It ceased to exist during the Holocaust in Lithuania and was reestablished only in 1989 during the perestroika in the Lithuanian SSR.
[3] The best results were achieved by the footballers (Kaunas Makabi played 12 seasons in the A Lyga and won 3rd place in 1926), bicyclists (Isakas Anolikas represented Lithuania in the 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics, was Lithuanian champion), boxers (several members became Lithuanian champions), chess players (Aleksandras Machtas and Isakas Vistaneckis represented Lithuania at Chess Olympiads), and table tennis players (brought the sport to Lithuania; Olga Gurvičaitė became champion at the 1933 World Maccabiah Championship in Prague).
[4] It participated in the 1932 and 1935 Maccabiah Games Less than a month after reestablishment of the National Olympic Committee of Lithuania,[2] Makabi club was reestablished on January 8, 1989 (chairman Semionas Finkelšteinas) with sections in Kaunas, Šiauliai, and Klaipėda.
[3] It retained its historical spelling Makabi as a sign of respect to the Lithuanian language.
It also won the Lithuanian Football Cup in 1992 upsetting champions FK Žalgiris Vilnius.