Lithuania national football team

Infobox National football team
Name = Lithuania
Badge = Lithuania_national_team.gif
FIFA Trigramme = LTU
Nickname =
Association = Lithuanian Football Federation
Confederation = UEFA (Europe)
Coach = flagicon|Portugal Jose Couceiro
Captain = Tomas Danilevičius
Most caps = Andrius Skerla (67)
Top scorer = Tomas Danilevičius (16)
Home Stadium = S.Darius and S.Girėnas Stadium
FIFA Rank = 37 |1st ranking date = August 1993
FIFA max = 37
FIFA max date = October 2008
FIFA min = 118
FIFA min date = September 2004

Elo Rank = 48
Elo max = 48
Elo max date =September 2008

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First game = Flagicon|Lithuania Lithuania 0 - 5 Estonia Flagicon|Estonia (Kaunas, Lithuania; 24 June, 1923)
Largest win = Flagicon|Lithuania Lithuania 7 - 0 Estonia Flagicon|Estonia (Riga, Latvia; 20 May, 1995)
Largest loss = Flagicon|Egypt|1922 Egypt 10 - 0 Lithuania Flagicon|Lithuania (Paris, France; 1 June, 1924)
no World Cup apps = none
Regional name = European Championship
no Regional cup apps = none
The national football team of Lithuania is controlled by the Lithuanian Football Federation. It played its first match in 1923. In 1940 Lithuania was annexed by the Soviet Union; the country proclaimed its renewed independence in 1990 and played their first match as a new nation against Georgia on 27 May of that year.

Recent History

In the 1990s, Lithuania established a respectable presence in World Cup and European Championship qualifiers: third place in their group in both Euro 96 and 1998 World Cup qualifiers. In the Euro 2004 qualifiers they were once again contenders for qualification and managed an away draw with Germany and a home win over Scotland - however a 1-0 defeat to Scotland in the final game ended their hopes. Although finishing 5th in their 2006 World Cup qualifying group, Lithuania were nevertheless competitive.

Lithuania drew with world champions Italy 1-1 in Naples in a Euro 2008 qualifying game on September 2, 2006, in the first competitive game that Italy played since the World Cup final.

On September 6, 2008, Lithuania defeated Romania 3-0 in a World Cup 2010 qualifier. The victory was regarded by many as "a historic win." [http://www.uefa.com/competitions/worldcup/news/kind=1/newsid=747204.html] It was followed by another successful performance 2-0 against Austria in Marijampolė.

World Cup record

*1930 - "Did not enter"
*1934 - "Did not qualify"
*1938 - "Did not qualify"
*1950 to 1990 - "Did not enter, occupied by the USSR"
*1994 to 2006 - "Did not qualify"

European Championship record

*1960 to 1992 - "Did not enter, occupied by the USSR"
*1996 to 2008 - "Did not qualify"

Current squad

The following players were called for the matches against Romania and Austria.

Recent call-ups

Top scorers

2010 FIFA World Cup qualification

2010 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Group 7
expanded = yes
fixtures = yes
tiebreakers =

Recent results

Famous players

*Valdas Ivanauskas
*Arminas Narbekovas
*Gintaras Staučė
*Aurelijus Skarbalius
*Edgaras Jankauskas - winner of UEFA Cup 2003 and Champions League 2004 with FC Porto
*Deividas Šemberas - winner of UEFA Cup 2005 with CSKA
*Eugenijus Riabovas

List of managers

External links

* [http://www.lff.lt/ Lithuanian Football Association] Official Site (Lithuanian)
* [http://www.futbolas.lt/en Lithuanian football news, videos, photos] Unofficial Site (English)
* [http://www2.omnitel.net/almis/ltuteamgam2330.html All Lithuanian Team Games 1923-1930]