The 2025 A Lyga, for sponsorship reasons also called TOPsport A Lyga, was the 36th season of the A Lyga, the top-tier football league of Lithuania. The season began on 28 February 2025 and ended on 8 November 2025.
Teams The league consisted of ten teams; the top nine teams from the previous season, and one team promoted from the LFF I Lyga. Žalgiris entered the season as defending champions.
The promoted team was the 2024 LFF I Lyga champions Riteriai (returning to the A Lyga after a single-season absence). They replaced the 2024 A Lyga bottom-placed team TransINVEST (relegated from the A Lyga after a single season).
+2025 A Lyga competitors Club Location Stadium Surface Seasons in A Lyga Position in 2024 Gargždai Gargždai Stadium Artificial 2,216 12 Alytus Alytus Stadium Natural 3,726 14 Marijampolė Marijampolė Football Indoor Arena Artificial 2,660 Telšiai Telšiai Central Stadium Natural 2,069 5 ? Artificial ? Kaunas Raudondvaris Stadium Artificial 490 5 Kaunas Darius and Girėnas Stadium Hybrid 15,026 11 Akademija VDU Stadium Artificial 1,000 Panevėžys Aukštaitija Stadium Natural 6,600 7 FA Panevėžys stadium Artificial 660Vilnius LFF Stadium Artificial 5,06711 Šiauliai Savivaldybė Stadium Natural 3,017 4 Gytariai Stadium Artificial 500 Sportima Arena Artificial 3,157 Marijampolė Marijampolė Football Arena Natural 6,523 23 Marijampolė Football Indoor Arena Artificial 2,660 Vilnius LFF Stadium Artificial 5,067 24 Sportima Arena Artificial 3,157
Managers Team Coach Appointed Licence FK Banga David Afonso UEFA Pro DFK Dainava Mergen Orazov UEFA Pro FC Džiugas Andrius Lipskis UEFA A FC Hegelmann Andrius Skerla UEFA Pro FK Kauno Žalgiris Eivinas Černiauskas UEFA Pro FK Panevėžys Roland Vrabec UEFA Pro FK Riteriai Nicolas Vitorović UEFA Pro FA Šiauliai Dainis Kazakevičs UEFA Pro FK Sūduva Donatas Vencevičius UEFA Pro FK Žalgiris Vladimir Cheburin UEFA Pro
League table
Fixtures and results
A Lyga play-off The ninth-placed team (Riteriai) faced the second-placed team of the 2025 LFF I Lyga (Neptūnas) in a two-legged play-off for the final place in the 2026 A Lyga.
First leg
Second leg
Statistics
Top scorers RankPlayerClubGoals1 Eligijus JankauskasŠiauliai182 Abdel Kader NjoyaHegelmann15 Amine BenchaibKauno Žalgiris4 Milan ĐokićŠiauliai13 Liviu AntalŽalgiris6 Dejan GeorgijevićKauno Žalgiris11 Oleksandr KurtsevDžiugas8 Meinardas MikulėnasRiteriai99 Nauris PetkevičiusSūduva8 Ignas VenckusBanga Ariagner SmithPanevėžys Lucas Vega
Hat-tricks Player For Against Result Date Milan ĐokićŠiauliaiDžiugas5–0 (H)29 June 2025
Clean sheets RankPlayerClubClean sheets1 Mantas BertašiusBanga12 Ignas PlūkasSūduva3 Marius PaukštėDžiugas11 Tomas ŠvedkauskasKauno Žalgiris5 Vincentas ŠarkauskasHegelmann106 Vytautas ČerniauskasPanevėžys97 Carlos OlsesŽalgiris88 Gustas BaliutavičiusŠiauliai79 Deividas MikelionisKauno Žalgiris4 Antonio TutaRiteriai
Discipline Player Source: Most yellow cards: 12 Karolis Žebrauskas (Šiauliai) Most red cards: 2 Andriy Karvatskyi (Panevėžys) Eduardas Jurjonas (Kauno Žalgiris)
Club Source: Most red cards: 5 Kauno Žalgiris Most yellow cards: 87 Riteriai
Attendances
# Club Average 1 Kauno Žalgiris 1,841 2 Žalgiris 880 3 Sūduva 821 4 Džiugas 661 5 Šiauliai 616 6 Banga 526 7 Hegelmann 413 8 Dainava 412 9 Panevėžys 383 10 Riteriai 238
See also Football in Lithuania
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