Lithuanian Football Cup


The Lithuanian Football Federation Cup, also known as Hegelmann LFF Cup for sponsorship reasons, is a Lithuanian football cup competition contested in a knockout tournament format. The winner of the cup gains entitlement to participate in the Lithuanian Supercup as well as the UEFA Europa League.
The clubs of A Lyga, I Lyga, II Lyga, III Lyga and IV Lyga are eligible to compete. The competition format is a single-elimination tournament.
The competition was sponsored by Sharp in 2018-2019, and by Hegelmann in 2020.

History

[Interwar period]

The first cup tournament in Lithuania took place in 1924 and was called the "Kooperacijos taurė". It took place during the International Cooperation Day event. "Kooperacijos taurė" competition took place three times - 1924, 1925 and 1926. Other cup competitions took place at the same time as well - "Žiemos taurė" in 1925, "Pavasario taurė" in 1926 and 1927, as well as once-off cup events.
YearTournamentNotesFinal
1924Kooperacijos taurėFounded by a banker Vincas Zakarevičius. The 50 cm in diameter and 1,250g in weight cup was made of silver and gold-plated materials cost 1,000 Litas.LFLS Kaunas 2:1 Kovas Kaunas
1925Kooperacijos taurėLFLS Kaunas won the cup for the second time. The cup was to be passed on to the winner each year, and to be kept if won three times in a row.
1925Žiemos taurėKSK Kaunas 2:0 Kovas Kaunas
1926Kooperacijos taurėLFLS Kaunas won the cup for three years in a row, and fulfilled the condition to keep the cup.LFLS Kaunas 4:3 Kovas Kaunas
1926Pavasario taurėOrganized by LFLS central committee.
1926Lithuanian Cup of HonourThe 2,000 Litas cup was founded by the famous singer Kipras Petrauskas, yet it was not supported by the governing football committee. The cup was presented to the previous year football league champion Kovas Kaunas
1927Pavasario taurė10 Kaunas A and B class teams were competing.Makabi Kaunas 3:2 Kovas Kaunas
1927Lloyd Lithuania CupThe cup was presented to the Kaunas region league champion LFLS Kaunas.
1932Sekminių taurėThe cup was founded with a view to replace the Kooperacijos taurė competition.LFLS Kaunas 5:1 Kovas Kaunas
1935Lithuanian I Sports Festival6 teams from Kaunas and 4 teams from Latvia competed in the tournament.MSK Kaunas ?:? Tauras Kaunas
1938Lithuanian National Olympics16 teams participated, including 1 team from Latvia. The tournament was a part of a prestigious Lithuanian National Olympics event.KSS Klaipėda 2:0 LGSF Kaunas

[Post-war] period

After the World War II, in soviet Lithuania a cup competition was established by the initiative of Tiesa newspaper in 1947, and was called The Tiesa Cup. It consisted of Lithuanian SSR teams not competing in the Soviet football league pyramid.

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Since the regained independence in 1990 the competition is called the Lithuanian Football Federation Cup.

Finals

Performance by club

Winners

Finalists without Wins

Clubs currently playing in A Lyga are shown in Bold.
† - Defunct clubs.