III Lyga


Lithuanian Football Federation's III league, LFF II lyga is the fourth tier Lithuanian football championship.

LFF III Lyga
CountryLithuania
Divisions5 County Zones (2019)
Number of teams38 (2019)
Level on pyramid4
Promotion toII Lyga
Relegation toSunday Football League
Current champions(2019):
FK Medžiai Vilnius
Kražantė B
FK Kėdainiai
FK Sakuona-Rūgpienių kaimas
Prienai-Birštonas

Members

The league consists of leagues organized by County Football Federations in each of the 10 Counties of Lithuania. Due to low participant numbers some counties do not run III lyga competitions.

  • Vilniaus Region Football Association
  • Kaunas County Football Federation
  • Šiauliai County Football Federation
  • Klaipėda County Football Federation
  • Panevėžys County Football Federation
  • Alytus County Football Federation
  • Utena County Football Federation
  • Marijampolė County Football Federation
  • Telšiai County Football Federation
  • Tauragė County Football Federation

Current Season

In 2019 only 6 federations organized III lyga competitions, two of them ran a combined league.

Vilnius III lyga[1] Kaunas & Marijampolė III lyga Klaipėda III lyga[2] Šiauliai III lyga[3] Alytus III lyga[4]
  • A komanda
  • AFK
  • Aktas
  • FK Elektrėnų Versmė
  • FK Medžiai
  • FKK Spartakas
  • Granitas
  • Kaišiadorys-Baltai
  • Navigatoriai
  • Ozas
  • SK Nemenčinė-Hegvita
  • VJFK Trakai
  • Šturmas Kaunas
  • Lietava Jonava
  • FK Tauras Kaunas
  • FK Kėdainiai
  • SMK Sparta Šakiai
  • FK Kazlų Rūda
  • EMD Statyba-Sendvaris
  • FK Granata-Jakai
  • Klaipėdos FM
  • Sakuona-Rūgpienių kaimas
  • Sarema
  • Sparta-Newlink.lt
  • „Adiada“
  • „Kruoja-Kupsc“
  • FC „Saulininkas“
  • FK „Akmenė“-SC
  • FK „Akmenės Cementas B-Juventa 99“
  • FK „Fanai“
  • FK „Kražantė B“
  • FK „Savanoris“
  • FK „Venta“
  • Ginkūnų „Šauliai-Dakaras“
  • Dainava Veisiejai
  • Prienai-Birštonas
  • FK Simnas
  • FK Mairas Alytus

County Leagues

Vilnius Region

Vilnius region league is by far the largest and most competitive. There were three more lower divisions competing in the region in 2019.

2019 season final standings:

# Team Played Win Draw Lose Goals+ Goals- G.diff Points
1.FK Medžiai Vilnius2214534328+1547
2.FK Elektrėnų Versmė2213726834+3446
3.FK Navigatoriai Vilnius2212466638+2840
4.FK Granitas Vilnius2212466232+3040
5.AFK2212464934+1540
6.FKK Spartakas Ukmergė2212284225+1738
7.VJFK Trakai2283114449-527
8.FK Aktas Vilnius2282123854-1626
9.A komanda2282124259-1726
10.FK Ozas Vilnius2274115055-525
11.FC Kaišiadorys-Baltai2243152959-3015
12.SK Nemenčinė-Hegvita2220202995-666

Kaunas County

Having had abundant teams in the county in the past, in 2019 Kaunas struggled to pull enough teams together to run a league. A solution was found to run a combined league with Marijampole County.

2019 season final standings:

# Team Played Win Draw Lose Goals+ Goals- G.diff Points
1.FK Kėdainiai108023827+1124
2.FK Kazlų Rūda107123921+1822
3.Vikingai aka Lietava105142428-416
4.FK Tauras-Primaline105052631-615
5.FK Šturmas103162526-110
6.SMK Sparta-Nadruvis100191938-191

Klaipėda County

2019 season final standings:

# Team Played Win Draw Lose Goals+ Goals- G.diff Points
1FK Sakuona-Rūgpienių kaimas15141010226+7643
2FK Sarema Klaipėda1511135332+2134
3Klaipėdos FM158074352-924
4FK Granata-Jakai156093946-718
5EDM Statyba-Sendvaris1550103469-3515
6FK Sparta-Newlink.lt1500151460-460

Šiauliai County

There was good turnout in 2019 in Šiauliai County with 10 teams participating. The golden match was required to decide the league winner.

2019 season final standings:

# Team Played Win Draw Lose Goals+ Goals- G.diff Points
1.Kražantė B1813325324+2942*
2.Akmenės Cementas B-Juventa-991813326119+4242
3.SK Saulininkas Šiauliai1812426026+3440
4.FK Venta Kuršėnai1810353521+1433
5.Adiada Šiauliai187473435-125
6.FK Fanai Šiauliai1880103840-224
7.FK Akmenė-SC187293435-123
8.Ginkūnų Šauliai-Dakaras1871103853-1522
9.FK Kruoja-Kupsc1812151765-485
10.FK Savanoris Šiauliai1802161163-522

Alytus County

A bare minimum of 4 teams participated in 2019 season, allowing to extend Alytus County III league competition run for 10 years without a break.

2019 season final standings:

# Team Played Win Draw Lose Goals+ Goals- G.diff Points
1Prienai-Birštonas6321209+1111
2FK Simnas6312714-710
3FK Mairas Alytus62131310+37
4FK Dainava Veisiejai6042512-74

Marijampolė County

Due to low participant numbers in 2019 it was decided to run a combined league with Kaunas County. The county ran III league competitions regularly with an exception of 2017. See Kaunas County

Panevėžys County

For the second year in a row there were not sufficient team numbers to run a league in 2019. The county ran III league competitions regularly until then.

Utena County

For the second year in a row there were not sufficient team numbers to run a league in 2019. The county ran III league competitions only twice in the last 6 years.

Tauragė County

The last III lyga competition ran in Tauragė County was 2006.

Telšiai County

Telšiai County, the country's smallest, has never run III league competition.

References

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