FK Mažeikiai was a

Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...

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club from city of

Mažeikiai Mažeikiai (; Samogitian: ''Mažeikē''; ; ) is a city in northwestern Lithuania, on the Venta River. It has a population of around 32,000, making it the eighth largest city in Lithuania and eighteenth largest city in the Baltic States. Th ...

History

In 1992, the club

ROMAR Mažeikiai Futbolo klubas ROMAR, commonly known as ROMAR, was a Football in Lithuania, Lithuanian Football (soccer), football club in Mažeikiai, in the center of Mažeikiai District Municipality, Mažeikiai District. History The club was created in 1992, ...

was founded in Mažeikiai – an acronym for Romas Marcinkevičius, the main investor of the club. In 1993, ROMAR finished the league in sixth position, and in the 1993–94 A Lyga season, it won the Lithuanian championship. In 1995, Romar finished in third position, but because of a financial problems, the club was expelled from the top division. After the dissolvement of ROMAR, FK Mažeikiai was founded as a phoenix club. It played in lower divisions for most of its existence, but at the end of the 2009 season, the club was promoted to the

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. ...

. In the Lithuanian top division, they reached the ninth place in both the 2010 and 2011 seasons. However, the club had serious financial problems and was dissolved following the 2011 season.

FK Atmosfera (2012) Futbolo klubas Atmosfera, commonly known as Atmosfera, is a Lithuanian football club located in Mažeikiai, in Mažeikiai District. They currently play in the I Lyga, the second tier of Lithuanian football. FK Atmosfera is a phoenix club of A ...

emerged as a phoenix club.

Name

During its history, the club has changed its name several times: * 1961 – ETG Mažeikiai * 1962 – Elektra Mažeikiai * 1973 – Atmosfera Mažeikiai * 1990 – Jovaras Mažeikiai * 1992 – FK Mažeikiai * 1992 –

(new club) * 1995 – FK Mažeikiai * 2001 – Nafta Mažeikiai * 2003 – FK Mažeikiai

Participation in Lithuanian Championships

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 ...

– 9th (A lyga) *

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

– 9th (A lyga) *

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

– 3rd (1 Lyga) *

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

– 1st (2 Lyga West) *

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

– 4th (2 Lyga North) *

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

– 3rd (2 Lyga North) *

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

– 4th (2 Lyga North)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mazeikiai Football clubs in Lithuania Association football clubs established in 1947 1947 establishments in Lithuania