FC Gintra is a

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 ...

women's football Women's football most often refers to: * Women's association football Women's football may also refer to: * Women's gridiron football * Women's Australian rules football * Ladies' Gaelic football * Women's rugby league * Women's rugby union ...

club from

Šiauliai Šiauliai ( ; ) is a city in northern Lithuania, the List of cities in Lithuania, country's fourth largest city and the List of cities in the Baltic states by population, sixth largest city in the Baltic States, with a population of 112 581 in 202 ...

History

The club plays in the highest Lithuanian league, 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. ...

and has won 13 championships so far. The fourth one in 2005 and every championship since then. After its championships, the club played in the

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and from 2009 onwards in the

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. The club participated only in the qualifying rounds though, playing 3 games each season, and the best result achieved was 1 win, 1 tie and 1 loss thus failing to move on to the next round. The club took part in the

2010–11 UEFA Women's Champions League The 2010–11 UEFA Women's Champions League was the tenth edition of the European women's championship for football clubs. The final was held in London, England on 26 May 2011 at Craven Cottage. French side Olympique Lyon won the competition af ...

qualifying round and managed a good 2nd place after beating ZFK Borec (Macedonia), drawing to Klaksvikar Itrottarfelag (Faroe Islands) and only losing to England's Everton. All games were hosted by Gintra in Lithuania. In the 2014/15 edition they finished as best runners-up and advanced to the round of 32 for the first time in ten seasons.

Honours

(23): 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005 to 2024 *

Lithuanian Women's Cup The Lithuanian Women's Cup (Lithuanian: LFF moterų taurė) is the annual cup competition of women's football teams in Lithuania. Format In current years the cup is played in two groups. The group winners contest the final. List of finals The li ...

(12) : 2005 to 2016 * Lithuanian Women's Supercup (1) : 2006 *

Baltic League The Baltic League (officially known as the Triobet Baltic League) was a Baltic men's football club tournament held four times between the top club sides from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Launched in 2007 inspired by the now defunct Scandinavi ...

(4): 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023

Players

Current squad

Former internationals

: Raimonda Bložytė-Lukoševičienė, Viktorija Budrytė, Gintare Burokaitė, Oksana Imanalijeva,

Rasa Imanalijeva Rasa Imanalijeva is a former Lithuanian football striker and current referee, who played for Gintra Universitetas in the A Lyga. She has been the league's top scorer in the 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 seasons. She has been a member of the Lithu ...

, Rasa Jackunaitė, Gitana Kerpiėnė,

Indrė Kirjanovaitė Indrė Kirjanovaitė (born 5 May 1989) is a Lithuanian former footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American footba ...

Raimonda Kudytė Raimonda Kudytė (born 10 October 1975) is a Lithuanian former footballer who played as a midfielder In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position primarily in the mi ...

Rimantė Kunickaitė Rimantė Kunickaitė (born 18 April 1993) is a Lithuanian footballer who played as a midfielder for A Lyga The A Lyga is the top division of professional football in Lithuania. It is organized by Lithuanian Football Federation (LFF) (). His ...

, Anika Kyžaitė, Justina Lavrenovaitė-Perez, Jurgita Mačikunytė, Rita Mažukėlytė, Brigita Partikaitė, Alina Petrauskaitė,

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, Marija Stasiulytė, Olga Švaikevič, Kamilė Vaičiulaitytė, Liucija Vaitukaitytė, Tatjana Veržbickaja, Dovilė Gailevičiūtė, Simona Petravičienė,

Algimantė Mikutaitė Algimantė Mikutaitė (born 7 December 1996) is a Lithuanian Association football, footballer who plays as a Defender (association football), defender and has appeared for the Lithuania women's national football team, Lithuania women's national ...

, Greta Lukjančukė, Vestina Neverdauskaitė, Meda Šeškutė, Paulina Sarkanaitė, Gabija Toropovaitė,

Rimantė Jonušaitė Rimantė Jonušaitė (born 25 October 2003) is a Lithuanian footballer who played as a forward for Servette FC Chênois on loan from A.C. Milan in the Serie A The Serie A (), officially known as Serie A Enilive in Italy and Serie A Made ...

, Meda Šeškutė,

Lolita Žižytė Lolita Žižytė (born 27 July 1998) is a Lithuanian footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canad ...

Samanta Karasiovaitė Samanta Karasiovaitė (born 17 January 1996) is a Lithuanian Association football, footballer who plays as a midfielder and has appeared for the Lithuania women's national football team, Lithuania women's national team. Career Karasiovaitė has ...

, Paulina Sarkanaitė *

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: Ina Boyko,Ina Boyko and Ina Budestean are the same person Narmina Rzayeva *

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: Lyubov Gudchenko, Anna Pilipenko *

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: Kristina Petrunova *

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: María José Rojas *

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: Laetitia Chapeh, Gloria Chinasa *

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: Toriana Patterson *

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, Sintija Greijere, Olga Ivanova,

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: Christina Murillo *

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: Ina Budestean, Carolina Țabur, Elena Turcan *

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: Zenatha Coleman *

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: Jelena Čubrilo, Nikoleta Nikolić *

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, Leandra Smeda, Nothando Vilakazi *

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: Miranda Nild *

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: Anastasia Filenko, Tetyana Kozyrenko

Record in UEFA competitions

Notes

References

External links

Official site
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