Panevėžio Ekranas

Full name	Football Club Ekranas
Nickname(s)	Mėlynai Raudoni (The Blue-Reds)
Founded	1964 (1964)
Dissolved	2015 (2015)
Ground	Žemynos stadionas
Chairman	Tomas Malinauskas
Manager	Darius Maciulevičius
Home colours Away colours

Panevėžio Ekranas was a Lithuanian defunct football club, from the city of Panevėžys. It won 7 top-tier champion and 5 national cup titles throughout its existence.^[1]

The club was founded in 1964 and for 44 years competed in the top tier of Lithuanian football. However, at the end of 2014 season the club ran into financial difficulties, failed to meet admission criteria to A Lyga for the 2015 season and was subsequently declared bankrupt. A new club FK Panevėžys was formed to represent the city of Panevėžys, which managed to pass licensing criteria for the 2015 I Lyga season. FK Ekranas was declared bankrupt in 2016.^[2] In 2020 FK Ekranas was restored. It plays in the 2nd tier of Lithuania.

FK Ekranas won Lithuanian championships in 1985 (Soviet Lithuania), 1993, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, the Lithuanian Cup in 1985 (Soviet Lithuania), 1998, 2000, 2010 and 2011 and the Lithuanian Super Cup in 1998, 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012.

On 5 November 2004, before the A Lyga champion-deciding match against FBK Kaunas, the club was controversially expelled from the top division by the National Football Club Association (NFKA) for alleged match fixing, but reinstated a day later.

In August 2006 FK Ekranas won the first Baltic Champion's Cup tournament in Liepāja after beating Estonian champions TVMK Tallinn 6–4 and drawing with the home side Liepājas Metalurgs 1–1.

In 2015, the club filed for bankruptcy and was dissolved following the unsuccessful attempts to save the team.^[3]

Honours

Ekranas fans. Pirmoji Armada

• A Lyga
  • Winners (7): 1992–93, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
  • Runners-up (4): 1990, 2003, 2004, 2006
• II Lyga
  • Winners (1): 2021
• Lithuanian Cup
  • Winners (5): 1985, 1998, 2000, 2010, 2011
  • Runners-up (5): 1972, 1994, 2003, 2006, 2012
• Lithuanian Super Cup
  • Winners (4): 1998, 2006, 2010, 2011
  • Runners-up (1): 2009
• Lithuanian SSR Championship
  • Winners (1): 1985

Participation in Lithuanian Championships

UEFA club competition results

Updated 23 July 2013

Season	Cup	Rnd	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
1993–94	Champions League	1Q	Floriana	0–1	0–1	0–2
1998–99	Cup Winners Cup	1Q	Apollon Limassol	1–2	3–3	4–5
1999	Intertoto Cup	1R	Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	0–1	0–1	0–2
2000–01	UEFA Cup	Q	Lierse S.K.	0–3	0–4	0–7
2001	Intertoto Cup	1R	FC Artmedia Bratislava	1–1	1–1	2–2*
2003–04	UEFA Cup	Q	Debreceni VSC	1–1	1–2	2–3
2004–05	UEFA Cup	1Q	F91 Dudelange	1–0	2–1	3–1
		2Q	Odd Grenland	2–1	1–3	3–4
2005–06	UEFA Cup	1Q	Cork City	0–2	1–0	1–2
2006–07	Champions League	1Q	Elbasani	3–0	0–1	3–1
		2Q	Dinamo Zagreb	1–4	2–5	3–9
2007–08	UEFA Cup	1Q	B36 Tórshavn	3–2	3–1	6–3
		2Q	Vålerenga	1–1	0–6	1–7
2008	Intertoto Cup	1R	Narva Trans	1–0	3–0	4–0
		2R	Rosenborg	1–3	0–4	1–7
2009–10	Champions League	2Q	Baku	2–2	2–4	4–6
2010–11	Champions League	2Q	HJK Helsinki	1–0	0–2	1–2
2011–12	Champions League	2Q	Valletta	1–0	3–2	4–2
		3Q	BATE Borisov	0–0	1–3	1–3
2011–12	Europa League	Play-Off	Hapoel Tel Aviv	1–0	0–4	1–4
2012–13	Champions League	2Q	Shamrock Rovers	2–1	0–0	2–1
		3Q	Anderlecht	0–6	0–5	0–11
2012–13	Europa League	Play-Off	Steaua București	0–2	0–3	0–5
2013–14	Champions League	2Q	Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar	0–1	1–2	1–3
2014–15	Europa League	1Q	Crusaders	1–2	1–3	2–5

*FC Artmedia Bratislava victory after the penalty shootout.

1Q – 1st Qualifying Round; 2Q – 2nd Qualifying Round; 1R – 1st Round; 2R – 2nd Round

Players

Famous players

FK Ekranas players famous internationally and legends from the club or Lithuania. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Ekranas.

Managerial history

From–to	Names
1964–76	Algimantas Balilionis
1972–75	Fulgentas Bižys
1980–89	Mindaugas Kaušpėdas
1989–07	Virginijus Liubšys
2007	Saulius Širmelis
2007–08	Darius Butkus
20 July 2008 – 30 June 2009	Saulius Širmelis
2 June 2009 – 25 April 2013	Valdas Urbonas
May 2013 – November 2014	Valdas Dambrauskas

References