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Lithuania national football team |
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| Association | Lithuanian Football Federation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Confederation | UEFA (Europe) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach |  Jose Couceiro |
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| Captain | Tomas Danilevičius | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Most caps | Andrius Skerla (67) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top scorer | Tomas Danilevičius (17) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home stadium | S.Darius and S.Girėnas Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA code | LTU | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA ranking | 41 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest FIFA ranking | 37 (October 2008) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lowest FIFA ranking | 118 (September 2004) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elo ranking | 48 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest Elo ranking | 48 (September 2008) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| First international | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Lithuania 0 - 5 Estonia  (Kaunas, Lithuania; 24 June 1923) |
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| Lithuania 7 - 0 Estonia (Riga, Latvia; 20 May 1995) |
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 Egypt 10 - 0 Lithuania (Paris, France; 1 June 1924) |
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The national football team of Lithuania is controlled by the Lithuanian Football Federation. It played its first match in 1923. In 1940 Lithuania was occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union; the country proclaimed its renewed independence in 1990 and played their first match as a new nation against Georgia on 27 May of that year.
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In the 1990s, Lithuania established a respectable presence in World Cup and European Championship qualifiers: third place in their group in both Euro 96 and 1998 World Cup qualifiers. In the Euro 2004 qualifiers they were once again contenders for qualification and managed an away draw with Germany and a home win over Scotland - however a 1-0 defeat to Scotland in the final game ended their hopes. Although finishing 5th in their 2006 World Cup qualifying group, Lithuania were nevertheless competitive.
Lithuania drew with world champions Italy 1-1 in Naples in a Euro 2008 qualifying game on September 2, 2006, in the first competitive game that Italy played since the World Cup final.
On September 6, 2008, Lithuania defeated Romania 3-0 in a World Cup 2010 qualifier. The victory was regarded by many as "a historic win."1 It was followed by another successful performance 2-0 against Austria in Marijampolė.
The following players were called for the matches against Romania and Austria.
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| # | Player | Career | Goals (caps) | Goals per game. |
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| 1. | Tomas Danilevičius | 1998 - present | 16 (50) | 0,32 |
| 2. | Antanas Lingis | 1928-1938 | 12 (33) | 0,36 |
| 3. | Edgaras Jankauskas | 1991 - present | 10 (55) | 0,19 |
| 4. | Virginijus Baltušnikas | 1990-1997 | 9 (42) | 0,21 |
| 5 | Jaroslavas Citavičius | 1926-1933 | 8 (24) | 0,33 |
| 6. | Valdas Ivanauskas | 1990-2000 | 8 (28) | 0,29 |
| 7. | Darius Maciulevičius | 1991-2005 | 8 (38) | 0,22 |
| 8. | Igoris Morinas | 1996 - present | 7 (52) | 0,14 |
| 9. | Artūras Fomenka | 1996-2003 | 7 (23) | 0,3 |
| 10. | Tomas Ražanauskas | 1995-2004 | 7 (38) | 0,19 |
| # | Player | Career | Caps | Goals |
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| 1. | Andrius Skerla | 1996- | 67 | 1 |
| 2. | Aurelijus Skarbalius | 1991 – 2005 | 65 | 5 |
| 3. | Gintaras Staučė | 1992 – 2004 | 61 | 0 |
| 4. | Deividas Šemberas | 1996 - | 58 | 0 |
| 5. | Andrius Tereškinas | 1991 – 2000 | 56 | 3 |
| 6. | Edgaras Jankauskas | 1991 - | 55 | 10 |
| Tomas Žvirgždauskas | 1998 - | 55 | 0 | |
| 8. | Igoris Morinas | 1996 - | 52 | 7 |
| 9. | Tomas Danilevičius | 1998 - | 50 | 16 |
| 10. | Aidas Preikšaitis | 1992 – 2006 | 48 | 3 |
| Date | Tournament | Location | Opponent | Result | Scorers |
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| 27 May 2008 | Friendly |  Prague |
Czech Republic |
Lost 2:0 | |
| 31 May 2008 | Baltic Cup |  Jurmala |
Estonia |
Won 1:0 | Mižigurskis 87' |
| 1 June 2008 | Baltic Cup | Riga |
Latvia |
Lost 2:1 | Beniušis 75' |
| 4 June 2008 | Friendly |  Burghausen |
 Russia |
Lost 4:1 | Savėnas 25' |
| 20 August 2008 | Friendly | Marijampolė |
 Moldova |
Won 3:0 | Poškus 23' 54' Danilevičius 61' |
| 6 September 2008 | World Cup 2010 |  Cluj |
Romania |
Won 3:0 | Stankevičius 31' Mikoliūnas 70' Kalonas 86' |
| 10 September 2008 | World Cup 2010 | Marijampolė |
 Austria |
Won 2:0 | Danilevičius 52' 57' |
| 11 October 2008 | World Cup 2010 |  |
Serbia |
Lost 3:0 | |
| 15 October 2008 | World Cup 2010 | Kaunas |
 Faroe Islands |
Won 1:0 | Danilevičius 22' |
| 19 November 2008 | Mayors Cup | Tallinn |
Moldova |
Draw 1:1 | Savenas 72' |
| 22 November 2008 | Mayors Cup | Kuressaare |
Estonia |
Draw 1:1 | Kavaliauskas 35' |
| 28 March 2009 | World Cup 2010 | Kaunas |
 France |
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| 1 April 2009 | World Cup 2010 | |
France |
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| Date | Tournament | Location | Opponent | Result | Scorers |
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| 4 June 2008 | Friendly | Burghausen |
Russia |
Lost 1:4 | 24' Savėnas |
| 1 June 2008 | Baltic Cup | Riga |
Latvia |
Lost 1:2 | 82' Beniušis |
| 31 May 2008 | Baltic Cup | Jūrmala |
Estonia |
Won 1:0 | 87' Mižigurskis |
| 27 May 2008 | Friendly | Prague |
Czech Republic |
Lost 0:2 | |
| 26 March 2008 | Friendly | Vilnius |
 Azerbaijan |
Won 1:0 | Klimavičius 38' |
| 21 November 2007 | Euro 2008 Qualifying |  Tbilisi |
Georgia |
Won 0:2 | Kšanavičius 52', 90' |
| 17 November 2007 | Euro 2008 Qualifying | Kaunas |
 Ukraine |
Won 2:0 | Savenas 41', Danilevičius 67' |
| 17 October 2007 | Euro 2008 Qualifying | Nantes |
France |
Lost 2:0 | |
| 12 September 2007 | Euro 2008 Qualifying | Kaunas |
Faroe Islands |
Won 2:1 | Jankauskas 8', Danilevičius 53' |
| 8 September 2007 | Euro 2008 Qualifying |  Glasgow |
Scotland |
Lost 3:1 | Danilevičius 61' |
| 22 August 2007 | Friendly | Kaunas |
 Turkmenistan |
Won 2:1 | Danilevičius 42`, 47' |
| Name | Nat | From | To |
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| Benjaminas Zelkevičius | |
1990 | 1991 |
| Algimantas Liubinskas | |
1992 | 1994 |
| Benjaminas Zelkevičius | |
1995 | 1997 |
| Kęstutis Latoža | |
1998 | 1999 |
| Robertas Tautkus (caretaker) | |
1999 | 1999 |
| Stasys Stankus | |
1999 | 2000 |
| Julius Kvedaras (caretaker) | |
2000 | 2000 |
| Benjaminas Zelkevičius | |
2000 | 2003 |
| Algimantas Liubinskas | |
2003 | 2008 |
| Jose Couceiro | |
2008 | now |
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