FBK Kaunas

Kauno futbolo ir beisbolo klubas, commonly known as FBK Kaunas, was a Lithuanian football club from the city of Kaunas.

This article is about the original club from Kaunas that existed until 2012. For the fan-formed club, see FBK Kaunas (2012).
FBK Kaunas
Full nameKauno futbolo ir beisbolo klubas
Nickname(s)Geltonai-Žali (Yellow-Greens)
Founded1960
Dissolved2012[1]
GroundS. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium
Capacity9,180

History

Banga Kaunas (1960–1993)

Originally the team was founded in 1960 as Banga Kaunas and played its first three years in the Soviet First League. Afterwards the club decided to play in the Lithuanian SSR Championship and they did so until 1990. In that period they won two Lithuanian SSR Championship's. One in 1986 and another in 1989. When Lithuania regained independence in 1991 A Lyga was created and they played as Banga Kaunas until 1993 before the club changed its name.

FBK Kaunas (1993–2012)

The club changed its name in 1993 to Kauno futbolo beisbolo klubas. The club had in its first years not such a great success and FBK Kaunas had to wait until 1999 before they could lift a trophy again. From 1999 to 2008, Kaunas won 8 championships, 4 Lithuanian cups, 3 super cups and 1 Baltic league title, but in the autumn of 2008 Kaunas dominance was once and for all broken when FK Ekranas won the championship in front of FBK Kaunas. After finishing second in 2008 A Lyga championship the club's president announced that the club were being demoted from the A Lyga in favour of LFF I Lyga, the 2nd tier of Lithuanian football system, but as conflict with LFF intensified, FBK Kaunas was relegated to LFF II lyga (consisting of amateur teams).[2][3]

FBK Kaunas won II lyga championship in their first year in that division. Despite relegation FBK Kaunas also participated in the new UEFA Europe League as a vice-champ of Lithuania but did not advance past FK Sevojno. Despite drawing both games FBK Kaunas lost on away goals.[4] FBK Kaunas won I Lyga in 2010 and was promoted to the 2011 A Lyga season. The 2011 season was a huge disappointment for Kaunas as they didn't manage to live up to the high expectations and eventually ended at a 10th place.

FBK Kaunas were not granted a 2012 A Lyga license because of financial problems and was due to play in the 2012 I Lyga. However, due to the clubs increasing financial problems the chairman eventually decided to withdraw the club from any competitions and later declared the club bankrupt.[5] Shortly afterwards the fans decided to form a new club.[6]

Kaunas have played Celtic, Rangers and Liverpool among others in Europa League and Champions League qualifying stages. On 5 August 2008, FBK Kaunas defeated Rangers, 2–1, to advance to the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League for the first time. The game was won in dramatic circumstances as Kaunas had to come from behind and finally took the lead just four minutes from time. Linas Pilibaitis was the scorer.

FBK Kaunas were for many years (1993–2012) sponsored by Ūkio bankas, a bank which had Vladimir Romanov as its principal shareholder. In October 2005 Romanov became the majority shareholder of Scottish Premier League side, Heart of Midlothian. Romanov then used Kaunas as a feeder club for Hearts by signing players ostensibly for Kaunas, then immediately loaning them to the SPL side. Romanov's mismanagement and dubious dealings effectively destroyed the clubs he was involved with FBK Kaunas and Partizan Minsk going bankrupt and Hearts into administration. BC Zalgiris also suffer from his dishonesty to this day. Romanov fled to Russia where he was granted asylum in 2014 and is now wanted by the Lithuanian prosecutors on charges for fraud and embezzling for at least £308m.[7]

Honours

Domestic
  • A Lyga
    • Winners (8): 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007
    • Runners-up (2): 2005, 2008
  • I Lyga
    • Winners (1): 2010
  • II Lyga
    • Winners (1): 2009
  • Lithuanian Cup
    • Winners (4): 2002, 2004, 2005, 2008
    • Runners-up (2): 1998, 1999
  • Lithuanian Super Cup
    • Winners (3): 2002, 2004, 2006,
    • Runners-up (2): 2003, 2005
  • Lithuanian SSR Championship
    • Winners (2): 1986, 1989
  • Lithuanian SSR Cup
    • Winners (1):1989
    • Runners-up (3): 1984, 1985, 1986

Continental

Season-by-season

Domestic
Season Div. Pos. Pl. W D L Goals Pts Top Scorer Cup Supercup Baltic League Europe Notes
1991 1st 3 14 9 4 1 24–10 22 Not
contested		 Baltic
League
not
founded
until
2007
1991/92 1st 4 25 11 10 4 26–15 32
1992/93 1st 5 27 11 5 11 36–29 27
1993–94 1st 5 22 12 4 6 31–18 28
1994–95 1st 6 22 8 8 6 25–22 24 1/4 dnq
1995–96 1st 4 28 14 3 11 33–15 31 1/4 Not contested
1996–97 1st 4 28 15 5 11 48–35 41 1/2 dnq IC Group stage
1997–98 1st 5 30 18 4 8 63–19 58 Trakys Final Not
contested		 IC Group stage
1998–99 1st 3 23 18 3 2 57–14 57 Trakys Final
1999 1st 1 18 12 5 1 36–10 41 Kšanavičius 1/4 UC 1st Qualifying round
2000 1st 1 36 26 8 2 115–24 86 Velička 1/2 CL 2nd qualifying round
2001 1st 1 36 26 7 3 76–13 85 Pocius Winner CL 1st qualifying round
2002 1st 1 32 24 6 2 85–20 78 Šlekys 1/4 Winner CL 1st qualifying round
2003 1st 1 28 21 5 2 64–20 68 Opic 1/2 Runner up CL 2nd qualifying round
2004 1st 1 28 20 5 3 49–19 65 Velička Winner Winner CL 2nd qualifying round
2005 1st 2 36 26 4 6 89–25 82 Beniušis Winner Runner up CL 2nd qualifying round
2006 1st 1 36 28 4 4 85–30 88 Velička / Beniušis 1/4 Winner UC 2nd qualifying round
2007 1st 1 36 25 8 3 91–26 83 Grigalevičius Not contested Not
contested		 1/2 CL 1st qualifying round
2008 1st 2 28 16 7 5 51–17 55 Ledesma Winner Winner CL / UC 3rd qualifying round / 1st round Relegated to II Lyga
2009 3rd 1 20 19 0 1 110–10 57 Macežinskas 1/2 dnq dnq EL 2nd qualifying round Promoted to I Lyga
2010 2nd 1 27 27 0 0 108–16 81 Pehlić 1/2 dnq Promoted to A Lyga
2011 1st 10 33 8 8 17 41–53 26 Razulis 1/2 dnq dnq Didn't get a license for the 2012 season

European cup
Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate Scored
1996–97 Intertoto Cup Group stage Lillestrøm SK 1–4 — 4th Kirilovas
FC Nantes — 1–3 Žalys
Sligo Rovers 1–0 — Miknevičius
Heerenveen — 1–3 Gvildys
1997–98 Intertoto Cup Group stage Samsunspor 0–1 — 3rd
Leiftur — 3–2 Buitkus Trakys Bezykornovas
Hamburger SV 1–2 — Bezykornovas
Odense — 2–2 Bezykornovas Trakys
1999–00 UEFA Cup Qual. round Maccabi Tel Aviv 2–1 1–3 3–4 Pacevičius-2 Papečkys
2000–01 UEFA Champions League 1st QR NK Brotnjo 4–0 0–3 4–3 Kšanavičius-2 Žuta Puotkalis
2nd QR Rangers FC 0–0 1–4 1–4 Žuta
2001–02 UEFA Champions League 1st QR Sloga Jugomagnat 1–1 0–0 1–1 Papečkys
2002–03 UEFA Champions League 1st QR Dinamo Tirana 2–3 0–0 2–3 Velička-2
2003–04 UEFA Champions League 1st QR Havnar Bóltfelag 4–1 1–0 5–1 Beniušis-2, Kančelskis, Opic
2nd QR Celtic 0–4 0–1 0–5
2004–05 UEFA Champions League 1st QR Sliema Wanderers 4–1 2–0 6–1 Sanajevas-2, Žutautas, Gedgaudas, Mikoliūnas, Žaliūkas
2nd QR Djurgården 0–2 0–0 0–2
2005–06 UEFA Champions League 1st QR Havnar Bóltfelag 4–0 4–2 8–2 Velička-3, Zelmikas-2, Rimkevičius-2, Klimek
2nd QR Liverpool 1–3 0–2 1–5 Barevičius
2006–07 UEFA Cup 1st QR Portadown 1–0 3–1 4–1 Manchkava, Pehlić, Velička, Ivaškevičius
2nd QR Randers 1–0 1–3 2–3 Juška, Velička
2007–08 UEFA Champions League 1st QR Zeta 3–2 1–3 4–5 Kvaratskhelia-2, Beniušis, Kšanavičius
2008–09 UEFA Champions League 1st QR Santa Coloma 3–1 4–1 7–2 Pilibaitis-4, Ledesma-2, Zelmikas
2nd QR Rangers FC 2–1 0–0 2–1 Radžius, Pilibaitis
3rd QR Aalborg 0–2 0–2 0–4
UEFA Cup 1st round Sampdoria 1–2 0–5 1–7 Zelmikas
2009–10 UEFA Europa League 2nd QR Sevojno 1–1 0–0 1–1 Fridrikas

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References
  1. Lithuania, Rekvizitai.lt. "Kauno futbolo ir beisbolo klubas". vz.lt. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20090328093413/http://www.futbolas.lt/lt/naujienos/,nid.2641 Lithuanian
  3. "Chaos in Kaunas: The Decline and Fall of the Romanov Empire - Sportslens". soccerlens.com. 20 April 2009. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  4. uefa.com. "UEFA Europa League 2009/10 - History - Kaunas-Sloboda Užice – UEFA.com". uefa.com. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  5. http://www.15min.lt/sportas/naujiena/futbolas/fbk-kaunas-pasmerktas-visiems-laikams-isnykti-is-salies-futbolo-zemelapio-24-296543 Lithuanian
  6. http://www.respublika.lt/lt/naujienos/sportas/futbolas/vknyzelis_po_ketveriu_metu_zaisime_a_lygoje/ In Lithuanian
  7. "Vladimir Romanov squandered £308m, according to Lithuanian government". heraldscotland.com. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
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