2007 Baltic League

Baltic League

Season	2007
Dates	6 March – 11 November
Champions	Metalurgs
Matches played	34
Goals scored	105 (3.09 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ģirts Karlsons (10)
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The 2007 season of Baltic League (known as the TrioBet Baltic League for sponsorship reasons) was the first edition of the Baltic League. The competition was won by Liepājas Metalurgs of Latvia, who beat fellow Latvians FK Ventspils 8–2 on aggregate in the final, which was spread over two legs on 8 November 2007 and 11 November 2007.

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
FBK Kaunas	2	1	1	0	5	4	+1	4	Advanced to knockout stage
FC Narva Trans	2	0	1	1	4	5	−1	1
Dinaburg FC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0[a]	Ejected

Source: ^[citation needed]
Notes:

1. Dinaburg FC were ejected from the competition for match fixing.[1]

FBK Kaunas v Narva Trans

7 March 2007 Matchday 1	FBK Kaunas	3 – 2	Narva Trans	Vilnius
18:00 EET (UTC+02)	Ričardas Beniušis 61' Givi Kvaratskhelia 83' Rafael Gaúcho 88'		11' Aleksandr Dubõkin 65' Sergei Kazakov	Stadium: Sportima Sports Hall Attendance: 350 Referee: Sergejs Braga

Narva Trans v FBK Kaunas

22 May 2007 Matchday 6	Narva Trans	2 – 2	FBK Kaunas	Narva
18:00 EEST (UTC+03)	Aleksandr Dubõkin 49' Maksim Gruznov 73'		24', 33' Mindaugas Grigalevičius	Stadium: Narva Kreenholmi Stadium Attendance: 1500 Referee: Vadims Direktorenko

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
FK Ventspils	4	3	1	0	7	2	+5	10	Advanced to knockout stage
FK Ekranas	4	1	2	1	5	7	−2	5
FC TVMK Tallinn	4	0	1	3	6	9	−3	1	Eliminated from the competition

Source: ^[citation needed]

Ekranas v TVMK

6 March 2007 Matchday 1	Ekranas	2 – 1	TVMK	Vilnius
18:00 EET (UTC+02)	Giedrius Tomkevičius 11' Liivo Leetma 34' (og.)		76' Artur Ossipov	Attendance: 600 Referee: Roman Lajuks

TVMK v Ventspils

13 March 2007 Matchday 2	TVMK	0 – 1	Ventspils	Tallinn
18:00 EEST (UTC+03)			83' Aleksejs Soleičuks	Stadium: Sportland Arena Attendance: 150 Referee: Audrius Zhuta

Ventspils v Ekranas

17 March 2007 Matchday 3	Ventspils	3 – 0	Ekranas
14:00 EEST (UTC+03)	Vīts Rimkus 3', 23' Igors Sļesarčuks 19'			Attendance: 500 Referee: Hannes Kaasik

Ekranas v Ventspils

1 April 2007 Matchday 4

Ekranas

0 – 0

Ventspils

Ventspils v TVMK

11 April 2007 Matchday 5	Ventspils	3 – 2	TVMK	Ventspils
18:00 EEST (UTC+03)	Serhij Sernecki 6', 9' Sergei Zangareev 23'		1' Oliver Konsa 85' Viktors Dobrecovs	Attendance: 350 Referee: Gediminas Mažeika

TVMK v Ekranas

22 May 2007 Matchday 6	TVMK	3 – 3	Ekranas	Tallinn
17:00 EEST (UTC+03)	Artur Ossipov 45', 65' Aleksandr Kulatšenko 76'		7', 38' Dainius Saulėnas 63' Andrius Šidlauskas	Stadium: Kadrioru Stadium Attendance: 100

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
FK Liepājas Metalurgs	4	2	2	0	6	3	+3	8	Advanced to knockout stage
FK Žalgiris Vilnius	4	1	2	1	4	5	−1	5
FC Levadia Tallinn	4	0	2	2	4	6	−2	2	Eliminated from the competition

Source: ^[citation needed]

Levadia v Žalgiris

7 March 2007 Matchday 1	Levadia	1 – 1	Žalgiris	Tallinn
18:00 EET (UTC+02)	Indrek Zelinski 30' (pen.)		74' Eimantas Poderis	Stadium: Sportland Arena Attendance: 300 Referee: Andrejs Sipailo

SK Liepājas Metalurgs v Levadia

13 March 2007 Matchday 2	SK Liepājas Metalurgs	1 – 1	Levadia	Liepāja
18:00 EEST (UTC+03)	Oskars Kļava 32' (pen.)		38' Tarmo Kink	Stadium: Daugava Stadium's Artificial Pitch Attendance: 1200 Referee: Vijunas Vasiliauskas

Žalgiris v SK Liepājas Metalurgs

17 March 2007 Matchday 3	Žalgiris	0 – 0	SK Liepājas Metalurgs
14:00 EEST (UTC+03)				Referee: Sten Kaldma

SK Liepājas Metalurgs v Žalgiris

1 April 2007 Matchday 4	SK Liepājas Metalurgs	3 – 1	Žalgiris
	Mindaugas Kalonas 23' Ģirts Karlsons 64', 67'		90' (pen.) Igoris Morinas

Levadia v SK Liepājas Metalurgs

11 April 2007 Matchday 5	Levadia	1 – 2	SK Liepājas Metalurgs	Tallinn
18:00 EEST (UTC+03)	Tarmo Kink 66'		46' Mindaugas Kalonas 68' Antonio Ferreira	Stadium: Kadrioru Stadium Attendance: 530 Referee: Audrius Kancleris

Žalgiris v Levadia

22 May 2007 Matchday 6	Žalgiris	2 – 1	Levadia	Vilnius
17:00 EEST (UTC+03)	Edvinas Lukoševičius 44' Nikolaj Misiuk 83'		59' Indrek Zelinski	Stadium: Žalgiris Stadium Attendance: 500

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Skonto FC	4	2	2	0	7	2	+5	8	Advanced to knockout stage
FK Vėtra	4	1	2	1	5	3	+2	5
FC Flora Tallinn	4	1	0	3	1	8	−7	3	Eliminated from the competition

Source: ^[citation needed]

Flora v Vėtra

6 March 2007 Matchday 1	Flora	0 – 3	Vėtra	Tallinn
18:00 EET (UTC+02)			54' Algis Jankauskas 64' Nerijus Sasnauskas 85' Severino Lima de Maura	Stadium: Sportland Arena Attendance: 300 Referee: Vadims Direktorenko

Skonto FC v Flora

14 March 2007 Matchday 2	Skonto FC	4 – 0	Flora	Riga
18:00 EEST (UTC+03)	Vitālijs Astafjevs 35' Gatis Kalniņš 50' Andrejs Perepļotkins 85' Jozef Piaček 87'			Stadium: Ķeizarmežs Sports Complex Attendance: 320 Referee: Gediminas Mazheika

Vėtra v Skonto FC

18 March 2007 Matchday 3	Vėtra	1 – 1	Skonto FC	Vilnius
14:00 EEST (UTC+03)	Vitalis Stankevičius 70'		20' Aleksejs Višņakovs	Referee: Eiko Saar

Skonto FC v Vėtra

1 April 2007 Matchday 4	Skonto FC	1 – 1	Vėtra	Riga
	Aleksandrs Cauņa 53'		19' Severino Lima de Maura

Flora v Skonto FC

10 April 2007 Matchday 5	Flora	0 – 1	Skonto FC	Tallinn
18:00 EEST (UTC+03)			90+3' Aleksejs Višņakovs	Stadium: A. Le Coq Arena Attendance: 220 Referee: Paulius Malžinskas

Vėtra v Flora

22 May 2007 Matchday 6	Vėtra	0 – 1	Flora	Vilnius
20:45 EEST (UTC+03)			41' Enver Jääger	Stadium: Vėtra Stadium Attendance: 350 Referee: Andrejs Sipailo

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarterfinals						Semifinals						Final
	Žalgiris	1	1	2
	FBK Kaunas	9	1	10
							FBK Kaunas	0	0	0
							Ventspils	0	1	1
	Vėtra	0	2	2
	Ventspils	0	4	4
													Ventspils	1	1	2
													Metalurgs	3	5	8
	Metalurgs	4	1	5
	Narva Trans	1	2	3
							Metalurgs	6	2	8
							Ekranas	1	2	3
	Skonto FC	1	0	1
	Ekranas	2	0	2

Quarter-finals

Žalgiris v FBK Kaunas

12 June 2007 Leg 1	Žalgiris	1 – 9	FBK Kaunas	Vilnius
	Virmantas Lemežis 23'		20' Audrius Kšanavičius 22' Mindaugas Grigalevičius 36' Marius Činikas 43' Rafael Gaúcho 48', 65', 73', 90' Ričardas Beniušis 52' Adrian Mrowiec	Stadium: Žalgiris Stadium Attendance: 600 Referee: A. Sipailo

FBK Kaunas v Žalgiris

4 July 2007 Leg 2	FBK Kaunas	1 – 1	Žalgiris	Kaunas
	Artūras Rimkevičius 88'		45' Nikolaj Misiuk	Stadium: S.Darius and S.Girėnas Referee: R. Lajuks

FBK Kaunas won 10–2 on aggregate.

Skonto FC v Ekranas

13 June 2007 Leg 1	Skonto FC	1 – 2	Ekranas	Riga
	Marián Dirnbach 73'		45' Mantas Savėnas 74' Povilas Lukšys	Stadium: Skonto Stadions Referee: E. Saar

Ekranas v Skonto FC

4 July 2007 Leg 2	Ekranas	0 – 0	Skonto FC	Panevėžys
				Stadium: Aukštaitija Stadium Attendance: 1,420 Referee: Hannes Kaasik

Ekranas won 2–1 on aggregate.

Vėtra v Ventspils

13 June 2007 Leg 1	Vėtra	0 – 0	Ventspils	Vilnius
				Stadium: Vėtra Stadium Referee: Kristo Tohver

Ventspils v Vėtra

4 July 2007 Leg 2	Ventspils	4 – 2	Vėtra	Ventspils
	Vladimirs Koļesņičenko 23' Serhij Sernecki 60', 90+6' Vīts Rimkus 90'		2' Darvydas Šernas 90+2' Dejan Milošeski	Stadium: Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions Attendance: 800 Referee: Margus Kotter

FK Ventspils won 4–2 on aggregate.

SK Liepājas Metalurgs v Narva Trans

13 June 2007 Leg 1	SK Liepājas Metalurgs	4 – 1	Narva Trans	Liepāja
	Mindaugas Kalonas 19', 63' Ģirts Karlsons 72' Genādijs Soloņicins 77'		27' Dmitry Lipartov	Stadium: Daugava Stadium Attendance: 1,200 Referee: V. Direktorenko

Narva Trans v SK Liepājas Metalurgs

4 July 2007 Leg 2	Narva Trans	2 – 1	SK Liepājas Metalurgs	Narva
	Dmitry Lipartov 9' Aleksandr Dubõkin 45+1'		26' Genādijs Soloņicins	Stadium: Narva Kreenholmi Stadium Attendance: 150 Referee: P. Malžinskas

Liepājas Metalurgs won 5–3 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

FBK Kaunas v Ventspils

29 August 2007 Leg 1	FBK Kaunas	0 – 0	Ventspils
18:00 EEST (UTC+03)

Ventspils v FBK Kaunas

26 September 2007 Leg 2	Ventspils	1 – 0	FBK Kaunas
17:00 EEST (UTC+03)	Aleksandr Mysikov 61'

FK Ventspils won 1–0 on aggregate.

SK Liepājas Metalurgs v Ekranas

19 September 2007 Leg 1	SK Liepājas Metalurgs	6 – 1	Ekranas
19:40 EEST (UTC+03)	Genādijs Soloņicins 4' Alfredas Skroblas 32' (og.) Ģirts Karlsons 34', 86' Serghei Pogreban 44' (og.) Vladimirs Kamešs 90'		71' Egidijus Varnas

Ekranas v SK Liepājas Metalurgs

26 September 2007 Leg 2	Ekranas	2 – 2	SK Liepājas Metalurgs
17:00 EEST (UTC+03)	Egidijus Varnas 16', 68'		50' Cristián Torres 64' Ģirts Karlsons

Liepājas Metalurgs won 8–3 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 2007 Baltic League Final

Ventspils v SK Liepājas Metalurgs

8 November 2007 Leg 1	Ventspils	1 – 3	SK Liepājas Metalurgs	Ventspils
13:00 EET (UTC+02)	Kristaps Grebis 75'		3' Antonio Ferreira 38' Ģirts Karlsons 78' Genādijs Soloņicins	Stadium: Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions Attendance: 250 Referee: Kristo Tohver

SK Liepājas Metalurgs v Ventspils

11 November 2007 Leg 2	SK Liepājas Metalurgs	5 – 1	Ventspils	Liepāja
14:00 EET (UTC+02)	Ģirts Karlsons 36', 66', 75' Genādijs Soloņicins 49' Deniss Ivanovs 78'		41' Igors Savčenkovs	Stadium: Daugava Stadium Attendance: 1000 Referee: Audrius Žuta

Liepājas Metalurgs won 8–2 on aggregate.

2007 Baltic League Player Awards

• Goalkeeper of the Year: Mihkel Aksalu ( FC Flora)[2]
• Defender of the Year: Kiran Reeves (Rim Touchers)
• Midfielder of the Year:
• Forward of the Year:
• Young Footballer of the Year:

Goalscorers

10 goals

• Ģirts Karlsons

5 goals

• Ričardas Beniušis
• Genādijs Soloņicins

4 goals

• Mindaugas Kalonas
• Serhiy Sernetskyi

3 goals

• Aleksandr Dubõkin
• Mindaugas Grigalevičius
• Artur Ossipov
• Vīts Rimkus
• Egidijus Varnas

2 goals

• Antonio Ferreira
• Rafael Gaúcho
• Tarmo Kink
• Severino Lima de Maura
• Dmitry Lipartov
• Nikolaj Misiuk
• Dainius Saulėnas
• Aleksejs Višņakovs
• Indrek Zelinski

1 goal

• Vitālijs Astafjevs
• Aleksandrs Cauņa
• Marius Činikas
• Marián Dirnbach
• Viktors Dobrecovs
• Kristaps Grebis
• Maksim Gruznov
• Deniss Ivanovs
• Algis Jankauskas
• Enver Jääger
• Gatis Kalniņš
• Vladimirs Kamešs
• Sergei Kazakov
• Oskars Kļava
• Vladimirs Koļesņičenko
• Oliver Konsa
• Audrius Kšanavičius
• Aleksandr Kulatšenko
• Givi Kvaratskhelia
• Virmantas Lemežis
• Edvinas Lukoševičius
• Povilas Lukšys
• Dejan Milošeski
• Igoris Morinas
• Adrian Mrowiec
• Aleksandr Mysikov
• Andrejs Perepļotkins
• Jozef Piaček
• Eimantas Poderis
• Artūras Rimkevičius
• Nerijus Sasnauskas
• Igors Savčenkovs
• Mantas Savėnas
• Igors Sļesarčuks
• Aleksejs Soleičuks
• Vitalis Stankevičius
• Darvydas Šernas
• Andrius Šidlauskas
• Giedrius Tomkevičius
• Cristián Torres
• Sergei Zangareev

Own goals

• Liivo Leetma
• Serghei Pogreban
• Alfredas Skroblas

References

1. FC Dinaburg eliminated from the Baltic League 2007
2. "Mihkel Aksalu valiti Balti Liiga parimaks".

External links

• Official website
• Match reports at Estonian Football Association