2000 A Lyga

A Lyga

Season	2000
Dates	25 may - 4 november
Champions	FBK Kaunas
Relegated	FK Kareda Kaunas KS Polonia Vilnius FK Banga Gargzdai
UEFA Champions League	FBK Kaunas
UEFA Cup	FK Zalgiris FK Atlantas
UEFA Intertoto Cup	FK Ekranas
←1999 2001→

TheLithuanianA Lyga2000was the 11th season of top-tier football in Lithuania. The season started on 25 March 2000 and ended on 4 November 2000.10 teams participated withFBK Kaunaswinning the championship.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	FBK Kaunas(C)	36	26	8	2	115	24	+91	86	Qualification toChampions League first qualifying round
2	Žalgiris	36	25	8	3	108	28	+80	83	Qualification toUEFA Cup qualifying round
3	Atlantas	36	21	4	11	70	45	+25	67
4	Ekranas	36	18	8	10	57	31	+26	62	Qualification toIntertoto Cup first round
5	Kareda(R)	36	17	9	10	56	49	+7	60	Relegation to1 Lyga
6	Nevėžis	36	11	14	11	31	44	−13	47
7	Dainava	36	8	9	19	34	66	−32	33
8	Polonija(R)	36	6	7	23	27	82	−55	25	Qualification toRelegation play-offs
9	Atletas-Inkaras(O)	36	5	6	25	28	95	−67	21
10	Banga(R)	36	3	7	26	19	81	−62	16	Relegation to1 Lyga

Source:RSSSF
(C)Champions;(O)Play-off winners;(R)Relegated
Notes:

Results

First half of season

Home \ Away	ATL	AIK	BAN	DAI	EKR	FBK	KAR	NEV	POL	ŽAL
Atlantas		4–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–4	1–0	1–2	2–0	4–1
Atletas-Inkaras	1–4		2–1	0–4	1–3	1–3	1–1	2–5	0–3	0–1
Banga	0–5	1–1		1–2	0–0	0–1	0–2	1–2	2–2	1–1
Dainava	1–3	3–1	0–0		0–1	1–4	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–4
Ekranas	3–1	1–1	5–0	2–3		0–4	0–2	0–1	3–0	1–2
FBK Kaunas	5–1	0–0	7–1	0–0	1–1		2–0	0–0	5–0	0–0
Kareda	1–0	1–0	4–2	5–1	0–0	1–5		1–1	2–1	2–1
Nevėžis	1–2	2–0	0–2	1–1	0–1	0–2	0–0		0–0	0–7
Polonija	1–3	3–1	3–0	2–1	0–4	0–5	0–0	0–1		0–4
Žalgiris	1–0	4–0	3–0	4–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	5–0	3–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of season

Home \ Away	ATL	AIK	BAN	DAI	EKR	FBK	KAR	NEV	POL	ŽAL
Atlantas		3–0	3–1	2–1	0–0	1–3	0–2	2–0	5–1	2–2
Atletas-Inkaras	3–2		1–0	1–2	0–2	1–2	0–3	1–2	2–0	0–8
Banga Gargždai	0–2	1–0		0–1	0–1	0–7	0–3	0–0	1–0	1–2
Dainava	0–1	1–1	2–0		0–1	1–4	0–2	1–1	0–0	1–3
Ekranas	0–0	6–0	3–1	2–0		1–0	3–2	0–0	7–1	1–2
FBK Kaunas	5–3	8–0	8–1	0–2	2–0		6–1	2–0	4–0	3–3
Kareda	1–3	3–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–5		2–3	0–2	2–2
Nevėžis	0–0	1–1	1–0	4–0	0–2	0–5	0–0		0–0	0–0
Polonija	1–2	1–2	2–0	0–0	1–2	0–1	1–2	0–2		1–6
Žalgiris	3–1	6–1	2–0	8–1	2–0	1–1	2–3	2–0	9–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-off

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Laisvė Šilutė	1–3	Atletas-Inkaras	0–1	1–2
Klevas Šiauliai	3–4	Polonija	3–3	0–1