Lithuania

Association	Lithuanian Football Federation
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	José Couceiro
Captain	Tomas Danilevičius
Most caps	Andrius Skerla (67)
Top scorer	Tomas Danilevičius (17)
Home stadium	S.Darius and S.Girėnas Stadium
FIFA code	LTU
FIFA ranking	62
Highest FIFA ranking	37 (October 2008)
Lowest FIFA ranking	118 (September 2004)
Elo ranking	67
Highest Elo ranking	48 (September 2008)
Lowest Elo ranking	127 (1994)
Home colours Away colours
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 under the auspices of the Lithuanian Football Federation. It played its first match in 1923. In 1940, Lithuania was annexed by the Soviet Union; the country regained its independence in 1990 and played their first match as a new nation against Georgia on 27 May of that year.

Contents 1 Recent history 2 World Cup record 3 European Championship record 4 Current squad 4.1 Recent call-ups 4.2 Top scorers 4.3 Most capped players 5 2010 Word Cup qualification 6 Upcoming fixtures 7 Recent results 8 List of managers 9 References 10 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 UEFA Euro 1996 and the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. In the UEFA 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 fifth in their 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying group, Lithuania were nevertheless competitive.

Lithuania drew with world champions Italy 1 – 1 in Naples in a UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying game on 2 September 2006, in the first competitive game that Italy played since the World Cup final.

On 6 September 2008, Lithuania defeated Romania 3 – 0 in a World Cup 2010 qualifier. The victory was regarded by many as "a historic win."^[1] It was followed by another successful 2 – 0 performance against Austria in Marijampolė.

[edit] World Cup record

• 1930 - Did not enter
• 1934 - Did not qualify
• 1938 - Did not qualify
• 1950 to 1990 - Did not enter, belonged to USSR
• 1994 to 2010 - Did not qualify

[edit] European Championship record

• 1960 to 1992 - Did not enter, belonged to Soviet Union
• 1996 to 2008 - Did not qualify
• 2012 - Qualify

[edit] Current squad

No. Pos. Player DoB (Age) Caps Goals Club 1 GK Žydrūnas Karčemarskas May 24, 1983 (1983-05-24) (age 26) 43 0 Dynamo Moscow 2 GK Paulius Grybauskas June 2, 1984 (1984-06-02) (age 25) 5 0 Neftchi Baku 3 GK Armantas Vitkauskas March 23, 1989 (1989-03-23) (age 20) 1 0 Sūduva 4 DF Ignas Dedura January 6, 1978 (1978-01-06) (age 31) 41 1 Spartak Moscow 5 DF Vidas Alunderis March 27, 1979 (1979-03-27) (age 30) 20 0 LASK Linz 6 DF Marius Stankevičius July 15, 1981 (1981-07-15) (age 28) 49 4 Sampdoria 7 DF Arūnas Klimavičius October 15, 1982 (1982-10-15) (age 27) 25 2 Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast 8 DF Gediminas Paulauskas November 27, 1982 (1982-11-27) (age 27) 19 0 Vėtra 9 DF Vaidas Slavickas February 26, 1986 (1986-02-26) (age 23) 1 0 Sūduva 10 DF Tadas Kijanskas September 6, 1985 (1985-09-06) (age 24) 2 0 Vėtra 11 DF Algis Jankauskas September 27, 1982 (1982-09-27) (age 27) 1 0 Vėtra 12 MF Deividas Šemberas September 8, 1978 (1978-09-08) (age 31) 63 0 CSKA Moscow 13 MF Saulius Mikoliūnas May 2, 1984 (1984-05-02) (age 25) 34 2 Arsenal Kyiv 14 MF Linas Pilibaitis April 5, 1985 (1985-04-05) (age 24) 11 0 Gyõri ETO 15 MF Edgaras Česnauskis October 5, 1984 (1984-10-05) (age 25) 22 1 FC Moscow 16 MF Darvydas Šernas July 22, 1984 (1984-07-22) (age 25) 8 1 Widzew Łódź 17 MF Mindaugas Panka May 1, 1984 (1984-05-01) (age 25) 4 0 Widzew Łódź 18 MF Kęstutis Ivaškevičius June 17, 1985 (1985-06-17) (age 24) 7 0 Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 19 MF Mindaugas Kalonas May 2, 1984 (1984-05-02) (age 25) 33 2 Metalurh Zaporizhya 20 MF Vytautas Lukša August 14, 1984 (1984-08-14) (age 25) 5 0 MTZ-RIPO 21 MF Tomas Ražanauskas January 7, 1976 (1976-01-07) (age 33) 40 7 Vėtra 22 FW Tomas Danilevičius July 18, 1978 (1978-07-18) (age 31) 54 17 Livorno 23 FW Valdas Trakys March 20, 1979 (1979-03-20) (age 30) 14 2 Ekranas

[edit] Recent call-ups

No. Pos. Player DoB (Age) Caps Goals Club GK Giedrius Arlauskis December 1, 1987 (1987-12-01) (age 22) 3 0 Unirea Urziceni GK Saulius Klevinskas April 2, 1984 (1984-04-02) (age 25) 0 0 Sūduva GK Vytautas Černiauskas April 12, 1989 (1989-04-12) (age 20) 0 0 Ekranas GK Mindaugas Malinauskas August 11, 1983 (1983-08-11) (age 26) 2 0 Tranzīts DF Andrius Skerla April 29, 1977 (1977-04-29) (age 32) 70 1 Jagiellonia Białystok DF Irmantas Zelmikas January 3, 1980 (1980-01-03) (age 29) 11 0 Sūduva DF Marius Žaliūkas November 10, 1983 (1983-11-10) (age 26) 7 0 Hearts DF Tomas Žvirgždauskas March 18, 1975 (1975-03-18) (age 34) 55 0 Halmstad DF Andrius Jokšas January 12, 1979 (1979-01-12) (age 30) 17 0 Tavriya Simferopol DF Tadas Papečkys September 28, 1978 (1978-09-28) (age 31) 7 0 ŁKS Łódź DF Alfredas Skroblas March 11, 1984 (1984-03-11) (age 25) 2 0 Sūduva DF Egidijus Majus January 5, 1984 (1984-01-05) (age 25) 2 0 Zenit St. Petersburg DF Povilas Šarūnas October 14, 1985 (1985-10-14) (age 24) 0 0 Ekranas DF Nerijus Radžius August 27, 1976 (1976-08-27) (age 33) 11 0 ŁKS Łódź MF Audrius Kšanavičius January 14, 1977 (1977-01-14) (age 32) 19 2 Kaunas MF Aurimas Kučys February 22, 1981 (1981-02-22) (age 28) 17 0 Zakarpattia Uzhhorod MF Tomas Tamošauskas May 22, 1983 (1983-05-22) (age 26) 14 0 Liepājas Metalurgs MF Darius Miceika February 22, 1983 (1983-02-22) (age 26) 10 1 Metalurh Zaporizhya MF Deividas Česnauskis June 30, 1981 (1981-06-30) (age 28) 35 4 Ergotelis MF Mantas Savėnas October 28, 1984 (1984-10-28) (age 25) 29 0 Sibir Novosibirsk FW Arvydas Novikovas December 18, 1990 (1990-12-18) (age 19) 0 0 Hearts FW Tadas Labukas January 10, 1984 (1984-01-10) (age 25) 7 0 Arka Gdynia FW Tomas Radzinevičius June 5, 1981 (1981-06-05) (age 28) 21 0 Odra Wodzisław FW Ričardas Beniušis February 23, 1980 (1980-02-23) (age 29) 21 0 Sūduva FW Vitalijus Kavaliauskas July 2, 1983 (1983-07-02) (age 26) 10 0 Hranit Mikashevichy FW Valerijus Mižigurskis April 22, 1983 (1983-04-22) (age 26) 1 0 Ordabasy FW Mindaugas Grigalevičius December 3, 1981 (1981-12-03) (age 28) 2 0 Vėtra FW Povilas Lukšys December 3, 1981 (1981-12-03) (age 28) 2 0 Polonia Bytom FW Andrius Velička April 5, 1979 (1979-04-05) (age 30) 20 0 Rangers FW Robertas Poškus May 5, 1979 (1979-05-05) (age 30) 40 0 Inter Baku

[edit] Top scorers

#	Player	Career	Goals (caps)	Goals per game.
1.	Tomas Danilevičius	1998 –	18 (57)	0,32
2.	Antanas Lingis	1928 – 1938	12 (33)	0,36
3.	Edgaras Jankauskas	1991 – 2008	10 (56)	0,18
4.	Virginijus Baltušnikas	1990 – 1997	9 (42)	0,21
5	Jaroslavas Citavičius	1926 – 1933	8 (24)	0,33
6.	Valdas Ivanauskas	1990 – 2000	8 (28)	0,29
7.	Darius Maciulevičius	1991 – 2005	8 (38)	0,22
8.	Igoris Morinas	1996 – 2007	7 (52)	0,14
9.	Artūras Fomenka	1996 – 2003	7 (23)	0,3
10.	Tomas Ražanauskas	1995 – 2004	7 (38)	0,19

[edit] Most capped players

#	Player	Career	Caps	Goals
1.	Andrius Skerla	1996 –	74	1
2.	Aurelijus Skarbalius	1991 – 2005	65	5
	Deividas Šemberas	1996 –	61	0
4.	Gintaras Staučė	1992 – 2004	61	0
5.	Andrėjus Tereškinas	1991 – 2000	56	3
	Edgaras Jankauskas	1991 –	56	10
6.	Tomas Žvirgždauskas	1998 –	55	0
8.	Igoris Morinas	1996 –	52	7
	Tomas Danilevičius	1998 –	52	17
10.	Aidas Preikšaitis	1992 – 2006	48	3

[edit] 2010 Word Cup qualification

Team v • d • e Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Serbia 10 7 1 2 22 8 +14 22  France 10 6 3 1 18 9 +9 21  Austria 10 4 2 4 14 15 −1 14  Lithuania 10 4 0 6 10 11 −1 12  Romania 10 3 3 4 12 18 −6 12  Faroe Islands 10 1 1 8 5 20 −15 4

Austria  – 3 – 1 3 – 1 2 – 1 2 – 1 1 – 3 Faroe Islands  1 – 1 – 0 – 1 2 – 1 0 – 1 0 – 2 France  3 – 1 5 – 0 – 1 – 0 1 – 1 2 – 1 Lithuania  2 – 0 1 – 0 0 – 1 – 0 – 1 2 – 1 Romania  1 – 1 3 – 1 2 – 2 0 – 3 – 2 – 3 Serbia  1 – 0 2 – 0 1 – 1 3 – 0 5 – 0 –

[edit] Upcoming fixtures

Date	Tournament	Location	Opponent

[edit] Recent results

Date	Tournament	Location	Opponent	Result	Scorers
14 October 2009	World Cup 2010	Marijampolė	Serbia	Won 2 – 1	Kalonas  20', Stanevičius  68'
10 October 2009	World Cup 2010	Innsbruck	Austria	Lost 2 – 1	Stankevičius  66'
12 August 2009	Friendly	Luxembourg (city)	Luxembourg	Won 1 – 0	Danilevičius  40'
6 June 2009	World Cup 2010	Marijampolė	Romania	Lost 0 – 1
1 April 2009	World Cup 2010	Paris	France	Lost 1 – 0
28 March 2009	World Cup 2010	Kaunas	France	Lost 0 – 1
11 February 2009	Friendly	Albufeira	Andorra	Won 3 – 1	Velička  44', Šernas  55', Kavaliauskas  83'
7 February 2009	Friendly	Faro	Poland	Draw 1 – 1	Klimavičius  38'
22 November 2008	Mayors Cup	Kuressaare	Estonia	Draw 1 – 1	Kavaliauskas  35'
19 November 2008	Mayors Cup	Tallinn	Moldova	Draw 1 – 1	Savenas  72'
15 October 2008	World Cup 2010	Kaunas	Faroe Islands	Won 1 – 0	Danilevičius  22'
11 October 2008	World Cup 2010	Belgrade	Serbia	Lost 3 – 0
10 September 2008	World Cup 2010	Marijampolė	Austria	Won 2 – 0	Danilevičius  52'  57'
6 September 2008	World Cup 2010	Cluj	Romania	Won 3 – 0	Stankevičius  31', Mikoliūnas  70', Kalonas  86'
20 August 2008	Friendly	Marijampolė	Moldova	Won 3 – 0	Poškus  23'  54', Danilevičius  61'
4 June 2008	Friendly	Burghausen	Russia	Lost 1 – 4	Savėnas  24'
1 June 2008	Baltic Cup	Riga	Latvia	Lost 1 – 2	Beniušis  82'
31 May 2008	Baltic Cup	Jūrmala	Estonia	Won 1 – 0	Mižigurskis  87'
27 May 2008	Friendly	Prague	Czech Republic	Lost 0 – 2

[edit] List of managers

Name	Nat	From	To
Benjaminas Zelkevičius		1990	1991
Algimantas Liubinskas		1992	1994
Benjaminas Zelkevičius		1995	1997
Kęstutis Latoža		1998	1999
Robertas Tautkus (caretaker)		1999	1999
Stasys Stankus		1999	2000
Julius Kvedaras (caretaker)		2000	2000
Benjaminas Zelkevičius		2000	2003
Algimantas Liubinskas		2003	2008
José Couceiro		2008	Present

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Lithuanian Football Association Official Site (Lithuanian)
• Lithuanian football news, videos, photos Unofficial Site (English)

• All Lithuanian Team Games 1923-1930

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