2008 Baltic League

The 2008 Baltic League (known as the 2008 Triobet Baltic League for sponsorship reasons) was the second Baltic League football tournament. The tournament took place in the Baltic states in 2008. The first matches took place on 4 March.[1]

Baltic League
Season2008
Dates4 March – 25 October
Champions FBK Kaunas
Matches played37
Goals scored113 (3.05 per match)
Top goalscorer Aleksandrs Cauņa (8)
← 2007

The draw for the 2008 Baltic League took place in Riga, Latvia, on 12 January 2008.[2]

Group stage

Group A
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
FK Rīga 4 3 0 1 8 4 +4 9 Advance to the quarter-finals
FK Ekranas 4 3 0 1 7 6 +1 9
TVMK 4 0 0 4 2 7 −5 0 Eliminated from competition
Source:
2008-03-04 FK Ekranas 1 – 0 TVMK Vilnius
Tomkevičius 80' Report Stadium: Sportima Sports Hall
Attendance: 400
Referee: Aleksandrs Golubevs (Latvia)
2008-03-11 TVMK 0 – 1 FK Rīga Tallinn
Report Koļesņikovs 2' Stadium: Sportland Arena
Attendance: 200
Referee: N. Dunauskas (Lithuania)
2008-03-18 FK Rīga 4 – 1 FK Ekranas Riga
Chirkin 58'
Kalonas 66'
Miholaps 82' 88'		 Report Varnas 5' Stadium: Daugava Stadium
Referee: Eiko Saar (Estonia)
2008-04-01 FK Ekranas 2 – 1 FK Rīga
Varnas 75'
Gleveckas 84'		 Report Miholaps 53' Referee: Hannes Kaasik (Estonia)
2008-04-08 FK Rīga 2 – 1 TVMK Riga
Koļesņikovs 29'
Žatkins 53'		 Report Kissel 90+2' Stadium: Daugava Stadium
Referee: Saulius Atmanavičius (Lithuania)
2008-05-20 TVMK 1 – 3 FK Ekranas Kuusalu
Mašitšev 7' Report Trakys 35' 72'
Kavaliauskas 64'		 Stadium: Kuusalu Stadium
Referee: Aleksandrs Golubevs (Latvia)

Group B
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
Skonto FC 4 4 0 0 16 4 +12 12 Advance to the quarter-finals
FK Sūduva 4 1 1 2 4 10 −6 4
Levadia 4 0 1 3 4 10 −6 1 Eliminated from competition
Source:
2008-03-04 FK Sūduva 2 – 0 Levadia Marijampolė
Maciulevičius 24'
Mikuckis 53'		 Report Stadium: Marijampolė Stadium
Attendance: 600
Referee: V. Direktorenko (Latvia)
2008-03-12 Levadia 1 – 3 Skonto FC Tallinn
Lemsalu 57' Report Perepļotkins 28' 85'
Piaček 78'		 Stadium: Maarjamäe artificial pitch
Attendance: 150
Referee: A. Kancleris (Lithuania)
2008-03-19 Skonto FC 3 – 0 FK Sūduva Riga
Laizāns 10'
Dvalishvili 45'
Višņakovs 81'		 Report Stadium: Skonto stadions
Referee: Sten Kaldma (Estonia)
2008-04-01 FK Sūduva 1 – 6 Skonto FC Marijampolė
Willer 71' (pen.) Report Piaček 44'
Višņakovs 45'
Pahars 53'
Dvalishvili 67' (pen.)
Perepļotkins 69'
Cauņa 88'		 Stadium: Marijampolė Stadium
Referee: Margus Kotter (Estonia)
2008-04-09 Skonto FC 4 – 2 Levadia Riga
Cauņa 15'
Laizāns 53'
Blanks 60'
Kozlovs 81'		 Report Pavlikhin 56' 68' Stadium: Skonto stadions
Referee: Nerius Dunauskas (Lithuania)
2008-05-20 Levadia 1 – 1 FK Sūduva Tallinn
Puri 4' Report Maciulevičius 90' Stadium: Kadrioru Stadium
Referee: Vadims Černikovs (Latvia)

Group C
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
Liepājas Metalurgs 4 2 1 1 7 2 +5 7 Advance to the quarter-finals
FBK Kaunas 4 2 1 1 6 4 +2 7
Narva Trans 4 1 0 3 3 10 −7 3 Eliminated from competition
Source:
2008-03-04 Narva Trans 2 – 1 FBK Kaunas Tallinn
Lõsanov 67'
Dubõkin 88' (pen.)		 Report Fattakhov 90+3' Stadium: Sportland Arena
Attendance: 30
Referee: A. Sipailo (Latvia)
2008-03-11 Liepājas Metalurgs 4 – 0 Narva Trans Liepājas
Soloņicins 9'
Bleidelis 54' 86'
Klimek 67'		 Report Stadium: Daugava Stadium
Attendance: 750
Referee: S. Atmanaviĉius (Lithuania)
2008-03-18 FBK Kaunas 1 – 0 Liepājas Metalurgs Vilnius
Podelis 14' Report Stadium: Žalgiris Stadium
Referee: M. Kotter (Estonia)
2008-04-01 Liepājas Metalurgs 1 – 1 FBK Kaunas Liepājas
Beniušis 27' Report Mendy 87' Stadium: Daugava Stadium
Referee: Kristo Tohver (Estonia)
2008-04-09 Narva Trans 0 – 2 Liepājas Metalurgs
Report Beniušis 44'
Ivanovs 47' (pen.)		 Referee: Edmundas Gaigalas (Lithuania)
2008-05-20 FBK Kaunas 3 – 1 Narva Trans Kaunas
Ledesma 36' 42' (pen.)
Zubavičius 72' (pen.)		 Report Ivanov 90+3' Stadium: S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium
Referee: Romans Lajuks (Latvia)

Group D
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
FK Ventspils 4 3 0 1 5 1 +4 9 Advance to the quarter-finals
FK Žalgiris 4 3 0 1 3 2 +1 9
Flora 4 0 0 4 0 5 −5 0 Eliminated from competition
Source:
2008-03-05 Flora 0 – 1 FK Žalgiris Tallinn
Report Veikutis 12' Stadium: Sportland Arena
Attendance: 200
Referee: R. Lajuks (Latvia)
2008-03-11 FK Ventspils 2 – 0 Flora Ventspils
Lazdiņš 1'
Aleksandr Mysikov 76'		 Report Stadium: Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions
Attendance: 200
Referee: G. Mažeika (Lithuania)
2008-03-18 FK Žalgiris 1 – 0 FK Ventspils
Kalaydzhiev 11' Report Referee: Silver Kõiv (Estonia)
2008-04-01 FK Ventspils 2 – 0 FK Žalgiris Ventspils
Bespalovs 2'
Kosmačovs 48'		 Report Stadium: Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions
Referee: Eiko Saar (Estonia)
2008-04-08 Flora 0 – 1 FK Ventspils Tallinn
Report Bespalovs 61' Stadium: Sportland Arena
Referee: Audrius Zuta (Lithuania)
2008-05-20 FK Žalgiris 1 – 0 Flora Vilnius
Kalaydzhiev 44' Report Stadium: Žalgiris Stadium
Referee: Aleksandrs Golubevs (Latvia)

Knockout stage

Bracket
 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
 
 
 
 FK Rīga 5
 
 
 
 Liepājas Metalurgs 3
 
 FK Rīga 2
 
 
 
 Skonto FC 8
 
 FK Žalgiris 3
 
 
 
 Skonto FC 6
 
 Skonto FC 1
 
 
 
 FBK Kaunas 2
 
 FBK Kaunas 8
 
 
 
 FK Ekranas 3
 
 FBK Kaunas 2
 
 
 
 FK Ventspils 1
 
 FK Ventspils 4
 
 
 FK Sūduva 0
 

Quarter-finals
2008-06-04 Liepājas Metalurgs 2 – 3 FK Rīga Liepāja
18:00 Grebis 9'
Klimek 74'		 Report Chirkin 34'
Miholaps 41', 63'		 Stadium: Daugava Stadium
Referee: Audrius Kancleris (Lithuania)
2008-07-02 FK Rīga 2 – 1 Liepājas Metalurgs Riga
18:00 Ļeonovs 65'
Shpakov 71'		 Report Rubins 90+2' Stadium: Latvijas Universitates Stadions
Referee: Paulius Malžinskas (Lithuania)

FK Rīga win 5–3 on aggregate

2008-06-04 FK Žalgiris 2 – 4 Skonto FC Vilnius
18:00 Puotkalis 24' 65' (pen.) Report Cauņa 15' 83'
Kožans 38'
Pahars 74' (pen.)		 Stadium: Žalgiris Stadium
Referee: Kristo Tohver (Estonia)
2008-07-02 Skonto FC 2 – 1 FK Žalgiris Riga
20:00 Cauņa 57'
Perepļotkins 70'		 Report Puotkalis 75' Stadium: Skonto Stadions
Referee: Hannes Kaasik (Estonia)

Skonto FC win 6–3 on aggregate

2008-06-03 FK Ekranas 2 – 4 FBK Kaunas Panevėžys
18:30 Bicka 83' (pen.)
Matovic 90+4'		 Report Ledesma 11'
L. Aničič 14' 45'
Mrowiec 90+3' (pen.)		 Stadium: Aukštaitija Stadium
Referee: Romans Lajuks (Latvia)
2008-07-02 FBK Kaunas 4 – 1 FK Ekranas Kaunas
19:00 Zubavičius 7'
Ledesma 45' 65'
Lukša 69'		 Report Trakys 89' Stadium: S.Darius and S.Girėnas
Referee: Andrejs Sipailo (Latvia)

FBK Kaunas win 8–3 on aggregate

2008-06-04 FK Ventspils 3 – 0 FK Sūduva Ventspils
18:00 Lazdiņš 33' (pen.)
Smirnov 52'
Bespalovs 59'		 Report Stadium: Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions
Referee: Silver Kõivo (Estonia)
2008-07-02 FK Sūduva 0 – 1 FK Ventspils Marijampolė
19:00 Report Aleksandr Mysikov 59' Stadium: Sūduva stadium
Referee: Eiko Saar (Estonia)

FK Ventspils win 4–0 on aggregate

Semi-finals
2008-09-17 FK Rīga 2 – 3 Skonto FC Riga
18:00 Žavoronkovs 26'
Zenkovs 39'		 Report Dvalishvili 33'
Cauņa 47'
Laizāns 51'		 Stadium: Daugava Stadium
Attendance: 150
Referee: Paulius Malžinskas (Lithuania)
2008-09-23 Skonto FC 5 – 0 FK Rīga Riga
20:10 Golubevs 14'
Blanks 25'
Cauņa 61' 71' (pen.)
Laizāns 86'		 Report Stadium: Skonto stadions
Referee: Audrius Žuta (Lithuania)

Skonto FC win 8–2 on aggregate

2008-09-24 FBK Kaunas 1 – 1 FK Ventspils Vilnius
19:30 Valskis 81' Report Ziziļevs 50' Stadium: Žalgiris Stadium
Referee: Kristo Tohver (Estonia)
2008-10-08 FK Ventspils 0 – 1 FBK Kaunas Ventspils
15:00 Report Valskis 30' Stadium: Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions
Referee: Silver Kõiv (Estonia)

FBK Kaunas win 2–1 on aggregate

Final
2008-10-25 Skonto FC 1 – 2 FBK Kaunas Riga
15:00 Dvališvili 84' (pen.) Report Aničič 24'
Miklinevičius 27'		 Stadium: Skonto stadions
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Hannes Kaasik (Estonia)

Top scorers

8 goals:

5 goals:

4 goals:

3 goals:

2 goals:

References
  1. "FK Ekranas - FC TVMK - BalticLeague.com". Archived from the original on 2008-03-03. Retrieved 2008-03-01.
  2. Loositi Balti liiga 2008 alagrupid - Soccernet.ee
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