III Lyga

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

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

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 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

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 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

Klaipėda County

2019 season final standings:

# Team Played Win Draw Lose Goals+ Goals- G.diff Points
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

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 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

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
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

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

  1. ^ "Sekmadienio futbolo lyga".
  2. ^ "KLFF III lyga - Lietuvos Futbolas".
  3. ^ "Šiauliu apskrities futbolo federacija".
  4. ^ "Registracija į 2019 m. LFF III lygos AAFF pirmenybes". Archived from the original on 2019-05-11. Retrieved 2019-11-04.