Baltic League 2009/10

Baltic League 2009/10
master	FK Ventspils
Teams	16
Games	28
Gates	59  (ø 2.11 per game)
Top scorer	Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko ( FC Flora Tallinn )
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The Baltic League 2009/10 was the fifth season of the football competition for Baltic club teams and took place between September 22, 2009 and July 4, 2010. The winner was FK Ventspils from Latvia, who won the final 5-3 on penalties against Sūduva Marijampolė from Lithuania.

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For the first time, the five best-placed teams from the Estonian Meistriliiga , the Latvian Virslīga and the Lithuanian A Lyga took part in the Baltic League . An additional place was given to the country from which the defending champions came, in this case Lithuania. Contrary to the two previous seasons, the tournament was played in a pure knockout system with a return game. In the event of a tie, the away goals rule decided again , and the final final was again decided in a single game.

Attendees

Due to the non-fulfillment of financial regulations in the licensing process, the five best-placed teams in the Lithuanian league did not take part, only three teams received the license for the top division in the first instance. Last year's winner of the Baltic League and second-placed A Lyga, FBK Kaunas , and sixth-placed A Lyga , Atlantas Klaipėda , initially voluntarily withdrew from the first division due to differences with the Lithuanian Football Association . Both teams were then transferred to the third division. In addition, the fifth-placed VMFD Žalgiris Vilnius was denied the license and the team was downgraded to the second division. Thus, in addition to the first, third and fourth places from Lithuania, who qualified regularly, also the seventh place FC Šiauliai from the first division and the first and third place from the second division, Tauras Tauragė and Banga Gargždai , took part in the competition.

In Latvia there was also a variation among the participants. Since after the season of the fifth placed FC Daugava Daugavpils merged with the fourth placed FC Dinaburg , one place became free. This was actually due to the sixth-placed FK Riga , but they had to file for bankruptcy, so that FK Jūrmala-VV moved up in seventh place.

Round of 16

The first legs of the round of 16 were played between September 22 and October 8, 2009, the second legs between October 27 and November 10, 2009.

	total		First leg	Return leg
FC Dinaburg	0w / o 1	Vėtra Vilnius	0-0	Where
JK Nõmme Kalju	2: 6	FK Liepājas Metalurgs	0: 1	2: 5
Sūduva Marijampolė	3: 1	JK Trans Narva	2-0	1: 1
JK Kalev Sillamäe	1: 4	Riga discount	1: 3	0: 1
FK Jūrmala-VV	2: 3	Ekranas Panevėžys	1: 3	1-0
Tauras Tauragė	1: 3	FC Levadia Tallinn	1-0	0: 3
FC Šiauliai	2: 4	FC Flora Tallinn	1: 1	1: 3 a.d.
Banga Gargždai	1: 2	FK Ventspils	0-0	1: 2

¹ FC Dinaburg was excluded from the competition after the first leg due to match fixing.

Quarter finals

The first legs of the quarter-finals were played on April 6 and 7, 2010, the second legs on May 4 and 5, 2010.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Vėtra Vilnius	1: 3	FK Ventspils	1: 2	0: 1
FC Flora Tallinn	2: 1	Ekranas Panevėžys	0-0	2: 1
Sūduva Marijampolė	1-0	FC Levadia Tallinn	0-0	1-0
FK Liepājas Metalurgs	2-0	Riga discount	1-0	1-0

Semifinals

The first legs in the semi-finals were played on May 26, 2010, the second legs on June 8 and 9, 2010.

	total		First leg	Return leg
FK Ventspils	2-0	FC Flora Tallinn	2-0	0-0
Sūduva Marijampolė	4: 2	FK Liepājas Metalurgs	3-0	1: 2

final

Sūduva Marijampolė		FK Ventspils
	4th July 2010 in Marijampolė ( Sūduva Stadium ) Result: 3: 3 n.V. (1: 1, 0: 0), 3: 5 p. E. Spectators: 3,000 Referee: Sten Kaldma ( Estonia )
	Marius Rapalis - Nerijus Radžius , Alfredas Skroblas , Eimantas Valaitis - Liu Chao , Karolis Chvedukas (79th Andrius Urbšys ), Sandro Grande , Sergiy Kozyuberda (84th Esaú ), Vaidas Slavickas - Evaldas Grigaitis (71st Ričardas Beniušis ), Povilas trainer : Donatas Vencevičius	Aleksandrs Koļinko - Vladimir Bespalovs , Rite Krjauklis - Grigori Chirkin , Michael Tukura , Aleksejs Višņakovs (86th Jevgēņijs Kosmačovs ), Arturs Zjuzins - Alexandru Dedov , Ritvars Rugins (65th Jurijs Žigajevs ) Aleksandr Solovjovs (53. Ivan Shpakov ), Evgeny Postnikov Coach: Nuncio Zavettieri ( Italy )
	1: 1 Ričardas Beniušis (90.) 2: 3 Ričardas Beniušis (114.) 3: 3 Andrius Urbšys (120.)	0: 1 Alexandru Dedov (82.) 1: 2 Jurijs Žigajevs (99th penalty) 1: 3 Michael Tukura (105.)
	penalties shoot
	1: 1 Esau Garcia Alvarez 2: 2 Sandro Grande 3: 3 Ričardas Beniušis Andrius Urbšys shoots	0: 1 Jurijs Žigajevs 1: 2 Ivan Shpakov 2: 3 Alexandru Dedov 3: 4 Michael Tukura 3: 5 Grigori Chirkin
	Alfredas Skroblas (23rd), Eimantas Valaitis (103rd), Liu Chao (111th), Andrius Urbšys (120th)	Grigori Chirkin, Alexandru Dedov, Jevgēņijs Kosmačovs

List of goalscorers

rank	Surname	society	Gates
1	Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko	FC Flora Tallinn	4th
2	Viktors Dobrecovs	FK Liepājas Metalurgs	3
	Povilas Lukšys	Sūduva Marijampolė
	Ričardas Beniušis	Sūduva Marijampolė
5	Andrius Urbšys	Sūduva Marijampolė	2
	Dominykas Galkevičius	Ekranas Panevėžys
	Oscar's Kļava	FK Liepājas Metalurgs
	Sergey Shumilin	FK Ventspils

Web links

• Baltic League 2009/10 on rsssf.com (English)
• Game of the finals (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TrioBet Baltic League in a brand new format for next season (English), July 2008. Accessed April 7, 2011.
2. ^ Only three clubs received A Lyga licenses at first attempt , March 1, 2009. Retrieved April 7, 2011.
3. ↑ Final decisions on A lyga to be made on March 27th , March 22, 2009. Accessed April 7, 2011.
4. ↑ Legendiniam klubui išimtis nepadaryta ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Lithuanian), March 7, 2009. Retrieved April 7, 2011.