1990 Baltic League

LFF Championship

Season	1990
Champions	Sirijus Klaipėda 1st league title
1991 Lithuania 1991 Latvia →

See also: Baltic League (disambiguation)

1990 Baltic League was organized in 1990. The league consisting of 17 clubs from the Lithuania SSR, Estonian SSR, the Latvian SSR and FC Progress Cherniakhovsk from Kaliningrad Oblast.

The four best Lithuanian teams from Baltic League and the 1 Lyga qualified for the National Championship play-off. Also all Lithuanian clubs from the Baltic League qualified for the next season of A Lyga. Most of Latvian clubs also joined the championship of Latvia (Latvian SSR), while some continued their participation in the Soviet championship. The Soviet Estonian clubs after the fall of the Soviet Union were dissolved, while Progress Chernyakhovsk continued to participate in lower leagues of the Russian championship.

Note that Pardaugava also this season competed in the 1990 Soviet Second League (as Daugava Riga), while Zalgiris just pulled out of the Soviet competitions after playing the first game of the 1990 Soviet Top League, losing it away in Odessa. Also both Chernyakovsk and Yelgava clubs competed in the 1990 Soviet Second League B, Zone 6.

Pre-season organization

The following Soviet teams were allowed to play:

Team	Location	Venue	Capacity	League and position in 1989
Žalgiris Vilnius	Vilnius			Soviet Top League	4
Pardaugava Riga	Riga			Soviet First League	21
Sirijus Klaipėda (Atlantas)	Klaipėda			Soviet Second League, Zone 5	8
RAF Elgava	Yelgava				18
Metalurgs Liepāja (Zveinieks)	Liepāja				19
Sport Tallinn	Tallinn				20
Inkaras Kaunas	Kaunas				22

Baltic League

Pos	Country	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1		Žalgiris Vilnius	32	27	4	1	104	11	58
2		Sirijus Klaipėda	32	19	9	4	47	19	47
3		Ekranas Panevėžys	32	19	8	5	62	24	46
4		Progress Cherniakhovsk	32	19	4	9	46	33	42
5		Jovaras Mažeikiai	32	16	8	8	40	25	40
6		Inkaras Kaunas	32	15	9	8	54	25	39
7		Banga Kaunas	32	13	11	8	45	30	37
8		RAF Jelgava	32	13	10	9	44	37	36
9		Sakalas Šiauliai	32	11	12	9	41	32	34
10		Sport Tallinn	32	11	11	10	43	39	33
11		Neris Vilnius	32	10	8	14	27	47	28
12		Celtnieks Daugavpils	32	8	7	17	29	45	23
13		Torpedo Rīga	32	6	10	16	29	49	22
14		KKI Daugava Riga	32	4	13	15	16	49	21
15		Pardaugava Riga	32	5	8	19	24	53	18
16		Metalurgs Liepāja	32	4	5	23	20	97	13
17		FK Sūduva Marijampolė	32	1	5	26	13	69	7

• ASK Fosforit Tallinn quit the competition after 14 games

Top scorers

• 18 V.Baranauskas (Sakalas Šiauliai)
• 16 A.Narbekovas (Zalgiris Vilnius)
• 14 V.Ivanauskas (Zalgiris Vilnius)
• 14 K.Dranginis (Inkaras Kaunas)

1 Lyga

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1	Panerys Vilnius	30	20	6	4	48	18	46
2	Granitas Klaipėda	30	20	6	4	57	16	46
3	Sirijietis Klaipėda	30	14	9	7	38	27	37
4	Elektronas Tauragė	30	15	6	9	35	29	36
5	Vienybe Ukmerge	30	14	8	8	51	32	36
6	Vilija Kaunas	30	14	7	9	64	39	35
7	Atletas Kaunas	30	11	11	8	30	22	33
8	Tauras Šiauliai	30	13	6	11	53	41	32
9	Viltis Vilnius	30	10	10	10	50	32	30
10	Dainava Alytus	30	11	7	12	33	46	29
11	Nevėžis Kėdainiai	30	10	7	13	40	40	27
12	Gel.Vilkas Vilnius	30	10	7	13	39	41	27
13	Poli Kaunas	30	8	6	16	27	56	22
14	Mastis Telšiai	30	5	10	15	28	55	20
15	Sveikata Kybartai	30	5	6	19	20	61	16
16	Sirvinta Vilkaviskis	30	2	4	24	19	77	8

Play-offs

Team #1	Agg.	Team #1	1st leg	2nd leg
Quarterfinals
Elektronas Tauragė	0–9	Žalgiris Vilnius	0–6	0–3
Panerys Vilnius	2–1	Yovaras Mazeikiai	1–0	1–1
Granitas Klaipėda	1–3	Ekranas Panevėžys	1–1	0–2
Sirijietis Klaipėda	2–3	Sirijus Klaipėda	0–2	2–1
Semifinals
Ekranas Panevėžys	2–1	Žalgiris Vilnius	2–0	0–1
Panerys Vilnius	3–5	Sirijus Klaipėda	2–3	1–2
Third place
Žalgiris Vilnius	1–0	Panerys Vilnius
Final
Sirijus Klaipėda	0–0	Ekranas Panevėžys	penalty kicks 3–2
Cup
Sirijus Klaipėda	0–0	Žalgiris Vilnius	penalty kicks 4–3

References

• united Baltic League
• Lithuanian League