LFLS Kaunas

LFLS Kaunas, or Lietuvos Fizinio Lavinimosi Sąjunga Kaunas, was a Lithuanian football club based in Kaunas in the years between World War I and World War II during Lithuania's first period of modern independence. The club was founded in 1919 and was a multicultural squad, which featured four Lithuanians, four Germans, and one player each of English, Jewish, and Serbian descent. It represented Lietuvos fizinio lavinimosi sąjunga (English: Lithuanian physical education union). The club installed the first football field and built the first stadium in Kaunas, published the first Lithuanian sports newspaper ("Lietuvos Sportas", since 1922) and established the Lithuanian football league in 1924. LFLS second team was the only Lithuanian football club's second team which played in the top division during interbellum. It even won third place in 1922.

LFLS Kaunas
Full nameLietuvos fizinio lavinimosi sąjunga
Nickname(s)kanarėlės (canaries)
FoundedSeptember 15, 1920
Dissolved1945

LFLS Kaunas won four titles in the A Lyga during the interwar period, including the league's first two championships. The club won another league title in 1942, but was dissolved in 1945. It was resurrected for a short time in 1997, but soon it was dissolved again.

International games

Opponent Result Location Date
Latvia YMCA Riga0:4Kaunas1922-06-08
Germany Ostas Eydtkuhnen1:3Kaunas1922
Latvia LSB Riga1:0Riga1922
Estonia Tallinn JK1:7Kaunas1922
Latvia Riga FK1:8Riga1929
Germany VFB2:4Kaunas1929
Spain Europa Barcelona2:4Kaunas1930
Austria Wiener AC1:10Kaunas1931
Latvia Riga Vanderer7:0Kaunas1934
Austria FAC Wien1:1Lithuania1937
Estonia Tallinn JK6:4Tallinn1937
Estonia Sport Tallinn0:0Tallinn1937
Mandatory Palestine Hapoel Eretz Israel1:2Kaunas1937

Achievements

Sources

  • Algird Fugalewitsch, Eine vergleichende Darstellung der deutschen Sportvereine des Memelgebietes und den Sportvereinen der deutschen Minderheit in Litauen von 1918 bis 1945 (A Comparative Study of German Sport Associations of the Baltics and of the German Minority in Lithuania from 1918 to 1945), Master's Thesis for Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany (1995).
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