Lithuania national football team

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Lithuania

Nickname

Association

Lithuanian Football Federation

Confederation

UEFA (Europe)

Head coach

Algimantas Liubinskas (2003-)

Most caps

Aurelijus Skarbalius (65)

Top scorer

Antanas Lingis (12)

Home stadium

S.Darius and S.Girėnas Stadium

FIFA code

LTU

FIFA ranking

Highest FIFA ranking

42 (August 1997)

Lowest FIFA ranking

118 (September 2004)

Elo ranking





First kit





Second kit

First international

Lithuania 0 - 5 Estonia

(Kaunas, Lithuania; 24 June 1923)

Biggest win

Lithuania 7 - 0 Estonia

(Riga, Latvia; 20 May 1995)

Biggest defeat

Egypt 10 - 0 Lithuania

(Paris, France; 1 June 1924)

The national football team of Lithuania is controlled by the Lithuanian Football Federation. It played its first match in 1923. In 1940 Lithuania was annexed by the Soviet Union; the country proclaimed its renewed independence in 1990 and played their first match as a new nation against Georgia on the May 27th of that year.

Lithuania lost its first international match, 0-5 against Estonia in 1923.

Lithuania pulled off a large upset when they tied the current world champions Italy 1-1 in Naples for a Euro 2008 qualifing game on September 2, 2006, in the first competitive game that Italy played since their 1-1 (5-3) victory over France in the World Cup final game (The Italian side played only one post-world cup match previous to this,a friendly against Croatia, which they lost).

1 Recent History
2 World Cup record
3 European Championship record
4 National team
5 Famous players
6 External links

[edit] Recent History

In the 1990s, Lithuania established a respectable presence in World Cup and European Championship qualifiers: third place in their group in both Euro 96 and 1998 World Cup qualifiers. In the Euro 2004 qualifiers they were once again contenders for qualification and managed an away draw with Germany and a home win over Scotland - however a 1-0 defeat to Scotland in the final game ended their hopes. Although finishing 5th in their 2006 World Cup qualifying group, Lithuania were nevertheless competitive.

[edit] World Cup record

1930 - Did not enter
1934 - Did not qualify
1938 - Did not qualify
1950 to 1990 - Did not enter, was part of USSR
1994 to 2006 - Did not qualify

[edit] European Championship record

1960 to 1992 - Did not enter, was part of USSR
1996 to 2004 - Did not qualify

[edit] National team

Lithuania
Number	Player	Club in 2006/07
Goalkeepers
1	Žydrūnas Karčemarskas	Dinamo Moscow
12	Mindaugas Malinauskas	Kaunas
Defenders
	Nerijus Barasa	Hearts
3	Rolandas Džiaukštas	Saturn Ramenskoe
15	Irmantas Zelmikas	Tavriya Simferopol
5	Andrius Skerla	Tom Tomsk
2	Marius Stankevičius	Brescia
	Darius Žutautas	Atlantas
6	Tomas Žvirgždauskas	Halmstad
4	Gediminas Paulauskas	Ekranas
Midfielders
	Deividas Šemberas	CSKA
18	Deividas Česnauskis	Hearts
10	Mindaugas Kalonas	Liepājas Metalurgs
17	Tomas Tamošauskas	Liepājas Metalurgs
14	Aidas Preikšaitis	Vėtra
7	Mantas Savėnas	Ekranas
	Vitalijus Kavaliauskas	Ekranas
13	Saulius Mikoliūnas	Hearts
16	Marius Žaliūkas	Hearts
Forwards
10	Tomas Danilevičius	Livorno
9	Edgaras Jankauskas	Hearts
11	Robertas Poškus	Dinamo Moscow
	Tomas Radzinevičius	Slovan Liberec
	Povilas Lukšys	Ekranas
8	Tadas Labukas	Žalgiris Vilnius
	Andrius Velička	Hearts

[edit] Famous players

Valdas Ivanauskas
Arminas Narbekovas
Gintaras Staučė
Aurelijus Skarbalius
Edgaras Jankauskas - winner of UEFA Cup 2003 and Champions League 2004 with FC Porto
Deividas Šemberas - winner of UEFA Cup 2005 with CSKA
Eugenijus Riabovas

[edit] External links

Lithuanian Football Association Official Site

Football in Lithuania
Football Federation • National team • Lithuanian A Lyga • Cup • Supercup • Clubs • Footballers • Managers • Stadiums