LFLS Kaunas

Lietuvos fizinio lavinimosi sąjunga ( LFLS ) was the first Lithuanian football club. He was based in Kaunas , which was the provisional capital of Lithuania in the interwar period .

history

The impetus for the founding of the LFLS, and thus for the introduction of football in Lithuania, came from some Lithuanians who returned after the First World War together with some foreigners - mainly immigrant Reich Germans - in 1920 . The first football team in 1920 consisted of four Lithuanians, four Germans and one Serb , one Jew and one English .

This multicultural club dominated Lithuanian football in the beginning and won the first two championship titles played in 1922 and 1923. The championships in 1927, 1932 and 1942 were added later. After the Soviet invasion and the later incorporation into the Soviet Union, the last title was only a regional championship. In the meantime, other Lithuanian teams, especially the six-time champions Kovas Kaunas and KSS Klaipėda, had caught up and determined the footballing side alongside the LFLS Happened in the independent Baltic republic.

In addition to soccer, the LFLS mainly played athletics and tennis . The athletics took place in Vyautas Park in Kaunas, where the park paths served as running tracks. The first Lithuanian athletics championships were held here.

After 1945 the traces of the association are lost. It can be assumed that there was no longer any room for the civil association LFLS in Soviet Lithuania . Such clubs - like Kovas Kaunas - were replaced by company sports associations based on the Soviet model.

literature

• Algird Fugalewitsch "A comparative presentation of the German sports clubs of the Memel area and the sports clubs of the German minority in Lithuania from 1918 to 1945", written term paper to obtain the degree of Magister Artium (MA) of the Philosophical Faculty of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel 1995