The 2016 season is
FK Žalgiris 7th consecutive season in the top flight of
Lithuanian football and 3rd consecutive as
A Lyga title defenders. They also participated in the
Lithuanian Cup
The Lithuanian Football Federation Cup ( lt, Lietuvos futbolo federacijos taurė), also known as Hegelmann LFF Cup for sponsorship reasons, is a Lithuanian football cup competition contested in a knockout tournament format. The winner of the cup ...
,
SuperCup
A super cup is a competition, usually but not exclusively in association football, which often forms the 'curtain raiser' to a season, and typically involves only two teams who have qualified through success in other competitions during the prev ...
and enter the
UEFA Champions League at the second qualifying round stage.
After winning
2015–16 Lithuanian Football Cup
The 2015–16 Lithuanian Football Cup was the twenty-seventh season of the Lithuanian annual football knock-out tournament. The competition started on 2 June 2015 with the matches of the first round and ended in May 2016. Žalgiris are the def ...
club has achieved the longest active consecutive domestic cup run in Europe with five victories in a row. After another consecutive win in
2016 LFF Cup they extended the record to 6 victories, while also setting new Lithuanian record - winning two domestic cups in a single calendar year.
Žalgiris were crowned champions for the fourth year in a row on 30 October after a 2-0 win against
Atlantas.
After the season club leaders received multiple personal awards: long time club servant Mantas Kuklys was included between final 7 candidates to win Lithuanian footballer of the year award and remained fourth overall. Furthermore, he was elected as the best player in Lithuania managing to beat teammates Andrija Kaluđerović and Vytautas Lukša who respectively remained in second and fourth places. Despite joining only in summer, Kaluđerović also was declared as Fans player of the year - traditional award given by club supporters group ''Pietų IV''. According to the fans club defender Mamadou Mbodj remained 2nd and 3rd place was taken by Kuklys. Youngsters Justas Lasickas and Daniel Romanovskij remained respectively 3rd and 5th in the most promising player of the season elections, midfielder Matija Ljujić received prize for the best goal of the season and head coach Valdas Dambrauskas also wasn't forgotten and received coach of the year award.
2016 season was concluded with special event where film "„Žalgiris-2016“. The year of triumph" about historical season highlighted with victory of four domestic titles premiered.
Players
Transfers
Winter 2016
In
Out
Summer 2016
In
Out
Pre-season and friendlies
Competitions
Lithuanian Supercup
A Lyga
Results summary
Results by round
Regular season
=League table
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=Matches
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Championship round
=League table
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=Matches
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LFF Taurė
2015–16 LFF Taurė
''All previous rounds were played during the
2015 FK Žalgiris season.''
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= Final
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2016 LFF Taurė
UEFA Champions League
Second qualifying round
Statistics
Appearances and goals
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Goalscorers
Clean sheets
Disciplinary record
Awards
A Lyga Player of the Year
Fans' Player of the Season
A Lyga Goal of the Year
Lithuania Coach of the Year
A Lyga Team of the Week
The following players were named in the
A lyga Team of the Week.
Fans' Player of the Month
External links
* '
2016 FK Žalgiris - Triumfo metai''
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:2016 FK Zalgiris season
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