2009–10 Baltic League

Baltic League

Season	2009–10
Champions	Ventspils (1st title)
Matches played	28
Goals scored	56 (2 per match)
Top goalscorer	Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko (4 goals)
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The 2009–2010 Baltic League (known as the Triobet Baltic League for sponsorship reasons) is a 16-team football tournament held in the Baltic states. Five top teams from each participating country – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – along with the winner of the 2008 season will play a 4 round and 2 legged (excluding final) play-off style knockout tournament. It is held from Autumn 2009 through Summer 2010.

Teams

• Meistriliiga – Levadia (1st), Flora (2nd), Trans (3rd), Kalju (4th), Sillamäe Kalev (5th)
  • Although TVMK initially finished 3rd, they were demoted to 10th place at the end of the season due to severe financial difficulties. The team was later disbanded.

• Virslīga – Ventspils (1st), Metalurgs (2nd), Skonto (3rd), Dinaburg (4th), Jūrmala (7th)
  • Daugava Daugavpils (5th) merged with Dinaburg FC, with Dinaburg retaining its name. After FK Rīga (6th) went bankrupt Jūrmala were given the freed spot as the next best placed team.

• A Lyga – Ekranas (1st), Vėtra (3rd), Sūduva (4th), Šiauliai (7th), Tauras (1st 1 Lyga), Banga (3rd 1 Lyga)
  • FBK Kaunas (2nd) and FK Atlantas (6th) withdrew from the top league, citing serious differences with the Lithuanian Football Federation. FK Žalgiris (5th) were denied A Lyga license and were demoted to 1 Lyga. FK Šilutė (8th) were relegated to 1 Lyga because of their league position. Eventually two 1 Lyga sides, Tauras and Banga, were awarded the two remaining spots, as they were both promoted to the A Lyga.

Play-off Table

	Round of 16					Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Final
	Banga	0	1
	Ventspils	0	2
						Ventspils	2	1
						Vėtra	1	0
	Dinaburg	0	–
	Vėtra	0	–
											Ventspils	2	0
											Flora	0	0
	Jūrmala-VV	1	1
	Ekranas	3	0
						Ekranas	0	1
						Flora	0	2
	Šiauliai	1	1
	Flora	1	3
																Ventspils	3 (5)
																Sūduva	3 (3)
	Tauras	1	0
	Levadia	0	3
						Levadia	0	0
						Sūduva	0	1
	Sūduva	2	1
	Trans	0	1
											Sūduva	3	1
											Metalurgs	0	2
	Sillamäe Kalev	1	0
	Skonto	3	1
						Skonto	0	0
						Metalurgs	1	1
	Kalju	0	2
	Metalurgs	1	5

Round of 16

Leg 1 22 September 2009	Dinaburg FC	0 – 0	Vėtra	Daugavpils
16:30 EEST (UTC+03)		Report		Stadium: Daugavas stadions Attendance: 100 Referee: Sten Kaldma

Leg 2 28 October 2009	Vėtra	Walkover	Dinaburg FC	Vilnius
19:00 EET (UTC+02)				Stadium: Vėtros stadionas

The second leg match was scratched and Vėtra advanced to the next round as Dinaburg was ejected from the competition for match-fixing.

Leg 1 22 September 2009	Kalju	0 – 1	SK Liepājas Metalurgs	Tallinn
19:00 EEST (UTC+03)		Report	76' Deniss Rakels	Stadium: A. Le Coq Arena Attendance: 326 Referee: Audrius Kancleris

Leg 2 28 October 2009	SK Liepājas Metalurgs	5 – 2	Kalju	Liepāja
19:00 EET (UTC+02)	Viktors Dobrecovs  5', 42', 60' Antons Jemeļins  29' Vladimirs Kamešs  45'	Report	59' Felipe Nunes  90+1' Maksim Smirnov	Stadium: Daugavas stadions Attendance: 250 Referee: Edmundas Gaigalas

Metalurgs advanced to the next round 6–2 on aggregate.

Leg 1 22 September 2009	Sūduva	2 – 0	Trans	Marijampolė
19:00 EEST (UTC+03)	Andrius Urbšys  50' Ramūnas Radavičius  72'	Report		Stadium: Sūduvos stadionas Attendance: 980 Referee: Vadims Direktorenko

Leg 2 28 October 2009	Trans	1 – 1	Sūduva	Narva
14:00 EET (UTC+02)	Aleksandr Tarassenkov  39'	Report	54' Ričardas Beniušis	Stadium: Kreenholmi staadion Attendance: 50 Referee: Aleksejs Spasjonņikovs

Sūduva advanced to the next round 3–1 on aggregate.

Leg 1 23 September 2009	FK Jūrmala	1 – 3	Ekranas	Jūrmala
16:30 EEST (UTC+03)	Jurģis Kalns  35'	Report	66' Egidijus Varnas  77', 90' Dominykas Galkevičius	Stadium: Slokas stadions Attendance: 80 Referee: Hannes Kaasik

Leg 2 27 October 2009	Ekranas	0 – 1	FK Jūrmala	Panevėžys
19:00 EET (UTC+02)		Report	73' Gatis Kalniņš	Stadium: Aukštaitija stadionas Attendance: 550 Referee: Eiko Saar

Ekranas advanced to the next round 3–2 on aggregate.

Leg 1 23 September 2009	Tauras	1 – 0	Levadia	Tauragė
16:30 EEST (UTC+03)	Vytautas Dragūnevičius  1'	Report		Stadium: Vytauto stadionas Attendance: 700 Referee: Kristo Tohver

Leg 2 27 October 2009	Levadia	3 – 0	Tauras	Tallinn
14:00 EET (UTC+02)	Deniss Malov  26' Vitali Leitan  39' Konstantin Nahk  69' (pen)	Report		Stadium: Maarjamäe staadion Attendance: 200 Referee: Andrejs Sipailo

Levadia advanced to the next round 3–1 on aggregate.

Leg 1 23 September 2009	Sillamäe Kalev	1 – 3	Skonto FC	Sillamäe
16:30 EEST (UTC+03)	Aleksey Naumov  40'	Report	23' Andrei Agafonov  59' Nathan Júnior  83' Aleksandrs Cauņa	Stadium: Kalevi staadion Attendance: 260 Referee: Paulius Malžinskas

Leg 2 28 October 2009	Skonto FC	1 – 0	Sillamäe Kalev	Riga
19:00 EET (UTC+02)	Aleksandrs Fertovs  75'	Report		Stadium: Skonto stadions Attendance: 60 Referee: Sergejus Slyva

Skonto advanced to the next round 4–1 on aggregate.

Leg 1 23 September 2009	Šiauliai	1 – 1	Flora	Šiauliai
19:00 EEST (UTC+03)	Tadas Špukas  6'	Report	83' Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko	Stadium: Savivaldybė stadionas Attendance: 2400 Referee: Andris Treimanis

Leg 2 27 October 2009	Flora	3 – 1 (a.e.t)	Šiauliai	Tallinn
19:00 EET (UTC+02)	Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko  78', 93', 117'	Report	9' Mantas Kuklys	Stadium: A. Le Coq Arena Attendance: 120 Referee: Sergejs Braga

Flora advanced to the next round 4–2 on aggregate.

Leg 1 8 October 2009	Banga	0 – 0	FK Ventspils	Klaipėda
14:00 EEST (UTC+03)		Report		Stadium: Miesto stadions Attendance: 250 Referee: Kristo Tohver

Leg 2 10 November 2009	FK Ventspils	2 – 1	Banga	Ventspils
14:00 EET (UTC+02)	Aleksandrs Solovjovs  59' João Martins  86'	Report	79' Israel Awenayeri Douglas	Stadium: Olimpiskais stadions Attendance: 1500 Referee: Aivar Israel

Ventspils advanced to the next round 2–1 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Leg 1 6 April 2010	Vėtra	1 – 2	FK Ventspils	Vilnius
19:00 EEST (UTC+03)	Artūras Žulpa  48'	Report	25' Ivan Shpakov  68' Sergey Shumilin	Stadium: Sportima indoor hall Referee: Hannes Kaasik

Leg 2 5 May 2010	FK Ventspils	1 – 0	Vėtra	Ventspils
17:30 EEST (UTC+03)	Sergey Shumilin  42'	Report		Stadium: Olimpiskais Stadions Attendance: 300 Referee: Kristo Tohver

Ventspils advanced to the next round 3–1 on aggregate.

Leg 1 6 April 2010	Flora	0 – 0	Ekranas	Tallinn
19:00 EEST (UTC+03)		Report		Stadium: Sportland Arena Attendance: 88 Referee: Vadims Direktorenko

Leg 2 5 May 2010	Ekranas	1 – 2	Flora	Panevėžys
19:00 EEST (UTC+03)	Vīts Rimkus  51'	Report	62' Alo Dupikov  77' (pen.) Valeri Minkenen	Stadium: Aukštaitija Stadium Attendance: 650 Referee: Aleksandrs Anufrijevs

Flora advanced to the next round 2–1 on aggregate.

Leg 1 7 April 2010	Sūduva	0 – 0	Levadia	Marijampolė
19:00 EEST (UTC+03)		Report		Stadium: Sūduvos stadionas Attendance: 800 Referee: Vadims Cernikovs

Leg 2 4 May 2010	Levadia	0 – 1	Sūduva	Tallinn
17:30 EEST (UTC+03)		Report	36' Povilas Lukšys	Stadium: A. Le Coq Arena 1st grass pitch Referee: Aleksandr Golubevs

Sūduva advanced to the next round 1–0 on aggregate.

Leg 1 7 April 2010	SK Liepājas Metalurgs	1 – 0	Skonto FC	Liepāja
19:00 EEST (UTC+03)	Oskars Kļava  58'	Report		Stadium: Daugavas stadions Attendance: 500 Referee: Nerijus Dunauskas

Leg 2 4 May 2010	Skonto FC	0 – 1	SK Liepājas Metalurgs	Riga
19:00 EEST (UTC+03)		Report	Vitalijus Kavaliauskas  24'	Stadium: Skonto Stadions Referee: Audrius Žuta

Metalurgs advanced to the next round 2–0 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Leg 1 26 May 2010	FK Ventspils	2 – 0	Flora	Ventspils
17:00 EEST (UTC+03)	Aleksejs Višņakovs  17' Eduards Višņakovs  72'	Report		Stadium: Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions Attendance: 300 Referee: Gediminas Mažeika

Leg 2 8 June 2010	Flora	0 – 0	FK Ventspils	Tallinn
19:00 EEST (UTC+03)		Report		Stadium: A. Le Coq Arena Attendance: 780 Referee: Audrius Žuta

Ventspils advanced to the next round 2–0 on aggregate.

Leg 1 26 May 2010	Sūduva	3 – 0	SK Liepājas Metalurgs	Marijampolė
19:00 EEST (UTC+03)	Nerijus Radžius  36' Karolis Chvedukas  42' Povilas Lukšys  80'	Report		Stadium: Sūduva Stadium Referee: Eiko Saar

Leg 2 9 June 2010	SK Liepājas Metalurgs	2 – 1	Sūduva	Liepāja
19:00 EEST (UTC+03)	Oskars Kļava  16' Genādijs Soloņicins  90'	Report	80' Povilas Lukšys	Stadium: Daugava Stadium Referee: Hannes Kaasik

Sūduva advanced to the next round 4–2 on aggregate.

Final

Final 4 July 2010	Sūduva	3 – 3 (a.e.t.) (3 – 5 p)	FK Ventspils	Marijampolė
17:00 EEST (UTC+03)	Ričardas Beniušis  90+3', 114' Andrius Urbšys  120+1'	Report	82' Alexandru Dedov  99' (pen.) Jurijs Žigajevs  105' Michael Tukura	Stadium: Sūduva Stadium Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Sten Kaldma
		Penalties
	Esau Garcia Alvarez Sandro Grande Ričardas Beniušis Andrius Urbšys		Jurijs Žigajevs Ivan Shpakov Alexandru Dedov Michael Tukura Grigori Chirkin	|

Goalscorers

As of 4 July 2010.

4 goals:

• Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko

3 goals:

• Viktors Dobrecovs
• Povilas Lukšys
• Ričardas Beniušis

2 goals:

• Andrius Urbšys
• Dominykas Galkevičius
• Oskars Kļava
• Sergey Shumilin

1 goal:

Andrey Agafonov Aleksandrs Cauņa Karolis Chvedukas Alexandru Dedov Israel Awenayeri Douglas Vytautas Dragūnevičius Alo Dupikov Aleksandrs Fertovs Antons Jemeļins Nathan Júnior

Gatis Kalniņš Jurģis Kalns Vladimirs Kamešs Vitalijus Kavaliauskas Mantas Kuklys Vitali Leitan Deniss Malov João Martins Valeri Minkenen Konstantin Nahk

Aleksey Naumov Felipe Nunes Ramūnas Radavičius Nerijus Radžius Deniss Rakels Vīts Rimkus Ivan Shpakov Maksim Smirnov Genādijs Soloņicins Aleksandrs Solovjovs

Tadas Špukas Aleksandr Tarassenkov Michael Tukura Egidijus Varnas Aleksejs Višņakovs Eduards Višņakovs Jurijs Žigajevs Artūras Žulpa

References

External links

• Official website

2009–10 Baltic League Estonia Flora Kalju Levadia Sillamäe Kalev Trans Latvia Dinaburg Metalurgs Jūrmala Skonto Ventspils Lithuania Banga Ekranas Šiauliai Sūduva Tauras Vėtra

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