FK Atlantas

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "FK Atlantas" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

FK Atlantas

Full name	Football Club Atlantas
Founded	1962; 62 years ago (1962)
Dissolved	2020; 4 years ago (2020)
Ground	Central Stadium of Klaipėda
Capacity	4,428
Chairman	Vidas Adomaitis
Manager	Vacant
League	N/A
2020	4th 2 Lyga (Western Zone)
Website	http://www.atlantas.lt/ (now defunct)
Home colours Away colours

FK Atlantas was a Lithuanian professional football club based in the port city of Klaipėda.

The club's name has changed several times. It was established in 1962 as Granitas, and became PSK Aras in 1993. Since 1996, when FK Sirijus Klaipėda was absorbed into the club, it has had the name Atlantas, which in Lithuanian language means Atlantic Ocean.

Atlantas were the SSR Lithuanian champions in 1978, 1980, 1981, and 1984.

Modern Atlantas was founded in 1996. In Soviet occupation period in Klaipėda The team was known as Granitas and Atlantas from 1970 was a farm club of Granitas. The name Atlantas was used in Lithuanian championship and Granitas in Soviet Union Championship. In Lithuanian independence period from 1990 Granitas and Atlantas tradition was lost, but in 1996 the team was refounded team and named Atlantas. This team soon became the strongest football team in Klaipėda. They Played in the top division for a long time.

In summer 2018, the club had financial problems, because account's in banks were suspended. After that, some players ran away from the club.^[1] Club owners thought about all chances to save club from dissvolvement.^[2] In the first half of the 2018 A Lyga, the club was in 4th position and after the summer they didn't win any games in the championship and lost their position. But after 28 rounds, they were in 6th position and could play in final stage of the championship. 29th round was a loss to FC Stumbras 0–6.^[3]

In January 2019, about the club situation known, that they lost sponsorship from business and Klaipėda city municipality and that means, that the club soon would defunct.^[4]

In February 2019, the club changed owners. The new chief was Vidas Adomaitis.^[5][6]

On 5 December 2019, the Lithuanian Football Federation announce that two A Lyga clubs, FK Atlantas and FK Palanga have been excluded from the A Lyga due to manipulation of the match results, fined 30,000 euros and relegated to II Lyga. Five players were punished with fines and a ban from all football activity ranging from 6 to 12 months.^[7]

Atlantas was in 2020 Antra lyga (3rd level) and after first round was one of the top–6 teams. In final stage team had chances for the promotion to Pirma lyga.^[8]

• 1962 – Granitas Klaipėda
• 1970 – Atlantas Klaipėda
• 1996 – FK Atlantas Klaipėda

• Lithuanian Championship
  • Runners-up (3): 2001, 2002, 2013
  • Third place (5): 1999, 2000, 2004, 2014, 2015
• Lithuanian Cup
  • Winners (2): 2001, 2003
  • Runners-up (2): 2004, 2014–15

Soviet Championship

• Lithuanian SSR Championship
  • Champions (4): 1978, 1980, 1981, 1984
• Soviet Second League
  • Winners (2): 1964, 1985
• Lithuanian SSR Cup
  • Winners (4): 1977, 1981, 1983, 1986

• Turkmenistan President's Cup
  • Third place (1): 2003

Central Stadium of Klaipėda is a multi-purpose stadium in Klaipėda, Lithuania. It is currently used mostly for football matches by FK Atlantas competing in A Lyga. In the past the stadium had a capacity of 9,000 and now holds only 5,000.

Sometimes (in early spring or late autumn, or winter) plays in alternative stadium Klaipėdos miesto centrinio stadiono dirbtinės dangos aikštė.^[9] That is artificial pavement ground nearby Central Stadium.

FK Atlantas supporters are called Vakarų Frontas. FK Atlantas supporters maintain friendly relations with fans of Žalgiris Vilnius and Rangers FC.

The crest features a yellow seahorse with a football on the background. In the middle of the crest there is a white text saying Atlantas at the top and Klaipėda in smaller text under it. The logo contained some white.

Since the beginning, the club has used the colors yellow and blue on their kits.

Traditional kit Home

Traditional kit Away

Traditional kit Away

2007/2008; 2015 (Away)

Puma 2017 (Home)

Puma 2017 (Away)

Goalkeeper`s kit 2018

• 2013–2016 Jako
• 2017–2018 Puma^[10]
• 2018–present Adidas

Lithuania

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	Goals	Top Scorer	Cup	Europe
1999	1st	3	18	9	6	3	34–24
2000	1st	3	36	21	4	11	70–45
2001	1st	2	36	19	12	5	66–29
2002	1st	2	32	20	7	5	58–23
2003	1st	5	28	9	6	13	27–30
2004	1st	3	28	15	5	8	36–29
2005	1st	7	36	11	8	17	40–52
2006	1st	6	36	14	10	12	46–41
2007	1st	6	36	13	6	17	54–45
2008	1st	6	28	7	7	14	31–44
2009	3rd	1	20	18	2	0	101–11	Gintas Podelis
2010	2nd	7	27	9	6	12	35–33	Žilvinas Kymantas
2011	1st	11	33	3	2	28	28–121	Karolis Laukžemis
2012	1st	8	36	7	6	23	33–92	Tino Lagator
2013	1st	2	32	22	5	5	64–23	Evaldas Razulis
2014	1st	3	36	19	8	9	76–36	Evaldas Razulis
2015	1st	3	36	21	7	8	65–34	Andrey Panyukov
2016	1st	4	33	16	8	9	42–32	Maksim Maksimov
2017	1st	5	33	8	12	13	39–43	Andrey Panyukov
2018	1st	6	33	6	6	21	28–75
2019	1st	6	33	7	5	21	30–78

As of 20 April 2020^[11]

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 Lukas Paukštė 4 DF  LTU Tautvydas Špiegis 5 DF  LTU Marius Činikas 6 DF  LTU Andrius Bartkus 7 FW  BDI Bonfils-Caleb Bimenyimana 8 MF  LTU Vytautas Lukša 9 FW  LTU Tadas Labukas 10 FW  LTU Darvydas Šernas 12 GK  BUL Stefano Kunchev 13 MF  LTU Vilius Armanavičius 14 DF  LTU Jonas Latakas

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 DF  CRO Damir Žutić 19 MF  CRO Jurica Kovačić 20 FW  LVA Deivids Dobrecovs 22 MF  LVA Ņikita Juhņevičs 23 MF  LTU Titas Vitukynas 24 MF  LTU Justas Vainikaitis 27 MF  BUL Dimitar Petkov 28 DF  LTU Tomas Gvazdinskas 44 MF  NGA Akinjide Idowu 77 MF  CRO Mateo Dunić

FK Atlantas players who have either appeared for their respective national team at any time or received an individual award while at the club.

Season	Competition	Round	Club	1st Leg	2nd Leg	Aggregate
2000	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Kocaelispor	1–0	0–1	1–1 (5–3 p)
		2R	Bradford City	1–4	1–3	2–7
2001–02	UEFA Cup	QR	Rapid București	0–4	0–8	0–12
2002–03	UEFA Cup	QR	Litex Lovech	0–5	1–3	1–8
2003–04	UEFA Cup	QR	Dyskobolia Grodzisk	0–2	1–4	1–6
2004	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Spartak Moscow	1–0	0–2	1–2
2005–06	UEFA Cup	1Q	Rhyl	3–2	1–2	4–4 (a)
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	1Q	FC Differdange 03	0–1	3–1	3–2
		2Q	Shakhter Karagandy	0–0	0–3	0–3
2015–16	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Beroe Stara Zagora	0–2	1–3	1–5
2016–17	UEFA Europa League	1Q	HJK	0–2	1–1	1–3
2017–18	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Kairat	0–6	1–2	1–8

Position	Name
President	Vidas Adomaitis
Director	(?)
Director of Football	Arnas Lekevičius
Head coach	Viktors Dobrecovs
Assistant coach
Assistant coach

• Official website