Lithuania national football team
| Association |
Lithuanian Football Federation (Lietuvos futbolo federacija – LFF) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Confederation | UEFA (Europe) | ||
| Head coach | Edgaras Jankauskas | ||
| Captain | Fiodor Černych | ||
| Most caps | Andrius Skerla (84) | ||
| Top scorer | Tomas Danilevičius (19) | ||
| Home stadium | LFF Stadium | ||
| FIFA code | LTU | ||
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| FIFA ranking | |||
| Current |
126  | ||
| Highest | 37 (October 2008) | ||
| Lowest | 148 (November 2017) | ||
| Elo ranking | |||
| Current |
109  | ||
| Highest | 47 (10 September 2008) | ||
| Lowest | 150 (27 May 1990) | ||
| First international | |||
.svg.png){kind=small}  (Kaunas, Lithuania; 24 June 1923) | |||
| Biggest win | |||
.svg.png){kind=small} (Riga, Latvia; 20 May 1995) | |||
| Biggest defeat | |||
.svg.png){kind=small} (Paris, France; 27 May 1924) | |||
The Lithuania national football team (Lithuanian: Lietuvos nacionalinė futbolo rinktinė) is under the auspices of the Lithuanian Football Federation. It played its first match in 1923. In 1940, Lithuania was occupied 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.
Although Lithuania has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup, nor the UEFA European Championship, it has successfully participated in the local sub-regional Baltic Cup tournament, which takes place every two years between Lithuania and its Baltic rivals, Latvia and Estonia. Lithuania has won the Baltic Cup championship 11 times, only Latvia has more. Despite this Lithuania holds the record for winning the most consecutive Baltic Cup championships, four titles in a row from 1996 till 2000.
Since 2012 the team has played its home matches at the LFF Stadium, Vilnius.
History
In the 1990s, Lithuania established a respectable presence in the World Cup and European Championship qualifiers: third place in their group in both Euro 1996 and the 1998 World Cup qualifiers. In the 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 World Cup qualifying group, Lithuania were nevertheless competitive.
Lithuania drew with world champions Italy 1–1 in Naples in a 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 2010 World Cup 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 on 10 September 2008.
Tournament records
World Cup record
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| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | |
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Did not qualify | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||
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2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | |||||||||
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Did not qualify | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 21 | ||||||||
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10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 8 | |||||||||
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8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 20 | |||||||||
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10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 9 | |||||||||
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10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 11 | |||||||||
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10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 11 | |||||||||
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10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 20 | |||||||||
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| Total | 0/21 | 73 | 17 | 16 | 40 | 59 | 111 | ||||||||
European Championship record
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Recent results
FIFA World Cup 2018 qualifying
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Euro 2016 qualification
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |  |
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| 1 | |
10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 3 | +28 | 30 | Qualify for final tournament | — | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 5–0 | |
| 2 | |
10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 24 | 8 | +16 | 21 | 0–2 | — | 3–2 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 7–0 | ||
| 3 | |
10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 11 | +7 | 16 | Advance to play-offs | 2–3 | 1–0 | — | 1–0 | 1–1 | 6–0 | |
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10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 10 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | — | 1–0 | 2–0 | ||
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10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 18 | −11 | 10 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 1–0 | — | 2–1 | ||
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10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 36 | −35 | 1 | 0–6 | 0–4 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–2 | — |
Personnel
Current coaching staff
| Position | Name |
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| Head coach | |
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| Assistant coach | |
| Goalkeeping coach | |
Players
Current squad
The following players were called up for the 2018–19 UEFA Nations League matches against Romania on 11 October and Montenegro on 14 October 2018.[2]
Recent call-ups
The following players have been called up for the team in the last twelve months.
| Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club | Latest call-up |
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| GK | Tomas Švedkauskas | 22 June 1994 | 1 | 0 | |
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| GK | Ignas Plūkas | 8 December 1993 | 0 | 0 | |
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| GK | Vytautas Černiauskas | 12 March 1989 | 4 | 0 |  |
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| GK | Edvinas Gertmonas | 1 June 1996 | 1 | 0 | |
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| DF | Tomas Mikuckis | 13 January 1983 | 22 | 0 |  |
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| DF | Markas Beneta | 8 July 1993 | 1 | 0 | |
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| DF | Vytautas Andriuškevičius | 8 October 1990 | 28 | 0 | |
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| MF | Simonas Paulius | 12 May 1991 | 10 | 0 | |
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| MF | Justas Lasickas | 6 October 1997 | 6 | 0 | |
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| MF | Ovidijus Verbickas | 4 July 1993 | 12 | 1 | |
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| MF | Daniel Romanovskij | 19 June 1996 | 2 | 0 |  |
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| MF | Gratas Sirgėdas | 17 December 1994 | 3 | 0 | |
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| MF | Simonas Urbys | 7 November 1995 | 2 | 0 | |
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| MF | Ernestas Veliulis | 22 August 1995 | 2 | 0 | |
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| FW | Karolis Laukžemis | 11 March 1992 | 6 | 1 |  |
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Statistics
Top 10 Lithuania goalscorers
As of 27 March 2018, the ten highest scorers for Lithuania are:
| # | Player | Career | Goals (Caps) | Avg/game |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tomas Danilevičius | 1998–2012 | 19 (71) | 0.267 |
| 2 | Antanas Lingis | 1928–1938 | 12 (33) | 0.363 |
| 3 | Edgaras Jankauskas | 1991–2008 | 10 (56) | 0.178 |
| 4 | Virginijus Baltušnikas | 1990–1998 | 9 (42) | 0.214 |
| 5 | Jaroslavas Citavičius | 1926–1933 | 8 (24) | 0.333 |
| Valdas Ivanauskas | 1990–2000 | 8 (28) | 0.285 | |
| Fiodor Černych | 2012– | 8 (40) | 0.205 | |
| Darius Maciulevičius | 1991–2005 | 8 (38) | 0.210 | |
| Robertas Poškus | 1999–2011 | 8 (48) | 0.166 | |
| 10 | Artūras Fomenka | 1996–2003 | 7 (23) | 0.304 |
| Tomas Ražanauskas | 1995–2011 | 7 (41) | 0.170 | |
| Igoris Morinas | 1996–2007 | 7 (51) | 0.137 |
- Bold denotes players still playing international football.
Top 10 most capped Lithuania players
As of 27 March 2018, the ten players with the most caps for Lithuania are:
| # | Name | Career | Caps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andrius Skerla | 1996–2011 | 84 | 1 |
| 2 | Deividas Šemberas | 1996–2013 | 82 | 0 |
| 3 | Saulius Mikoliūnas | 2004– | 74 | 5 |
| 4 | Tomas Danilevičius | 1998–2012 | 71 | 19 |
| 5 | Žydrūnas Karčemarskas | 2003–2013 | 66 | 0 |
| 6 | Aurelijus Skarbalius | 1991–2005 | 65 | 5 |
| Marius Stankevičius | 2001–2013 | 65 | 5 | |
| 8 | Deividas Česnauskis | 2001– | 64 | 4 |
| 9 | Gintaras Staučė | 1992–2004 | 61 | 0 |
| 10 | Edgaras Jankauskas | 1991–2008 | 56 | 10 |
| Andrėjus Tereškinas | 1991–2000 | 56 | 3 | |
| Tomas Žvirgždauskas | 1998–2011 | 56 | 0 |
- Bold denotes players still playing international football.
Head to head records
As of 11 July 2018.
| Opponent | P | W | D | L |
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4 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
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1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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4 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
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2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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6 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
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7 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
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2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
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48 | 20 | 8 | 20 |
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8 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
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4 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
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8 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
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2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
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5 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
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4 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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5 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
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6 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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51 | 13 | 11 | 27 |
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6 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
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2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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5 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
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8 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
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2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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11 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
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2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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4 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
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11 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
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4 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
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4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
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1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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10 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
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2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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4 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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6 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
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6 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
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2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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8 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
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1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
List of managers
| Name | Nat | From | To | Games | Won | Drawn | Lost | GF | GA | Win% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjaminas Zelkevičius | | 1990 | 1991 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 33.33 |
| Algimantas Liubinskas | | 1992 | 1994 | 29 | 7 | 8 | 14 | 29 | 48 | 24.14 |
| Benjaminas Zelkevičius | | 1995 | 1997 | 29 | 12 | 6 | 11 | 45 | 41 | 41.38 |
| Kęstutis Latoža | | 1998 | 1999 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 24 | 27.78 |
| Robertas Tautkus (caretaker) | | 1999 | 1999 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0.00 |
| Stasys Stankus | | 2000 | 2000 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 18 | 25.00 |
| Julius Kvedaras (caretaker) | | 2000 | 2000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0.00 |
| Benjaminas Zelkevičius | | 2001 | 2003 | 19 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 20 | 41 | 21.05 |
| Algimantas Liubinskas | | 2003 | 2008 | 50 | 18 | 6 | 26 | 54 | 65 | 36.00 |
| José Couceiro | | 2008 | 2009 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 15 | 40.00 |
| Raimondas Žutautas | | 2010 | 2011 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 22 | 25.00 |
| Csaba László | | 2012 | 2013 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 28 | 12.50 |
| Igoris Pankratjevas | | 2013 | 2015 | 21 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 31 | 23.81 |
| Edgaras Jankauskas | | 2016 | present | 20 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 8 | 26 | 15.00 |
References
- ↑ FIFA World Cup uefa.com
- ↑ "LIETUVOS RINKTINĖS TRENERIS PASKELBĖ SUDĖTĮ". LFF.lt (in Lithuanian). Lithuanian Football Federation. 2 October 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
External links
- Lithuanian Football Association Official Site (Lithuanian)
- All Lithuanian Team Games 1923–1930
- Reports for all matches of Lithuania national team
- Lithuanian football videos Lithuanian Football TV
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