The 2008 Baltic League (known as the 2008 Triobet Baltic League for sponsorship reasons) was the second

Baltic League The Baltic League (officially known as the Triobet Baltic League) was a Baltic men's football club tournament held four times between the top club sides from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Launched in 2007 inspired by the now defunct Scandinav ...

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tournament. The tournament took place in the

Baltic states The Baltic states, et, Balti riigid or the Baltic countries is a geopolitical term, which currently is used to group three countries: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. All three countries are members of NATO, the European Union, the Eurozone, ...

in 2008. The first matches took place on 4 March. The draw for the 2008 Baltic League took place in

Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...

Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...

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Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarter-finals

FK Rīga FK Rīga was a Latvian football club based in Riga. They played in the Virslīga, the top division in Latvian football. They played their home games at Latvijas Universitātes Stadions. In 1999, its first year of existence, the club won the ...

win 5–3 on aggregate'' ''

Skonto FC Skonto FC was a Latvian football club, active from 1991 until 2016. The club played at the Skonto Stadium in Riga. Skonto won the Virsliga in the first 14 seasons of the league's resumption (15 in total), and often provided the core of the Latvia ...

win 6–3 on aggregate'' ''

FBK Kaunas Kauno futbolo ir beisbolo klubas, commonly known as FBK Kaunas, was a Lithuanian football club from the city of Kaunas. History Banga Kaunas (1960–1993) Originally the team was founded in 1960 as Banga Kaunas and played its first three years ...

win 8–3 on aggregate'' ''

FK Ventspils FK Ventspils is a Latvian football club, based at Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions in Ventspils city and is one of the most popular football clubs in the country. The club played in the Latvian Virsliga since 1997. It was abolished in 2020, but h ...

win 4–0 on aggregate''

Semi-finals

win 8–2 on aggregate'' ''

win 2–1 on aggregate''

Final

Top scorers

8 goals: *

Aleksandrs Cauņa Aleksandrs Cauņa (; born 19 January 1988) is a Latvian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Club Born in Daugavpils, at youth level Cauņa played for Dinaburg, being brought to Skonto Riga system at the age of 14 ...

5 goals: * Rafael Ledesma *

Mihails Miholaps Mihails Miholaps (russian: Михаи́л Вике́нтьевич Михола́п; born 24 August 1974) is a Latvian Russian professional football coach and a former player. A former striker, he played 32 international matches and scored tw ...

4 goals: *

Vladimir Dvalishvili Vladimir "Lado" Dvalishvili ( ka, ვლადიმერ დვალიშვილი; born 20 April 1986 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian former footballer who now works for Dinamo Batumi as their Sport Director. Career Dvalishvili was signed by ...

Oļegs Laizāns Oļegs Laizāns (born 28 March 1987) is a Latvian football midfielder currently playing for Super Nova and the Latvia national football team. Club career Early career, Skonto and loans As a young player Oļegs Laizāns played for JFC Skonto, ...

Andrejs Perepļotkins Andrejs Perepļotkins ( uk, Андрій Ігорович Перепльоткін, ''Andriy Igorovych Pereplyotkin''; born 27 December 1984) is a Ukrainian born Latvian footballer, who plays primarily as a right winger for SK Super Nova. Altho ...

3 goals: * Luka Aničič * Vladimirs Bespalovs *

Andrius Puotkalis Andrius Puotkalis (born 6 October 1980) is a Lithuanian professional footballer. He was playing the position of midfielder and is 1.84 m tall. He is a former member of the Lithuania national football team The Lithuania national football te ...

Valdas Trakys Valdas Trakys (born 20 March 1979) is a Lithuanian football coach and a former player. He is the manager of Neptūnas. Playing career Trakys started his professional career in 1995 with FK Panerys Vilnius in his native Lithuania. He played for ...

2 goals: * Ričardas Beniušis *

Kristaps Blanks Kristaps Blanks (born 30 January 1986) is a Latvian football coach and former player who played as striker. He is a first-team coach at Riga FC Riga Football Club, commonly referred to as Riga FC, is a Latvian football club, founded in 201 ...

Imants Bleidelis Imants Bleidelis (born 16 August 1975) is a Latvian former professional football midfielder. He made 106 appearances for the Latvia national team. Club career Born in Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union, Bleidelis started his career at Skonto ...

* Grigoriy Chirkin * Georgi Kalaydzhiev * Arkadiusz Klimek * Aleksejs Koļesņikovs * Artis Lazdiņš * Darius Maciulevičius * Aleksandr Mysikov *

Marians Pahars Marians Pahars (born 5 August 1976) is a Latvian professional football manager and a former player. As a player, he spent the majority of his career operating as a striker for English club Southampton, where he played in the Premier League an ...

* Aleksandr Pavlihhin * Jozef Piaček * Vygantas Zubavičius *

Nerijus Valskis Nerijus Valskis (born 4 August 1987) is a Lithuanian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Kauno Žalgiris and Lithuania national team. Club career Earlier career Valskis began his senior club career in 2005 at FK Žalgiris of L ...

Egidijus Varnas Egidijus Varnas (born 31 July 1975) is a Lithuanian football forward currently playing for FK Ekranas. Varnas made two appearances for the Lithuania national football team The Lithuania national football team ( lt, Lietuvos nacionalinė f ...

Aleksejs Višņakovs Aleksejs Višņakovs (born 3 February 1984 in Riga) is a Latvian football midfielder, who currently plays for SK Super Nova in Latvian First League. He is also a member of Latvia national football team. Club career Latvia As a youth player ...

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Baltic League

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