Society, economy & sport

Founding of FK Kauno Žalgiris

2005

FK Kauno Žalgiris is a football club from Kaunas, the second-largest city in Lithuania, and it competes in the A Lyga, the top division of Lithuanian football. It was founded as a new club in the mid-2000s and takes its name from Žalgiris, a name linked to the Battle of Grunwald in 1410, in which Lithuanians and Poles defeated the Teutonic Order. It has taken part in domestic competitions and in European qualifying rounds.

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