Dariaus ir Girėno stadionas
Kaunas, Lithuania
Formerly: LFLS stadionas, Valstybinis stadionas, KKI stadionas, Sporto kombinato stadionas, Respublikinio sporto kombinato stadionas, Darius and Girėnas Stadium
The stadium sits inside Ažuolynas park and has kept a wooden-oak setting rather than a car park around it since it opened on 6 September 1924. The name changed six times under different regimes — LFLS stadionas, Valstybinis stadionas, KKI stadionas, later a "sports combine" stadium under Soviet administration — before returning to Darius ir Girėno stadionas in 1993, a name it had briefly carried in the 1930s before the pilots were airbrushed out.
Lithuania's national team moved its home fixtures here in 2022, after a €43 million reconstruction, and the venue has been breaking its own attendance record since: 14,230 for Lithuania against Bulgaria in 2023, then 14,797 on 7 September 2025 against the Netherlands in World Cup 2026 qualifying. The pitch itself changed in March 2025, when the Desso GrassMaster surface gave way to a Mixto Lay&Play hybrid.
Club tenancy has been unsettled by comparison — FBK Kaunas held it from 1993 to 2015, FK Kauno Žalgiris returned in 2022 after an earlier spell, and Stumbras, Hegelmann and Be1 have each used it for a season or two without staying. Concert capacity runs to 55,000, well above the 15,026 sports figure, and Ed Sheeran's show drew 46,637 — still the largest crowd the ground has held for any single event.
Who plays here
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Kauno Žalgiris
150 matches
Recent matches here
| Date | Match | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Sep | Kauno Žalgiris — Sūduva Marijampolė | 5:1 |
| 6 Sep | Kauno Žalgiris — Džiugas Telšiai | 5:0 |
| 27 Aug | Kauno Žalgiris — Besiktas | 1:0 |
| 24 Aug | Kauno Žalgiris — FK Trakai | |
| 16 Aug | Kauno Žalgiris — TransINVEST Vilnius | 1:1 |
| 11 Aug | Kauno Žalgiris — Dinamo Zagreb | 1:2 |
| 8 Aug | Kauno Žalgiris — Hegelmann Litauen | 2:0 |
| 29 Jul | Kauno Žalgiris — KÍ Klaksvík | 1:0 |