Baltic League

The Baltic League (officially known as the Triobet Baltic League) was a Baltic men's football club tournament held four times between the top club sides from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Launched in 2007 inspired by the now defunct Scandinavian tournament Royal League and by the Baltic Basketball League.

History

The first two tournaments were held between top four club sides from each country. For 2009–10 the competition was expanded to 16 teams, with five sides from every Baltic state taking part. One additional slot was allocated to the sixth best team from the country of the previous winner.

A similar competition was the Baltic Champions Cup which featured the league champions of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

The inaugural tournament in 2007 finished as a two legged final. This format was abandoned for the second tournament and subsequent finals were played as a single match at the home of one of the finalists. After this format was introduced, the team hosting the match did not win despite the added home advantage.

The first two tournaments were played from Spring to Summer with 12 entrants but this changed to a longer Winter to Summer tournament with four more clubs taking part.

Finals

Season	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Venue(s)	Referee
2007	Template:Flagicon Metalurgs	8 – 2 (aggregate) 3 – 1, 5 – 1	Template:Flagicon Ventspils	Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions, Ventspils Daugava Stadium, Liepāja	Template:Flagicon Kristo Tohver Template:Flagicon Audrius Žuta
2008	Template:Flagicon Kaunas	2 – 1	Template:Flagicon Skonto	Skonto Stadions, Riga	Template:Flagicon Hannes Kaasik
2009–10	Template:Flagicon Ventspils	3 – 3 (a.e.t.) 5 – 3 (pen.)	Template:Flagicon Sūduva	Sūduva Stadium, Marijampolė	Template:Flagicon Sten Kaldma
2010–11	Template:Flagicon Skonto	1 – 1 (a.e.t.) 5 – 4 (pen.)	Template:Flagicon Ventspils	Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions, Ventspils	Template:Flagicon Nerijus Dunauskas

Statistics

Performances by club

Club	1st	2nd	Seasons	Seasons Won
Template:Flagicon Ventspils	1	2	4	2009–10
Template:Flagicon Skonto	1	1	4	2010–11
Template:Flagicon Metalurgs	1	0	4	2007
Template:Flagicon Kaunas	1	0	2	2008
Template:Flagicon Sūduva	0	1	3
Template:Flagicon Ekranas	0	0	4
Template:Flagicon Flora	0	0	4
Template:Flagicon Levadia	0	0	4
Template:Flagicon Trans	0	0	4
Template:Flagicon Dinaburg	0	0	2
Template:Flagicon Žalgiris	0	0	2
Template:Flagicon TVMK	0	0	2
Template:Flagicon Vėtra	0	0	2
Template:Flagicon Banga	0	0	2
Template:Flagicon Jūrmala	0	0	2
Template:Flagicon Kalju	0	0	2
Template:Flagicon Sillamäe Kalev	0	0	2
Template:Flagicon Šiauliai	0	0	2
Template:Flagicon Tauras	0	0	2
Template:Flagicon Rīga	0	0	1
Template:Flagicon Olimps	0	0	1
Template:Flagicon Blāzma	0	0	1

By country

Country	1st	2nd	Seasons Won
Latvia	3	3	2007, 2009–10, 2010–11
Lithuania	1	1	2008
Estonia	0	0

All-time top goalscorers

#	Player	Goals
1	Template:Flagicon Aleksandrs Cauņa	10
	Template:Flagicon Ģirts Karlsons	10
3	Template:Flagicon Ričardas Beniušis	8
4	Template:Flagicon Rafael Gaúcho	7
5	Template:Flagicon Genādijs Soloņicins	6
	Template:Flagicon Egidijus Varnas	6
7	Template:Flagicon Mindaugas Kalonas	5
	Template:Flagicon Mihails Miholaps	5
	Template:Flagicon Andrejs Perepļotkins	5
10	Template:Flagicon Viktors Dobrecovs	4
	Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Dubõkin	4
	Template:Flagicon Vladimir Dvalishvili	4
	Template:Flagicon Oļegs Laizāns	4
	Template:Flagicon Vīts Rimkus	4
	Template:Flagicon Serhij Sernecki	4
	Template:Flagicon Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko	4
	Template:Flagicon Aleksejs Višņakovs	4