Riga FC

Latvian football club

Not to be confused with FK Rīga.

Football club

Riga FC

Full name| Riga Football Club
Riga FC, SIA
Founded| 30 April 2014; 11 years ago (2014-04-30)
Ground| Skonto Stadium
Capacity| 8,087
Chairman| Aleksandrs Proņins
Manager| Adrián Guľa
League| Virslīga
2024| Virslīga, 2nd of 10
Website| rigafc.lv

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

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Riga Football Club, commonly referred to as Riga FC, is a Latvian football club, founded in 2014. The club is based at the Skonto Stadium in Riga. Since 2016, the club has been playing in the Virslīga, the highest tier of the Latvian football league system.

## History

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The club was officially registered in April 2014.[1] The team was established before the 2015 season after a merger of two Riga based teams – FC Caramba and Dinamo Rīga.

In the 2015 season, under the name FC Caramba/Dinamo, the team played in the Latvian First League by using the licence received by FC Caramba, an unrelated team founded by future FK RFS co-founder Maksims Krivuņecs, which had won promotion to the 1. līga after winning the Latvian Second League in 2014.[2] After winning the 2015 First League and earning promotion to the Higher League, the club changed its name to Riga FC.[3] However, for most of 2015, the legal name of the team was 'Riga Dinamo Football Club'.[1] A club named Dinamo Riga played in 1940 and 1945–1960.

In 2017, Riga FC acquired the Šitiks Football Academy (Šitika FA), founded in 1999 by Genādijs Šitiks, and operates as one of its youth academies, Riga FC Academy.[4][5]

In 2018, the Ukrainian Viktor Skrypnyk was appointed as coach. He managed to lead the club to two Latvian Higher Leagues in 2018, 2019 and the Latvian Football Cup in 2018.

Ukrainian manager Viktor Skrypnyk has won the first ever Virslīga title in the club's history.

### Domestic

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Season  | Division (Name)  | Pos./Teams  | Pl.  | W  | D  | L  | GS  | GA  | P  | Latvian Football Cup | Top Scorer (League)  | Manager

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2015 | 2nd | 1/(16)  | 30  | 27  | 3  | 0  | 142  | 14  | 84 | Round of 16 |  Verners Apiņš – 31  |  Mihails Koņevs
2016 | 1st | 5/(8)  | 28  | 8  | 12  | 8  | 28  | 24  | 36 | Runner-up |  Roberts Savaļnieks
Yōsuke Saitō – 5  |  Kiril Kurbatov
Dmitri Khomukha
Vladimir Volchek
2017 | 1st | 3/(7)  | 24  | 10  | 7  | 7  | 28  | 20  | 37 | Runner-up |  Bogdan Vaštšuk – 8  |  Vladimir Volchek
Mihails Koņevs
Yevgeny Perevertaylo
Slaviša Stojanovič
2018 | 1st | 1/(8)  | 28  | 20  | 4  | 4  | 45  | 16  | 64 | Winner |  Darko Lemajić – 15  |  Goce Sedloski
Mihails Koņevs
Viktor Skrypnyk
2019 | 1st | 1/(9)  | 32  | 20  | 6  | 6  | 59  | 21  | 66 | Semi-Finals |  Roman Debelko – 7  |  Luís Berkemeier Pimenta
Oleg Kubarev
Mihails Koņevs
2020 | 1st | 1/(10)  | 27  | 23  | 0  | 4  | 60  | 21  | 69 | Quarter-finals |  Kule Mbombo – 12  |  Oleg Kononov
Mihails Koņevs
2021 | 1st | 4/(9)  | 28  | 14  | 8  | 6  | 54  | 26  | 50 | Semifinals |  Stefan Milošević – 13  |  Denis Laktionov
Kristaps Blanks
Andris Rihters
Sashko Poposki
2022 | 1st | 2/(10)  | 36  | 26  | 3  | 7  | 68  | 23  | 81 | Round of 16 |  Marcelo Torres – 11  |  Thorsten Fink
Kristaps Blanks
Sandro Perković
2023 | 1st | 2/(10)  | 36  | 27  | 7  | 2  | 89  | 21  | 88 | Winner |  Marko Regža – 19  |  Tomislav Stipić

### European

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Fully up to date as of 1 August 2024

Competition  | Pld  | W  | D  | L  | GF  | GA  | GD

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UEFA Champions League | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | –3
UEFA Europa League | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 12 | –1
UEFA Europa Conference League | 20 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 27 | 24 | +3
Total | 35 | 14 | 7 | 14 | 39 | 40 | –1
Season  | Competition  | Round  | Club  | Home  | Away  | Agg. |

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2018–19  | UEFA Europa League | 1QR |  CSKA Sofia | 1−0  | 0−1  | 1−1[a] |
2019–20  | UEFA Champions League | 1QR |  Dundalk | 0−0  | 0−0  | 0−0[b] |
UEFA Europa League | 2QR |  Piast Gliwice | 2−1  | 2−3  | 4−4 (a)  |
3QR |  HJK | 1−1  | 2−2  | 3−3 (a)  |
PO |  Copenhagen | 1−0  | 1−3  | 2−3  |
2020–21  | UEFA Champions League | 1QR |  Maccabi Tel Aviv | —  | 0−2  | —  |
UEFA Europa League | 2QR |  Tre Fiori | 1−0  | —  | —  |
3QR |  Celtic | 0−1  | —  | —  |
2021–22  | UEFA Champions League | 1QR |  Malmö | 1−1  | 0−1  | 1−2  |
UEFA Europa Conference League | 2QR |  Shkëndija | 2−0  | 1−0  | 3−0  |
3QR |  Hibernians | 0−1  | 4−1 (a.e.t.)  | 4−2  |
PO |  Lincoln Red Imps | 1−1  | 1−3 (a.e.t.)  | 2−4  |
2022–23  | UEFA Europa Conference League | 1QR |  Derry City | 2−0  | 2−0  | 4−0  |
2QR |  Ružomberok | 2−1  | 3−0  | 5−1  |
3QR |  Gil Vicente | 1−1  | 0−4  | 1−5  |
2023–24  | UEFA Europa Conference League | 1QR |  Víkingur Reykjavík | 2−0  | 0−1  | 2−1  |
2QR |  Kecskemét | 3−1 (a.e.t.)  | 1−2  | 4−3  |
3QR |  Twente | 0−3  | 0−2  | 0−5  |
2024–25  | UEFA Conference League | 2QR |  Śląsk Wrocław | 1−0  | 1−3  | 2−3  |
2025–26  | UEFA Conference League | 2QR |  |  |  |  |

Notes

* 1QR: First qualifying round
* 2QR: Second qualifying round
* 3QR: Third qualifying round
* PO: Play-off round

## Honours

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* Latvian Higher League
* Champions: 2018, 2019, 2020
* Runners-up: 2022, 2023, 2024
* Latvian Cup
* Winners: 2018, 2023
* Runners-up: 2016–17, 2017
* Latvian First League
* Champions: 2015
* Latvian Supercup
* Winners: 2024
* Runners-up: 2025

## Kits

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### Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

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Period  | Kit manufacturer  | Shirt sponsor

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2015  | Adidas | —
2016  | Jako | —
2017  | Marine Service Group
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022

2016

2017–18

2019

2020–22

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2017

2018–19

2020–22

2021–22

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## Players

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### Current squad

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As of 5 July 2025[6]

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

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1  | GK |  LVA | Krišjānis Zviedris
3  | DF |  SEN | El Bachir Ngom
4  | MF |  CRC | Orlando Galo
7  | MF |  LVA | Eduards Dašķevičs
8  | MF |  BRA | Iago Siqueira
9  | FW |  CRC | Anthony Contreras
10  | FW |  BRA | Reginaldo Ramires
11  | MF |  ESP | Brian Peña
12  | GK |  LVA | Kristaps Zommers
13  | DF |  LVA | Raivis Jurkovskis
15  | MF |  NGA | Hussaini Ibrahim
16  | GK |  LVA | Nils Toms Puriņš
18  | FW |  LVA | Marko Regža
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19  | FW |  NGA | Abdulrahman Taiwo
20  | MF |  PER | Joao Grimaldo (on loan from Partizan)
21  | DF |  GHA | Baba Musah
22  | MF |  SEN | Meissa Diop
23  | DF |  LVA | Maksims Toņiševs
25  | DF |  COD | Ngonda Muzinga
27  | DF |  LVA | Emīls Birka
29  | MF |  UKR | Nazar Prudchenko
34  | DF |  LVA | Antonijs Černomordijs (captain)
40  | MF |  GHA | Ahmed Ankrah
44  | GK |  LVA | Mārcis Kazainis
77  | MF |  COD | Gauthier Mankenda

### Out on loan

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

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6  | MF |  LVA | Tomašs Mickēvičs (at Grobiņa until 30 November 2025)
\-  | MF |  CMR | Karl Gameni Wassom (at Auda until 30 November 2025)
\-  | FW |  BFA | Ousmane Camara (at Auda until 30 November 2025)

### Captains

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2016  | MF |  Oļegs Laizāns
2017  | DF |  Kaspars Gorkšs
2018  | DF |  Volodymyr Bayenko
2019  | MF |  Aleksejs Višņakovs
2020  | MF |  Stefan Panić
2021  | DF |  Antonijs Černomordijs
2022
2023  | MF |  Miloš Jojić
2024  | DF |  Antonijs Černomordijs

## Current staff

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As of 1 March 2025 [7][8]

Coaches  Position  | Name

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Head coach  |  Adrián Guľa
Assistant coach  |  Mareks Zuntners
Coach  |  Norbert Gula
Coach  |  Peter Argyusi
Coach  |  Kristaps Blanks
Goalkeeper coach  |  Oleksandr Nogin
Fitness coach  |  Martin Kojnok
Physiotherapist  |  Nikola Rodic
Medical department  Position  | Name

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Doctor  |  Viktors Simanovičs
Doctor  |  Rolands Brencāns

## Current board

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As of 13 March 2021 [9]

Management and administration  Position  | Name

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Director-General  |  Aleksandrs Proņins
Sport director  |  Aleksandrs Romašins
Executive director  |  Romāns Lajuks
Administrator  |  Deniss Čerņikovs
Press officer  |  Krišs Upenieks
Creative director  |  Sergejs Sobolevs
Project manager  |  Andrejs Kaješovs
Photographer  |  Zigismunds Zālmanis
Video operator  |  Andrejs Guļko

## Controversies

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In 2020, it was reported that Russian businessman Sergey Lomakin, the owner of Riga FC, was included in Latvia's persona non grata list.[10] This was denied by the board of the club.[11]

## Notable players

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Latvia

* Kristaps Blanks
* Boriss Bogdaškins
* Antonijs Černomordijs
* Vladislavs Fjodorovs
* Vladislavs Gabovs
* Kaspars Gorkšs
* Vadims Gospodars
* Vladimirs Kamešs
* Artūrs Karašausks
* Andrejs Kovaļovs
* Sergejs Kožans
* Antons Kurakins
* Oļegs Laizāns
* Ivans Lukjanovs
* Germans Māliņš
* Roberts Ozols
* Andrejs Perepļotkins
* Armands Pētersons
* Ēriks Punculs
* Deniss Rakels
* Deniss Romanovs
* Ritvars Rugins
* Roberts Savaļnieks
* Vitālijs Smirnovs
* Elvis Stuglis
* Valērijs Šabala
* Oļegs Timofejevs
* Daniils Turkovs
* Maksims Uvarenko
* Aleksejs Višņakovs
* Artūrs Zjuzins

Europe

* Herdi Prenga
* Edgar Babayan
* Adnan Šećerović
* Ivan Brkić
* Ivan Paurević
* Tomislav Šarić
* Jakub Hora

* Bogdan Vaštšuk
* Mikael Soisalo
* Davit Skhirtladze
* Thanos Petsos
* Giorgos Valerianos
* Kévin Bérigaud
* Joël Bopesu
* Jean-Baptiste Léo
* Axel Óskar Andrésson
* Stefan Ljubicic
* Besar Halimi
* Egzon Belica
* Stefan Milošević
* Milan Vušurović
* Abdisalam Ibrahim
* Kamil Biliński
* Pedrinho
* Talocha
* Khyzyr Appayev
* Vitaliy Fedotov
* Vladislav Khatazhyonkov
* Denis Kniga
* Ivan Knyazev
* Stanislav Krapukhin
* Ivan Sergeyev
* Sergei Shumeyko
* Danila Yanov
* Ivan Yenin
* Dušan Brković
* Marko Đurišić
* Miloš Jojić
* Darko Lemajić
* Mario Maslać
* Stefan Panić
* Nedeljko Piščević
* Miloš Vranjanin
* Rene Mihelič
* Doug Bergqvist
* Volodymyr Bayenko
* Roman Debelko

* Valeriy Fedorchuk
* Pavlo Fedosov
* Oleksandr Filippov
* Bohdan Kovalenko
* Ihor Lytovka
* Myroslav Slavov
* Vyacheslav Sharpar
* Yuriy Vakulko
* Vladlen Yurchenko
* Serhiy Zahynaylov

Africa

* Aristide Bancé
* Gaël Etock
* Kule Mbombo
* Ngonda Muzinga
* Jordan Nkololo
* David Addy
* Joselpho Barnes
* Karim Loukili
* Ousseynou Niang
* George Davies
* John Kamara

Asia

* Yōsuke Saitō
* Minori Sato

South America

* Federico Bravo
* Marcelo Torres
* Douglas Aurélio
* Felipe Brisola
* Dário
* Stênio Júnior
* Wesley Natã
* Thiago Primão
* Gabriel Ramos
* Roger
* Lipe Veloso
* Brayan Angulo
* Juan Camilo Saiz
* Luis Iberico

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from | until | days  | LČ | LK | 1L
Mihails Koņevs  | 1 March 2015 | 30 November 2015 | 274  | 1 | – | – | 1
Kiril Kurbatov  | 1 January 2016 | 10 April 2016 | 100  | – | – | – | –
Dmitri Khomukha | 11 April 2016 | 9 August 2016 | 120  | – | – | – | –
Vladimir Volchek  | 12 August 2016 | 19 April 2017 | 250  | – | – | – | –
Mihails Koņevs (caretaker) | 20 April 2017 | 11 May 2017 | 21  | – | – | – | –
Yevgeny Perevertaylo | 12 May 2017 | 29 July 2017 | 78  | – | – | – | –
Slaviša Stojanović | 30 July 2017 | 31 December 2017 | 154  | – | – | – | –
Goce Sedloski | 27 January 2018 | 25 May 2018 | 118  | – | – | – | –
Mihails Koņevs (caretaker) | 26 May 2018 | 4 July 2018 | 39  | – | – | – | –
Viktor Skrypnyk | 5 July 2018 | 31 January 2019 | 210  | 2 | 1 | 1 | –
Luís Berkemeier Pimenta | 5 February 2019 | 2 March 2019 | 25  | – | – | – | –
Mihails Koņevs (caretaker) | 3 March 2019 | 27 March 2019 | 24  | – | – | – | –
Oleg Kubarev | 28 March 2019 | 26 April 2019 | 29  | – | – | – | –
Mihails Koņevs  | 27 April 2019 | 5 February 2020 | 284  | 1 | 1 | – | –
Oleg Kononov | 5 February 2020 | 11 November 2020 | 280  | – | – | – | –
Mihails Koņevs (caretaker) | 12 November 2020 | 31 December 2020 | 49  | 1 | 1 | – | –
Denis Laktionov | 1 January 2021  | 25 May 2021  | 144  | – | –  | –  | –
Kristaps Blanks (caretaker) | 27 May 2021 | 8 June 2021 | 12  | – | – | – | –
Andris Rihters  | 9 June 2021 | 10 September 2021 | 93  | – | – | – | –
Sashko Poposki (caretaker) | 12 September 2021 | 30 November 2021 | 79  | – | – | – | –
Thorsten Fink | 4 January 2022 | 16 May 2022 | 132  | – | – | – | –
Kristaps Blanks (caretaker) | 16 May 2022 | 7 June 2022 | 22  | – | – | – | –
Sandro Perković  | 7 June 2022 | 7 January 2023 | 214  | – | – | – | –
Tomislav Stipić | 7 January 2023 | 13 December 2023 | 340  | 1 | – | 1 | –
Simo Valakari | 14 December 2023 | 1 October 2024 | 292  | – | – | - | –
Adrián Guľa | 14 January 2025 |  | 175  | – | – | - | –

## Player records

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### Top goalscorers

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1 |  Marko Regža | 2023 – present | 37 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 42
2 |  Darko Lemajić | 2017 – 2019 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 26
3 |  Anthony Contreras | 2023 – present | 14 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 21
4 |  Mikael Soisalo | 2021 – 2023 | 16 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 19
5 |  Felipe Brisola | 2018 – 2021 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 18
6 |  Douglas Aurélio | 2022 – 2023 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 17
7 |  Reginaldo Ramires | 2023 – present | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15
8 |  Gabriel Ramos | 2021 – 2022 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 15
9 |  Stefan Milošević | 2020 – 2021 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15
10 |  Kemelho Nguena | 2023 – 2024 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14

* Other – National Super Cup

Bold signifies a current Riga FC player

### Most appearances

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#  | Name  | Years  | League  | Cup  | Europe  | Other  | Total

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1 |  Antonijs Černomordijs | 2016 – 2017
2018 – present | 179 | 15 | 24 | 2 | 220
2 |  Armands Pētersons | 2016 – 2023 | 134 | 11 | 22 | 0 | 167
3 |  Roberts Ozols | 2015 – 2022 | 105 | 13 | 15 | 0 | 133
4 |  Antons Kurakins | 2017 – 2022 | 100 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 118
5 |  Oļegs Laizāns | 2016 – 2021 | 96 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 117
6 |  Raivis Jurkovskis | 2022 – present | 87 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 107
7 |  Felipe Brisola | 2018 – 2021 | 80 | 3 | 18 | 0 | 101
8 |  Nils Toms Puriņš | 2018 – present | 80 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 94
9 |  Hrvoje Babec | 2022 – present | 74 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 92
10 |  Mikael Soisalo | 2021 – 2023 | 69 | 3 | 19 | 0 | 91

* Other – National Super Cup

Bold signifies a current Riga FC player

## Notes

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1. ^ Lost 5−3 on Penalty shootout.
2. ^ Lost 5−4 on Penalty shootout.

## References

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1. ^ a b LURSOFT (2019-04-01). "Riga Football Club, 40008223802 - company data". Lursoft. Archived from the original on 2021-08-18. Retrieved 2019-04-01.
2. ^ Novickis, Edmunds (2016-02-26). "Virslīgas kluba RFS pārstāvji ar entuziasmu: "Šis projekts 100% ir ilgtermiņa!"" [Representatives of Virslīga club RFS say with enthusiasm "This project is 100% long-term!"]. Sportacentrs.com (in Latvian). Retrieved 2024-01-26.
3. ^ ""Caramba/Dinamo" pārmaiņas: jauns treneris, cits nosaukums un stadions". sportacentrs.com (in Latvian). 22 December 2015. Archived from the original on 25 March 2016. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
4. ^ "Genādija Šitika trešais cikls". Sporto (in Latvian). Retrieved 2023-10-18.
5. ^ "Par mums – Riga Football Club Academy". Retrieved 2023-10-18.
6. ^ "Komanda" [A Team] (in Latvian). Riga FC. Archived from the original on 12 July 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
7. ^ "Coaches and staff - Riga Football Club". www.rigafc.lv. Archived from the original on 2021-07-18. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
8. ^ "Coaches and staff – Riga FC". Riga FC. Archived from the original on 18 May 2021. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
9. ^ "Management and administration – Riga FC". Riga FC. Archived from the original on 18 May 2021. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
10. ^ "Pēdējo gadu Latvijas spēcīgākās futbola komandas īpašnieks iekļauts valstij nevēlamo personu sarakstā". Jauns.lv (in Latvian). Retrieved 2024-02-20.
11. ^ курс, The Baltic Course-Балтийский. "Latvian football club Riga owner Lomakin included on persona non grata list". The Baltic Course | Baltic States news & analytics. Retrieved 2024-02-20.

## External links

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* Official website
* Official Latvia Higher Football League website (in Latvian)

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