2012 A Lyga

The league changed its number of teams for the third time in a row, reducing it from twelve teams in 2011 to ten sides. As a consequence, the schedule expanded from 33 to 36 matches per team, which each team playing every other team four times in total, twice at home and twice away.

On 2 February 2012, the Lithuanian Football Federation announced the teams which had passed the licensing criteria for the 2012 season.^[2] Among them were the best eight teams of the 2011 season, eleventh-placed FK Atlantas from Klaipėda and 2011 First League champions FK REO Vilnius. Tenth-placed side FBK Kaunas were only granted a First League licence, while FK Mažeikiai and FC Klaipėda did not apply for a licence in any of the top two Lithuanian football leagues. In July 2012, LFF banned REO from registering new players due to the club's debts to referees.^[3] On 21 July 2012, REO failed to appear on the match against Ekranas, and the game was awarded 3–0 to Ekranas with REO receiving a fine of 6000 Lithuanian Litas.^[4] REO have withdrawn from the competition in August 2012, after they were unable to attract investors.^[5] Since they have played more than half of matches in the season, according to the LFF rulebook, those matches were considered valid and all REO's upcoming matches were awarded 3–0 to their opponents.^[6]

Stadiums and locations

Atlantas

Banga

Dainava

Ekranas

Kruoja

REO
Žalgiris

Šiauliai

Sūduva

Tauras

Location of teams in the 2012 A Lyga

More information Club, Location ...

Club	Location	Stadium	2011 season
Atlantas	Klaipėda	Žalgiris Stadium (Klaipėda)	11th
Banga	Gargždai	Gargždai Stadium	6th
Dainava	Alytus		8th
Ekranas	Panevėžys	Aukštaitija Stadium	1st
Kruoja	Pakruojis	Pakruojis Stadium	5th
REO	Vilnius		I Lyga, 1st
Sūduva	Marijampolė	Sūduva Stadium	3rd
Šiauliai	Šiauliai	Savivaldybė Stadium	4th
Tauras	Tauragė	Vytauto Stadium	7th
Žalgiris	Vilnius	LFF Stadium	2nd

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Including matches played on 29 October 2012^{[citation needed]}

More information Pos., Player ...

Pos.	Player	Club	Goals
1	Artūras Rimkevičius	Šiauliai	35
2	Rafael Ledesma	Sūduva	21
3	Arsenij Buinickij	Ekranas	17
	Calum Elliot	Žalgiris	16
5	Serhiy Zhyhalov	Kruoja	15
6	Kamil Bilinski	Žalgiris	12
7	Povilas Lukšys	Sūduva	11
8	Santiago Cesanelli	Šiauliai	10
	Tino Lagator	Atlantas	10
	Ramūnas Radavičius	Žalgiris	10
11	Igors Kozlovs	Šiauliai	9

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