Country | Lithuania |
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Divisions | 5 County Zones (2019) |
Number of teams | 38 (2019) |
Level on pyramid | 4 |
Promotion to | II Lyga |
Relegation to | Sunday Football League |
Current champions | (2019): FK Medžiai Vilnius Kražantė B FK Kėdainiai FK Sakuona-Rūgpienių kaimas Prienai-Birštonas |
Lithuanian Football Federation's III league, LFF II lyga is the fourth tier Lithuanian football championship.
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.
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] |
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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 |
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1. | FK Medžiai Vilnius | 22 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 43 | 28 | +15 | 47 |
2. | FK Elektrėnų Versmė | 22 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 68 | 34 | +34 | 46 |
3. | FK Navigatoriai Vilnius | 22 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 66 | 38 | +28 | 40 |
4. | FK Granitas Vilnius | 22 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 62 | 32 | +30 | 40 |
5. | AFK | 22 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 49 | 34 | +15 | 40 |
6. | FKK Spartakas Ukmergė | 22 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 42 | 25 | +17 | 38 |
7. | VJFK Trakai | 22 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 44 | 49 | -5 | 27 |
8. | FK Aktas Vilnius | 22 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 38 | 54 | -16 | 26 |
9. | A komanda | 22 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 42 | 59 | -17 | 26 |
10. | FK Ozas Vilnius | 22 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 50 | 55 | -5 | 25 |
11. | FC Kaišiadorys-Baltai | 22 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 29 | 59 | -30 | 15 |
12. | SK Nemenčinė-Hegvita | 22 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 29 | 95 | -66 | 6 |
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 |
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1. | FK Kėdainiai | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 38 | 27 | +11 | 24 |
2. | FK Kazlų Rūda | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 39 | 21 | +18 | 22 |
3. | Vikingai aka Lietava | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 24 | 28 | -4 | 16 |
4. | FK Tauras-Primaline | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 26 | 31 | -6 | 15 |
5. | FK Šturmas | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 25 | 26 | -1 | 10 |
6. | SMK Sparta-Nadruvis | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 19 | 38 | -19 | 1 |
2019 season final standings:
# | Team | Played | Win | Draw | Lose | Goals+ | Goals- | G.diff | Points |
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1 | FK Sakuona-Rūgpienių kaimas | 15 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 102 | 26 | +76 | 43 |
2 | FK Sarema Klaipėda | 15 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 53 | 32 | +21 | 34 |
3 | Klaipėdos FM | 15 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 43 | 52 | -9 | 24 |
4 | FK Granata-Jakai | 15 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 39 | 46 | -7 | 18 |
5 | EDM Statyba-Sendvaris | 15 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 34 | 69 | -35 | 15 |
6 | FK Sparta-Newlink.lt | 15 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 14 | 60 | -46 | 0 |
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 |
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1. | Kražantė B | 18 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 53 | 24 | +29 | 42* |
2. | Akmenės Cementas B-Juventa-99 | 18 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 61 | 19 | +42 | 42 |
3. | SK Saulininkas Šiauliai | 18 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 60 | 26 | +34 | 40 |
4. | FK Venta Kuršėnai | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 35 | 21 | +14 | 33 |
5. | Adiada Šiauliai | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 34 | 35 | -1 | 25 |
6. | FK Fanai Šiauliai | 18 | 8 | 0 | 10 | 38 | 40 | -2 | 24 |
7. | FK Akmenė-SC | 18 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 34 | 35 | -1 | 23 |
8. | Ginkūnų Šauliai-Dakaras | 18 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 38 | 53 | -15 | 22 |
9. | FK Kruoja-Kupsc | 18 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 17 | 65 | -48 | 5 |
10. | FK Savanoris Šiauliai | 18 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 63 | -52 | 2 |
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 |
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1 | Prienai-Birštonas | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 9 | +11 | 11 |
2 | FK Simnas | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 14 | -7 | 10 |
3 | FK Mairas Alytus | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 10 | +3 | 7 |
4 | FK Dainava Veisiejai | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 12 | -7 | 4 |
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
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.
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.
The last III lyga competition ran in Tauragė County was 2006.
Telšiai County, the country's smallest, has never run III league competition.
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