2024_A_Lyga
2024 A Lyga
Football league season
The 2024 A Lyga, for sponsorship reasons also called TOPsport A Lyga, is the 35th season of the A Lyga, the top-tier football league of Lithuania. The season began on 1 March 2024.[1][2]
The winners qualify for the 2025–26 Champions League first qualifying round. The runners-up and third-placed teams qualify for the 2025–26 Conference League first qualifying round. The ninth-placed team qualify for the A Lyga play-off. The bottom-placed team are relegated to the 2025 LFF I Lyga.
The league consisted of ten teams; the top nine teams from the previous season, and one team promoted from the LFF I Lyga. TransInvest were promoted as champions of the 2023 LFF I Lyga, replacing the 2023 A Lyga bottom-placed team (Riteriai).[3] Panevėžys entered the season as defending champions.
| Club | Location | Stadium | Surface | Capacity | Seasons in A Lyga |
Position in 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banga | Gargždai | Gargždai Stadium | Artificial | 2,323 | 11 | 6th |
| DFK Dainava | Alytus | Alytus Stadium | Natural | 3,726 | 13 | 8th |
| Marijampolė | Marijampolė Football Indoor Arena | Artificial | 2,660 | |||
| Džiugas | Telšiai | Telšiai Central Stadium | Natural | 2,320 | 4 | 9th |
| Ateitis Progymnasium Stadium | Artificial | 300 | ||||
| Hegelmann | Kaunas | LFF Kaunas Training Center Stadium | Artificial | 500 | 4 | 5th |
| Kauno Žalgiris | Kaunas | Darius and Girėnas Stadium | Hybrid | 15,315 | 10 | 4th |
| Akademija | VDU Stadium | Artificial | 1,000 | |||
| Panevėžys | Panevėžys | Aukštaitija Stadium | Natural | 6,600 | 6 | 1st |
| Žemyna Progymnasium Stadium | Artificial | 620 | ||||
| FA Šiauliai | Šiauliai | Savivaldybė Stadium | Natural | 4,000 | 3 | 3rd |
| Gytariai Stadium | Artificial | 500 | ||||
| Sūduva | Marijampolė | Marijampolė Football Arena | Natural | 6,250 | 22 | 7th |
| Marijampolė Football Indoor Arena | Artificial | 2,660 | ||||
| TransINVEST | Vilnius | Širvintų miesto stadionas | 1,000 | 0 | 1st in I Lyga | |
| Žalgiris | Vilnius | LFF Stadium | Artificial | 5,067 | 23 | 2nd |
| Sportima Arena | Artificial | 3,157 |
Managers
| Team | Coach | Appointed | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| FK Banga |  David Afonso |
36 months ago | UEFA Pro |
| DFK Dainava |  Syarhey Kuznyatsow |
24 months ago | UEFA A |
| FC Džiugas | João Prates |
35 months ago | UEFA Pro |
| FC Hegelmann |  Andrius Skerla |
41 months ago | UEFA Pro |
| FK Kauno Žalgiris | Nerijus Mačiulis (caretaker) |
8 months ago | |
| FK Panevėžys |  Gino Lettieri |
20 months ago | UEFA Pro |
| FA Šiauliai | Mindaugas Čepas |
42 months ago | UEFA Pro |
| FK Sūduva | Dovydas Lastauskas |
16 months ago | |
| FK TransINVEST | Giedrius Barevicius |
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| FK Žalgiris |  Vladimir Cheburin |
40 months ago | UEFA Pro |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Žalgiris | 16 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 33 | 14 | +19 | 37 | Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round |
| 2 | Hegelmann | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 25 | 16 | +9 | 29 | Qualification for the Conference League first qualifying round |
| 3 | Džiugas | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 12 | +2 | 25 | |
| 4 | Kauno Žalgiris | 16 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 23 | |
| 5 | Dainava | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 14 | −3 | 19[lower-alpha 1] | |
| 6 | Sūduva | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 12 | −1 | 19[lower-alpha 1] | |
| 7 | Banga | 16 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 19 | −3 | 19[lower-alpha 1] | |
| 8 | Šiauliai | 16 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 19 | −5 | 17 | |
| 9 | Panevėžys | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 14 | −5 | 15 | Qualification for the A Lyga play-off |
| 10 | TransINVEST | 16 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 13 | 26 | −13 | 13 | Relegation to I Lyga |
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Play-off (for champion only) 3) Head-to-head points; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Head-to-head goals scored; 6) Head-to-head matches won; 7) Goal difference; 8) Goals scored; 9) Matches won; 10) Fairplay ranking; 11) Draw.
Notes:
| Home \ Away | BAN | DAI | DZI | HEG | KAU | PAN | SIA | SUD | TRA | ZAL | BAN | DAI | DZI | HEG | KAU | PAN | SIA | SUD | TRA | ZAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banga | 0–3 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–4 | |||||||||||||
| Dainava | 2–2 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | |||||||||||||
| Džiugas | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | ||||||||||||
| Hegelmann | 2–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 4–2 | 2–2 | 2–3 | 0–0 | ||||||||||||
| Kauno Žalgiris | 0–3 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | |||||||||||
| Panevėžys | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | ||||||||||||
| Šiauliai | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | ||||||||||||
| Sūduva | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | ||||||||||||
| TransINVEST | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 3–2 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 1–3 | ||||||||||||
| Žalgiris | 2–2 | 4–0 | 3–1 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 3–3 | 2–0 |
The ninth-placed club will face the second-placed club from the 2024 LFF I Lyga for the final place in the following season's A Lyga.
- "A Lyga - Lietuvos Futbolas". lietuvosfutbolas.lt (in Lithuanian).
- "2024 metų A lygos klubų tarpsezonio sudėtys". alyga.lt (in Lithuanian).
- "Lietuvos taurės čempionai: ryžtingesni A lygos naujokai negu įprasta". Delfi sportas (in Lithuanian). 24 February 2024. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- Official website (in Lithuanian and English)