FK Banga Gargždai is a Lithuanian professional

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club from the city of

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History

FK Banga was founded in 1966. During the period from 1966 to 1990, the club was in the Soviet Lithuanian football championship. From 1990, they played in the Lithuanian championship. From 1994 to 2001, they were in the top tier. After the 2001 A Lyga, they were relegated to the

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. The team earned promotion to the

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, Lithuania's top football division, for the 2009 season after

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and Atlantas Klaipėda voluntarily withdrew their participation. Banga were also members of the A Lyga from 1994 to 2000. In the

2019 LFF I Lyga The 2019 LFF I Lyga was the 30th season of the I Lyga, the second tier association football league of Lithuania. The season began on 22 March 2019 and finished in 27 October 2019. Licensing process The Lithuanian Football Federation initially g ...

, FK Banga finished in second position and played in the relegation/promotion match with FK Palanga. Banga won the playoff, passed the licensing process, and returned to the top division after a 5-year break. In the

2020 A Lyga The 2020 A Lyga was the 31st season of the A Lyga, the top-tier football league of Lithuania. The season began on 6 March and was planned to end on 7 November 2020. On 12 March all sports events were postponed for two weeks in the light of the COV ...

, FK Banga finished in 4th position. It was the best result in FK Banga history in

Achievements

**Fourth place (1):

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* Lithuanian Cup **''Winners'' (1):

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**''Runners-up'' (3):

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

Recent seasons

UEFA club competition record

Source
uefa.com

Last updated: 11 July 2014

Matches

Current squad

Kit evolution

* Kits at home: orange kits, shorts and socks with darkblue signs. * Away kits: dark blue kits, shorts and socks with orange signs.

Managers

* Fiodoras Finkelis (19??–77) * Leonardas Lukavičius (1990–95) *

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(2008) * Valdas Ivanauskas (2008–09) * Vytautas Jančiauskas (2009–10) * Arminas Narbekovas (16 December 2009 – 1 January 2012) * Vaidas Žutautas (6 January 2012–2013) * Vaidas Žutautas (2013–2014) * Maksim Tishchenko (2014–2015) * Vaidas Žutautas (2015–2016) * Tomas Tamošauskas (2017 – 3 June 2021) * David Afonso, (from 3 June 2021)

References

External links

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alyga.lt

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