FK Sūduva Marijampolė

FK Sūduva

Full name	Football Club Sūduva
Nickname(s)	Suvalkiečiai (Sudovians)
Founded	1968
Ground	Sūduva stadium Marijampolė (capacity: 6,200)
Chairman	Vidmantas Murauskas
Manager	Darius Gvildys
League	A Lyga
2012	A Lyga, 3rd
Home colours Away colours

FK Sūduva is a football club from the city of Marijampolė, Lithuania.

At the UEFA Cup 2002-03 tournament Sūduva twice defeated S.K. Brann of Norway 3–2. During the home game 21-year-old Tomas Radzinevičius scored a hat-trick. Their next opponent, Glasgow Celtic, of Scotland proved to be much stronger. FK Sūduva suffered a significant loss in Scotland 1–8 and lost at home 0–2. Celtic reached the final game of that competition to lose 3–2 to F.C. Porto after extra time.

On 16 May 2009 they won the Lithuanian Cup for the second time with a 1–0 victory over FK Tauras in the final.

Honours

Domestic

• A Lyga

• Runners-up (2): 2007, 2010

• Lithuanian Cup

• Winners (2): 2006, 2009
• Runners-up (1): 2002

• Lithuanian Supercup

• Winners (1): 2009
• Runners-up (1): 2007

Continental

• Baltic League

• Runners-up (1): 2010

Participation in Lithuanian Championships

• 2012 – 3rd
• 2011 – 3rd
• 2010 – 2nd
• 2009 – 3rd
• 2008 – 4th
• 2007 – 2nd
• 2006 – 5th
• 2005 – 3rd
• 2004 – 7th
• 2003 – 6th

Participation in the LFF Cup

• 2002 – Finalist
• 2003 – Semi Finals
• 2004 – 1/8 Finals
• 2005 – Quarter Finals
• 2006 – Champions
• 2009 – Champions
• 2010 – Semi Finals

Participation in Europe cups

Season	Cup	Round	Country	Club	Score	Agg.
2002–03	UEFA Cup	QR		SK Brann	3–2, 3–2	6–4
		1R		Celtic F.C.	1–8, 0–2	1–10
2006–07	UEFA Cup	1Q		Rhyl F.C.	0–0, 2–1	2–1
		2Q		Club Brugge	0–2, 2–5	2–7
2007–08	UEFA Cup	1Q		Dungannon Swifts	0–1, 4–0	4–1
		2Q		SK Brann	1–2, 3–4	4–6
2008–09	UEFA Cup	1Q		TNS	1–0, 1–0	2–0
		2Q		Salzburg	1–4, 1–0	2–4
2009–10	Europa League	2Q		Randers FC	0–1, 1–1	1–2
2010–11	Europa League	2Q		SK Rapid Wien	0–2, 2–4	2–6
2011–12	Europa League	2Q		IF Elfsborg	1–1, 0–3	1–4
2012–13	Europa League	1Q		FC Daugava	0–1, 3–2	3–3 (advanced on away goals)
		2Q		FK Vojvodina	1–1, 0-4	1-5

Current squad

As of 30 March, 2013. Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 2 DF Nerijus Radžius 4 DF Vytautas Lasevičius 5 DF Darius Isoda 8 MF Tadas Lekeckas 9 FW Mohamad Kdouh 10 MF Povilas Kisilevskis 12 DF Povilas Leimonas 13 MF Karolis Chvedukas 14 DF Paulius Dauksa 16 MF Audrius Brokas 19 DF Ren Xin 20 DF Dovydas Tumosa 21 MF Nerijus Valskis

No. Position Player 22 DF Gytis Urba 23 FW Armandas Breive 24 DF Vilmantas Bagdanavičius 25 MF Valentin Baranovskij 29 MF Petar Basič 31 GK Džiugas Bartkus 77 GK Pāvels Davidovs 82 FW Rafael Ledesma 88 MF Marius Šoblinskas 91 DF Maximiliano Uggè GK Dovydas Lastauskas MF Giedrius Matulevičius

Technical staff

Position	Name
Head coach	Darius Gvildys
Assistant coach	Algimantas Dvareckas
Goalkeeping coach	Audrius Ramonas
Head physio	Nerijus Stepanauskas
2nd team coach	Algimantas Dvareckas

Notable players

• Otavio Braga (2005–07)
• Willer (2007–08)
• Darius Gvildys (2005–07)
• Saulius Klevinskas (2000–09)
• Darius Maciulevičius (2005–08)
• Tomas Mikuckis (2006–08)
• Gytis Padimanskas (2002), (2005–07)
• Tomas Radzinevičius (1997–05)
• Giedrius Slavickas (2001–10)

Managers

• Jonas Kaupaitis (1968–73)
• Mantas Valukonis (1991)
• Saulius Stankūnas (1991–03)
• Algimantas Gabrys (2003)
• Valdemaras Žilinskas 2004)
• Rino Lavezzini (2004–05)
• Algimantas Gabrys (2005–08)
• Igoris Pankratjevas (2008)
• Gedas Jarmalavičius (2008–09)
• Donatas Vencevičius (2010–11)
• Virginijus Liubšys (April 2010–July 12)
• Darius Gvildys (July 2012–present)

External links

• Official Website
• Fans Blog