Panevėžio Ekranas is a Lithuanian

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club, from the city of

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. It won 7 top-tier champion and 5 national cup titles throughout its existence.

History

The club was founded in 1964 and for 24 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

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for the 2015 season and was subsequently declared bankrupt. A new club FK Panevėžys was formed to represent the city of

, which managed to pass licensing criteria for the 2015 I Lyga season. FK Ekranas was declared bankrupt in 2016. In 2020 FK Ekranas was restored. They're currently at the 2nd tier of Lithuanian football. 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

champion-deciding match against

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, 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

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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.

Honours

**Winners (7): 1992–93,

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

**Runners-up (4):

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

* II Lyga **Winners (1):

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

* Lithuanian Cup **Winners (5): 1985, 1998, 2000,

**Runners-up (5): 1972, 1994, 2003, 2006,

* 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'' *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. * Marius Stankevičius (1998–2001) * Edgaras Česnauskis (2000–2003) * Deividas Česnauskis (1997–2000) * Saulius Mikoliūnas (2003) * Arūnas Klimavičius (2000–2007) * Ignas Dedura (2011–2013) * Andrius Velička (2011–2012)

Notable players

* Vytautas Černiauskas * Emilijus Zubas * Vykintas Slivka * Dainius Glaveckas * Andrius Jokšas * Vaidas Slavickas * Irmantas Stumbrys * Mantas Savėnas * Edvinas Girdvainis * Dušan Matović * Marko Anđelković * Dejan Đenić * Aleksandar Susnjar * Elivelto * Vīts Rimkus * Taavi Rähn * Serghei Pogreban * Stephen Ademolu * Deimantas Bička * Marius Skinderis * Simas Skinderis *

Vaidotas Šlekys Vaidotas Šlekys (born 11 February 1972) is a retired Lithuanian Association football, football Forward (association football), forward, who last played for Ekranas Panevėžys. Club career Šlekys also played as a professional in Switzerland ...

* Dominykas Galkevicius * Mantas Samusiovas * Ramūnas Radavičius

Managerial history

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ekranas 1964 establishments in Lithuania Association football clubs established in 1964 2015 disestablishments in Lithuania Association football clubs disestablished in 2015 Football clubs in Panevėžys