2025 A Lyga

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A Lyga
Season2025
Dates28 February 2025 – 8 November 2025
Champions Kauno Žalgiris (1st title)
Relegated Dainava
Champions League Kauno Žalgiris
Conference League Hegelmann
Panevėžys
Žalgiris
Matches180
Goals479 (2.66 per match)
Top goalscorer Eligijus Jankauskas (18 goals)
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2026 →

The 2025 A Lyga, for sponsorship reasons also called TOPsport A Lyga, was the 36th season of the A Lyga, the top-tier football league of Lithuania. The season began on 28 February 2025 and ended on 8 November 2025. [1] [2]

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Teams

The league consisted of ten teams; the top nine teams from the previous season, and one team promoted from the LFF I Lyga. Žalgiris entered the season as defending champions.

The promoted team was the 2024 LFF I Lyga champions Riteriai (returning to the A Lyga after a single-season absence). They replaced the 2024 A Lyga bottom-placed team TransINVEST (relegated from the A Lyga after a single season). [3]

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Locations of the 2025 A Lyga teams
2025 A Lyga competitors
ClubLocationStadiumSurfaceCapacitySeasons
in A Lyga		 Position
in 2024
Banga Gargždai Gargždai Stadium Artificial2,216125th
DFK Dainava Alytus Alytus Stadium Natural3,726144th
Marijampolė Marijampolė Football Indoor Arena Artificial2,660
Džiugas Telšiai Telšiai Central Stadium Natural2,06956th
?Artificial?
Hegelmann Kaunas Raudondvaris StadiumArtificial49052nd
Kauno Žalgiris Kaunas Darius and Girėnas Stadium Hybrid15,026113rd
Akademija VDU StadiumArtificial1,000
Panevėžys Panevėžys Aukštaitija Stadium Natural6,60078th
FA Panevėžys stadiumArtificial660
FK Riteriai Vilnius LFF Stadium Artificial5,067111st in I Lyga
FA Šiauliai Šiauliai Savivaldybė Stadium Natural3,01747th
Gytariai StadiumArtificial500
Sportima Arena Artificial3,157
Sūduva Marijampolė Marijampolė Football Arena Natural6,523239th
Marijampolė Football Indoor Arena Artificial2,660
Žalgiris Vilnius LFF Stadium Artificial5,067241st
Sportima Arena Artificial3,157

Managers

TeamCoachAppointedLicence
FK Banga Flag of Portugal (official).svg David Afonso 53 months agoUEFA Pro
DFK Dainava Flag of Turkmenistan.svg Mergen Orazov 4 months agoUEFA Pro
FC Džiugas Flag of Lithuania.svg Andrius Lipskis 22 months agoUEFA A
FC Hegelmann Flag of Lithuania.svg Andrius Skerla 58 months agoUEFA Pro
FK Kauno Žalgiris Flag of Lithuania.svg Eivinas Černiauskas 11 months agoUEFA Pro
FK Panevėžys Flag of Germany.svg Roland Vrabec 11 months agoUEFA Pro
FK Riteriai Flag of Cyprus.svg Nicolas Vitorović 9 months agoUEFA Pro
FA Šiauliai Flag of Latvia.svg Dainis Kazakevičs 11 months agoUEFA Pro
FK Sūduva Flag of Lithuania.svg Donatas Vencevičius 11 months agoUEFA Pro
FK Žalgiris Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Vladimir Cheburin 58 months agoUEFA Pro

League table

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification or relegation
1 Kauno Žalgiris (C)3622956726+4175Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2 Hegelmann 36214115643+1367Qualification for the Conference League first qualifying round
3 Žalgiris 36171185441+1362
4 Sūduva 36151474836+1259
5 Šiauliai 361410125953+652
6 Panevėžys 36147155649+749Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round [a]
7 Džiugas 36137163745−846
8 Banga 36119163836+242
9 Riteriai (Q)3668223774−3726Qualification for the A Lyga play-off
10 Dainava (R)3639242776−4918Relegation to the 2026 I Lyga
Source: A Lyga, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Play-off (for champion only) 3) Head-to-head points; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Head-to-head goals scored; 6) Head-to-head matches won; 7) Goal difference; 8) Goals scored; 9) Matches won; 10) Fairplay ranking; 11) Draw.
(C) Champions; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ↑ Panevėžys qualified for the Conference League second qualifying round as the 2025 Lithuanian Football Cup winners.

Fixtures and results

Home \ Away BAN DAI DZI HEG KAU PAN RIT SIA SUD ZAL BAN DAI DZI HEG KAU PAN RIT SIA SUD ZAL
Banga 2–10–12–00–21–11–31–20–12–06–00–10–10–02–22–01–00–10–2
Dainava 2–10–22–21–31–31–11–20–30–10–50–20–20–10–31–10–32–21–1
Džiugas 0–12–00–20–11–12–10–11–11–10–01–10–11–21–44–11–30–01–2
Hegelmann 2–03–21–01–22–12–11–00–22–10–00–14–11–13–13–05–22–12–2
Kauno Žalgiris 0–14–01–23–13–03–13–00–03–00–03–02–12–13–26–13–11–11–2
Panevėžys 1–12–00–13–00–23–01–32–02–41–03–10–10–11–00–12–01–23–1
Riteriai 1–20–20–12–40–03–11–03–43–32–22–10–22–01–51–30–20–00–2
Šiauliai 3–02–25–00–32–32–12–22–22–01–33–12–20–12–23–32–12–12–2
Sūduva 1–01–01–04–00–00–04–11–12–22–12–12–32–11–01–10–02–21–3
Žalgiris 1–11–12–10–10–02–32–00–03–01–01–12–03–11–22–12–11–01–0
Source: A Lyga, Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

A Lyga play-off

The ninth-placed team (Riteriai) will face the second-placed team of the 2025 LFF I Lyga (Neptūnas) in a two-legged play-off for the final place in the 2026 A Lyga.

First leg

15 November 2025 Neptūnas 0–0 Riteriai Klaipėda
12:00 BST Report Stadium: Klaipėdos dirbtinės dangos aikštė
Referee: Manfredas Lukjančukas

Second leg

22 November 2025 Riteriai v Neptūnas Vilnius
12:00 BSTStadium: LFF Stadium

Statistics

Top scorers

As of 3 November 2025
RankPlayerClubGoals
1 Flag of Lithuania.svg Eligijus Jankauskas Šiauliai 15
2 Flag of Cameroon.svg Abdel Kader Njoya Hegelmann 12
Flag of Serbia.svg Milan Đokić Šiauliai
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Amine Benchaib Kauno Žalgiris
Flag of Romania.svg Liviu Antal Žalgiris
6 Flag of Serbia.svg Dejan Georgijević Kauno Žalgiris 11
7 Flag of Ukraine.svg Oleksandr Kurcev Džiugas 10
8 Flag of Lithuania.svg Nauris Petkevičius Sūduva 8
9 Flag of Lithuania.svg Meinardas Mikulėnas Riteriai 7
10 Flag of Poland.svg Krystian Okoniewski Dainava 6

See also

References

  1. ↑ "A Lyga - Lietuvos Futbolas". lietuvosfutbolas.lt (in Lithuanian).
  2. ↑ "2025 metų A lygos klubų tarpsezonio sudėtys". alyga.lt (in Lithuanian).
  3. ↑ "TransINVEST fail to avoid relegation in an end-of-season thriller". 10 November 2024. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
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