Baltic League

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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.[1] Launched in 2007 inspired by the now defunct Scandinavian tournament Royal League and by the Baltic Basketball League.

History

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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

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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
File:Flag of Latvia.svg Latvia 3 3  2007, 2009–10, 2010–11
File:Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuania 1 1  2008
File:Flag of Estonia.svg 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

References

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