FBK Kaunas

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FBK Kaunas
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Full name Kauno futbolo beisbolo klubas
place Kaunas
Founded 1993
Dissolved 1995
Club colors {{{club colors}}}
Stadion S.Dariaus and S.Girėno stadiums
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Kauno futbolo beisbolo klubas , better known under the abbreviation FBK Kaunas , is a Lithuanian baseball and football club from Kaunas . With ten championships in football, the club is the record champions in Lithuania .

history

In 1960 a club called Banga Kaunas was founded in Kaunas . During the Soviet era, the club became Lithuanian regional champions in 1986 and 1989. From 1990 the club took part in the Lithuanian championship in A Lyga . In 1993 one joined the baseball club as a football department and founded the current club.

In 1997 the club was able to qualify for the 1997 UEFA Intertoto Cup . Although he won 3-2 against KS / Leiftur and played 2-2 against Odense BK , he was eliminated with only four points in the group stage.

In the first years of A Lyga, the club reached midfield positions. In 1998 they reached the cup final, but the game against Ekranas Panevėžys ended in a 0-1 defeat. In the following season they reached next to a third place in the league again the final, this time Kareda Šiauliai lost 3-0 after extra time.

After reaching third place in the 1998/99 season they qualified for participation in the 1999/2000 UEFA Cup , where they were then in the first round against Maccabi Tel Aviv with 1: 3 and 2: 1 in addition retired. In the following season of the Champions League, for which they qualified as champions 2000, Kaunas defeated NK Brotnjo Čitluk from Bosnia 4-0 and 0-3 in the first round . Then they lost against the Glasgow Rangers with 1: 4 and 0: 0. In the following season of the premier class they were already defeated in the first qualifying round FK Sloga Jugomagnat Skopje from Macedonia due to the away goals rule with 0: 0 and 1: 1.

Under the name of FK Žalgiris Kaunas you won the championship for the first time in the transition season 1999, when it was switched to a season course within the calendar year. Renamed again at the beginning of the coming season, the club began to dominate the league and won all championships until 2004. 2002 also succeeded with a 3-1 win against Sūduva Marijampolė, the first cup victory in the club's history. In 2004 and 2005 the title could be won again.

In the Champions League 2002/03 they were eliminated in the first round against KS Dinamo Tirana . In the 2003/04 season they won the first qualifying round against HB Tórshavn 1-0 and 4-1. In the second qualifying round, however, Kaunas clearly lost to Celtic Glasgow with 0: 4 and 0: 1. A year later they reached the second qualifying round in the premier class by defeating Sliema Wanderers (2-0 and 4-1) , but then dropped out again when they lost to Djurgårdens IF from Sweden 0-0 and 0-2 . In the 2005/06 season of the Champions League, the club met HB Tórshavn in the first qualifying round, like two years earlier, and were able to win the duel again (4: 2 and 4: 0). However, in the next round, this time against Liverpool , you had to admit defeat 1: 3 and 0: 2. The following year they qualified as runners-up for participation in the 2006/07 UEFA Cup . The club sat down in the first qualifying round against FC Portadown (3-1 and 1-0), but then dropped out against the Danish representative Randers FC when a 1-0 home win after a 1: 3 away defeat failed to progress was enough. In the 2007/08 season of the premier class they were eliminated in the first qualifying round with 1: 3 and 3: 2 against Zeta Golubovci from Montenegro.

In 2005 you had to let the first step in the championship Ekranas Panevėžys when you finished the season 10 points behind as runner-up. The following year they left them behind and became the undisputed Lithuanian national champion for the seventh time with a 21-point lead, replacing Kovas Kaunas and KSS Klaipėda as record champions, who had been champions six times in the period before the Second World War .

FBK Kaunas is sponsored by Ūkio bankas , of which the entrepreneur Vladimir Romanov is the main shareholder . In October 2005 this also became the majority shareholder in Heart of Midlothian , a club in the Scottish Premier League . Since then, Kaunas has been used as a "supplier" to the Scottish club, players like Edgaras Jankauskas , Arkadiusz Klimek , Nerijus Barasa , Marius Žaliūkas and Roman Bednář were loaned from Kaunas to Hearts, Bednář later switched completely.

In the 2008/09 season the club reached after victories over FC Santa Coloma from Andorra and the Glasgow Rangers the third qualifying round for the UEFA Champions League , in which the team was eliminated against the Danish representative Aalborg BK . But FBK moved into the first round of the UEFA Cup . In this Sampdoria Genua was the opponent, against whom one was eliminated. The appearance in the Baltic League was more successful . In the final, could Skonto Riga with a 2: 1 defeat.

After the 2008 season, FBK withdrew voluntarily from the first division due to differences with the Lithuanian Football Association . The team was then transferred to the third division. As runners-up, FBK still played in the UEFA Europa League , with the team eliminated after a 0-0 and 1-1 draw against FK Sevojno in the second round due to the away goals rule. The southern group of the third division dominated the team, however, so that in the 2009 season promotion to the second division could be achieved, which could also be left as first place after one season, so that FBK 2011 again ran up in the top division. There, however, you had to relegate immediately after you had not received a license for the new 2012 season.

Club names

  • 1993-1999: FBK Kaunas
  • 2000: FK Žalgiris Kaunas
  • 2001–2012: FBK Kaunas

successes

1 as Žalgiris Kaunas in the transition championship

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Final decisions on A lyga to be made on March 27th , March 22, 2009. Accessed March 8, 2009.
  2. ↑ 2012 metų Lietuvos futbolo A lygoje rungtyniaus 10 komandų (Lithuanian)

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