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(Top) 1 Changes from 2011 2 Teams 2.1 Stadiums and locations 3 League table 4 Results 4.1 First half of season 4.2 Second half of season 5 Top goalscorers 6 References

2012 A Lyga

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General Financing A Lyga
Season	2012
Champions	Ekranas
Relegated	REO
Champions League	Ekranas
Europa League	Žalgiris Sūduva Kruoja
Matches played	167
Goals scored	505 (3.02 per match)
Top goalscorer	Artūras Rimkevičius
Biggest home win	Žalgiris 7–0 Atlantas
Biggest away win	Atlantas 0–5 Tauras
Highest scoring	Šiauliai 7–3 Tauras
← 2011 2013 →

The 2012 A Lyga, also known as General Financing A Lyga for sponsoring purposes,^{[citation needed]} was the 23rd season of the A Lyga, the top-tier football league of Lithuania. The season started on 10 March 2012 and ended on 11 November 2012.^[1] Ekranas were the defending champions.

Changes from 2011

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The league changed its number of teams for the third time in a row, reducing it from twelve teams in 2011 to ten sides. As a consequence, the schedule expanded from 33 to 36 matches per team, which each team playing every other team four times in total, twice at home and twice away.

Teams

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On 2 February 2012, the Lithuanian Football Federation announced the teams which had passed the licensing criteria for the 2012 season.^[2] Among them were the best eight teams of the 2011 season, eleventh-placed FK Atlantas from Klaipėda and 2011 First League champions FK REO Vilnius. Tenth-placed side FBK Kaunas were only granted a First League licence, while FK Mažeikiai and FC Klaipėda did not apply for a licence in any of the top two Lithuanian football leagues. In July 2012, LFF banned REO from registering new players due to the club's debts to referees.^[3] On 21 July 2012, REO failed to appear on the match against Ekranas, and the game was awarded 3–0 to Ekranas with REO receiving a fine of 6000 Lithuanian Litas.^[4] REO have withdrawn from the competition in August 2012, after they were unable to attract investors.^[5] Since they have played more than half of matches in the season, according to the LFF rulebook, those matches were considered valid and all REO's upcoming matches were awarded 3–0 to their opponents.^[6]

Stadiums and locations

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Location of teams in the 2012 A Lyga

Club	Location	Stadium	2011 season
Atlantas	Klaipėda	Žalgiris Stadium (Klaipėda)	11th
Banga	Gargždai	Gargždai Stadium	6th
Dainava	Alytus		8th
Ekranas	Panevėžys	Aukštaitija Stadium	1st
Kruoja	Pakruojis	Pakruojis Stadium	5th
REO	Vilnius		I Lyga, 1st
Sūduva	Marijampolė	Sūduva Stadium	3rd
Šiauliai	Šiauliai	Savivaldybė Stadium	4th
Tauras	Tauragė	Vytauto Stadium	7th
Žalgiris	Vilnius	LFF Stadium	2nd

League table

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Ekranas (C)	36	27	7	2	83	25	+58	88	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	Žalgiris	36	27	6	3	80	22	+58	87	Qualification to Europa League first qualifying round^[a]
3	Sūduva	36	21	7	8	77	37	+40	70	Qualification to Europa League first qualifying round
4	Kruoja	36	20	5	11	56	31	+25	65	Qualification to Europa League first qualifying round
5	Šiauliai	36	17	4	15	79	57	+22	55
6	Banga	36	13	8	15	43	41	+2	47
7	Dainava	36	9	5	22	42	71	−29	32
8	Atlantas	36	7	6	23	33	92	−59	27
9	Tauras	36	7	2	27	35	97	−62	23
10	REO (R)	36	5	4	27	26	81	−55	19	Defunct in the middle of season

Source: UEFA.com lff.lt
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Winners of the 2012–13 Lithuanian Football Cup.

Results

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First half of season

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Home \ Away	ATL	BAN	DAI	EKR	KRU	REO	SŪD	ŠIA	TAU	ŽAL
Atlantas		1–1	0–0	0–3	0–1	0–0	0–4	0–3	0–5	0–1
Banga	0–1		2–1	1–1	1–1	2–2	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–2
Dainava	1–0	0–0		0–1	0–0	3–2	2–4	1–0	3–1	1–3
Ekranas	2–0	3–0	3–2		1–0	3–0	2–0	2–2	5–0	1–0
Kruoja	5–1	1–0	2–0	1–1		2–1	2–1	0–4	1–0	0–1
REO	3–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	2–2		0–2	3–1	0–1	1–2
Sūduva	6–0	3–1	3–1	3–1	0–1	0–0		4–1	1–0	0–0
Šiauliai	5–1	1–2	4–2	0–1	2–1	2–0	3–3		7–3	2–2
Tauras	0–0	3–2	2–4	1–2	0–4	2–0	1–4	1–0		0–2
Žalgiris	7–0	2–0	4–0	0–0	0–2	0–1	4–0	2–0	2–0

Source: UEFA.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of season

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Home \ Away	ATL	BAN	DAI	EKR	KRU	REO	SŪD	ŠIA	TAU	ŽAL
Atlantas		2–2	2–1	1–2	2–1	4–2	1–5	1–2	4–1	3–4
Banga	1–0		5–0	0–2	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	4–0	0–0
Dainava	1–2	0–4		2–2	1–2	2–0	0–3	0–2	2–0	1–2
Ekranas	6–2	2–0	3–0		2–0	3–0^[a]	2–2	3–0	5–0	0–0
Kruoja	5–0	2–1	2–0	0–2		3–0^[a]	2–1	1–0	3–1	0–1
REO	0–3^[a]	0–3^[a]	0–3^[a]	0–3^[a]	0–3^[a]		0–3^[a]	3–5	2–3	0–3^[a]
Sūduva	2–0	3–0	3–2	2–3	1–1	3–0^[a]		1–0	4–1	1–2
Šiauliai	6–0	0–1	3–3	3–4	1–0	3–0^[a]	1–0		7–2	2–4
Tauras	1–1	1–3	1–3	0–2	0–4	3–0^[a]	1–2	0–4		0–4
Žalgiris	3–1	2–0	3–0	2–1	2–1	3–0^[a]	2–2	4–1	5–0

Source: UEFA.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m walkover (see teams section)

Top goalscorers

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Including matches played on 29 October 2012^{[citation needed]}

Pos.	Player	Club	Goals
1	Artūras Rimkevičius	Šiauliai	35
2	Rafael Ledesma	Sūduva	21
3	Arsenij Buinickij	Ekranas	17
3	Calum Elliot	Žalgiris	16
5	Serhiy Zhyhalov	Kruoja	15
6	Kamil Bilinski	Žalgiris	12
7	Povilas Lukšys	Sūduva	11
8	Santiago Cesanelli	Šiauliai	10
	Tino Lagator	Atlantas	10
	Ramūnas Radavičius	Žalgiris	10
11	Igors Kozlovs	Šiauliai	9

References

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^ "2012 m. A lygos, LFF Taur s ir tarptautinių rungtynių preliminarus tvarkaraštis" (PDF) (in Lithuanian). Lithuanian Football Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 28 February 2012.

^ "2012 metų Lietuvos futbolo A lygoje rungtyniaus 10 komandų" (in Lithuanian). Lithuanian Football Federation. 2 February 2012. Archived from the original on 20 January 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2012.

^ "LFF pareiškimas dėl informacijos žiniasklaidoje apie galimą "REO" klubo pasitraukimą" (in Lithuanian). Lithuanian Football Federation. 20 July 2012. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2012.

^ "Už neatvykimą į rungtynes "REO" įskaityti pralaimėjimai ir skirtos baudos" (in Lithuanian). Lithuanian Football Federation. 26 July 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012.^{[permanent dead link]}

^ "LFF gavo raštą dėl "REO" pasitraukimo iš LFF varžybų" (in Lithuanian). Lithuanian Football Federation. 21 August 2012. Archived from the original on 1 March 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2012.

^ "Patvirtintas "REO" pasitraukimas iš Lietuvos čempionato" (in Lithuanian). Lithuanian Football Federation. 31 August 2012. Archived from the original on 2 September 2012. Retrieved 30 August 2012.

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v t e 2011–12 in European men's football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia '11 '12–'13 Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '11 '12 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia '11 '12 Faroe Islands '11 '12 Finland '11 '12 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '11 '12 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '11 '12 Latvia '11 '12 Lithuania '11 '12 Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '11 '12 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '11 '12 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '11 '12 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
Domestic cups	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '11 '12 Finland '11 '12 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '11 '12 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '11 '12 Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '11 '12 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '11 '12 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '11 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
League cups	England Finland '11 '12 France Hungary Iceland '11 '12 Israel Northern Ireland Portugal Republic of Ireland '11 '12 Scotland Turkey Wales
Supercups	Albania Belarus Belgium Bulgaria England France Georgia Germany Italy Kazakhstan Moldova Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Russia Slovenia Spain Sweden ~~Turkey~~ Ukraine
UEFA competitions	Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round group stage knockout phase Final Europa League qualifying phase play-off round group stage knockout phase Final Super Cup

v t e 2012–13 in European men's football (UEFA)
Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '12 '13 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia '12 '13 Faroe Islands '12 '13 Finland '12 '13 France Georgia Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland '12 '13 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '12 '13 Latvia '12 '13 Lithuania '12 '13 Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '12 '13 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '12 '13 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '12 '13 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
Domestic cups	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '12 '13 Finland '12 '13 France Georgia Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland '12 '13 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '12 '13 Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '12 '13 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '12 '13 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
League cups	England Finland '12 '13 France Hungary Iceland '12 '13 Israel Latvia Northern Ireland Portugal Republic of Ireland '12 '13 Scotland Wales
Supercups	Albania Andorra Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic England Estonia '12 '13 Faroe Islands France Georgia Germany Hungary Iceland Italy Kazakhstan '12 '13 Latvia '13 Lithuania Malta Moldova Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Turkey Ukraine
UEFA competitions	Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round group stage knockout phase Final Europa League qualifying phase play-off round group stage knockout phase Final Super Cup

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