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title: "Pirma Lyga overview: Race for promotion heats up"
date: 2026-10-21T03:46:01Z
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author: "Kristupas Kamarauskas"
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# Pirma Lyga overview: Race for promotion heats up
**Babrungas lead Lithuania’s Pirma Lyga after match week 27, with three rounds remaining. Minija sit second with a game in hand after a home reverse, while Dainava beat Ekranas 1-3 and Hegelmann B drew 4-4 with Tauras late on.**

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Pirma Lyga table.

**Babrungas** of Plungė top the table and are already assured of a finish no lower than second. Their best previous placing came in 2024 when they finished third following the 2015 merger of Plungė clubs. Second-placed **Minija** of Kretinga, who reached the cup final this season, suffered their first home defeat of the campaign after leading 2-0 in the 68th minute against Babrungas. The 2017-founded club, now backed by the Moussa Dembélé Investment group Triple M, still hold a game in hand as they chase a first promotion to the top flight. Minija previously won the Lithuanian Cup and finished third in the league in 1964 before earlier financial collapse.

**FC BE1** of Kaunas have taken seven wins from their last eight matches to remain third after a 2-0 victory over fifth-placed **Neptūnas** of Klaipėda. Tomas Gudaitis shares the league scoring lead with 17 goals in 24 appearances. Fourth-placed **Žalgiris B** recently completed a 10-game unbeaten run before a subsequent loss, a win and then a 2-3 home defeat to newly promoted **Garliava**, who sit tenth. Vakaris Berenta, the other joint-top scorer on 17 goals from 27 matches, found the net for Žalgiris B in the match. Seventh-placed **Tauras** of Tauragė, who parted company with Belarusian coach Sergey Kuznetsov in August after his earlier success with low-resourced Dainava, shared a 4-4 draw with **Hegelmann B**. Tauras took the lead before Hegelmann B, the home side, scored twice to make it 2-1. Tauras then scored three unanswered goals to lead 2-4 by the 65th minute, only for Hegelmann B to reply in the 81st and 90+3rd minutes and finish 4-4, collecting a vital point in their fight to escape the relegation play-off place.  

Sixth-placed **DFK Dainava** of Alytus, relegated last season and rebuilt around local players, sit 23 points off the promotion play-off places despite an earlier 11-game unbeaten sequence that included a penalty-shootout win over Toplyga side TransINVEST. They defeated struggling **Ekranas** of Panevėžys 1-3. Ekranas, who last appeared in II Lyga in 2021, have 15 points and trail the relegation play-off place by eight amid limited municipal support shared with FK Panevėžys. **BFA** occupy eighth after a 0-3 away defeat to **Jonava**, their second loss in a row after a seven-game unbeaten run, and next face Minija. Jonava’s win halted a four-match winless streak. Ninth-placed **Atmosfera** of Mažeikiai, whose season high was eliminating Žalgiris from the cup, are unbeaten in three and beat Žalgiris B 3-2 away.

Twelfth-placed **TransINVEST B** defeated **Kauno Žalgiris B** 0-2. Kauno Žalgiris B, level on points with Hegelmann B in 13th after an opening nine-game losing run, and 15th-placed **Šiauliai B**, who lost 2-3 to Garliava and sit in the relegation play-off place after surviving a two-legged play-off against Sveikata last season, complete the lower half. Lower-table B teams can be expected to strengthen for the final stretch by drawing on senior-side players, as Šiauliai B did last season.

Pirma Lyga returns for match week 28 starting this Friday.