Marijampolė City

Marijampolė City

Full name	Sudovian Youth Football Academy
Founded	2018; 6 years ago (2018)
Chairman	Stela Omilevičienė
League	I Lyga
2022	5th
Website	http://www.mcity.lt
Home colours Away colours

Marijampolė City, FA Suvalkija, Suvalkijos jaunimo futbolo klubo akademija (Sudovian Youth Football Academy) is a football club based in the city of Marijampolė, Lithuania.

In 2022 Marijampolė City merged with the second tier I Lyga club FK Šilas Kazlų Rūda. The merger kept Marijampolė City name.

• 2018 - the club was founded as a football academy by the initiative of football enthusiasts, parents and businessmen. The club have set ambitious goals to become nationally and internationally renown academy.^[1]
• 2019 - the club applied for the II Lyga license and was granted one. The club took fifth place in II Lyga Southern Zone.
• 2020 – obtained II Lyga license, but later abandoned plans to compete. The academy continued to work only with children and youth.

At the beginning of 2022, Marijampolė City merged with I Lyga club FK Šilas (Futbolo klubas Šilas). FK Šilas have been having disputes over funding with Kazlų Rūda city council, and after the merger moved to Marijampolė. As Marijampolė City did not have a senior team at this time, the senior team was essentially FK Šilas, rebadged to Marijampolė City.^[2] The club applied to the Lithuanian Football Federation (LFF) with a request to change its name and logo, and the request was granted. New club name and logo came into use from the start of round 6 in the I Lyga and from the start of the first round in the Hegelmann LFF Cup.

As of 12 February 2023^[6]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 MF  GEO Luka Koberidze 17 FW  LTU Lukas Tupčiauskas — GK  LTU Povilas Kučauskas — DF  LTU Emilis Galeckas — DF  LTU Dovydas Kazlauskas — DF  LTU Naglis Kulikauskas — DF  LTU Mangirdas Rutkauskas — DF  LTU Gytis Urba — DF  LTU Žilvinas Zubrickas — MF  LTU Audrius Brokas

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  LTU Tomas Janušauskas — MF  LTU Deividas Karpavičius — MF  LTU Paulius Kuconis — MF  LTU Tadas Kvietkauskas — MF  LTU Džiugas Omilevičius — MF  LTU Tomas Krunkaitis — FW  LTU Evaldas Grigaitis — FW  LTU Artūras Pečiulis — FW  LTU Žygimantas Pečkys — FW  LTU Povilas Savickas

• mcity.lt
• lietuvosfutbolas.lt