Baltic League 2007

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The Baltic League 2007 (known as the Triobet Baltic League 2007 for sponsorship reasons) was the first edition of the Baltic League. The competition was won by Liepājas Metalurgs of Latvia, who beat fellow Latvians FK Ventspils 8–2 on aggregate in the final. The final was played over two legs on 8 November 2007 and 11 November 2007.

Contents 1 Group stage 1.1 Group A 1.2 Group B 1.3 Group C 1.4 Group D 2 Knockout stage 2.1 Bracket 2.2 Quarter-finals 2.3 Semi-finals 3 Final 4 2007 Baltic League Player Awards 5 Top scorers 6 External links

[edit] Group stage

Key to colors in group tables
Top two places advance to the quarter-finals
Third place is eliminated from competition

[edit] Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
FBK Kaunas	4	3	1	0	5	4	+1	10
Narva Trans	4	2	1	1	4	5	-1	7
Dinaburg FC*	4*	0	0	4	0	0	0	0

* Dinaburg FC was eliminated from the competition after one match due to a fair play rules violation. All further games against Dinaburg FC were thus counted as walkovers

2007-03-07	FBK Kaunas	3 – 2	Narva Trans	S. Darius and S. Girėnas Kaunas, Lithuania Referee: S. Braga (Latvia)
	Beniusis  61' Kvaratshelia  83' Ledesma  88'	Report	Dubõkin  11' Kazakov  65'

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2007-03-14	Narva Trans	2 – 0 (annulled)	Dinaburg FC	Narva Kreenholmi Staadion Narva, Estonia Referee: E. Gaigalas (Lithuania)
		Report

Match annulled following Dinaburg FC's elimination from the competition

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2007-03-18	Dinaburg FC	Kaunas walkover	FBK Kaunas	Celtnieks Stadium Daugavpils, Latvia
		Report

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2007-04-01	FBK Kaunas	Kaunas walkover	Dinaburg FC	S.Darius and S.Girėnas Kaunas, Lithuania
		Report

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2007-04-11	Dinaburg FC	Trans walkover	Narva Trans	Celtnieks Stadium Daugavpils, Latvia
		Report

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2007-05-22	Narva Trans	2 – 2	FBK Kaunas	Narva Kreenholmi Staadion Narva, Estonia Referee: V. Direktorenko (Latvia)
	Dubõkin  49' Gruznov  73'	Report	Grigalevičius  24'  33'

[edit] Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
FK Ventspils	4	3	1	0	7	2	+5	10
FK Ekranas	4	1	2	1	5	7	-2	5
FC TVMK	4	0	1	3	6	9	-3	1

2007-03-06	FK Ekranas	2 – 1	FC TVMK	Aukštaitija Stadium Panevėžys, Lithuania Referee: R. Lajuks (Latvia)
	Tomkevièius  11' Leetma  34' (o.g.)	Report	Ossipov  76' (pen.)

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2007-03-13	FC TVMK	0 – 1	FK Ventspils	Kadrioru Staadion Tallinn, Estonia Referee: A. Žuta (Lithuania)
		Report	Soleičuks  83'

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2007-03-17	FK Ventspils	3 – 0	FK Ekranas	Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions Ventspils, Latvia Referee: H. Kaasik (Estonia)
	Rimkus  3'  23' Sļesarčuks  19'	Report

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2007-04-01	FK Ekranas	0 – 0	FK Ventspils	Aukštaitija Stadium Panevėžys, Lithuania
		Report

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2007-04-11	FK Ventspils	3 – 2	FC TVMK	Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions Ventspils, Latvia Referee: H. Mažejka (Lithuania)
	Sernecki  6'  9' Zangareev  23'	Report	Konsa  1' Dobrecovs  85'

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2007-05-22	FC TVMK	3 – 3	FK Ekranas	Kadrioru Staadion Tallinn, Estonia Referee: S. Braga (Latvia)
	Ossipov  45'  65' Kulatšenko  76'	Report	Saulenas  7'  38' Šidlauskas  63'

[edit] Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Liepājas Metalurgs	4	2	2	0	6	3	+3	8
FK Žalgiris Vilnius	4	1	2	1	4	5	-1	5
FC Levadia	4	0	2	2	4	6	-2	2

2007-03-07	FC Levadia	1 – 1	FK Žalgiris Vilnius	Kadrioru Staadion Tallinn, Estonia Referee: A. Sipailo (Latvia)
	Zelinski  31' (pen.)	Report	Poderis  73'

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2007-03-13	Liepājas Metalurgs	1 – 1	FC Levadia	Daugava Stadium (reserve pitch) Liepāja, Latvia Referee: V. Vasiliauskas (Lithuania)
	Kļava  32' (pen.)	Report	Kink  38'

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2007-03-17	FK Žalgiris Vilnius	0 – 0	Liepājas Metalurgs	Žalgiris Stadium Vilnius, Lithuania Referee: S. Kaldma (Estonia)
		Report

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2007-04-01	Liepājas Metalurgs	3 – 1	FK Žalgiris Vilnius	Daugava Stadium Liepāja, Latvia Referee: E. Saar (Estonia)
	Kalonas  23' Karlsons  64'  67'	Report	Morinas  90+1' (pen.)

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2007-04-11	FC Levadia	1 – 2	Liepājas Metalurgs	Kadrioru Staadion Tallinn, Estonia Referee: A. Kancleris (Lithuania)
	Kink  66'	Report	Kalonas  46' Ferreira  68'

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2007-05-22	FK Žalgiris Vilnius	2 – 1	FC Levadia	Žalgiris Stadium Vilnius, Lithuania Referee: R. Lajuks (Latvia)
	Lukosevicius  44' Misjuk  83'	Report	Zelinski  59'

[edit] Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Skonto FC	4	2	2	0	7	2	+5	8
FK Vėtra	4	1	2	1	5	3	+2	5
FC Flora	4	1	0	3	1	8	-7	3

2007-03-06	FC Flora	0 – 3	FK Vėtra	A.Le Coq Arena Tallinn, Estonia Referee: V. Direktorenko (Latvia)
		Report	Jankauskas  54' Sasnauskas  64' Lima de Maura  85'

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2007-03-14	Skonto FC	4 – 0	FC Flora	Skonto Stadions Riga, Latvia Referee: G. Mažeika (Lithuania)
	Astafjevs  35' Kalniņš  47' Perepļotkins  85' Piaček  87'	Report

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2007-03-18	FK Vėtra	1 – 1	Skonto FC	Vėtra Stadium Vilnius, Lithuania Referee: E. Saar (Estonia)
	Stankevičius  70'	Report	Višnakovs  20'

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2007-04-01	Skonto FC	1 – 1	FK Vėtra	Skonto Stadions Riga, Latvia
	Cauņa  53'	Report	Lima de Maura  19'

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2007-04-10	FC Flora	0 – 1	Skonto FC	A.Le Coq Arena Tallinn, Estonia Referee: P. Malžinskas (Lithuania)
		Report	Višnakovs  90+3'

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2007-05-22	FK Vėtra	0 – 1	FC Flora	Vėtra Stadium Vilnius, Lithuania Referee: A. Sipailo (Latvia)
		Report	Jääger  41'

[edit] Knockout stage

[edit] Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	FK Žalgiris Vilnius	2
	FBK Kaunas	10
					FBK Kaunas	0
					FK Ventspils	1
	FK Vėtra	2
	FK Ventspils	4
									FK Ventspils	2
									Liepājas Metalurgs	8
	Liepājas Metalurgs	5
	Narva Trans	3
					Liepājas Metalurgs	8
					FK Ekranas	3
	Skonto Riga	1
	FK Ekranas	2

[edit] Quarter-finals

2007-06-12	FK Žalgiris Vilnius	1 – 9	FBK Kaunas	Žalgiris Stadium Vilnius, Lithuania Attendance: 600 Referee: A. Sipailo (Latvia)
	Lemežis  23'	Report	Kšanavičius  20' Grigalevičius  22' Činikas  36' Ledesma  43' Beniušis  48'  65'  73'  90' Mrowiec  52'

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2007-07-04	FBK Kaunas	1 – 1	FK Žalgiris Vilnius	S.Darius and S.Girėnas Kaunas, Lithuania Referee: R. Lajuks (Latvia)
	Rimkevičius  88'	Report	Misiuk  45'

FBK Kaunas win 10-2 on aggregate

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2007-06-13	Skonto FC	1 – 2	FK Ekranas	Skonto Stadions Riga, Latvia Referee: E. Saar (Estonia)
	Dirnbah  73'	Report	Savenas  45' Lukšys  74'

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2007-07-04	FK Ekranas	0 – 0	Skonto FC	Aukštaitija Stadium Panevėžys, Lithuania Attendance: 1,420 Referee: H. Kaasik (Estonia)
		Report

FK Ekranas win 2-1 on aggregate

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2007-06-13	FK Vėtra	0 – 0	FK Ventspils	Vėtra Stadium Vilnius, Lithuania Referee: K.Tohver (Estonia)
		Report

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2007-07-04	FK Ventspils	4 – 2	FK Vėtra	Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions Ventspils, Latvia Attendance: 800 Referee: M. Kotter (Estonia)
	Koļesņičenko  23' Sernecki  60'  90+6' Rimkus  90'	Report	Šernas  2' Miloseski  90+2'

FK Ventspils win 4-2 on aggregate

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2007-06-13	Liepājas Metalurgs	4 – 1	Narva Trans	Daugava Stadium Liepāja, Latvia Attendance: 1,200 Referee: V. Direktorenko (Latvia)
	Kalonas  19'  63' Karlsons  72' Solonicins  77'	Report	Lipartov  27'

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2007-07-04	Narva Trans	2 – 1	Liepājas Metalurgs	Narva Kreenholmi Staadion Narva, Estonia Attendance: 150 Referee: P. Malžinskas (Lithuania)
	Lipartov  9' Dubõkin  45+1'	Report	Solonicins  26'

Liepājas Metalurgs win 5-3 on aggregate

[edit] Semi-finals

2007-08-29	FBK Kaunas	0 – 0	FK Ventspils	S.Darius and S.Girėnas Kaunas, Lithuania Referee: H. Kaasik (Estonia)
		Report

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2007-09-26	FK Ventspils	1 – 0	FBK Kaunas	Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions Ventspils, Latvia Attendance: 910 Referee: S. Kaldma (Estonia)
	Misikov  61'	Report

FK Ventspils win 1-0 on aggregate

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2007-09-19	Liepājas Metalurgs	6 – 1	FK Ekranas	Daugava Stadium Liepāja, Latvia Referee: K. Tohver (Estonia)
	Soloņicins  4' Skroblas  32' (o.g.) Karlsons  34'  86' Pogreban  44' (o.g.) Kamešs  90'	Report	Varnas  71'

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2007-09-26	FK Ekranas	2 – 2	Liepājas Metalurgs	Aukštaitija Stadium Panevėžys, Lithuania Referee: M. Kotter (Estonia)
	Varnas  16'  68'	Report	Torres  50' Karlsons  64'

Liepājas Metalurgs win 8-3 on aggregate

[edit] Final

Main article: 2007 Baltic League Final

2007-11-08	FK Ventspils	1 – 3	Liepājas Metalurgs	Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions Ventspils, Latvia Attendance: 250 Referee: K.Tohver (Estonia)
	Grebis  75'	Report	Ferreira  3' Karlsons  38' Solonicins  78'

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2007-11-11	Liepājas Metalurgs	5 – 1	FK Ventspils	Daugava Stadium Liepāja, Latvia Attendance: 1,000 Referee: A. Žuta (Lithuania)
	Karlsons  36'  66'  75' Soloņicins  49' Ivanovs  78'	Report	Savčenkovs  41'

Liepājas Metalurgs win 8-2 on aggregate

Winner of Baltic League 2007
Liepājas Metalurgs 1st Title

[edit] 2007 Baltic League Player Awards

• Goalkeeper of the Year — Mihkel Aksalu ( FC Flora)
• Defender of the Year —
• Midfielder of the Year —
• Forward of the Year —
• Young Footballer of the Year —

[edit] Top scorers

The top scorers from the 2007 Baltic League are as follows:

#	Name	Team	Goals
1	Ģirts Karlsons	Liepājas Metalurgs	10
2	Ričardas Beniušis	FBK Kaunas	5
	Genādijs Soloņicins	Liepājas Metalurgs	5
4	Serhij Sernecki	FK Ventspils	4
	Mindaugas Kalonas	Liepājas Metalurgs	4
6	Artur Ossipov	FC TVMK	3
	Aleksandr Dubõkin	Narva Trans	3
	Ričardas Beniušis	FBK Kaunas	3
	Egidijus Varnas	FK Ekranas	3
	Vits Rimkus	FK Ventspils	3

[edit] External links

• Official site

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