The 2009–2010 Baltic League (known as the ''Triobet Baltic League'' for sponsorship reasons) is a 16-team

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tournament held in the

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. Five top teams from each participating country –

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, and

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– along with the winner of the 2008 season will play a 4 round and 2 legged (excluding final) play-off style knockout tournament. It is held from Autumn 2009 through Summer 2010.

Teams

Meistriliiga Meistriliiga (), officially known as A. Le Coq Premium Liiga for sponsorship reasons, and commonly known as the Premium Liiga, is the highest division of the Estonian Football Association annual football championship. The league was founded i ...

– Levadia (1st),

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(2nd),

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(3rd), Kalju (4th), Sillamäe Kalev (5th) **Although TVMK initially finished 3rd, they were demoted to 10th place at the end of the season due to severe financial difficulties. The team was later disbanded. *

Virslīga Latvian Higher League or Virslīga, also known as TonyBet Virslīga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Latvia and the highest level of the Latvian football league system. Organised by the Latvian Football F ...

–

Ventspils Ventspils () is a state city in northwestern Latvia in the historical Courland region of Latvia, and is the sixth largest city in the country. At the beginning of 2020, Ventspils had a population of 33,906. It is situated on the Venta River and ...

(1st), Metalurgs (2nd), Skonto (3rd),

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(4th),

Jūrmala Jūrmala (; "seaside") is a state city in the Vidzeme region of Latvia, about west of Riga. Jūrmala is a resort town stretching and is sandwiched between the Gulf of Riga and the Lielupe River. It has a stretch of white-sand beach and is the ...

(7th) ** Daugava Daugavpils (5th) merged with Dinaburg FC, with Dinaburg retaining its name. After

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 La ...

(6th) went bankrupt Jūrmala were given the freed spot as the next best placed team. *

A Lyga The A Lyga is the top division of professional football in Lithuania. It is organized by Lithuanian Football Federation (LFF) (). History The first football league was established in Lithuania in 1924, and in various forms existed until 1939. ...

– Ekranas (1st), Vėtra (3rd), Sūduva (4th),

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(7th), Tauras (1st

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), Banga (3rd I Lyga) **

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) The roots of the club can be traced back to 1960 when Banga Kaunas was founded and they p ...

(2nd) and

FK Atlantas FK Atlantas was a Lithuanian professional football club based in the port city of Klaipėda. The club's name has changed several times. It was established in 1962 as ''Granitas'', and became ''PSK Aras'' in 1993. Since 1996, when FK Sirijus Kl ...

(6th) withdrew from the top league, citing serious differences with the

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FK Žalgiris Futbolo klubas Žalgiris, commonly known as FK Žalgiris, Žalgiris Vilnius or simply Žalgiris, is a Lithuanian professional association football, football club based in Vilnius. The club competes in the A Lyga, the top flight of Football in L ...

(5th) were denied A Lyga license and were demoted to I Lyga. FK Šilutė (8th) were relegated to I Lyga because of their league position. Eventually two I Lyga sides, Tauras and Banga, were awarded the two remaining spots, as they were both promoted to the A Lyga.

Play-off Table

Round of 16

''The second leg match was scratched and Vėtra advanced to the next round as Dinaburg was ejected from the competition for match-fixing.'' ''Metalurgs advanced to the next round 6–2 on aggregate.'' ''Sūduva advanced to the next round 3–1 on aggregate.'' ''Ekranas advanced to the next round 3–2 on aggregate.'' ''Levadia advanced to the next round 3–1 on aggregate.'' ''Skonto advanced to the next round 4–1 on aggregate.'' ''Flora advanced to the next round 4–2 on aggregate.'' ''Ventspils advanced to the next round 2–1 on aggregate.''

Quarter-finals

''Ventspils advanced to the next round 3–1 on aggregate.'' ''Flora advanced to the next round 2–1 on aggregate.'' ''Sūduva advanced to the next round 1–0 on aggregate.'' ''Metalurgs advanced to the next round 2–0 on aggregate.''

Semi-finals

''Ventspils advanced to the next round 2–0 on aggregate.'' ''Sūduva advanced to the next round 4–2 on aggregate.''

Final

Goalscorers

''As of 4 July 2010.'' 4 goals: *

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3 goals: *

Viktors Dobrecovs Viktors Dobrecovs (born 9 January 1977) is a football manager and former Latvia Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to ...

* Povilas Lukšys *

Ričardas Beniušis Ricardas Beniušis (born 23 April 1980) is a Lithuanian footballer. Beniušis started his career with Atletas Kaunas team in 1998 and played in Lithuanian First league. After one year he joined Inkaras Kaunas in A lyga. He played there until 2 ...

2 goals: * Andrius Urbšys * Dominykas Galkevičius *

Oskars Kļava Oskars Kļava (born 8 August 1983) is a Latvian football coach and a former defender who currently is an assistant manager at FK Grobiņa. He was the general manager of Spartaks Jūrmala in 2022 and director of Liepāja Football School (Liep� ...

* Sergey Shumilin 1 goal: * Andrey Agafonov *

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 ...

* Karolis Chvedukas * Alexandru Dedov * Israel Awenayeri Douglas * Vytautas Dragūnevičius * Alo Dupikov * Aleksandrs Fertovs * Antons Jemeļins * Nathan Júnior *

Gatis Kalniņš Gatis Kalniņš (born 12 August 1981) is a Latvian football Striker (association football), striker, currently playing for FK Valmiera in the Latvian Higher League. Club career As a youth player Gatis Kalniņš played for his local club FK Val ...

* Jurģis Kalns * Vladimirs Kamešs * Vitalijus Kavaliauskas *

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* Vitali Leitan * Deniss Malov * João Martins * Valeri Minkenen * Konstantin Nahk * Aleksey Naumov * Felipe Nunes * Ramūnas Radavičius * Nerijus Radžius * Deniss Rakels * Vīts Rimkus * Ivan Shpakov *

Maksim Smirnov Maksim Smirnov (born 28 December 1979) is a retired Estonian professional footballer. He played the position of midfielder. He was born in Estonia. Club career On 7 March 2010, he joined FC Narva Trans on loan for the first half of the seaso ...

Genādijs Soloņicins Genādijs Soloņicins (born 3 January 1980 in Liepāja) is a retired Latvian Association football, football midfielder. His last professional club was FHK Liepājas Metalurgs, Liepājas Metalurgs in the Latvian Higher League, the club where he s ...

* Aleksandrs Solovjovs * Tadas Špukas * Aleksandr Tarassenkov * Michael Tukura *

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 () represents Lithuania in me ...

Aleksejs Višņakovs Aleksejs Višņakovs (born 3 February 1984 in Riga) is a Latvian former professional Association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. He was also a member of Latvia national football team, Latvia national team. Club career Latvia ...

* Eduards Višņakovs * Jurijs Žigajevs * Artūras Žulpa

References

External links

Official website
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