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2008 A Lyga

Field	Value
season	2008
dates	29 March-10 November
competition	A Lyga
winners	FK Ekranas
relegated	FK Silute
continentalcup1	UEFA Champions League
continentalcup1 qualifiers	FK Ekranas
continentalcup2	UEFA Europa League
continentalcup2 qualifiers	FBK Kaunas
FK Suduva
FK Vetra
league topscorer	BRA Rafael Gaúcho (14 goals)
prevseason	2007
nextseason	2009

FK Suduva FK Vetra

The Lithuanian A Lyga 2008 was the 19th season of top-tier football in Lithuania. The season started on 29 March 2008 and ended on 16 November 2008.

The league had to reduce the number of its teams from ten to nine prior to this season due to lacking of team able to earn promotion (see below). Shortly before the start of the season, Vilnius withdrew from participating in the league because of unknown reasons, leaving the league with 8 competing teams.

Clubs

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Atlantas	Klaipėda	Žalgiris Stadium	5,000
Ekranas	Panevėžys	Aukštaitija Stadium	9,940
FBK Kaunas	Kaunas	S.Dariaus ir S.Girėno Stadium	8,500
Sūduva	Marijampolė	Sūduva Stadium	4,000
Šiauliai	Šiauliai	Savivaldybė Stadium	2,430
Šilutė	Šilutė	Šilutė Stadium	3,000
Vėtra	Vilnius	Vėtra Stadium	5,900
Žalgiris	Vilnius	Žalgiris Stadium	15,030

Promotion and relegation

Interas-AE Visaginas were relegated to the Lithuanian First League after finishing the 2007 season in last place with only 8 points. Šilutė were originally scheduled to play the 2nd placed team of the First League, Rodiklis Kaunas, in a relegation play-off, but Rodiklis declined promotion due to lacking financial capabilities.

First League champions Alytis Alytus also had to forfeit their place in this year's league because their ground was not suitable for top-tier football, so no team was promoted.

League standings

Results

Every team played each other four times, twice at home and twice on the road, for a total of 28 games.

First half of season

Second half of season

Top goalscorers

Source: lfe.lt

Pos.	Player	Club	Goals
1	BRA Rafael Gaúcho	FBK Kaunas	14
2	LTU Mindaugas Grigalevičius	FBK Kaunas	12
3	LTU Povilas Lukšys	Sūduva	11
4	LTU Vitalijus Kavaliauskas	Ekranas	8
5	LTU Darius Maciulevičius	Sūduva	7
6	LTU Egidijus Varnas	Ekranas	6
LTU Valdas Trakys	Ekranas
LAT Ivans Lukjanovs	Šiauliai / Sūduva

References

Laužadis, Almantas. (17 February 2009). "Lithuania 2008".

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