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Futbolo Klubas Riteriai, also known as FK Riteriai or as Riteriai, is a Lithuanian professional football club based in Vilnius. The team has been playing in the top level of Lithuanian football, the A Lyga, since 2014. Until 21 February 2019, the club was based in Trakai and was known as FK Trakai.[1]

FK Riteriai

Full name	Futbolo Klubas Riteriai
Nickname(s)	Riteriai (The Knights)
Founded	2005; 17 years ago (2005)
Ground	LFF Stadium
Capacity	5,067
Coordinates	54°40′07″N 25°17′39″E
Chairman	Jan Nevoina
Manager	Pablo Villar
League	A Lyga
2021	6th of 10
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

The team's colors are yellow and blue. The club plays at LFF Stadium in Vilnius (capacity 5,067).

History

2005–2013

The club was established in 2005 as a way to promote physical activity to children and the general society. In 2006, the club laid an artificial coverage stadium in Trakai[2] and started to play in the III Lyga Vilnius County. In 2008, they also played in the Sunday Football League. In 2010, they were admitted to the II Lyga South Zone, and in 2011, they were already in the I Lyga (second-tier division in Lithuania). Before the 2013 season, the club submitted an application to play in the A Lyga, as all three top finishers decided against seeking promotion, promising to play games in Vilnius before adequate infrastructure requirements could be fulfilled, but ultimately remained in the same tier.[3] They were promoted to A Lyga after finishing 3rd in the 2013 LFF I Lyga season. The club also reached the semi-finals of the 2013–14 Lithuanian Football Cup, before being eliminated by the eventual winners, VMFD Žalgiris. During summer, the club organizes youth camps with invitees from AC Milan.[4]

2014–present

The club began preparation for the 2014 campaign by strengthening their first team, which included signing Lithuanian national team veterans, Paulius Grybauskas, Vytautas Lukša, Darius Miceika, and Tadas Labukas, as well as unveiling former star Edgaras Jankauskas as their new head coach.[5][6] They debuted in the A Lyga victoriously, beating Klaipėdos Granitas 2–0.[7] Throughout the season, the club's results plateaued, but they managed to climb up to second place around the mid-season break. Trakai continued to strengthen their core and staff personnel through mid-season. On 19 September 2014, another national team star, Deividas Česnauskis, was signed on.[8] Soon afterwards, the club was eliminated from the 2014–15 Lithuanian Football Cup by Šilas. With 7 matches remaining, Trakai was still in 2nd place in the league, but a losing streak followed. On 3 November 2014, Jankauskas was fired by the club.[9] Virmantas Lemežis took over as caretaker and managed to stabilize things. As a result, the team finished in 4th place, qualifying for the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League. On 27 November 2014, Trakai announced the signing of the former Ekranas manager, Valdas Urbonas, as development director, but during the club's season roundup event, he was announced as new manager for the upcoming season.[10][11] The Trakai reserve team also finished third in the A Lyga's reserves competitions that season.

In 2015, some veteran players left the team. On 2 July 2015, FK Trakai debuted in the UEFA Europa League qualification round against HB Torshavn from the Faroe Islands. Trakai won 7–1. However, it lost in the Europa League's second qualifying round to the Cypriot club Apollon Limassol. In the first leg, Trakai lost 4–0. In the second leg, they drew 0–0. In the 2015 A Lyga season, Trakai became the vice-champion of Lithuania and qualified to 2016–17 UEFA Europa League's first qualifying round. It was the most successful FK Trakai season. Before 2016 A Lyga's season, the top 2015 season defenders, Linas Klimavičius, Edvardas Gaurilovas, Nikolaz Apakitze, Sergej Shevchuk, Marius Šalkauskas, Ronald Solomin and Rokas Stanulevičius, left the team. But the team managed to keep last season's leaders, Yuri Mamaev, Marius Rapalis, and Deividas Česnauskis. Trakai saved the core of the team and signed contracts with a few newcomers. The team signed a legionnaire from Italy, Mattia Broli, and former Lithuanian national football players, Arūnas Klimavičius, and Martynas Dapkus.[12] In 2018, the team saw a change in coaching. In May, Oleg Vasilenko was fired,[13] and Kibu Vicuña was hired as the team's head coach.[14] He worked with the team in the Europa League tournament, but left in October and went to Wisła Płock.[15]

Stadium

Since 2014, the club has played at LFF Stadium in Vilnius. The stadium, formerly known as Vėtra Stadium, was built in 2004 and holds up to 5,500 spectators. After the bankruptcy of the FK Vėtra football club, the Lithuanian Football Federation took control of the stadium. The stadium is under reconstruction in an effort to meet level 3 UEFA stadium status, with the capacity expected to be extended to 8,000.

Achievements

• A Lyga
  • Runners-up (2): 2015, 2016
  • 3rd place (3): 2017, 2018, 2019
• Lithuanian Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 2016
• Lithuanian Super Cup
  • Runners-up (2): 2016, 2017

Season by season

Season	Tier	League	Pos.	LFF cup
2006	4	3 Lyga	4	-
2007	4	3 Lyga	8	-
2008	4	3 Lyga	7	-
2009	4	3 Lyga	13	-
2010	3	2 Lyga	4	-
2011	2	I Lyga	4	Fourth round
2012	2	I Lyga	4	Fourth round
2013	2	I Lyga	3	Semi-final
2014	1	A Lyga	4	Third round
2015	1	A Lyga	2	Final
2016	1	A Lyga	2	Round of 16
2017	1	A Lyga	3	Round of 8
2018	1	A Lyga	3	Round of 8
2019	1	A Lyga	3	Round of 16
2020	1	A Lyga	6	Semi-final
2021	1	A Lyga	6	First round

Sponsors

Sponsors Lit-invest Esse Ecoil Compensa TFK

Kit

FK Trakai uniform colors are yellow for home games. Away uniforms were black and red (like AC Milan) from 2014 till 2018. Since 2018, away uniforms have been dark blue.

2006–2013 (Home kit)

2006–2013 (Away kit)

From 2014 (Home kit)

From 2014 (Away kit)

From 2018 (Away kit)

Goalkeeper`s kit 2018 Home

Goalkeeper`s kit 2018 Away

Uniform manufacturers

• 2011–14 Patrick
• 2015– Nike

European record

Accurate as of 26 August 2020

Competition	Played	Won	Drew	Lost	GF	GA	GD	Win%
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League	21	10	6	5	26	24	+2	047.62
Total	21	10	6	5	26	24	+2	047.62

Source: UEFA.com
Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal Difference. Defunct competitions indicated in italics.

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
2015–16	UEFA Europa League	1Q	HB Tórshavn	3–0	4–1	7–1
		2Q	Apollon Limassol	0–0	0–4	0–4
2016–17	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Nõmme Kalju FC	2–1	1–4	3–5
2017–18	UEFA Europa League	1Q	St Johnstone	1–0	2–1	3–1
		2Q	IFK Norrköping	2–1	1–2	3–3 (5–3 p)
		3Q	Shkëndija	2–1	0–3	2–4
2018–19	UEFA Europa League	PR	Cefn Druids	1–0	1−1	2–1
		1Q	Irtysh Pavlodar	0−0	1–0	1–0
		2Q	Partizan	1−1	0–1	1–2
2019–20	UEFA Europa League	1Q	KÍ Klaksvík	1−1	0−0	1−1 (a)
2020–21	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Derry City	3−2 (a.e.t.)	—	—
		2Q	Slovan Liberec	1−5	—	—

Notes

• PR: Preliminary round
• 1Q: First qualifying round
• 2Q: Second qualifying round
• 3Q: Third qualifying round

Current squad

As of 17 November 2022

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  LTU Armantas Vitkauskas 2 DF  FIN Akseli Kalermo 3 DF  LTU Deividas Malžinskas 4 DF  NGA Olaide Badmus 5 MF  GEO Luka Koberidze 8 MF  LTU Mindaugas Grigaravičius 9 FW  LTU Gytis Paulauskas 11 MF  UKR Dmytro Bilonoh 12 MF  BRA Felipe Brisola 15 MF  LTU Emil Andriuškevič 16 MF  LTU Matas Ramanauskas

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF  BIH Nikola Eskić 19 MF  LTU Rokas Filipavičius 22 DF  LTU Aleksandr Levšin 24 MF  LTU Povilas Kalimavičius 28 MF  LTU Juozas Lubas 33 DF  LTU Valdemar Borovskij 39 FW  NGA Ebuka Onah 44 MF  LTU Tomas Dombrauskis 55 GK  LTU Geraldas Širvinskas 66 MF  SRB Marko Nikolić 97 GK  UKR Serhiy Melashenko 99 MF  SRB Dejan Milićević

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  LTU Lukas Paukštė (at Šiauliai)

Notable players

Players who have either appeared in at least one match for their respective national teams at any time or received an individual award while at the club. Players whose names are listed in bold represented their countries while playing for FK Trakai or FK Riteriai.

Trakai Player of the Year

Since 2014, a Player of the Year award is presented during an annual season closeup event. From 2014–16, nominees were elected by Trakai players. However, since 2017, the award is determined by using InStat data.

Year	Winner
2014	Vytautas Lukša[11]
2015	Yuri Mamaev
2016	Arūnas Klimavičius
2017	Mykhailo Shyshka
2018	Donatas Kazlauskas[16]
2019	Terem Moffi[17]

Staff

Position	Name
President	Jan Nevoina
Sporting director	Tadas Simaitis
Director	Vladimiras Buzmakovas
Head coach	Pablo Villar
Assistant manager	Vaidas Sabaliauskas
Assistant manager	Gintaras Rimkus
Fitness coach	Arnas Juozaitis
Goalkeeping coach	Mindaugas Malinauskas

Academy

FK Riteriai run their own football academy, which keeps close relationship with AC Milan. The academy is called Talentų futbolo akademija,[18] it was established in 2013.[19]

Managers

Name	Period
Edgaras Jankauskas	Feb 2014 – Nov 2014
Virmantas Lemežis	Nov 2014 – Dec 2014
Valdas Urbonas	Jan 2015 – Jul 2016
Albert Rybak	Jul 2016 – Aug 2016
Serhiy Kovalets	Aug 2016 – Jan 2017
Oleg Vasilenko	Jan 2017 – May 2018
Virmantas Lemežis	May 2018 – Jun 2018
Kibu Vicuña	Jun 2018 – Oct 2018
Albert Rybak	Oct 2018 – Dec 2018
Aurelijus Skarbalius	Dec 2018 – Jul 2019.[20]
Albert Rybak	Jul 2019 – Nov 2019
Mindaugas Čepas	Jan 2020 – Jun 2020[21]
Janusz Niedzvied	Jul 2020 – Aug 2020
Tommi Pikkarainen	Aug 2020 – Nov 2020
Sergei Gurenko	Feb 2021 – May 2021
Valdas Trakys	9 June 2021 – 3 August 2021 (temporary).[22][23]
Miguel Moreira	3 August 2021 – 30 November 2021[24]
Glenn Ståhl	January 2022 – 7 May 2022[25][26]
Pablo Villar	24 May 2022[27]

References

External links

• Official website

На других языках

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[de] FK Riteriai

FK Riteriai (Futbolo Klubas Riteriai) ist ein litauischer Fußballverein aus der Stadt Vilnius. Der Verein wurde 2005 als FK Trakai gegründet und war ursprünglich in Trakai ansässig. In der Kleinstadt gibt es jedoch keine ausreichende Fußball-Infrastruktur, die den Ansprüchen des Profifußballs genügt, weshalb der Verein seine Spiele ab dem Aufstieg in die erste litauische Liga im nur 28 Kilometer entfernten Vilnius austrug.[1] Im Februar 2019 erfolgte dann der offizielle Umzug des Vereins nach Vilnius und die Umbenennung in FK Riteriai.[2]

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- [en] FK Riteriai

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[es] FK Riteriai

El FK Riteriai es un club de fútbol con sede en Vilna, Lituania. Actualmente juega en la A Lyga, máxima categoría nacional.

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[ru] Ритеряй

«Ритеряй» (лит. «Riterių futbolo klubas») — литовский футбольный клуб из Вильнюса. Серебряный призёр чемпионата Литвы по футболу. До февраля 2019 года назывался «Тракай» и представлял одноимённый город.

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