Baltic Cup 1929

Baltic Cup 1929
Number of nations	3
Baltic Masters	Estonia (1st title)
venue	Latvia
Opening game	August 14, 1929
Games	3
Gates	15  (⌀: 5 per game)
spectator	8,000  (⌀: 2,667 per game)
Top scorer	Eugen Einman Eduard Ellman-Eelma Voldemārs Plade (3 goals)

The national teams of Latvia and Lithuania

The Baltic Cup 1929 was the 2nd staging of the tournament of the Baltic countries , the Baltic Cup . The tournament for national soccer teams took place in Latvia between August 14 and 16, 1929 . The games were played in the Latvijas Sporta Biedrība Stadium in Riga . The Estonian national soccer team won the title. The German referee and later President of the German Football Association Peco Bauwens directed the three international matches.

general overview

Table based on the two-point rule .

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Estonia	2	1	0	1	007: 400	+3	02
2.	Latvia	2	1	0	1	005: 300	+2	02
3.	Lithuania	2	0	0	2	003: 800	−5	00

Latvia versus Lithuania

Latvia		Lithuania
	August 14, 1929 in Riga ( Latvijas Sporta Biedrība Stadium ) Result: 3: 1 (0: 0) Spectators: 2,000 Referee: Peco Bauwens ( German Empire )
	Ādolfs Greble , Voldemārs Grāvelis , Vladimirs Svistuņenko , Alfons Novickis , Alberts Šeibelis , Voldemārs Bērziņš , Arkādijs Pavlovs , Arnolds Štauvers (30 Voldemārs Plade ), Ēriks Pētersons , Aleksandrs Priede , Karlis Balodis (46th Arnolds Tauriņš )	Viktoras Abramikas , Vilhelmas Nopensas , Artūras Vagneris , Albinas Bulvičius (46. Juozas Dirgela ), Romualdas Marcinkus , Antanas Bankauskas (46. Otonas Kunelis ) Ričardas Rutkauskas , Otonas Bružinskas , Stepas Chmelevskis , Jonas Stasiukonis , Leona Žukauskas
	1: 0 Plade (51st) 2: 0 Plade (68th) 3: 0 Plade (86th)	3: 1 Chmelevskis (89th, penalty )

Latvia versus Estonia

Latvia		Estonia
	August 15, 1929 in Riga ( Latvijas Sporta Biedrība Stadium ) Result: 2: 2 (1: 2) Spectators: 4,000 Referee: Peco Bauwens ( German Empire )
	Ādolfs Greble , Voldemārs Grāvelis , Vladimirs Svistuņenko , Alfons Novickis , Alberts Šeibelis , Kārlis Tīls , Arkādijs Pavlovs , Voldemārs Žins (24th Voldemārs Plade ), Ēriks Pētersons , Aleksandrs Priediņ , Arnolds Tauriš	Evald Tipner , Vladimir Silberg , Rudolf Kallaste , Otto Reinlo , Karl-Rudolf Sillak , Aleksander Mägi , Heinrich Paal , Arnold Pihlak , Eugen Einman , Eduard Ellman-Eelma , Helmuth Räästas
	1: 1 Priede (27th) 2: 2 Pavlovs (63rd)	0: 1 Einman (9th) 1: 2 Ellman-Eelma (29th)

Estonia versus Lithuania

Estonia		Lithuania
	August 16, 1929 in Riga ( Latvijas Sporta Biedrība Stadium ) Result: 5: 2 (2: 2) Spectators: 2,000 Referee: Peco Bauwens ( German Empire )
	Aleksei Kürbis , Vladimir Silberg , Rudolf Kallaste , Otto Reinlo , Feliks Kull (46th Herbert Paalberg ), Elmar Kaljot , Helmuth Räästas , Arnold Pihlak , Eugen Einman , Eduard Ellman-Eelma , Karl-Richard Idlane (46th Heinrich Paal )	Juozas Igovinas , Vilhelmas Nopensas , Gustavas Gvildys , Artūras Vagneris , Romualdas Marcinkus , Juozas Dirgėla , Antanas Lingis , Otonas Bružinskas , Stepas Chmelevskis , Ričardas Rutkauskas , Leonas Žukauskas
	1: 0 Einman (9th) 2: 1 Pihlak (32nd) 3: 2 Einman (59th) 4: 2 Ellman-Eelma (75th) 5: 2 Ellman-Eelma (85th)	1: 1 Chmelevskis (26th) 2: 2 Rutkauskas (35th)

Web links

• Baltic Cup 1929 on eu-football.info
• Statistics Latvia 3: 1 Lithuania
• Statistics Latvia 2: 2 Estonia
• Statistics Estonia 5: 2 Lithuania

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Baltic Cup Overview rsssf.com