Football Club Stumbras was a professional football club, based in

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, Lithuania, which played in

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, the top tier of Lithuanian football. Founded in 2013 on the basis of the NFA, the club has reached the heights of Lithuanian football in a fairly short period of time. It became infamous for one-sided footballer contracts. The club stopped functioning mid-season in 2019 after the owner pulled out the funds. The club played its home matches at the

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(capacity 9,180) and used the NFA stadium in Kaunas (capacity 500) as an alternative.

Name history

*2013 – FC Stumbras Kaunas

History

The club was established in 2013 on the basis of the Nacionalinė Futbolo Akademija team, adopting the name FC Stumbras and playing in

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Southern Zone. The majority of the team's players were under 20 years old. Stumbras finished 2nd in the league and were promoted to I Lyga for the next year. In 2014 FC Stumbras was able to sign a few more experienced players to go with their youth, most notably former

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striker and Kaunas native

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. Stumbras started out the season strongly winning the first 8 matches. In July 2014, during the break, it was announced that 3 starting squad players

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, Klaidas Janonis and Klaudijus Upstas would leave the team,

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becoming the new head coach was announced a few days after. FC Stumbras went on to finish the regular season 3rd, making it to the second phase. After beating

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4–1 in the last match of the season, Stumbras secured 1st place in the league and Artūras Rimkevičius was declared top goal scorer with 26. The last team to represent the second largest city in Lithuania in

was

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in 2012. FC Stumbras chairman Vytautas Vaškūnas confirmed that the club would use their right to play in the top Lithuanian league in 2015 and Kaunas would have a team in

once again, he also confirmed the club would bring back Rimkevičius and would most likely strengthen the squad even more the following season. Stumbras made it official that they would like to join the premier Lithuanian football league for the 2015 season, on the second check up Stumbras was accepted. Getting ready for the 2015 season Stumbras already proved their worth playing matches against Lithuanian and foreign clubs, losing only once to Estonian Champions

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1-0. On 28 January 2015, it was announced that 6 new players would join the club Nerijus Mačiulis, Tomas Snapkauskas, Mantvydas Eiza,

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and

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, later Darius Gvildys was announced as new head coach. Before the start of the season, Stumbras management surprised everyone when announcing that fans are welcome to watch them play for free for their home matches. On 28 February 2015, FC Stumbras debuted in A Lyga beating

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3-1 in Kaunas. In 2019 Stumbras started the season very well by winning against

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and

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, claiming the top position of the A Lyga table. However, after the first half of the season the club ran into financial problems. The players and staff started leaving the team. The club was stripped of the place in

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and it's

license revoked. The club became defunct shortly afterwards.

Stadium

The club plays its home matches at the

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Crest and colours

Only in 2013 after adapting the name Stumbras, the crest came along with it. It features a blue bison with a football being squashed under its leg on the background of a white shield with red borders and then placed on another shield which is blue with white text saying FC Stumbras at the top and Kaunas in smaller text under it. The choice of name and branding for the club is believed to be a reference to the historic coat of arms of Kaunas, which from 1935 to 1992 featured a white bison instead of an

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. Since the beginning, the club has used the colors

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and

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on their kits. The logo contained some red; at the start of the 2015 season the club played its debut match with new kits that introduced the color red to their uniforms.

Kit manufacturers

* 2013–2014 Adidas * 2015–2019

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Kit evolution

* Home kit: blue shirt, blue shorts and white socks. Signs and details on shirts and shorts are white.

Achievements

LFF I Lyga Championship: 1 * 2014

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: *Winners - 1 **

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*Runners-up - 1 **

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Participation in Lithuanian championships

* 2013 II Lyga ''(Southern Zone)'' – 2nd * 2014 I Lyga – 1st *

2015 A Lyga The 2015 A Lyga, also known as ''SMSCredit.lt A Lyga'' for sponsoring purposes was the 26th season of the A Lyga, the top-tier association football league of Lithuania. The season started in February 2015 and ended in November 2015. Žalgiris Vi ...

– 7th *

2016 A Lyga The 2016 A Lyga, also known as ''SMSCredit.lt A Lyga'' for sponsoring purposes was the 27th season of the A Lyga, the top-tier association football league of Lithuania. The season began on 2 March and ended on 26 November 2016. Žalgiris Vilnius ...

– 6th *

2017 A Lyga The 2017 A Lyga was the 28th season of the A Lyga, the top-tier association football league of Lithuania. The season began on 3 March 2017 and ended on 19 November 2017. All eight teams from the previous season remained and competed in the leagu ...

- 7th *

2018 A Lyga The 2018 A Lyga was the 29th season of the A Lyga, the top-tier association football league of Lithuania. The season began on 25 February 2018 and ended on 11 November 2018. Sūduva Marijampolė began the season as defending champions having won ...

- 4th *

2019 A Lyga The 2019 A Lyga was the 30th season of the A Lyga, the top-tier association football league of Lithuania. The season began on 2 March 2019 and ended on 27 November 2019. Sūduva Marijampolė began the season as defending champions having won thei ...

- 8th (defunct in middle of the season)

European record

''As of July 2018'' ;Notes * QR: Qualifying round

Last squad before dissolving

Staff

As of 5 March 2019.

Managers

* Gerhardas Kvedaras (2010–2014) *

(2014–2015) * Darius Gvildys (2015–2016) *

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(2016–2018) * João Luís Martins (2019)

Partnership

* Benfica *

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