1990 Baltic League

1990 Baltic League (Russian: Чемпионат Прибалтики по футболу 1990) was Soviet and at the same time international football competition organized in 1990 with the ongoing dissolution of the Soviet Union. The league consisting of 18 clubs from the Lithuania SSR, Estonian SSR, the Latvian SSR and FC Progress Cherniakhovsk from Kaliningrad Oblast. The status of the tournament is not fully determined. The league also served as a preliminary (first stage) tournament for the first post-Soviet Lithuanian football championship.

LFF Championship
Season1990
ChampionsSirijus Klaipėda
1st league title
See also: Baltic League (disambiguation)

With the ongoing revolutions of 1989, in 1990 the Baltic republics declared reinstatement of their independence and exit out of the Soviet Union. Lithuania declared its independence on March 11, on March 30 the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic announced that its existence is not legal by recognizing itself as a territory under the Soviet occupation since 1940, Latvia simply repeated the feat of Lithuania on May 4.

The Lithuanian club Žalgiris, a member of the Soviet Top League after losing its first game in Odesa 0–1 to Chernomorets Odessa, withdrew from the 1990 Soviet Top League and joined the Baltic League. The club that in previous season qualified for the 1990–91 UEFA Cup was denied entrance to the European competitions.

History

The four best Lithuanian teams from Baltic League and the 1 Lyga qualified for the National Championship play-off. Also all Lithuanian clubs from the Baltic League qualified for the next season of A Lyga. Most of Latvian clubs also joined the championship of Latvia (Latvian SSR), while some continued their participation in the Soviet championship. The Soviet Estonian clubs after the fall of the Soviet Union were dissolved, while Progress Chernyakhovsk continued to participate in lower leagues of the Russian championship.

Note that Pardaugava also this season competed in the 1990 Soviet Second League (as Daugava Riga), while Zalgiris just pulled out of the Soviet competitions after playing the first game of the 1990 Soviet Top League, losing it away in Odessa. Also both Chernyakovsk and Yelgava clubs competed in the 1990 Soviet Second League B, Zone 6.

Teams

All-Union competition
Team/Club 1990 season's tournament
Žalgiris Vilnius Soviet Top League, 4th place
Sport Tallinn Soviet Second League, 20th place
Inkaras Kaunas Soviet Second League, 22nd place

Football championship of the Lithuanian SSR
Further information: 1989 LFF Lyga
Team/Club Place
Banga Kaunas 1st place
Ekranas Panevezys 2nd place
Sirijus Klaipeda 3rd place
Jovaras Mazeikiaj 6th place
Sakalas Siauliaj 10th place
Neris Vilnius 13th place
Suduva Marijampole 14th place

Football championship of the Latvian SSR
Team/Club Place
RAF Jelgava 1st place
Torpedo Riga 2nd place
Stroitel Daugavpils 3rd place
Daugava-LGIFK Riga 4th place
Metalurgs Liepaja 7th place
Pardaugava-RShVSM Riga students

Football championship of the Estonian SSR
Team/Club Place
Fosforit Tallinn 1st place

Football championship of the Russian SFSR (among KFK)
Team/Club Place
Progress Cherniakhovsk

Withdrew

Baltic League
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Žalgiris Vilnius 32 27 4 1 104 11 +93 58
2 Sirijus Klaipėda 32 19 9 4 47 19 +28 47
3 Ekranas Panevėžys 32 19 8 5 62 24 +38 46
4 Progress Cherniakhovsk 32 19 4 9 46 33 +13 42
5 Jovaras Mažeikiai 32 16 8 8 40 25 +15 40
6 Inkaras Kaunas 32 15 9 8 54 25 +29 39
7 Banga Kaunas 32 13 11 8 45 30 +15 37
8 RAF Jelgava 32 13 10 9 44 37 +7 36
9 Sakalas Šiauliai 32 11 12 9 41 32 +9 34
10 Sport Tallinn 32 11 11 10 43 39 +4 33
11 Neris Vilnius 32 10 8 14 27 47 −20 28
12 Celtnieks Daugavpils 32 8 7 17 29 45 −16 23
13 Torpedo Rīga 32 6 10 16 29 49 −20 22
14 KKI Daugava Riga 32 4 13 15 16 49 −33 21
15 Pārdaugava Riga 32 5 8 19 24 53 −29 18
16 Metalurgs Liepāja 32 4 5 23 20 97 −77 13
17 FK Sūduva Marijampolė 32 1 5 26 13 69 −56 7
Source: rsssf.com
  • ASK Fosforit Tallinn quit the competition after 14 games

Top scorers
  • 18 V.Baranauskas (Sakalas Šiauliai)
  • 16 A.Narbekovas (Zalgiris Vilnius)
  • 14 V.Ivanauskas (Zalgiris Vilnius)
  • 14 K.Dranginis (Inkaras Kaunas)

Football championship of the Lithuanian SSR (1 Lyga)
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Panerys Vilnius 30 20 6 4 48 18 +30 46
2 Granitas Klaipėda 30 20 6 4 57 16 +41 46
3 Sirijietis Klaipėda 30 14 9 7 38 27 +11 37
4 Elektronas Tauragė 30 15 6 9 35 29 +6 36
5 Vienybe Ukmerge 30 14 8 8 51 32 +19 36
6 Vilija Kaunas 30 14 7 9 64 39 +25 35
7 Atletas Kaunas 30 11 11 8 30 22 +8 33
8 Tauras Šiauliai 30 13 6 11 53 41 +12 32
9 Viltis Vilnius 30 10 10 10 50 32 +18 30
10 Dainava Alytus 30 11 7 12 33 46 −13 29
11 Nevėžis Kėdainiai 30 10 7 13 40 40 0 27
12 Gel.Vilkas Vilnius 30 10 7 13 39 41 −2 27
13 Poli Kaunas 30 8 6 16 27 56 −29 22
14 Mastis Telšiai 30 5 10 15 28 55 −27 20
15 Sveikata Kybartai 30 5 6 19 20 61 −41 16
16 Sirvinta Vilkaviskis 30 2 4 24 19 77 −58 8
Source: rsssf.com

Play-offs for the football champion title of Lithuania

Play-offs were organized between the Lithuanian clubs of all-Union Soviet professional competitions and competitions of the Lithuanian SSR.

Team #1 Agg. Team #1 1st leg 2nd leg
Quarterfinals
Elektronas Tauragė 0–9 Žalgiris Vilnius 0–6 0–3
Panerys Vilnius 2–1 Yovaras Mazeikiai 1–0 1–1
Granitas Klaipėda 1–3 Ekranas Panevėžys 1–1 0–2
Sirijietis Klaipėda 2–3 Sirijus Klaipėda 0–2 2–1
Semifinals
Ekranas Panevėžys 2–1 Žalgiris Vilnius 2–0 0–1
Panerys Vilnius 3–5 Sirijus Klaipėda 2–3 1–2
Third place
Žalgiris Vilnius 1–0 Panerys Vilnius
Final
Sirijus Klaipėda 0–0 Ekranas Panevėžys penalty kicks 3–2
Cup
Sirijus Klaipėda 0–0 Žalgiris Vilnius penalty kicks 4–3

References
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