III Lyga

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LFF III Lyga
CountryLithuania
Divisions5 County Zones (2019)
Number of teams38 (2019)
Level on pyramid4
Promotion toII Lyga
Relegation toSunday Football League
Current champions(2019):





Lithuanian Football Federation's III league, LFF II lyga is the fourth tier Lithuanian football championship.

Members[]

The league consists of leagues organized by County Football Federations in each of the 10 Counties of Lithuania. Due to low participant numbers some counties do not run III lyga competitions.

  • Vilniaus Region Football Association
  • Kaunas County Football Federation
  • Šiauliai County Football Federation
  • Klaipėda County Football Federation
  • Panevėžys County Football Federation
  • Alytus County Football Federation
  • Utena County Football Federation
  • Marijampolė County Football Federation
  • Telšiai County Football Federation
  • Tauragė County Football Federation

Current Season[]

In 2019 only 6 federations organized III lyga competitions, two of them ran a combined league.

Vilnius III lyga[1] Kaunas & Marijampolė III lyga Klaipėda III lyga[2] Šiauliai III lyga[3] Alytus III lyga[4]
  • A komanda
  • AFK
  • Aktas
  • FK Elektrėnų Versmė
  • FK Medžiai
  • FKK Spartakas
  • Granitas
  • Kaišiadorys-Baltai
  • Navigatoriai
  • Ozas
  • SK Nemenčinė-Hegvita
  • VJFK Trakai
  • Šturmas Kaunas
  • Lietava Jonava
  • FK Tauras Kaunas
  • FK Kėdainiai
  • SMK Sparta Šakiai
  • FK Kazlų Rūda
  • EMD Statyba-Sendvaris
  • FK Granata-Jakai
  • Klaipėdos FM
  • Sakuona-Rūgpienių kaimas
  • Sarema
  • Sparta-Newlink.lt
  • „Adiada“
  • „Kruoja-Kupsc“
  • FC „Saulininkas“
  • FK „Akmenė“-SC
  • FK „Akmenės Cementas B-Juventa 99“
  • FK „Fanai“
  • FK „Kražantė B“
  • FK „Savanoris“
  • FK „Venta“
  • Ginkūnų „Šauliai-Dakaras“
  • Dainava Veisiejai
  • Prienai-Birštonas
  • FK Simnas
  • FK Mairas Alytus

County Leagues[]

Vilnius Region[]

Vilnius region league is by far the largest and most competitive. There were three more lower divisions competing in the region in 2019.

2019 season final standings:

# Team Played Win Draw Lose Goals+ Goals- G.diff Points
1. 22 14 5 3 43 28 +15 47
2. 22 13 7 2 68 34 +34 46
3. 22 12 4 6 66 38 +28 40
4. 22 12 4 6 62 32 +30 40
5. 22 12 4 6 49 34 +15 40
6. 22 12 2 8 42 25 +17 38
7. 22 8 3 11 44 49 -5 27
8. 22 8 2 12 38 54 -16 26
9. 22 8 2 12 42 59 -17 26
10. 22 7 4 11 50 55 -5 25
11. 22 4 3 15 29 59 -30 15
12. 22 2 0 20 29 95 -66 6

Kaunas County[]

Having had abundant teams in the county in the past, in 2019 Kaunas struggled to pull enough teams together to run a league. A solution was found to run a combined league with Marijampole County.

2019 season final standings:

# Team Played Win Draw Lose Goals+ Goals- G.diff Points
1. 10 8 0 2 38 27 +11 24
2. 10 7 1 2 39 21 +18 22
3. 10 5 1 4 24 28 -4 16
4. 10 5 0 5 26 31 -6 15
5. 10 3 1 6 25 26 -1 10
6. - 10 0 1 9 19 38 -19 1

Klaipėda County[]

2019 season final standings:

# Team Played Win Draw Lose Goals+ Goals- G.diff Points
1 15 14 1 0 102 26 +76 43
2 15 11 1 3 53 32 +21 34
3 15 8 0 7 43 52 -9 24
4 15 6 0 9 39 46 -7 18
5 15 5 0 10 34 69 -35 15
6 15 0 0 15 14 60 -46 0

Šiauliai County[]

There was good turnout in 2019 in Šiauliai County with 10 teams participating. The golden match was required to decide the league winner.

2019 season final standings:

# Team Played Win Draw Lose Goals+ Goals- G.diff Points
1. 18 13 3 2 53 24 +29 42*
2. 18 13 3 2 61 19 +42 42
3. 18 12 4 2 60 26 +34 40
4. 18 10 3 5 35 21 +14 33
5. 18 7 4 7 34 35 -1 25
6. 18 8 0 10 38 40 -2 24
7. 18 7 2 9 34 35 -1 23
8. 18 7 1 10 38 53 -15 22
9. 18 1 2 15 17 65 -48 5
10. 18 0 2 16 11 63 -52 2

Alytus County[]

A bare minimum of 4 teams participated in 2019 season, allowing to extend Alytus County III league competition run for 10 years without a break.

2019 season final standings:

# Team Played Win Draw Lose Goals+ Goals- G.diff Points
1 - 6 3 2 1 20 9 +11 11
2 6 3 1 2 7 14 -7 10
3 6 2 1 3 13 10 +3 7
4 6 0 4 2 5 12 -7 4

Marijampolė County[]

Due to low participant numbers in 2019 it was decided to run a combined league with Kaunas County. The county ran III league competitions regularly with an exception of 2017. See Kaunas County

Panevėžys County[]

For the second year in a row there were not sufficient team numbers to run a league in 2019. The county ran III league competitions regularly until then.

Utena County[]

For the second year in a row there were not sufficient team numbers to run a league in 2019. The county ran III league competitions only twice in the last 6 years.

Tauragė County[]

The last III lyga competition ran in Tauragė County was 2006.

Telšiai County[]

Telšiai County, the country's smallest, has never run III league competition.

References[]

  1. ^ http://www.vilniausfutbolas.lt/lyga/III-lyga/20
  2. ^ http://lietuvosfutbolas.lt/varzybos/megeju/klff-iii-lyga/
  3. ^ http://saff.lt/index.php?pg=turnyrai
  4. ^ http://aaff.lt/index.php/13412-2019-registracija-i-iii-lyga

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