FC Pakruojis

Pakruojis
Full name Futbolo centras "Pakruojis"
Founded January 2016 (2016-01)
Ground Pakruojis Stadium
Capacity 2,000
Coordinates 55°58′57.0″N 23°51′53.5″E / 55.982500°N 23.864861°E / 55.982500; 23.864861Coordinates: 55°58′57.0″N 23°51′53.5″E / 55.982500°N 23.864861°E / 55.982500; 23.864861
Chairman Rimantas Čeponis
Manager Aidas Dambrauskas
League I Lyga
2017 9th
Website Club website

Futbolo centras Pakruojis, commonly known as Pakruojis, is a Lithuanian football club located in Pakruojis, center of Pakruojis District. They currently play in the I Lyga, the second tier of Lithuanian football.[1]

History

Club was created in January 2016 after a dissolvement of another Pakruojis based club Kruoja.[2] Despite publicly denying any links with Kruoja, club attracted many of their footballers and also former Kruoja head coach Aidas Dambrauskas. They played in 2016 Žemaitijos Taurė, but remained last in A division.[3] Team was hoping to compete in the 2016 LFF I Lyga, but have not received a valid license and played in II Lyga West zone instead.[4][5] They won the division by 13 points margin and secured promotion to I Lyga.[6]

Before 2017 season club once again competed in the Žemaitijos Taurė, where this time they finished second, losing to hosts Džiugas 3–0 in the final.[7] Club started their league campaign really well and even managed to climb to the top of the league after 14 tours, but soon after had a winless streak of 6 games and didn't recovered, finally ending the season in 9th place.[8]

Stadium

Stadium of FC Pakruojis.

Club play their home matches in Pakruojis Stadium. The current capacity of the stadium is 2,000 seats.

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Netherlands GK Jordy Van de Corput
3 Lithuania DF Gediminas Zaborskis
5 Lithuania DF Marius Butėnas
7 Ukraine MF Vadym Barba
8 Lithuania FW Aivaras Bagočius (captain)
11 Ukraine MF Mykola Barba
12 Lithuania DF Gediminas Balašauskas
No. Position Player
15 Lithuania MF Vilius Paslavičius
18 Belarus MF Andrei Arochka
19 Lithuania MF Žilvinas Jurevičius
22 Lithuania FW Dominykas Kriukas
28 Lithuania DF Donatas Strockis
37 Lithuania MF Aivaras Renusas

Honours

The club's honours:

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:

Season Division Tier Position Cup
2016 II Lyga West zone III 1st ↑ Second Round (1/56)
2017 LFF I Lyga II 9 First Round (1/44)
↑ Promoted ↓ Relegated

References

  1. ↑ "LFF Pirmoje lygoje žais 15 komandų" (in Lithuanian). Lithuanian Football Federation. 16 March 2017. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  2. ↑ "Pakruojo futbolo centras įkurtas 2016 metais". Facebook (in Lithuanian). FC Pakruojis. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Telšiuose baigėsi futbolo turnyras „Žemaitijos taurė-2016"" (in Lithuanian). TAFF. 22 March 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Pakruojis rengiasi intriguojančiam futbolo atgimimui". Futbolas.lt (in Lithuanian). 5 February 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Prasideda Pakruojo futbolo atgimimas". Futbolas.lt (in Lithuanian). 30 April 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "2016 m. LFF II lygos Vakarų zonos pirmenybių apžvalga" (in Lithuanian). Klaipėda District Football Federation. 2 October 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  7. ↑ "FC „Džiugas" futbolo turnyro „Žemaitijos taurė 2017" nugalėtojas" (in Lithuanian). Telšiai County Football Federation. 21 March 2017. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  8. ↑ "Sezono kulminacijoje – nelengvas "Palangos" triumfas" (in Lithuanian). Lithuanian Football Federation. 21 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
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