FBK Kaunas

FBK Kaunas

Full name	Football Baseball Club
Nickname(s)	Geltonai-Žali (yellow-greens)
Founded	1960
Ground	S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium (Capacity: 8500)
Chairman	Gintaras Ugianskis
Manager	Darius Gvildys
League	A Lyga
2011	A Lyga, 10th
Home colours Away colours

Kauno futbolo beisbolo klubas is a Lithuanian football club from the city of Kaunas, that currently plays in the A Lyga, the top level of Lithuanian football.

History

Originally the team was founded in 1960 as Banga Kaunas. After Lithuania regained its independence the club was restructured. In 1993 Banga Kaunas was renamed Žalgiris Kaunas and then FBK Kaunas. The baseball section added (which later separated and became BK Lituanica Kaunas), hence the original name in Lithuanian is Kauno futbolo beisbolo klubas. FBK Kaunas are sponsored by Ūkio bankas, a bank which has Vladimir Romanov as its principal shareholder. In October 2005 Mr Romanov became the majority shareholder of Scottish Premier League side, Heart of Midlothian. Romanov has since used Kaunas as a feeder club for Hearts by allowing the SPL side to loan many players, such as Edgaras Jankauskas, Bruno Aguiar, Andrius Velička, Nerijus Barasa, Marius Žaliūkas and Roman Bednář, the latter signing a permanent deal for Hearts on 31 August 2006. Kaunas have played Celtic, Rangers and Liverpool in Champions League qualifying stages. On 5 August 2008, FBK Kaunas defeated Rangers, 2-1, to advance to the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League for the first time. The game was won in dramatic circumstances as Kaunas had to come from behind and finally took the lead just four minutes from time. Linas Pilibaitis was the scorer.

2009 season

After finishing second in 2008 A Lyga championship the club's president announced that the club were being demoted from the A Lyga in favour of LFF I Lyga, the 2nd tier of Lithuanian football system, but as conflict with LFF intensified, FBK Kaunas was relegated to LFF II lyga (consisting of amateur teams).

FBK Kaunas won II lyga championship in their first year in that division. Despite relegation FBK Kaunas also participated in the new UEFA Europe League as a vice-champ of Lithuania. but did not advance past FK Sevojno. Despite drawing both games FBK Kaunas lost on away goals.

The 2009-2010 LFF Cup campaign ended for FBK Kaunas in the semi-final stage thus falling short of the target to qualify for UEFA Europa League by winning the LFF Cup.

Players

Current squad

As of August 2011 Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Laurynas Vertelis 2 MF Andrius Sanajevas 3 DF Mantas Fridrikas 4 MF Paulius Daukša 5 MF Audrius Račkus 6 MF Darius Šinkūnas 7 DF Marius Miškinis 8 FW Andrius Bartkus 9 FW Edvinas Petkus 10 FW Deividas Pašukevičius 11 FW Gvidas Juška 12 GK Lukas Žukauskas 13 MF Marius Šoblinskas

No. Position Player 14 MF Lukas Sendžikas 15 MF Gintaras Griškevičius 16 FW Simonas Paulius 17 FW Audrius Juozaitis 18 MF Donatas Nakrošius 19 FW Ramūnas Mačežinskas 20 FW Tomas Snapkauskas 22 GK Džiugas Bartkus 23 DF Vytautas Birškys 24 MF Tomas Miklinevičius 25 MF Aurimas Raginis 46 DF Craig Thomson (On loan from Hearts)

Personal

Manager: Eugenijus Riabovas Assistant Coach: Darius Gvildys Goalkeeper Coach: Virginijus Garlauskas

Honours

Domestic

• A Lyga

• Winners (10): 1986, 1989, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007
• Runners-up (2): 2005, 2008

• Lithuanian Cup

• Winners (4): 2001, 2004, 2005, 2008
• Runners-up (2): 1998, 1999

• Lithuanian Super Cup

• Winners (3): 2002, 2004, 2006
• Runners-up (2): 2003, 2005

Continental

• Baltic League

• Winners (1): 2008

Season-by-season

Lithuania

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	Goals	P	Top Scorer	Cup	Supercup	Baltic League	Europe
1991	1st	3	14	9	4	1	24-10	22			Not contested	Baltic League not founded until 2007
1991/92	1st	4	25	11	10	4	26-15	32
1992/93	1st	5	27	11	5	11	36-29	27
1993-94	1st	5	22	12	4	6	31-18	28
1994-95	1st	6	22	8	8	6	25-22	24		1/4	dnq
1995-96	1st	4	28	14	3	11	33-15	31		1/4	Not contested
1996-97	1st	4	28	15	5	11	48-35	41		1/2	dnq		IC	Group stage
1997-98	1st	5	30	18	4	8	63-19	58		Final	Not contested		IC	Group stage
1998-99	1st	3	23	18	3	2	57-14	57		Final
1999	1st	1	18	12	5	1	36-10	41		1/4			UC	1st Qualifying round
2000	1st	1	36	26	8	2	115-24	86	Velička	1/2			CL	2nd qualifying round
2001	1st	1	36	26	7	3	76-13	85	Pocius	Winner			CL	1st qualifying round
2002	1st	1	32	24	6	2	85-20	78	Šlekys	1/4	Winner		CL	1st qualifying round
2003	1st	1	28	21	5	2	64-20	68		1/2	Runner up		CL	2nd qualifying round
2004	1st	1	28	20	5	3	49-19	65		Winner	Winner		CL	2nd qualifying round
2005	1st	2	36	26	4	6	89-25	82		Winner	Runner up		CL	2nd qualifying round
2006	1st	1	36	28	4	4	85-30	88	Velička / Beniušis	1/4	Winner		UC	2nd qualifying round
2007	1st	1	36	25	8	3	91-26	83	Grigalevičius	Not contested	Not contested	1/2	CL	1st qualifying round
2008	1st	2	28	16	7	5	51-17	55	Ledesma	Winner		Winner	CL / UC	3rd qualifying round / 1st round
2009	3rd	1	20	19	0	1	110-10	57	Macežinskas	1/2	dnq	dnq	EL	2nd qualifying round
2010	2nd	1	27	27	0	0	108-16	81	Pehlić	1/2	dnq
2011	1st	10	33	8	8	17	41-53	26		1/4	dnq	dnq

European cup history

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate	Scored
1996-97	Intertoto cup	Group stage	Lillestrøm SK	1-4			Kirilovas
			FC Nantes		1-3		Žalys
			Sligo Rovers	1-0			Miknevičius
			Heerenveen		1-3		Gvildys
1997-98	Intertoto cup	Group stage	Samsunspor	0-1
			Leiftur		3-2		Buitkus Trakys Bezykornovas
			Hamburger SV	1-2			Bezykornovas
			Odense		2-2		Bezykornovas Trakys
1999-00	UEFA cup	Qual. round	Maccabi Tel Aviv	2-1	1-3	3-4	Pacevičius-2 Papečkys
2000-01	UEFA Champions League	1st QR	NK Brotnjo	4-0	0-3	4-3	Kšanavičius-2 Žuta Puotkalis
		2nd QR	Rangers FC	0-0	1-4	1-4	Žuta
2001-02	UEFA Champions League	1st QR	Sloga Jugomagnat	1-1	0-0	1-1	Papečkys
2002-03	UEFA Champions League	1st QR	Dinamo Tirana	2-3	0-0	2-3	Velička-2
2003-04	UEFA Champions League	1st QR	Havnar Bóltfelag	4-1	1-0	5-1	Beniušis-2 , Kančelskis, Opic
		2nd QR	Celtic	0-4	0-1	0-5
2004-05	UEFA Champions League	1st QR	Sliema Wanderers	4-1	2-0	6-1	Sanajevas-2, Žutautas, Gedgaudas, Mikoliūnas, Žaliūkas
		2nd QR	Djurgårdens	0-2	0-0	0-2
2005-06	UEFA Champions League	1st QR	Havnar Bóltfelag	4-0	4-2	8-2	Velička-3, Zelmikas-2, Rimkevičius-2, Klimek
		2nd QR	Liverpool	1-3	0-2	1-5	Barevičius
2006-07	UEFA cup	1st QR	Portadown	1-0	3-1	4-1	Manchkava, Pehlić, Velička, Ivaškevičius
		2nd QR	Randers	1-0	1-3	2-3	Juška, Velička
2007-08	UEFA Champions League	1st QR	Zeta	3-2	1-3	4-5	Kvaratskhelia-2, Beniušis, Kšanavičius
2008-09	UEFA Champions League	1st QR	Santa Coloma	3-1	4-1	7-2	Pilibaitis-4, Ledesma-2, Zelmikas
		2nd QR	Rangers FC	2-1	0-0	2-1	Radžius, Pilibaitis
		3rd QR	Aalborg	0-2	0-2	0-4
	UEFA Cup	1st round	Sampdoria	1-2	0-5	1-7	Zelmikas
2009-10	UEFA Europa League	2nd QR	Sevojno	1-1	0-0	1-1	Fridrikas

Coaches

• Povilas Grigonis (1986)
• Algirdas Gruzdas (1989)
• Šenderis Giršovičius (1995–96), (1998–00)
• Sergei Borovsky (July 2003–April 04)
• Šenderis Giršovičius (April 2004–Sept 04)
• Valdas Ivanauskas (Sept 2004–April 05)
• Eugenijus Riabovas (April 2005–May 05)
• Aleksandr Piskariov (May 2005–July 05)
• Igoris Pankratjevas (July 2005–Nov 05)
• Eduard Malofeyev (Dec 2005–June 06)
• Eugenijus Riabovas (June 2006–Feb 07)

• Vladimir Kurnev (Feb 2007–April 07)
• Angel Chervenkov (April 2007–June 07)
• Artūras Ramoška (June 2007–Sept 07)
• Anton Joore (Aug 2007–Sept 07)
• Andrei Zygmantovich (Sept 2007–July 08)
• Jose Couceiro (July 2008–Oct 08)
• Andrei Zygmantovich (Nov 2008–Dec 08)
• Eugenijus Riabovas (Dec 2008–April 09)
• Saulius Vertelis (April 2009–Sept 10)
• Darius Gvildys (Sept 2010–March 11)
• Eugenijus Riabovas (March 2011–)

External links

• Official website (Lithuanian)
• Supporters' site (Lithuanian)
• Chaos in Kaunas: The Decline and Fall of the Romanov Empire