FK Palanga was a professional

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club based in

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, Lithuania. The team competes in the

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, the top division of Lithuanian football in 2018 and 2019 seasons.

History

FK Palanga was founded in 2010 and introduced its first team to the third tier Antra Lyga in 2011. FK Palanga started off strong and won this championship in the first year with no defeats. As a result of their victory, they were promoted in 2012 to the Primera Lyga (second tier). FK Palanga plateaued for the next three years, sitting at the bottom of each standing. This changed in 2015 as they went from strength to strength. The club changed ownership and their scores started to improve. In the Lithuanian Football League I (made up of 18 teams), they came fifth. The club came in second in 2016. In 2017, they won the

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and earned a promotion to the A Lyga, the top division in Lithuania. To celebrate their promotion, the club was re-branded including a new logo and new colors of blue and white. The new logo features "1957", which was when the first football club in

was founded. In 2019, the team was in 7th position in the

and faced the

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runners-up

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in the playoff series. They won promotion play-offs on aggregate 5–0 and saved their place in

. Preparation for the 2019 season was started by signing Russian managers Artyom Gorlov and Aleksandr Ushakhin, who replaced the previously resigned

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 ...

. In summer 2019,

Vyacheslav Geraschenko Vyacheslav Leonidovich Gerashchenko ( be, Вячаслаў Леанідавіч Герашчанка; russian: Вячеслав Леонидович Геращенко; born 25 July 1972) is a Belarusian professional football coach and a former pl ...

became the new head coach, with Algimantas Briaunys joining as an assistant coach on 21 July 2019. On 5 December 2019, the Lithuanian Football Federation announce that two A Lyga clubs, FK Atlantas Klaipėda and FK Palanga have been excluded from the A Lyga due to manipulation of the match results, fined 42,000 euros and relegated to the

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. Ten players and one staff were punished with fines and a ban from all football activity ranging from 6 to 12 months.

Honors

League

** Winners (1):

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** Runners-up (1):

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** Winners (1):

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Kit evolution

Club colors

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and

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since the 2015 season. * In 2011–2014, colors were

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and

Last squad

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Staff

Notable players

Players who have either appeared for their respective national team at any time or received an individual award while at the club. *

Kęstutis Ivaškevičius Kęstutis Ivaškevičius (born 17 April 1985 in Klaipėda) is a Lithuanian footballer. Ivaškevičius is as an attacking midfielder, capable of playing wide right or centrally. He started his career at hometown club Atlantas Klaipėda and afte ...

(2016) *

Lukman Haruna Lukman Abdulkarim Haruna (born 4 December 1990) is a Nigerian former Association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career In December 2007, AS Monaco FC, AS Monaco signed Haruna on a four-year contract. In June 2011, he sig ...

(2018) *

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(2019) * Andriy Yakovlyev (2019)

Coaches

(2014–2018) * Artyom Gorlov and Aleksandr Ushakhin (2019). *

(July 2019 – 16 September 2019) * Algimantas Briaunys (since 16 September 2019).

References

External links

*
Facebook PALANGA official page)

alyga.lt page (FK Palanga club profile)

lietuvosfutbolas.lt page (FK Palanga club profile)
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