Pixels: | 250 |
Competition: | A Lyga |
Season: | 2024 |
Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
Continentalcup2: | Conference League |
Prevseason: | 2023 |
Nextseason: | 2025 |
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 | Seasons in A Lyga | Position in 2023 | |
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Gargždai | Gargždai Stadium | Artificial | 2,323 | 11 | ||
Alytus | Alytus Stadium | Natural | 3,726 | 13 | ||
Marijampolė | Artificial | 2,660 | ||||
Telšiai | Telšiai Central Stadium | Natural | 2,320 | 4 | ||
Ateitis Progymnasium Stadium | Artificial | 300 | ||||
Kaunas | LFF Kaunas Training Center Stadium | Artificial | 500 | 4 | ||
Kaunas | Darius and Girėnas Stadium | Hybrid | 15,315 | 10 | ||
Akademija | VDU Stadium | Artificial | 1,000 | |||
Panevėžys | Aukštaitija Stadium | Natural | 6,600 | 6 | ||
Žemyna Progymnasium Stadium | Artificial | 620 | ||||
Šiauliai | Savivaldybė Stadium | Natural | 4,000 | 3 | ||
Gytariai Stadium | Artificial | 500 | ||||
Marijampolė | Marijampolė Football Arena | Natural | 6,250 | 22 | ||
Artificial | 2,660 | |||||
Vilnius | Širvintų miesto stadionas | 1,000 | 0 | |||
Vilnius | LFF Stadium | Artificial | 5,067 | 23 | ||
Sportima Arena | Artificial | 3,157 |
Team | Coach | Appointed | Licence | |
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FK Banga | David Afonso | UEFA Pro | ||
DFK Dainava | Syarhey Kuznyatsow | UEFA A | ||
FC Džiugas | João Prates | UEFA Pro | ||
FC Hegelmann | Andrius Skerla | UEFA Pro | ||
FK Kauno Žalgiris | Nerijus Mačiulis (caretaker) | |||
FK Panevėžys | Gino Lettieri | UEFA Pro | ||
FA Šiauliai | Mindaugas Čepas | UEFA Pro | ||
FK Sūduva | Dovydas Lastauskas | |||
FK TransINVEST | Giedrius Barevičius | |||
FK Žalgiris | Vladimir Cheburin | UEFA Pro |
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.