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The 2024 A Lyga, for sponsorship reasons also called TOPsport A Lyga, was the 35th season of the
A Lyga The A Lyga is the top division of professional football in Lithuania. It is organized by Lithuanian Football Federation (LFF) (). History The first football league was established in Lithuania in 1924, and in various forms existed until 1939. ...
, the top-tier
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league of
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. The season began on 1 March 2024 and ended on 9 November 2024. The winners ( Žalgiris) qualified for the 2025–26 Champions League first qualifying round. The runners-up ( Hegelmann), third-placed team ( Kauno Žalgiris), and 2024 Lithuanian Football Cup winners ( Banga) qualified for the 2025–26 Conference League first qualifying round. The ninth-placed team ( Sūduva) qualified for the A Lyga play-off, winning and retaining their place in the league. The bottom-placed team ( TransINVEST) were relegated to the 2025 LFF I Lyga.


Teams

The league consisted of ten teams; the top nine teams from the previous season, and one team promoted from the
LFF I Lyga The LFF Pirma Lyga, TOPsport Pirma Lyga, or Pirma Lyga, is the second tier of professional Lithuanian football championship. Format Organized by the Lithuanian Football Federation (LFF), I Lyga is contested by 16 teams, with the top team gain ...
.
Panevėžys Panevėžys () is the fifth-largest List of cities in Lithuania, city in Lithuania and the List of cities in the Baltic states by population, eighth-most-populous city in the Baltic States. it occupies with 89,100 inhabitants. As defined by Eu ...
entered the season as defending champions. TransINVEST were promoted as champions of the 2023 LFF I Lyga, replacing the
2023 A Lyga The 2023 A Lyga, for sponsorship reasons also called Optibet A lyga was the 34th season of the A Lyga, the top-tier football league of Lithuania. The season began on 3 March 2023 and concluded on 12 November 2023. The winners (Panevėžys) quali ...
bottom-placed team ( Riteriai).


Managers


League table


Fixtures and results


A Lyga play-off

The ninth-placed club ( Sūduva) faced the second-placed club from the 2024 LFF I Lyga ( Be1 NFA) in a two-legged play-off for the final place in the 2025 A Lyga.


First leg


Second leg


Statistics


Top Scorers


See also

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* {{2024–25 in European football (UEFA) LFF Lyga seasons 2024 in Lithuanian football
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Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...