Lithuanian Football Federation's III league, LFF III lyga, is the fourth tier Lithuanian football championship.
Members
The league consists of leagues organized by County Football Federations in each of the 10 Counties of Lithuania. Due to low participant numbers some counties do not run III lyga competitions.
Vilniaus Region Football Association Kaunas County Football Federation Šiauliai County Football Federation Klaipėda County Football Federation Panevėžys County Football Federation Alytus County Football Federation Utena County Football Federation Marijampolė County Football Federation Telšiai County Football Federation Tauragė County Football Federation
Current Season In 2019 only 6 federations organized III lyga competitions, two of them ran a combined league.
Vilnius III lyga Kaunas & Marijampolė III lyga Klaipėda III lyga Šiauliai III lyga Alytus III lyga A komanda AFK Aktas FK Elektrėnų Versmė FK Medžiai FKK Spartakas Granitas Kaišiadorys-Baltai Navigatoriai Ozas SK Nemenčinė-Hegvita VJFK Trakai Šturmas Kaunas Lietava Jonava FK Tauras Kaunas FK Kėdainiai SMK Sparta Šakiai FK Kazlų Rūda EMD Statyba-Sendvaris FK Granata-Jakai Klaipėdos FM Sakuona-Rūgpienių kaimas Sarema Sparta-Newlink.lt „Adiada“ „Kruoja-Kupsc“ FC „Saulininkas“ FK „Akmenė“-SC FK „Akmenės Cementas B-Juventa 99“ FK „Fanai“ FK „Kražantė B“ FK „Savanoris“ FK „Venta“ Ginkūnų „Šauliai-Dakaras“ Dainava Veisiejai Prienai-Birštonas FK Simnas FK Mairas Alytus
County Leagues
Vilnius Region Vilnius region league is by far the largest and most competitive. There were three more lower divisions competing in the region in 2019.
2019 season final standings:
# Team Played Win Draw Lose Goals+ Goals- G.diff Points1. FK Medžiai Vilnius2214534328+15472. FK Elektrėnų Versmė2213726834+34463. FK Navigatoriai Vilnius2212466638+28404. FK Granitas Vilnius2212466232+30405. AFK2212464934+15406. FKK Spartakas Ukmergė2212284225+17387. VJFK Trakai2283114449-5278. FK Aktas Vilnius2282123854-16269. A komanda2282124259-172610. FK Ozas Vilnius2274115055-52511. FC Kaišiadorys-Baltai2243152959-301512. SK Nemenčinė-Hegvita2220202995-666
Kaunas County Having had abundant teams in the county in the past, in 2019 Kaunas struggled to pull enough teams together to run a league. A solution was found to run a combined league with Marijampole County.
2019 season final standings:
# Team Played Win Draw Lose Goals+ Goals- G.diff Points1. FK Kėdainiai 108023827+11242. FK Kazlų Rūda 107123921+18223. Vikingai aka Lietava 105142428-416 4. FK Tauras-Primaline 105052631-615 5. FK Šturmas 103162526-110 6. SMK Sparta-Nadruvis 100191938-191
Klaipėda County
2019 season final standings:
# Team Played Win Draw Lose Goals+ Goals- G.diff Points1 FK Sakuona-Rūgpienių kaimas15141010226+76432 FK Sarema Klaipėda1511135332+21343 Klaipėdos FM158074352-9244 FK Granata-Jakai156093946-7185 EDM Statyba-Sendvaris1550103469-35156 FK Sparta-Newlink.lt1500151460-460
Šiauliai County There was good turnout in 2019 in Šiauliai County with 10 teams participating. The golden match was required to decide the league winner.
2019 season final standings:
# Team Played Win Draw Lose Goals+ Goals- G.diff Points1. Kražantė B1813325324+2942*2. Akmenės Cementas B-Juventa-991813326119+42423. SK Saulininkas Šiauliai1812426026+34404. FK Venta Kuršėnai1810353521+14335. Adiada Šiauliai187473435-1256. FK Fanai Šiauliai1880103840-2247. FK Akmenė-SC187293435-1238. Ginkūnų Šauliai-Dakaras1871103853-15229. FK Kruoja-Kupsc1812151765-48510. FK Savanoris Šiauliai1802161163-522
Alytus County A bare minimum of 4 teams participated in 2019 season, allowing to extend Alytus County III league competition run for 10 years without a break.
2019 season final standings:
# Team Played Win Draw Lose Goals+ Goals- G.diff Points1 Prienai-Birštonas6321209+11112 FK Simnas6312714-7103 FK Mairas Alytus62131310+374 FK Dainava Veisiejai6042512-74
Marijampolė County Due to low participant numbers in 2019 it was decided to run a combined league with Kaunas County. The county ran III league competitions regularly with an exception of 2017. See Kaunas County
Panevėžys County For the second year in a row there were not sufficient team numbers to run a league in 2019. The county ran III league competitions regularly until then.
Utena County For the second year in a row there were not sufficient team numbers to run a league in 2019. The county ran III league competitions only twice in the last 6 years.
Tauragė County The last III lyga competition ran in Tauragė County was 2006.
Telšiai County Telšiai County, the country's smallest, has never run III league competition.
References
External links Kaunas football federation KLaipėda county championship Panevėžys county championship Šiauliai football federation Vilnius county championship