Baltic Cup

Baltic Cup
Association	EJL / LFF / LFF / SPL / BFF
First edition	1928
Teams	3-4
Game mode	League system or knockout system from the semi-finals
Title holder	Latvia
Record winner	Latvia (24 wins)

The Baltic Cup is a football competition of the national teams of the three Baltic states Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania . During the Soviet era, Belarus also played a part .

The competition was held for the first time in 1928 and has been held irregularly since then. After the competition was discontinued after 1976, since the independence of the Baltic States in 1991, the competition started again, since 2001 only in odd years.

In the 2005 competition, Estonia decided not to participate due to scheduling difficulties.

In 2012 Finland took part in the tournament for the first time, this time played in a different mode. It was not played in the league system "everyone against everyone", but in the knockout system with two semi-finals, a game for third place and a final.

The tournaments at a glance

year	host	Final stands
		winner	2nd place	3rd place	4th Place
1928 details	Estonia	Latvia	Estonia	Lithuania	three participants
1929 details	Latvia	Estonia	Latvia	Lithuania	three participants
1930 details	Lithuania	Lithuania	Latvia	Estonia	three participants
1931 details	Estonia	Estonia	Latvia	Lithuania	three participants
1932 details	Latvia	Latvia	Lithuania	Estonia	three participants
1933 details	Lithuania	Latvia	Lithuania	Estonia	three participants
1935 details	Estonia	Lithuania	Latvia	Estonia	three participants
1936 details	Latvia	Latvia	Estonia	Lithuania	three participants
1937 details	Lithuania	Latvia	Estonia	Lithuania	three participants
1938 details	Estonia	Estonia	Latvia	Lithuania	three participants
1940 details	Latvian SSR	Latvian SSR	Estonian SSR	Lithuanian SSR	three participants
1948 details	Latvian SSR	Lithuanian SSR	Estonian SSR	Latvian SSR	three participants
1949 details	Lithuanian SSR	Lithuanian SSR	Latvian SSR	Estonian SSR	three participants
1950 details	Lithuanian SSR	Lithuanian SSR	Latvian SSR	Estonian SSR	three participants
1952 details	Estonian SSR	Estonian SSR	Latvian SSR	Lithuanian SSR	three participants
1954 details	Belarusian SSR	Latvian SSR	Lithuanian SSR	Belarusian SSR	Estonian SSR
1957 details	Lithuanian SSR	Latvian SSR	Lithuanian SSR	Belarusian SSR	Estonian SSR
1958 details	Lithuanian SSR	Latvian SSR	Lithuanian SSR	Estonian SSR	three participants
1959 details	Latvian SSR	Latvian SSR	Lithuanian SSR	Estonian SSR	three participants
1960 details	Estonian SSR	Estonian SSR Latvian SSR Lithuanian SSR	Because of the equality of points, all three teams were declared winners.		three participants
1961 details	Lithuanian SSR	Latvian SSR	Lithuanian SSR	Estonian SSR	three participants
1962 details	Latvian SSR	Latvian SSR	Estonian SSR	Lithuanian SSR	three participants
1969 details	Estonian SSR	Estonian SSR	Latvian SSR	Lithuanian SSR	three participants
1970 details	Lithuanian SSR	Lithuanian SSR	Estonian SSR	Latvian SSR	three participants
1971 details	Latvian SSR	Lithuanian SSR	Estonian SSR	Latvian SSR	three participants
1972 details	Estonian SSR	Estonian SSR	Lithuanian SSR	Latvian SSR	three participants
1973 details	Lithuanian SSR	Estonian SSR	Latvian SSR	Lithuanian SSR	Belarusian SSR
1974 details	Latvian SSR	Latvian SSR	Estonian SSR	Lithuanian SSR	Belarusian SSR
1975 details	Belarusian SSR	Lithuanian SSR	Latvian SSR	Belarusian SSR	Estonian SSR
1976 details	Estonian SSR	Latvian SSR	Estonian SSR	Lithuanian SSR	Belarusian SSR
1991 details	Lithuania	Lithuania	Latvia	Estonia	three participants
1992 details	Latvia	Lithuania	Latvia	Estonia	three participants
1993 details	Estonia	Latvia	Estonia	Lithuania	three participants
1994 details	Lithuania	Lithuania	Latvia	Estonia	three participants
1995 details	Latvia	Latvia	Lithuania	Estonia	three participants
1996 details	Estonia	Lithuania	Estonia	Latvia	three participants
1997 details	Lithuania	Lithuania	Latvia	Estonia	three participants
1998 details	Estonia & Latvia	Lithuania	Latvia	Estonia	three participants
2001 details	Latvia	Latvia	Lithuania	Estonia	three participants
2003 details	Estonia	Latvia	Lithuania	Estonia	three participants
2005 details	Lithuania	Lithuania	Latvia	only two participants
2008 details	Latvia	Latvia	Lithuania	Estonia	three participants
2010 details	Lithuania	Lithuania	Latvia	Estonia	three participants
2012 details	Estonia	Latvia	Finland	Estonia	Lithuania
2014 details	Latvia	Latvia	Lithuania	Finland	Estonia
2016 details	Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania	Latvia	Lithuania	Estonia	three participants
2018 details	Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania	Latvia	Estonia	Lithuania	three participants

Ranking list of winners

rank	country	title	Years
1	Latvia / Latvian SSR	14 10	1928, 1932, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1993, 1995, 2001, 2003, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 1940, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1974, 1976
2	Lithuania / Lithuanian SSR	10 7	1930, 1935, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2005, 2010 1948, 1949, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1971, 1975
3	Estonia / Estonian SSR	3 5	1929, 1931, 1938 1952, 1960, 1969, 1972, 1973

italics: as partial Soviet republics

See also

• List of top scorer of the Baltic Cup

Web links

• Statistics of the competition at the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation