2020 Lithuanian Football Cup

The 2020 Lithuanian Football Cup was a single elimination association football tournament and the 32rd edition of the Lithuanian annual football knock-out tournament. The official name of thecompetition was Hegelmann LFF Cup for sponsorship reasons.

2020 Lithuanian Football Cup

Hegelmann LFF Taurė
Tournament details
Country	Lithuania
Dates	16 June – 24 October
Teams	33
Final positions
Champions	FK Panevėžys (1st title)
Runners-up	FK Sūduva
Semifinalists	FK Žalgiris FK Riteriai
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	118 (3.69 per match)
← 2019 2021 →

The tournament was scheduled to start in April 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the start was postponed to mid-June.

A total of 33 A Lyga, LFF I Lyga and II Lyga teams participated in the tournament, reserve teams are not allowed to participate in the cup competition. The A Lyga teams joined the tournament in the round of 16.^[1] Due to the postponed start, the teams of lower divisions were not invited to participate this year in order to shorten the length of the competition.

FK Panevėžys defeated defending champions FK Sūduva 5–4 on penalties in the final and have qualified for the first qualifying round of the 2020–21 UEFA Europa League.

Match and draw calendar

Stage	Draw	Matches	Teams	Participants
Preliminary Round I	3 June[2]	16-21 June	25	17 teams from II Lyga, 8 randomly drawn teams from LFF I lyga
Preliminary Round II	22 June	24-30 June	16	9 winners of Round I, 7 randomly drawn teams advanced without play
1/8 final	2 July	7-8 and 14-15 July	16	8 winners of Round II, 6 teams from A lyga, 2 randomly drawn teams from LFF I lyga advanced without play
1/4 final	17 July	11 August and 11-12 September
1/2 final	15 September	17 October[3] and 20 October[4]
Final		24 October[5]

Participants

The 33 participants consisted of 6 A Lyga, 10 LFF I Lyga and 17 II Lyga teams.

A lyga FK Banga Gargždai FK Kauno Žalgiris FK Panevėžys FK Riteriai FK Sūduva Marijampolė FK Žalgiris

I lyga FK Atmosfera (2012) BFA DFK Dainava FC Hegelmann Litauen FK Jonava FC Džiugas FK Minija (2017) Nevėžis FA Šiauliai Vilniaus Vytis

II lyga FK Šilas Kazlų Rūda FK Aukštaitija FK Sveikata Kybartai FK Vidzgiris Alytus FK Utenis Utena FK Tauras Tauragė FSK Radviliškis FK Šilutė FK Babrungas Plungė SANED Joniškis FK Juventa-99 Šiauliai FK Neptūnas Klaipėda FK Rosa Klaipėda FK Atlantas Klaipėda FK TERA Vilnius FK Viltis Vilnius FM Ateitis Vilnius

Results

Preliminary Round I

The league that the team represents is indicated in brackets.

Note: FK Aukštaitija changed the club's name to FK Ekranas.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
BFA (I)	1–0	FK Nevėžis Kėdainiai (I)
FK TERA Vilnius (II)	2–4	FK Atmosfera (2012) (I)
FK Tauras Tauragė (II)	4–0	FK Rosa Klaipėda (II)
FK Juventa-99 Šiauliai (II)	2–2 (2–4 p)	FK Vidzgiris Alytus (II)
FK Šilas Kazlų Rūda (II)	5–1	FK Neptūnas Klaipėda (II)
FK Šilutė (II)	1–3	FC Džiugas Telšiai (I)
FK Ekranas (2020) Panevėžys (II)	1–1 (3–4 p)	DFK Dainava (I)
FK Utenis (II)	1–1 (4–2 p)	FK Atlantas Klaipėda (II)
FM Ateitis Vilnius (II)	0–4	FK Minija (2017) (I)

Randomly drawn teams that advanced to Round II:^[5]

FK Viltis Vilnius (II)

Vilniaus Vytis (I)

FK Babrungas Plungė (II)

FK Jonava (I)

SANED Joniškis (II)

FK Sveikata Kybartai (II)

ŠŠPC Radviliškis (II)

Randomly drawn I Lyga teams that advanced to the round of 16:

FC Hegelmann Litauen

FA Šiauliai

Round II

The second round draw took place on 22 June 2020.^[6]

Team 1	Score	Team 2
FK Viltis Vilnius (II)	11–0	SANED Joniškis (II)
DFK Dainava (I)	3–0	FK Atmosfera (2012) (I)
FK Vidzgiris Alytus (II)	2–6	FK Minija (2017) (I)
FK Šilas Kazlų Rūda (II)	2–3	BFA (I)
FK Utenis (II)	0–2	FK Sveikata Kybartai (II)
ŠŠPC Radviliškis (II)	1–5	FK Jonava (I)
FK Babrungas Plungė (II)	2–1	FK Tauras Tauragė (II)
Vilniaus Vytis (I)	1–0	FC Džiugas Telšiai (I)

Round of 16

The Round of 16 draw took place on 2 July 2020.^[7]

Team 1	Score	Team 2
BFA (I)	1–2	DFK Dainava (I)
FK Sveikata Kybartai (II)	0–4	FK Kauno Žalgiris (A)
FK Viltis Vilnius (II)	0–4	Vilniaus Vytis (I)
FA Šiauliai (I)	0–2	FK Žalgiris (A)
FK Jonava (I)	0–3	FK Panevėžys (A)
FK Minija (2017) (I)	0–3	FK Sūduva (A)
FK Riteriai (A)	2–0	FK Banga Gargždai (A)
FK Babrungas Plungė (II)	1–4	FC Hegelmann Litauen (I)

Quarter-finals

The 1/4 Final draw took place on 17 July 2020^[8]

Team 1	Score	Team 2
FC Hegelmann Litauen (I)	0–3	FK Panevėžys (A)
Vilniaus Vytis (I)	0–3	FK Sūduva (A)
DFK Dainava (I)	0–2	FK Riteriai (A)
FK Žalgiris (A)	2–1	FK Kauno Žalgiris (A)

Semi-finals

Team 1	Score	Team 2
FK Panevėžys (A)	4–0	FK Riteriai (A)
FK Žalgiris (A)	1–2	FK Sūduva (A)

Final

The final was broadcast on the Lithuanian TV3 channel for the first time.^[9]

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24 October 2020 (2020-10-24)

14:43 EEST

FINAL

FK Panevėžys	1–1 (a.e.t.)	FK Sūduva
Ernestas Veliulis 23'	lff.lt report Report	26' (pen.) Renan Oliveira  68'  117' Nicolás Gorobsov
Penalties
Elivelto Chrysovalantis Kozoronis Rafael Floro Justinas Januševskij Sebastián Vásquez	5–4	Domagoj Pušić Algis Jankauskas Thomas Salamon Yevhen Yefremov Aleksandar Živanović

Aukštaitija Stadium, Panevėžys

Attendance: 1,000

Referee: Robertas Valikonis

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FK Panevėžys

FK Sūduva

See also

• 2020 A Lyga
• 2020 LFF I Lyga
• Football in Lithuania