FK Palanga

FK Palanga was a professional football club based in Palanga, Lithuania. The team competes in the A Lyga, the top division of Lithuanian football.[1]

FK Palanga
Full namePalangos Futbolo Klubas
Founded2011
GroundPalanga stadium
Capacity1,400
ChairmanMindaugas Gobikas
ManagerAlgimantas Briaunys
20197th, A Lyga (lost play-off)
WebsiteClub website

History

FK Palanga was founded in 2010 and introduced its first team to the third tier Antra Lyga in 2011.

FK Palanga started off strong and won this championship in the first year with no defeats.  As a result of their victory, they were promoted in 2012 to the Primera Lyga (second tier).

FK Palanga plateaued for the next three years, sitting at the bottom of each standing.

This changed in 2015 as they went from strength to strength. The club changed ownership and their scores started to improve. In the Lithuanian Football League I (made up of 18 teams), they came fifth.

The club came in second in 2016.

In 2017, they won the I Lyga and earned a promotion to the A Lyga, the top division in Lithuania. To celebrate their promotion, the club was re-branded including a new logo and new colors of blue and white. The new logo features "1957", which was when the first football club in Palanga was founded.

In 2019, the team was in 7th position in the A Lyga and faced the Pirma Lyga runners-up DFK Dainava in the playoff series. They won promotion play-offs on aggregate 5–0 and saved their place in A Lyga.

Preparation for the 2019 season was started by signing Russian managers Artyom Gorlov and Aleksandr Ushakhin, who replaced the previously resigned Valdas Trakys.

In summer 2019, Vyacheslav Geraschenko became the new head coach, with Algimantas Briaunys joining as an assistant coach on 21 July 2019.

On 5 December 2019, the Lithuanian Football Federation announce that two A Lyga clubs, FK Atlantas Klaipėda and FK Palanga have been excluded from the A Lyga due to manipulation of the match results, fined 42,000 euros and relegated to the II Lyga. Ten players and one staff were punished with fines and a ban from all football activity ranging from 6 to 12 months.[2]

Honors

League

Kit evolution
2011–2014 Home kit
2011–2014 Away kit
Home kit in 2015 season
Away kit in 2015 season
Alternative kit 2015
2016–2017 Home kit
2016–2017 Away kit
Currently 2018 Home
Currently 2018 Home
Goalkeeper`s kit in 2018

Club colors
FK PALANGA FK PALANGA

Current squad
As of 16 September 2019 [3]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
31 GK  LTU Marius Paukštė
2 DF  LTU Aurimas Tručinskas
3 DF  LVA Vladislavs Kuzmins
6 DF  RUS Matvey Guyganov
14 DF  CAN Andrew Lebre
34 DF  LTU Klimas Gusočenko
7 MF  LTU Klaudijus Upstas
11 MF  GEO Giorgi Diakvnishvili
No. Pos. Nation Player
14 MF  BRA Alan Facundo Torres
24 MF  UKR Andriy Yakovlyev
26 MF  CRO Josip Jurjević
30 MF  LVA Andrejs Kiriļins
88 MF  LVA Vladimirs Stepanovs
90 MF  LTU Tadas Eliošius
20 FW  ENG Sam Shaban
27 FW  CIV Kouakou Privat Yao
33 FW  LTU Dominykas Jakočiūnas

Staff
Position Name
Chairman Mindaugas Gobikas
Director of football Edgaras Barkus
Head coach
Assistant coach

Notable players

Players who have either appeared for their respective national team at any time or received an individual award while at the club.

Coaches
gollark: One interesting (story-wise) path AI could go down is that we continue with what seems to be the current strategy - blindly evolving stuff without a huge amount of intentional design - and eventually reach human-or-better performance on a lot of tasks (including somewhat general-intelligency ones), while working utterly incomprehensibly to humans.I was going to say this after the very short discussion about ad revenue maximizers but left this half written and forgot.
gollark: And probably isn't smart enough to think very long-term, and isn't in charge of demonetization and stuff.
gollark: Which would be very bad.
gollark: An ad revenue maximizer.
gollark: I'm excited for Y2038, which will inevitably break another large batch of systems.

References
  1. "Lithuania – FK Palanga – Results, fixtures, squad, statistics, photos, videos and news – Soccerway". uk.soccerway.com. Retrieved 2015-02-18.
  2. "FK "Atlantas" ir FK "Palanga" dėl manipuliavimo rezultatais yra šalinami iš A lygos". LFF. 2019-12-05. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  3. https://alyga.lt/komanda/palanga
  4. ""Palanga" pristatė naują strategą ir sužaidė rungtynes Lenkijoje | A Lyga | Aukščiausia Lietuvos futbolo lyga". alyga.lt. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
  5. ""Palangos" trenerių štabe įvyko pokyčiai | A Lyga | Aukščiausia Lietuvos futbolo lyga". alyga.lt. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.