FK Palanga

FK Palanga was founded in 2010 and introduced its first team to the third tier Antra Lyga in 2011.

FK Palanga started off strong and won this championship in the first year with no defeats.  As a result of their victory, they were promoted in 2012 to the Primera Lyga (second tier).

FK Palanga plateaued for the next three years, sitting at the bottom of each standing.

This changed in 2015 as they went from strength to strength. The club changed ownership and their scores started to improve. In the Lithuanian Football League I (made up of 18 teams), they came fifth.

The club came in second in 2016.

In 2017, they won the I Lyga and earned a promotion to the A Lyga, the top division in Lithuania. To celebrate their promotion, the club was re-branded including a new logo and new colors of blue and white. The new logo features "1957", which was when the first football club in Palanga was founded.

In 2019, the team was in 7th position in the A Lyga and faced the Pirma Lyga runners-up DFK Dainava in the playoff series. They won promotion play-offs on aggregate 5–0 and saved their place in A Lyga.

Preparation for the 2019 season was started by signing Russian managers Artyom Gorlov and Aleksandr Ushakhin, who replaced the previously resigned Valdas Trakys.

In summer 2019, Vyacheslav Geraschenko became the new head coach, with Algimantas Briaunys joining as an assistant coach on 21 July 2019.

On 5 December 2019, the Lithuanian Football Federation announce that two A Lyga clubs, FK Atlantas Klaipėda and FK Palanga have been excluded from the A Lyga due to manipulation of the match results, fined 42,000 euros and relegated to the II Lyga. Ten players and one staff were punished with fines and a ban from all football activity ranging from 6 to 12 months.[2]

As of 16 September 2019 [3]

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

No. Position Player 31 GK Marius Paukštė 2 DF Aurimas Tručinskas 3 DF Vladislavs Kuzmins 6 DF Matvey Guyganov 14 DF Andrew Lebre 34 DF Klimas Gusočenko 7 MF Klaudijus Upstas 11 MF Giorgi Diakvnishvili

No. Position Player 14 MF Alan Facundo Torres 24 MF Andriy Yakovlyev 26 MF Josip Jurjević 30 MF Andrejs Kiriļins 88 MF Vladimirs Stepanovs 90 MF Tadas Eliošius 20 FW Sam Shaban 27 FW Kouakou Privat Yao 33 FW Dominykas Jakočiūnas

Players who have either appeared for their respective national team at any time or received an individual award while at the club.

• Valdas Trakys (2014–2018)
• Artyom Gorlov and Aleksandr Ushakhin (2019).
• Vyacheslav Geraschenko (July 2019 – 16 September 2019)[4]
• Algimantas Briaunys (since 16 September 2019).[5]

• Official website (in Lithuanian)
• Facebook PALANGA official page)
• alyga.lt page (FK Palanga club profile)
• lietuvosfutbolas.lt page (FK Palanga club profile)