Lithuanian national football team

Republic of Lithuania
Lietuvos Respublika

Association	Lietuvos futbolo federacija
confederacy	UEFA
Technical sponsor	bumblebee
Head coach	Valdas Urbonas (since 2019)
captain	Fedor Černych
Record scorer	Tomas Danilevičius (19)
Record player	Saulius Mikoliūnas and Andrius Skerla (84 each)
FIFA code	LTU
FIFA rank	131. (1089 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
341 games 90 wins 62 draws 189 defeats
statistics
First international match Lithuania 0-5 Estonia ( Kaunas , Lithuania ; June 24, 1923)
Biggest win Lithuania 7-0 Estonia ( Riga , Latvia ; May 20, 1995)
Biggest defeat Lithuania 0:10 Egypt ( Paris , France ; June 1, 1924)
(As of November 17, 2019)

The Lithuanian national football team represents the Baltic state of Lithuania in football.

history

From 1923 to 1940 the Lithuanian national soccer team played international games against international teams and took part in the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, where they were eliminated 9-0 against Switzerland in qualifying. 1940 Lithuania was on the Soviet Union occupied . Until 1990, Lithuanian players played in the Soviet national football team .

After regaining independence, the Lithuanian national football team played their first international match on May 27, 1990, with Arminas Narbekovas scoring the first goal for Lithuania, as in the time of the First Republic, against Estonia , which has just become independent again .

The Lithuanian national team has not yet participated in the finals of world or European championships .

The 1-1 draw against the then runner-up world champion Germany in the away game in Nuremberg on March 29, 2003 and against the then world champion Italy in the away game in Naples on September 2, 2006 represent notable successes .

A big surprise came at the beginning of the qualifying round for the 2010 World Cup when they defeated European Championship participants Romania 3-0 away.

In December 2013, Igoris Pankratjevas became the new national coach after three months as an interim coach. He will also lead the team into qualifying for the 2016 European Football Championship .

In October 2008, Lithuania achieved 37th place in the FIFA world rankings . Football is of less importance in Lithuania, the national sport is basketball , in which Lithuania is much more successful.

In qualifying for the Euro 2016 , Lithuania met England for the first time and Switzerland for the first time since 1924 . Other opponents were Estonia , Slovenia and San Marino . Lithuania could not qualify as penultimate.

Trainer

• Benjaminas Zelkevicius (1990–1991)
• Algimantas Liubinskas (1991–1995)
• Benjaminas Zelkevicius (1995–1997)
• Kestutis Latoza (1998–1999)
• Julius Kvedaras (2000)
• Benjaminas Zelkevicius (2001-2003)
• Algimantas Liubinskas (2003-2008)
• José Couceiro (2008-2009)
• Raimondas Zutautas (2010-2011)
• Csaba László (2012-2013)
• Igoris Pankratjevas (2013-2015)
• Edgaras Jankauskas (2016-2018)
• Valdas Urbonas (since 2019)

Participation in soccer world championships

• 1930 - did not participate
• 1934 and 1938 - not qualified
• 1950 to 1990 - See Soviet national football team
• 1994 to 2018 - not qualified

Participation in European football championships

• 1960 to 1992 - Did not participate, was part of the USSR national football team .
• 1996 to 2021 - Not qualified.

Participation in the Summer Olympic Games for amateur teams (once)

1908 in London	not participated
1912 in Stockholm	not participated
1920 in Antwerp	not participated
1924 in Paris	qualification
1928 in Amsterdam	not participated
1936 in Berlin	not participated

Participation in the Baltic Cup

• See also : Baltic Cup

Record player

In contrast to the other two Baltic national football teams, Lithuania does not yet have a player with more than 100 international matches. The pre-war record holder is Romualdas Marcinkus , who was murdered by the Gestapo on March 29, 1944 at the age of 36 after breaking out of a German prisoner-of-war camp ( broken chains ) and was used in 41 games between 1927 and 1938.

rank	Surname	Calls	Gates	position	Period	Record holder
01.	Andrius Skerla	84	01	Defense	1996-2011	since June 4, 2008 (66 to 84 games)
	Saulius Mikoliūnas	84	05	midfield	2004-	since November 17, 2019 (84th game)
03.	Deividas Šemberas	82	00	Defense	1996-2013
04th	Tomas Danilevičius	71	19th	attack	1998-2012
05.	Žydrūnas Karčemarskas	66	00	goal	2003-2013
06th	Aurelijus Skarbalius	65	05	Defense	1991-2005	March 30, 2005 to June 4, 2008 (62 to 65 games)
0	Marius Stankevičius	65	05	Defense	2001-
08th.	Deividas Česnauskis	64	04th	attack	2004-
09.	Gintaras Staučė	61	00	goal	1992-2004	April 30, 2003 to March 30, 2005 (57 to 61 games)
10.	Arvydas Novikovas	58	08th	attack	2010–
11.	Edgaras Jankauskas	56	10	attack	1991-2008
	Andrius Tereškinas	56	03	Defense	1991-2000
	Tomas Žvirgždauskas	56	00	Defense	1998-2011

Record goal scorers

Tomas Danilevičius has been a record scorer since November 17, 2007 when he was the only Lithuanian player to beat Antanas Lingis' pre-war record with his 13th goal in a 2-0 EM qualifier against Ukraine .

rank	Surname	Gates	Calls	Quota	Period
01.	Tomas Danilevičius	19th	71	0.27	1998-2012
02.	Antanas Lingis †	12	33	0.36	1928-1938
03.	Edgaras Jankauskas	10	56	0.18	1991-2008
04th	Virginijus Baltušnikas	09	42	0.21	1990-1998
	Fedor Černych	09	55	0.16	2012–
06th	Jaroslavas Citavičius †	08th	24	0.33	1926-1933
	Valdas Ivanauskas	08th	028	0.29	1992-2000
	Darius Maciulevičius	08th	38	0.21	1991-2005
	Arvydas Novikovas	08th	58	0.14	2010–
	Robertas Poškus	08th	48	0.17	1999-2011
11.	Artūras Fomenka	07th	23	0.30	1996-2003
	Igoris Morinas	07th	51	0.14	1997-2007
	Tomas Ražanauskas	07th	41	0.17	1995-2011

Sources: Lithuania - Record International Players, PLAYERS for Lithuania

Other well-known (former) players

• Dmitrijus Guščinas (* 1975), former striker for VfL Osnabrück in the 2nd Bundesliga
• Arminas Narbekovas (* 1965), former midfielder of FK Austria Wien

Games against German-speaking national soccer teams

→ Main article : List of the national matches of the Lithuanian national football team

(Results always from a Lithuanian point of view)

• So far, there have been two games against a German national soccer team . Both took place as part of qualification for the 2004 European Football Championship .

1. September 7, 2002 in Kaunas 0-2
2. March 29, 2003 in Nuremberg 1: 1

• There have been three games against Switzerland so far:

1. 25 May 1924 in Paris, 0: 9 (Olympic finals)
2. November 15, 2014 in St. Gallen 0: 4 (European Championship qualification)
3. June 14, 2015 in Vilnius 1: 2 (EM 2016 qualification)

• There have been six games against Liechtenstein so far:

1. October 9, 1996 in Vilnius 2-1 (World Cup qualification)
2. April 30, 1997 in Eschen 2-0 (World Cup qualification)
3. June 3, 2011 in Vaduz 0-2 (European Championship qualification)
4. September 2, 2011 in Kaunas 0-0 (European Championship qualification)
5. October 12, 2012 in Vaduz 2-0 (World Cup qualification)
6. September 10, 2013 in Vilnius 2-0 (World Cup qualification)

• There have been three games against Austria so far:

1. April 14, 1992 in Vienna 0: 4
2. 10 September 2008 in Marijampole 2-0 (World Cup qualification)
3. October 10, 2009 in Innsbruck 1: 2 (World Cup qualification)

opponent	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.
Germany	2	0	1	1	1: 3	-2
Switzerland	3	0	0	3	1:15	-14
Liechtenstein	6th	4th	1	1	8: 3	+5
Austria	3	1	0	2	3: 6	-3

Web links

Commons : Lithuanian national soccer team  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Association's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ EM 2016: Pinter takes over the helm in Hungary, Pankratjevas in Lithuania. em2016-frankreich.net, January 3, 2014. Accessed January 3, 2014 . 
3. ↑ In addition, four games for the USSR team
4. ↑ Almantas Lauzadis, Roberto Mamrud: Appearances for Lithuania National Team ( English ) rsssf.com. January 16, 2020. Accessed April 22, 2020.
5. ↑ Lithuania national football team individual records and stats ( English ) eu-football.info. Retrieved April 22, 2020.