Baltic Cup (football)

Baltic Cup (football)

Region	Baltic (UEFA)
Current champions	Lithuania
2012 Baltic Cup

The Baltic Cup (Estonian: Balti turniir, Latvian: Baltijas kauss, Lithuanian: Baltijos taurė) is a biennial football competition contested between national teams from the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania every two years. During the Soviet era, Belarus also participated in some of the competitions. The tournament was announced annual before the 2008 competition.

List of winners

Year	Champions	Second	Third
1928	Latvia	Estonia	Lithuania
1929	Estonia	Latvia	Lithuania
1930	Lithuania	Latvia	Estonia
1931	Estonia	Latvia	Lithuania
1932	Latvia	Lithuania	Estonia
1933	Latvia	Lithuania	Estonia
1934	Not organised due to disagreements over the 1933 competition.
1935	Lithuania	Latvia	Estonia
1936	Latvia	Estonia	Lithuania
1937	Latvia	Estonia	Lithuania
1938	Estonia	Latvia	Lithuania
1939	Not organised due to strained sports-relations between Latvia and Lithuania after a controversial basketball game.
1940–1990	The tournament is held since lost relevance in view of the voluntary accession of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia into the Soviet Union
1991	Lithuania	Latvia	Estonia
1992	Lithuania	Latvia	Estonia
1993	Latvia	Estonia	Lithuania
1994	Lithuania	Latvia	Estonia
1995	Latvia	Lithuania	Estonia
1996	Lithuania	Estonia	Latvia
1997	Lithuania	Latvia	Estonia
1998	Lithuania	Latvia	Estonia
1999–2000	Not organised.
2001	Latvia	Lithuania	Estonia
2002	Not organised.
2003	Latvia	Lithuania	Estonia
2004	Not organised.
2005	Lithuania	Latvia	Estonia did not participate due to scheduling conflicts.
2006–2007	Not organised.
2008	Latvia	Lithuania	Estonia
2009	Not organised.
2010	Lithuania	Latvia	Estonia

Performances

Country	1 !	2 !	3 !	Years Won
Latvia	10	12	1	1928, 1932, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1993, 1995, 2001, 2003, 2008
Lithuania	10	6	7	1930, 1935, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2005, 2010
Estonia	3	5	14	1929, 1931, 1938

Soviet-time results

The cup was also played unofficially from 1940-1976 during Soviet occupation. Belarus also participated in the tournament in some years.

1940

#	land	w - t - l	pnt	f-a	Est	Ltu
1	Latvia	1 - 1 - 0	3	3-2	2-2	1-0
2	Estonia	0 - 2 - 0	2	3-3		1-1
3	Lithuania	0 - 1 - 1	1	1-2

1948

#	land	w - t - l	pnt	f-a	Est	Lat
1	Lithuania	2 - 0 - 0	4	3-1	2-1	1-0
2	Estonia	0 - 1 - 1	1	2-3		1-1
3	Latvia	0 - 1 - 1	1	1-2

1949

#	land	w - t - l	pnt	f-a	Lat	Est
1	Lithuania	2 - 0 - 0	4	3-1	1-0	2-1
2	Latvia	1 - 0 - 1	2	3-3		2-1
3	Estonia	0 - 0 - 2	0	2-4

1950

#	land	w - t - l	pnt	f-a	Lat	Est
1	Lithuania	1 - 1 - 0	3	9-4	2-2	7-2
2	Latvia	1 - 1 - 0	3	6-3		4-1
3	Estonia	0 - 0 - 2	0	3-11

1952

#	land	w - t - l	pnt	f-a	Lat	Ltu
1	Estonia	1 - 0 - 1	2	5-3	0-3	5-0
2	Latvia	1 - 0 - 1	2	4-3		1-3
3	Lithuania	1 - 0 - 1	2	3-6

1954

#	land	w - t - l	pnt	f-a	Ltu	Blr	Est
1	Latvia	2 - 1 - 0	5	5-1	2-0	0-0	3-1
2	Lithuania	1 - 1 - 1	3	5-3		0-0	5-1
3	Belarus	0 - 3 - 0	3	0-0			0-0
4	Estonia	0 - 1 - 2	1	2-8

1957

#	land	w - t - l	pnt	f-a	Ltu	Blr	Est
1	Latvia	2 - 1 - 0	5	3-1	0-0	2-1	1-0
2	Lithuania	1 - 2 - 0	4	5-1		1-1	4-0
3	Belarus	1 - 1 - 1	3	4-3			2-0
4	Estonia	0 - 0 - 3	0	0-7

1958

#	land	w - t - l	pnt	f-a	Ltu	Est
1	Latvia	2 - 0 - 0	4	8-0	2-0	6-0
2	Lithuania	0 - 1 - 1	1	1-3		1-1
3	Estonia	0 - 1 - 1	1	1-7

1959

#	land	w - t - l	pnt	f-a	Ltu	Est
1	Latvia	1 - 1 - 0	3	5-3	3-1	2-2
2	Lithuania	1 - 0 - 1	2	4-4		3-1
3	Estonia	0 - 1 - 1	1	3-5

1960

#	land	w - t - l	pnt	f-a	Ltu	Lat
1	Estonia	0 - 2 - 0	2	4-4	3-3	1-1
1	Lithuania	0 - 2 - 0	2	3-3		0-0
1	Latvia	0 - 2 - 0	2	1-1

1961

#	land	w - t - l	pnt	f-a	Ltu	Est
1	Latvia	2 - 0 - 0	4	7-1	3-1	4-0
2	Lithuania	1 - 0 - 1	2	5-4		4-1
3	Estonia	0 - 0 - 2	0	1-8

1962

#	land	w - t - l	pnt	f-a	Est	Ltu
1	Latvia	1 - 1 - 0	4	2-0	0-0	2-0
2	Estonia	0 - 2 - 0	2	0-0		0-0
3	Lithuania	0 - 0 - 2	0	0-2

1969

#	land	w - t - l	pnt	f-a	Lat	Ltu
1	Estonia (A)	2 - 0 - 0	4	7-1	2-0	5-1
2	Latvia (B)	1 - 0 - 1	2	2-3		2-1
3	Lithuania (B)	0 - 0 - 2	0	2-7

1970

#	land	w - t - l	pnt	f-a	Est	Lat
1	Lithuania (B)	2 - 0 - 0	4	4-1	1-0	3-1
2	Estonia (A)	1 - 0 - 1	2	2-2		2-1
3	Latvia (B)	0 - 0 - 2	0	2-5

1971

#	land	w - t - l	pnt	f-a	Est	Lat
1	Lithuania (B)	1 - 1 - 0	3	4-2	0-0	4-2
2	Estonia (A)	1 - 1 - 0	3	4-3		4-3
3	Latvia (B)	0 - 0 - 2	0	5-8

1972

#	land	w - t - l	pnt	f-a	Est	Ltu
1	Estonia (A)	1 - 1 - 0	3	5-1	0-0	5-1
2	Latvia (B)	1 - 1 - 0	3	1-0		1-0
3	Lithuania (B)	0 - 0 - 2	0	1-6

1973

Round	Winner	Score	Opponent
SF	Estonia (A)	3-1	Belarus (B)
SF	Latvia (B)	4-2	Lithuania (B)
TF	Latvia (B)	4-1	Lithuania (B)
F	Estonia (A)	4-1	Latvia (B)

1974

Round	Winner	Score	Opponent
SF	Latvia (B)	2-0	Belarus (B)
SF	Estonia (A)	3-2	Lithuania (B)
TF	Lithuania (B)	2-1	Belarus (B)
F	Latvia (B)	3-1	Estonia (A)

1975

Round	Winner	Score	Opponent
SF	Lithuania (B)	2-0	Belarus (B)
SF	Latvia (B)	1-1 pk (5-3)	Estonia (A)
TF	Belarus (B)	5-1	Estonia (A)
F	Lithuania (B)	2-0	Latvia (B)

1976

Round	Winner	Score	Opponent
SF	Latvia (B)	0-0 pk (4-3)	Lithuania (B)
SF	Estonia (A)	3-1	Belarus (B)
TF	Lithuania (B)	2-1	Belarus (B)
F	Latvia (B)	1-1 pk (5-4)	Estonia (A)

External links

• RSSSF: Baltic Cup overview