any competitions and later declared the club bankrupt. Shortly afterwards the fans decided to form a new club. Kaunas have played Celtic, Rangers and Liverpool among others in Europa League and Champions League qualifying stages. On 5 August 2008, FBK Kaunas defeated Rangers, 2–1, to advance to the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League for the first time. The game was won in dramatic circumstances as Kaunas had to come from behind and finally took the lead just four minutes from time. Linas Pilibaitis was the scorer. FBK Kaunas were for many years (1993–2012) sponsored by Ūkio bankas, a bank which had Vladimir Romanov as its principal shareholder. In October 2005 Romanov became the majority shareholder of Scottish Premier League side, Heart of Midlothian. Romanov then used Kaunas as a feeder club for Hearts by signing players ostensibly for Kaunas, then immediately loaning them to the SPL side. Romanov's mismanagement and dubious dealings effectively destroyed the clubs he was involved with FBK Kaunas and Partizan Minsk going bankrupt and Hearts into administration. BC Zalgiris also suffer from his dishonesty to this day. Romanov fled to Russia where he was granted asylum in 2014 and is now wanted by the Lithuanian prosecutors on charges for fraud and embezzling for at least £308m. Honours Domestic A Lyga Winners (8): 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 Runners-up (2): 2005, 2008 I Lyga Winners (1): 2010 II Lyga Winners (1): 2009 Lithuanian Cup Winners (4): 2002, 2004, 2005, 2008 Runners-up (2): 1998, 1999 Lithuanian Super Cup Winners (3): 2002, 2004, 2006, Runners-up (2): 2003, 2005 Lithuanian SSR Championship Winners (2): 1986, 1989 Lithuanian SSR Cup Winners (1):1989 Runners-up (3): 1984, 1985, 1986 Continental Baltic League Winners (1): 2008 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup Runners-up (1): 2006 Season-by-season Domestic European cup Coaches Povilas Grigonis (1986) Algirdas Gruzdas (1989) Šenderis Giršovičius (1995–96), (1998–00) Sergei Borovsky (July 2003 – April 4) Šenderis Giršovičius (April 2004 – Sept 04) Valdas Ivanauskas (Sept 2004 – April 5) Eugenijus Riabovas (April 2005 – May 5) Aleksandr Piskaryov (May 2005 – July 5) Igoris Pankratjevas (July 2005 – Nov 05) Eduard Malofeyev (Dec 2005 – June 6) Eugenijus Riabovas (June 2006 – Feb 07) Vladimir Kurnev (Feb 2007 – April 7) Angel Chervenkov (April 2007 – June 7) Artūras Ramoška (June 2007 – Sept 07) Anton Joore (Aug 2007 – Sept 07) Andrei Zygmantovich (Sept 2007 –