2008 Baltic League

Baltic League

Season	2008
Champions	FBK Kaunas
Top goalscorer	Aleksandrs Cauņa (8)
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The 2008 Baltic League (known as the 2008 Triobet Baltic League for sponsorship reasons) was the second Baltic League football tournament. The tournament took place in the Baltic states in 2008. The first matches took place on 4 March.^[1]

The draw for the 2008 Baltic League took place in Riga, Latvia, on 12 January 2008.^[2]

Contents 1 Group stages 1.1 Group A 1.2 Group B 1.3 Group C 1.4 Group D 2 Knockout stage 2.1 Bracket 2.2 Quarter-finals 2.3 Semi-finals 3 Final 4 Top scorers 5 References 6 External links

Group stages

Key to colors in group tables
Top two places advance to the quarter-finals
Third place is eliminated from competition

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
FK Rīga	4	3	0	1	8	4	+4	9
FK Ekranas	4	3	0	1	7	6	+1	9
TVMK	4	0	0	4	2	7	–5	0

2008-03-04	FK Ekranas	1 – 0	TVMK	Vilnius
	Tomkevičius  80'	Report		Stadium: Sportima Sports Hall Attendance: 400 Referee: Aleksandrs Golubevs (Latvia)

2008-03-11	TVMK	0 – 1	FK Rīga	Tallinn
		Report	Koļesņikovs  2'	Stadium: Sportland Arena Attendance: 200 Referee: N. Dunauskas (Lithuania)

2008-03-18	FK Rīga	4 – 1	FK Ekranas	Riga
	Chirkin  58' Kalonas  66' Miholaps  82'  88'	Report	Varnas  5'	Stadium: Daugava Stadium Referee: Eiko Saar (Estonia)

2008-04-01	FK Ekranas	2 – 1	FK Rīga
	Varnas  75' Gleveckas  84'	Report	Miholaps  53'	Referee: Hannes Kaasik (Estonia)

2008-04-08	FK Rīga	2 – 1	TVMK	Riga
	Koļesņikovs  29' Žatkins  53'	Report	Kissel  90+2'	Stadium: Daugava Stadium Referee: Saulius Atmanavičius (Lithuania)

2008-05-20	TVMK	1 – 3	FK Ekranas	Kuusalu
	Mašitšev  7'	Report	Trakys  35'  72' Kavaliauskas  64'	Stadium: Kuusalu Stadium Referee: Aleksandrs Golubevs (Latvia)

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Skonto FC	4	4	0	0	16	4	+12	12
FK Sūduva	4	1	1	2	4	10	–6	4
Levadia	4	0	1	3	4	10	–6	1

2008-03-04	FK Sūduva	2 – 0	Levadia	Marijampolė
	Maciulevičius  24' Mikuckis  53'	Report		Stadium: Marijampolė Stadium Attendance: 600 Referee: V. Direktorenko (Latvia)

2008-03-12	Levadia	1 – 3	Skonto FC	Tallinn
	Lemsalu  57'	Report	Perepļotkins  28'  85' Piaček  78'	Stadium: Maarjamäe artificial pitch Attendance: 150 Referee: A. Kancleris (Lithuania)

2008-03-19	Skonto FC	3 – 0	FK Sūduva	Riga
	Laizāns  10' Dvalishvili  45' Višņakovs  81'	Report		Stadium: Skonto stadions Referee: Sten Kaldma (Estonia)

2008-04-01	FK Sūduva	1 – 6	Skonto FC	Marijampolė
	Willer  71' (pen.)	Report	Piaček  44' Višņakovs  45' Pahars  53' Dvalishvili  67' (pen.) Perepļotkins  69' Cauņa  88'	Stadium: Marijampolė Stadium Referee: Margus Kotter (Estonia)

2008-04-09	Skonto FC	4 – 2	Levadia	Riga
	Cauņa  15' Laizāns  53' Blanks  60' Kozlovs  81'	Report	Pavlikhin  56'  68'	Stadium: Skonto stadions Referee: Nerius Dunauskas (Lithuania)

2008-05-20	Levadia	1 – 1	FK Sūduva	Tallinn
	Puri  4'	Report	Maciulevičius  90'	Stadium: Kadrioru Stadium Referee: Vadims Černikovs (Latvia)

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Liepājas Metalurgs	4	2	1	1	7	2	+5	7
FBK Kaunas	4	2	1	1	6	4	+2	7
Trans	4	1	0	3	3	10	–7	3

2008-03-04	Trans	2 – 1	FBK Kaunas	Tallinn
	Lõsanov  67' Dubõkin  88' (pen.)	Report	Fattakhov  90+3'	Stadium: Sportland Arena Attendance: 30 Referee: A. Sipailo (Latvia)

2008-03-11	Liepājas Metalurgs	4 – 0	Trans	Liepājas
	Soloņicins  9' Bleidelis  54'  86' Klimek  67'	Report		Stadium: Daugava Stadium Attendance: 750 Referee: S. Atmanaviĉius (Lithuania)

2008-03-18	FBK Kaunas	1 – 0	Liepājas Metalurgs	Vilnius
	Podelis  14'	Report		Stadium: Žalgiris Stadium Referee: M. Kotter (Estonia)

2008-04-01	Liepājas Metalurgs	1 – 1	FBK Kaunas	Liepājas
	Beniušis  27'	Report	Mendy  87'	Stadium: Daugava Stadium Referee: Kristo Tohver (Estonia)

2008-04-09	Trans	0 – 2	Liepājas Metalurgs
		Report	Beniušis  44' Ivanovs  47' (pen.)	Referee: Edmundas Gaigalas (Lithuania)

2008-05-20	FBK Kaunas	3 – 1	Trans	Kaunas
	Ledesma  36'  42' (pen.) Zubavičius  72' (pen.)	Report	Ivanov  90+3'	Stadium: S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium Referee: Romans Lajuks (Latvia)

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
FK Ventspils	4	3	0	1	5	1	+4	9
FK Žalgiris	4	3	0	1	3	2	+1	9
Flora	4	0	0	4	0	5	–5	0

2008-03-05	Flora	0 – 1	FK Žalgiris	Tallinn
		Report	Veikutis  12'	Stadium: Sportland Arena Attendance: 200 Referee: R. Lajuks (Latvia)

2008-03-11	FK Ventspils	2 – 0	Flora	Ventspils
	Lazdiņš  1' Misikov  76'	Report		Stadium: Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions Attendance: 200 Referee: G. Mažeika (Lithuania)

2008-03-18	FK Žalgiris	1 – 0	FK Ventspils
	Kalaydzhiev  11'	Report		Referee: Silver Kõiv (Estonia)

2008-04-01	FK Ventspils	2 – 0	FK Žalgiris	Ventspils
	Bespalovs  2' Kosmačovs  48'	Report		Stadium: Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions Referee: Eiko Saar (Estonia)

2008-04-08	Flora	0 – 1	FK Ventspils	Tallinn
		Report	Bespalovs  61'	Stadium: Sportland Arena Referee: Audrius Zuta (Lithuania)

2008-05-20	FK Žalgiris	1 – 0	Flora	Vilnius
	Kalaydzhiev  44'	Report		Stadium: Žalgiris Stadium Referee: Aleksandrs Golubevs (Latvia)

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	FK Rīga	5
	Liepājas Metalurgs	3
					FK Rīga	2
					Skonto FC	8
	FK Žalgiris	3
	Skonto FC	6
									Skonto FC	1
									FBK Kaunas	2
	FBK Kaunas	8
	FK Ekranas	3
					FBK Kaunas	2
					FK Ventspils	1
	FK Ventspils	4
	FK Sūduva	0

Quarter-finals

2008-06-04	Liepājas Metalurgs	2 – 3	FK Rīga	Liepāja
18:00	Grebis  9' Klimek  74'	Report	Chirkin  34' Miholaps  41',  63'	Stadium: Daugava Stadium Referee: Audrius Kancleris (Lithuania)

2008-07-02	FK Rīga	2 – 1	Liepājas Metalurgs	Riga
18:00	Ļeonovs  65' Shpakov  71'	Report	Rubins  90+2'	Stadium: Latvijas Universitates Stadions Referee: Paulius Malžinskas (Lithuania)

FK Rīga win 5–3 on aggregate

2008-06-04	FK Žalgiris	2 – 4	Skonto FC	Vilnius
18:00	Puotkalis  24'  65' (pen.)	Report	Cauņa  15'  83' Kožans  38' Pahars  74' (pen.)	Stadium: Žalgiris Stadium Referee: Kristo Tohver (Estonia)

2008-07-02	Skonto FC	2 – 1	FK Žalgiris	Riga
20:00	Cauņa  57' Perepļotkins  70'	Report	Puotkalis  75'	Stadium: Skonto Stadions Referee: Hannes Kaasik (Estonia)

Skonto FC win 6–3 on aggregate

2008-06-03	FK Ekranas	2 – 4	FBK Kaunas	Panevėžys
18:30	Bicka  83' (pen.) Matovic  90+4'	Report	Ledesma  11' Aničič  14'  45' Mrowiec  90+3' (pen.)	Stadium: Aukštaitija Stadium Referee: Romans Lajuks (Latvia)

2008-07-02	FBK Kaunas	4 – 1	FK Ekranas	Kaunas
19:00	Zubavičius  7' Ledesma  45'  65' Lukša  69'	Report	Trakys  89'	Stadium: S.Darius and S.Girėnas Referee: Andrejs Sipailo (Latvia)

FBK Kaunas win 8–3 on aggregate

2008-06-04	FK Ventspils	3 – 0	FK Sūduva	Ventspils
18:00	Lazdiņš  33' (pen.) Smirnov  52' Bespalovs  59'	Report		Stadium: Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions Referee: Silver Kõivo (Estonia)

2008-07-02	FK Sūduva	0 – 1	FK Ventspils	Marijampolė
19:00		Report	Misikov  59'	Stadium: Sūduva stadium Referee: Eiko Saar (Estonia)

FK Ventspils win 4–0 on aggregate

Semi-finals

2008-09-17	FK Rīga	2 – 3	Skonto FC	Riga
18:00	Žavoronkovs  26' Zenkovs  39'	Report	Dvalishvili  33' Cauņa  47' Laizāns  51'	Stadium: Daugava Stadium Attendance: 150 Referee: Paulius Malžinskas (Lithuania)

2008-09-23	Skonto FC	5 – 0	FK Rīga	Riga
20:10	Golubevs  14' Blanks  25' Cauņa  61'  71' (pen.) Laizāns  86'	Report		Stadium: Skonto stadions Referee: Audrius Žuta (Lithuania)

Skonto FC win 8–2 on aggregate

2008-09-24	FBK Kaunas	1 – 1	FK Ventspils	Vilnius
19:30	Valskis  81'	Report	Ziziļevs  50'	Stadium: Žalgiris Stadium Referee: Kristo Tohver (Estonia)

2008-10-08	FK Ventspils	0 – 1	FBK Kaunas	Ventspils
15:00		Report	Valskis  30'	Stadium: Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions Referee: Silver Kõiv (Estonia)

FBK Kaunas win 2–1 on aggregate

Final

2008-10-25	Skonto FC	1 – 2	FBK Kaunas	Riga
15:00	Dvališvili  84' (pen.)	Report	Aničič  24' Miklinevičius  27'	Stadium: Skonto stadions Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Hannes Kaasik (Estonia)

Top scorers

8 goals:

• Aleksandrs Cauņa

5 goals:

Rafael Ledesma

Mihails Miholaps

4 goals:

Vladimir Dvalishvili

Oļegs Laizāns

Andrejs Perepļotkins

3 goals:

Luka Aničič

Vladimirs Bespalovs

Andrius Puotkalis

Valdas Trakys

2 goals:

Ričardas Beniušis Kristaps Blanks Imants Bleidelis Grigoriy Chirkin Georgi Kalaydzhiev

Arkadiusz Klimek Aleksejs Koļesņikovs Artis Lazdiņš Darius Maciulevičius Aleksandr Mysikov

Marian Pahars Aleksandr Pavlihhin Jozef Piaček Vygantas Zubavičius Nerijus Valskis

Egidijus Varnas Aleksejs Višņakovs

References

External links

• Official website

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