014	Žalgiris Vilnius	Kruoja	Atlantas Klaipėda	Niko Tokić (FK Šiauliai)	19
2015	Žalgiris Vilnius	FK Trakai	Atlantas Klaipėda	Tomas Radzinevičius (Sūduva Marijampolė)	28

Performance by club

Club	Winner	Runner-up	3rd	Winning Seasons
FBK Kaunas	8	2	2	1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007
Žalgiris Vilnius	7	9	4	1991, 1991–92, 1998–99, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
Ekranas Panevėžys^†	7	4	5	1992–93, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Kareda Šiauliai^†	2	2	-	1996–97, 1997–98
Inkaras Kaunas^†	2	-	1	1994–95, 1995–96
Sirijus Klaipėda^†	1	-	1	1990
ROMAR Mažeikiai^†	1	-	1	1993–94

Clubs currently playing in A Lyga are written in Bold.
^† - Defunct clubs.

References

↑ "SMScredit.lt A lyga". LFF.lt. Lietuvos futbolo federacijos. Retrieved 29 January 2016.

External links

Official website (Lithuanian)
Futbolo.TV - A lyga streaming and video center (Lithuanian)
One Nil Up - Digital Magazine focusing on football in the Baltic States
RSSSF.com - List of Champions
Lithuanian Football: History & Statistics by Almis - Championship statistics

Football in Lithuania

Lithuanian Football Federation (LFF)

National Teams

Men
- U-21
- U-19
- U-17
Women
- U-19
- U-17

League system

men	A Lyga 1 Lyga II Lyga (East South West)

women	A Lyga

Domestic cups

Seasons

1992 1993

List of clubs
List of venues

Clubs of the 2016 A Lyga season

Atlantas Kauno Žalgiris Lietava Stumbras Sūduva Trakai Utenis Žalgiris

A Lyga seasons

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1998–99
1999
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2004
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2012
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Top-level football leagues in Europe (UEFA)

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