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FK Žalgiris
Futbolo klubas Žalgiris, commonly known as FK Žalgiris, Žalgiris Vilnius or simply Žalgiris, is a Lithuanian professional football club based in Vilnius. The club competes in the A Lyga, the top flight of Lithuanian football. The club was founded as Dinamo in 1947. The club's name commemorates the victorious ''Battle of Žalgiris'' (Battle of Grunwald) (both names: ''Žalgiris'' and ''Grunwald'' are translated as "green forest"). Žalgiris has featured many Lithuanian football legends during its history, including Arminas Narbekovas, Valdas Ivanauskas, Edgaras Jankauskas and Deividas Šemberas. They have won the Lithuanian Championship 10 times, the Lithuanian Football Cup 14 times and the Lithuanian Supercup 7 times. The team's colours are green and white. The club plays at LFF stadium in Vilnius which has a capacity of 5,067. After beating Malmö in the second round of Champions League qualifying in July 2022, Žalgiris secured themselves group stage football and beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LFF Stadium
LFF Stadium (Lithuanian Football Federation stadium, ), formerly known as Vėtra Stadium, is a football stadium in Vilnius, Lithuania. The stadium has a capacity of 5,067 people and was home of the Lithuanian national football team between 2012 and 2022. Overview The stadium was first named Lokomotyvas in Soviet era due to its location close to the Vilnius railway station. In 2004 it was the first private football-oriented stadium in Lithuania rebuilt after the Soviet era. It was then renamed to Vėtra Stadium as the home ground of Vėtra. In 2005 it hosted its first national team matches. Following the bankruptcy of Vėtra in 2010, the stadium was taken over by the Lithuanian Football Federation and renamed again as the LFF Stadium. The stadium has undergone various improvements to meet UEFA 3rd category stadium status. Following the renovation, the stadium also includes the new headquarters of the LFF, while the grass pitch was changed to an artificial turf. In 2015 the stadiu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (Lithuanian SSR; lt, Lietuvos Tarybų Socialistinė Respublika; russian: Литовская Советская Социалистическая Республика, Litovskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), also known as Soviet Lithuania or simply Lithuania, was ''de facto'' one of the constituent republics of the USSR between 1940–1941 and 1944–1990. After 1946, its territory and borders mirrored those of today's Republic of Lithuania, with the exception of minor adjustments of the border with Belarus. During World War II, the previously independent Republic of Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet army on 16 June 1940, in conformity with the terms of the 23 August 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, and established as a puppet state on 21 July. Between 1941 and 1944, the German invasion of the Soviet Union caused its ''de facto'' dissolution. However, with the retreat of the Germans in 1944–1945, Soviet hegemony was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Zenit Saint Petersburg
Football Club Zenit (russian: link=no, Футбольный клуб «Зенит» ), also known as Zenit Saint Petersburg or simply Zenit, is a Russian professional association football, football club based in Saint Petersburg. Founded in 1925 (or in 1914, according to some Russian sources), the club plays in the Russian Premier League. Zenit are 2021–22 Russian Premier League, the reigning champions of the Russian Premier League. Previously they won the 2007 Russian Premier League, 2007, 2010 Russian Premier League, 2010, 2011–12 Russian Premier League, 2011–12, 2014–15 Russian Premier League, 2014–15, 2018–19 Russian Premier League, 2018–19, 2019–20 Russian Premier League, 2019–20 and the 2020–21 Russian Premier League, 2020–21 seasons of the Russian Premier League, as well as the 2007–08 UEFA Cup and the 2008 UEFA Super Cup. The club is owned and sponsored by the Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom. The team play its home matches at the Kresto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), is the second-largest city in Russia. It is situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, with a population of roughly 5.4 million residents. Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe after Istanbul, Moscow and London, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As Russia's Imperial capital, and a historically strategic port, it is governed as a federal city. The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of a captured Swedish fortress, and was named after apostle Saint Peter. In Russia, Saint Petersburg is historically and culturally associated with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakhtakor Tashkent FK
FC Pakhtakor Tashkent ( uz, Paxtakor futbol klubi) is an Uzbek professional football club, based in the capital city Tashkent, that competes in the Uzbekistan Super League. Pakhtakor literally means "cotton-grower" in English. Pakhtakor was the only Uzbek club to play in the top-level Soviet football league and was the only Central Asian club to appear in a Soviet Cup final. Playing in the Uzbek League since 1992, the club has been the undisputed powerhouse in Uzbekistan since the fall of the Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ..., winning fourteen Uzbek League titles, including six in a row from 2002 to 2007. Pakhtakor also won seven consecutive Uzbekistani Cup, domestic cups between 2001 and 2007, winning eleven cups in total. Players for the club have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tashkent
Tashkent (, uz, Toshkent, Тошкент/, ) (from russian: Ташкент), or Toshkent (; ), also historically known as Chach is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of 2,909,500 (2022). It is in northeastern Uzbekistan, near the border with Kazakhstan. Tashkent comes from the Turkic ''tash'' and ''kent'', literally translated as "Stone City" or "City of Stones". Before Islamic influence started in the mid-8th century AD, Tashkent was influenced by the Sogdian and Turkic cultures. After Genghis Khan destroyed it in 1219, it was rebuilt and profited from the Silk Road. From the 18th to the 19th century, the city became an independent city-state, before being re-conquered by the Khanate of Kokand. In 1865, Tashkent fell to the Russian Empire; it became the capital of Russian Turkestan. In Soviet times, it witnessed major growth and demographic changes due to forced deportations from throughout the Sov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algimantas Liubinskas
Algimantas Liubinskas (born 4 November 1951 in Kybartai) is a former head coach of the Lithuania national football team. Football At 31 years old, Liubinskas became the youngest ever coach of the Soviet Supreme League team Žalgiris Vilnius (which he coached from April 1983 to April 1985). In 1991, Algimantas Liubinskas was named the head coach of the Lithuanian national team, restored after Soviet occupation. Despite wins against Slovenia and Ukraine in 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, Liubinskas was fired in 1995 after an argument with the Lithuanian Football Federation. His next job saw him move back into club football as he won the 1996/97 Lithuanian title with FK Kareda Šiauliai, but subsequent spells at FK Panerys Vilnius, Ekranas Panevėžys, and Polish side Jagiellonia Bialystok were less successful. He returned to coaching in 2002, as Lithuania's Under-21 coach, and was handed the senior team job the following year. In this position, he replaced Benjaminas Zelkevičiu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjaminas Zelkevičius
Benjaminas Zelkevičius (born 6 February 1944) is a football coach and a former striker from Lithuania. He is currently the technical director at FM Ateitis. Zelkevičius has been manager of the Lithuania national football team on three separate occasions: from 1990–1991, 1995–1997, and 2001–2002. As player he had played 331 matches for the FK Žalgiris Vilnius (50 goals). He had coached also FK Žalgiris Vilnius and Russian football club FC Baltika Kaliningrad. During his playing career, he played for FC Shakhtar Donetsk in the Soviet Top League and for FK Žalgiris Vilnius in the Soviet First League. Post-managing career From September 2009 through 2010 Zelkevičius was coaching at FM Ateitis youth academy. On 12 August 2019, he became Ateitis' technical director. Since 2015, Zelkevičius also is chair of the Lithuanian Football Coaches Council. Honours * Baltic Cup ** 1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Top League
The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу: Высшая лига), served as the top division of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991. The professional top level of football competition among clubs was established in 1936 on proposition of Nikolai Starostin and was approved by the All-Union Council of Physical Culture. Originally it was named Group A. After World War II it became known as the First Group. In 1950, after another reform of football in the Soviet Union, the First Group was replaced with Class A. By 1970, the Class A had expanded to three tiers with the top tier known as the Higher Group which in 1971 was renamed into the Higher League. It was one of the best football leagues in Europe, ranking second among the UEFA members in 1988–89 seasons. Three of its representatives reached the finals of the European club tournaments on four occasions: FC Dynamo Kyiv, FC Dinamo Tbilisi, and F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 Soviet Top League
Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1983 season. Teams Promoted teams * Zhalgiris Vilnuis – champion ''(returning after 21 seasons)'' * Nistru Kishinev – 2nd place ''(returning after nine seasons)'' League standings Results Top scorers ;18 goals * Yuri Gavrilov (Spartak Moscow) ;17 goals * Igor Gurinovich (Dinamo Minsk) ;15 goals * Volodymyr Fink (Chornomorets) * Khoren Hovhannisyan (Ararat) * Mykhaylo Sokolovsky (Shakhtar) * Andrei Yakubik (Pakhtakor) ;14 goals * Sigitas Jakubauskas (Žalgiris) ;13 goals * Viktor Kolyadko (CSKA Moscow) * Oleh Taran (Dnipro) ;11 goals * Valery Gazzaev (Dynamo Moscow) * Valeriy Petrakov (Torpedo Moscow) * Igor Ponomaryov (Neftchi) * Ramaz Shengelia (Dinamo Tbilisi) * Aleksandr Tarkhanov (CSKA Moscow) * Vadym Yevtushenko (Dynamo Kyiv) Medal squads ''(league appearances and goals listed in brackets)'' Number of teams by union republic ReferencesSoviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF) {{1983–84 in European footba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Soviet Top League ...
11 teams took part in the league with FC Spartak Moscow winning the championship. League standings Results Top scorers ;14 goals * Nikita Simonyan (Spartak Moscow) * Avtandil Gogoberidze (Dinamo Tbilisi) ;9 goals * Vitali Vatskevich (Torpedo Moscow) ;8 goals * Georgi Borzenko (Lokomotiv Kharkov) * Pyotr Katrovsky (Zenit Leningrad) * Boris Tatushin (Spartak Moscow) ;7 goals * Aleksandr Gulevsky (Zenit Kuybyshev) * Zaur Kaloyev (Dinamo Tbilisi) * Mykhaylo Koman (Dynamo Kiev) * Vladimir Savdunin (Dynamo Moscow) References Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF) {{1953–54 in European football (UEFA) 1949 1 Soviet Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union Football League System
The Soviet Union football league system was a series of interconnected leagues for men's association football clubs in the Soviet Union which included "teams of masters" (a term for a professional association football team) from constituent union republics. The system has a hierarchical format with promotion and relegation between leagues at different levels, allowing even the smallest club the theoretical possibility of ultimately rising to the very top of the system. For most of its time, the all-union level had two tiers, while for a good portion of the Soviet period there existed a third tier, and for a much less period, a fourth. The exact number of Soviet teams of masters varied from year to year as clubs (teams) joined and left leagues, folded or merged altogether. On occasions a season competition format included multiple stages with several groups including the top tier. The third tier (better known as the Second League) since its revival in 1963 consisted from about five ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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