2018 LFF I Lyga

Season2018

I Lyga
Season	2018
Champions	Panevėžys
Promoted	Panevėžys
Relegated	Kupiškis
Matches played	182
Goals scored	658 (3.62 per match)
Top goalscorer	Evaldas Kugys (20 goals)^[1]
Biggest home win	Panevėžys 10–0 Koralas (8 September 2018)
Biggest away win	Koralas 0–12 Kupiškis (22 May 2018)
Highest scoring	Koralas 0–12 Kupiškis (22 May 2018)
Longest winning run	6 games Pakruojis Panevėžys Džiugas
Longest unbeaten run	15 games DFK Dainava
Longest winless run	13 games Koralas
Longest losing run	13 games Koralas
Highest attendance	1,630 DFK Dainava v Kupiškis (20 October 2018)
Lowest attendance	20 Koralas v Vilniaus Vytis (18 May 2018) Vilniaus Vytis v NFA (4 August 2018)
Total attendance	40,193
Average attendance	237
← 2017 2019 → All statistics correct as of 13 December 2018.

The 2018 LFF I Lyga was the 29th season of the I Lyga, the second tier association football league of Lithuania. The season began on 25 March 2018 and ended on 20 October 2018.^[2]

Changes from last season

Kaunas

Vilnius

Kaunas teams
NFA
Stumbras B

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Locations of the 2017 LFF I Lyga teams

Žalgiris B

Vilniaus Vytis

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Vilnius teams

A total of fifteen clubs were confirmed for the season, same as previous season, but only fourteen competed as Šilutė withdrew 4 days prior to the league's start after an uncompetitive performance in the 2018 Žemaitijos Taurė. Three of them were reserve teams of the A Lyga sides - one less than maximum allowed for the competitions and last season number.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Utenis were relegated from the 2017 A Lyga and replaced last year champions Palanga. Only the II Lyga South Zone winners NFA were automatically promoted from the lower tier as other eligible teams failed to receive licenses. Finally Kupiškis made their debut in the league after a special permission was given by the Lithuanian Football Federation to compete for a newly created team.^[6]^[7]^[4]

Relegated from 2017 A Lyga	Promoted from 2017 II Lyga	Debuting	Promoted to 2018 A Lyga	Relegated to 2018 II Lyga	Other
Utenis	NFA	Kupiškis	Palanga	Šilutė	Tauras – Ceased operations Utenis B – Disbanded

Stadiums, personnel and sponsorship

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Panevėžys (C, P)	26	18	4	4	77	26	+51	58	Promotion to A Lyga
2	DFK Dainava	26	17	6	3	59	22	+37	57	Qualification to Promotion play-offs
3	Banga	26	18	0	8	51	24	+27	54
4	Nevėžis	26	16	5	5	63	31	+32	53
5	Džiugas	26	14	3	9	49	34	+15	45
6	Vilniaus Vytis	26	13	5	8	67	44	+23	44
7	Pakruojis	26	13	3	10	44	44	0	42
8	Utenis	26	12	5	9	46	33	+13	41
9	Stumbras B	26	10	6	10	42	37	+5	36	Ineligible for promotion
10	NFA	26	8	3	15	44	45	−1	27
11	Trakai B	26	7	5	14	39	59	−20	26	Ineligible for promotion
12	Žalgiris B	26	6	3	17	26	57	−31	21
13	Kupiškis (R)	26	4	2	20	46	91	−45	14	Relegation to II Lyga
14	Koralas^[a] (D)	26	1	0	25	5	111	−106	3	Disqualified

Results

Home \ Away	BAN	DFK	DŽI	KOR	KUP	NEV	NFA	PAK	PAN	STB	TRB	UTE	VYT	ŽLB
Banga	—	0–1	3–0	2–0	3–2	0–1	2–0	3–1	1–0	2–0	4–1	2–1	1–2	4–0
DFK Dainava	2–1	—	0–1	4–0	6–0	4–1	1–0	2–3	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–2	2–1	1–0
Džiugas	2–0	0–3	—	5–1	4–0	0–3	1–0	3–4	0–1	1–1	3–0	1–0	3–3	1–0
Koralas	0–3^[a]	1–3	0–2	—	0–12	0–7	2–1	0–3^[b]	0–6	0–4	0–3^[c]	0–3^[d]	0–7	1–3
Kupiškis	0–3	2–6	0–4	3–0^[e]	—	4–0	0–2	3–3	0–6	1–4	1–1	1–3	2–4	1–2
Nevėžis	1–0	0–2	3–1	9–0	3–0	—	2–0	0–1	1–2	3–2	3–1	2–2	1–1	2–1
NFA	0–2	2–2	2–3	3–0^[f]	5–1	3–4	—	1–3	1–1	3–1	3–1	1–3	1–0	6–0
Pakruojis	0–1	0–4	0–3	3–0^[g]	2–1	0–3	0–0	—	2–4	2–0	2–2	2–1	3–0	2–0
Panevėžys	2–0	1–1	2–2	10–0	6–2	2–2	5–2	1–0	—	2–1	6–1	2–1	4–1	1–0
Stumbras B	0–4	1–1	3–1	3–0	5–3	0–2	3–1	4–0	2–1	—	3–0	0–1	0–0	1–0
Trakai B	1–2	2–2	1–0	3–0^[h]	2–3	1–5	3–1	1–4	1–2	2–2	—	2–3	3–2	2–0
Utenis	2–3	2–2	1–2	3–0^[i]	6–1	1–2	0–4	1–0	0–2	1–1	1–1	—	3–0	1–1
Vilniaus Vytis	2–3	2–2	2–1	3–0^[j]	8–1	2–2	3–1	5–1	4–2	3–0	5–2	0–3	—	5–2
Žalgiris B	3–2	0–3	1–5	3–0^[k]	3–2	1–1	2–1	1–3	0–6	1–1	1–2	0–1	1–2	—

Source: Lietuvos Futbolas (in Lithuanian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

↑ Koralas received a 0–3 technical loss in a home game against Banga due to violation of regulations.^[10]
↑ Koralas was disqualified from the league on 19 September 2018. As club already played over 50% of the season's matches a 0–3 technical loss was applied for all unplayed fixtures.^[10]
↑ Koralas was disqualified from the league on 19 September 2018. As club already played over 50% of the season's matches a 0–3 technical loss was applied for all unplayed fixtures.^[10]
↑ Koralas was disqualified from the league on 19 September 2018. As club already played over 50% of the season's matches a 0–3 technical loss was applied for all unplayed fixtures.^[10]
↑ Koralas was disqualified from the league on 19 September 2018. As club already played over 50% of the season's matches a 0–3 technical loss was applied for all unplayed fixtures.^[10]
↑ Koralas was disqualified from the league on 19 September 2018. As club already played over 50% of the season's matches a 0–3 technical loss was applied for all unplayed fixtures.^[10]
↑ Koralas was disqualified from the league on 19 September 2018. As club already played over 50% of the season's matches a 0–3 technical loss was applied for all unplayed fixtures.^[10]
↑ Koralas was disqualified from the league on 19 September 2018. As club already played over 50% of the season's matches a 0–3 technical loss was applied for all unplayed fixtures.^[10]
↑ Koralas was disqualified from the league on 19 September 2018. As club already played over 50% of the season's matches a 0–3 technical loss was applied for all unplayed fixtures.^[10]
↑ Koralas received a 0–3 technical loss in a away game against Vilniaus Vytis due to violation of regulations.^[10]
↑ Koralas was disqualified from the league on 19 September 2018. As club already played over 50% of the season's matches a 0–3 technical loss was applied for all unplayed fixtures.^[10]

Promotion play-off
Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
DFK Dainava	0 : 5	FK Palanga	0 : 3	0 : 2

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League competitions	A Lyga I Lyga II Lyga South West
Cup competitions	Lithuanian Cup (Final) Super Cup
European competitions	Champions League '18–'19 Europa League '18–'19
Related to National team	UEFA Nations League (League C – Group 4) Baltic Cup Edgaras Jankauskas
Clubs seasons
A Lyga	Atlantas Jonava Kauno Žalgiris Palanga Stumbras Sūduva Trakai Žalgiris
Winter transfers Summer transfers

Changes from last season

Stadiums, personnel and sponsorship

League table

Results

Attendance

Average home attendances

Highest attendances

References

External links

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