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2012 A Lyga

FieldValue
competitionGeneral Financing A Lyga
season2012
winnersEkranas
relegatedREO
continentalcup1Champions League
continentalcup1 qualifiersEkranas
continentalcup2Europa League
continentalcup2 qualifiersŽalgiris
Sūduva
Kruoja
continentalcup3Baltic League
matches167
total goals505
league topscorerArtūras Rimkevičius
biggest home winŽalgiris 7–0 Atlantas
biggest away winAtlantas 0–5 Tauras
highest scoringŠiauliai 7–3 Tauras
prevseason2011
nextseason2013

Sūduva Kruoja

The 2012 A Lyga, also known as General Financing A Lyga for sponsoring purposes, was the 23rd season of the A Lyga, the top-tier football league of Lithuania. The season started on 10 March 2012 and ended on 11 November 2012. Ekranas were the defending champions.

Changes from 2011

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.

Teams

On 2 February 2012, the Lithuanian Football Federation announced the teams which had passed the licensing criteria for the 2012 season. 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. 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. REO have withdrawn from the competition in August 2012, after they were unable to attract investors. 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.

Stadiums and locations

ClubLocationStadium2011 season
AtlantasKlaipėdaŽalgiris Stadium (Klaipėda)
BangaGargždaiGargždai Stadium
DainavaAlytus
EkranasPanevėžysAukštaitija Stadium
KruojaPakruojisPakruojis Stadium
REOVilnius
MarijampolėSūduva Stadium
ŠiauliaiSavivaldybė Stadium
TaurasTauragėVytauto Stadium
VilniusLFF Stadium

League table

Results

First half of season

Second half of season

Top goalscorers

Including matches played on 29 October 2012

Pos.PlayerClubGoals
1Lithuania Artūras RimkevičiusŠiauliai35
2Brazil Rafael LedesmaSūduva21
3Lithuania Arsenij BuinickijEkranas17
Scotland Calum ElliotŽalgiris16
5Ukraine Serhiy ZhyhalovKruoja15
6Poland Kamil BilinskiŽalgiris12
7Lithuania Povilas LukšysSūduva11
8Argentina Santiago CesanelliŠiauliai10
Croatia Tino LagatorAtlantas10
Lithuania Ramūnas RadavičiusŽalgiris10
11Latvia Igors KozlovsŠiauliai9

References

References

  1. "2012 m. A lygos, LFF Taur s ir tarptautinių rungtynių preliminarus tvarkaraštis". [[Lithuanian Football Federation]].
  2. (2 February 2012). "2012 metų Lietuvos futbolo A lygoje rungtyniaus 10 komandų". [[Lithuanian Football Federation]].
  3. (20 July 2012). "LFF pareiškimas dėl informacijos žiniasklaidoje apie galimą "REO" klubo pasitraukimą". [[Lithuanian Football Federation]].
  4. (26 July 2012). "Už neatvykimą į rungtynes "REO" įskaityti pralaimėjimai ir skirtos baudos". [[Lithuanian Football Federation]].
  5. (21 August 2012). "LFF gavo raštą dėl "REO" pasitraukimo iš LFF varžybų". [[Lithuanian Football Federation]].
  6. (31 August 2012). "Patvirtintas "REO" pasitraukimas iš Lietuvos čempionato". [[Lithuanian Football Federation]].
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