2019 Latvian Higher League

Latvian Higher League

Season	2019
Matches played	129
Goals scored	341 (2.64 per match)
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The 2019 Latvian Higher League is the 28th season of top-tier football in Latvia. The season began on 9 March 2019 and will end on 9 November 2019.

Riga are the defending champions from the previous season.

Teams

Riga

Valmieras FK

Jelgava

Liepāja

Spartaks Jūrmala

Ventspils

Daugavpils

Riga teams:
METTA/LU
RFS
Riga

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Locations of the 2019 Latvian Higher League teams

All eight clubs from the previous season remained in the league with Daugavpils joining the league as champions of 1.Liga.

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
BFC Daugavpils	Daugavpils	Celtnieks Stadium	4,070
FK Jelgava	Jelgava	Olympic Sports Center of Zemgale	1,560
FK Liepāja	Liepāja	Daugava Stadium	5,008
FK Metta/LU	Riga	Hanzas vidusskolas laukums	2,000
Riga FC	Riga	Skonto Stadium	8,207
FK RFS	Riga	Stadions Arkādija	1,000
FK Spartaks Jūrmala	Jūrmala	Slokas Stadium	2,800
FK Valmiera Glass ViA	Valmiera	J. Daliņa stadions	2,000
FK Ventspils	Ventspils	Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions	3,044

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Riga	28	19	3	6	52	17	+35	60	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	RFS	30	16	7	7	52	30	+22	55	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round
3	Ventspils	30	12	11	7	46	40	+6	47
4	Spartaks Jūrmala	28	12	4	12	44	55	−11	40
5	Valmiera Glass ViA	28	10	8	10	28	29	−1	38
6	Liepāja	28	10	5	13	36	37	−1	35
7	Jelgava	28	8	8	12	29	35	−6	32
8	Daugavpils	29	7	6	16	24	46	−22	27
9	METTA/LU	29	6	6	17	30	52	−22	24	Qualification for the relegation play-offs

Updated to match(es) played on 19 October 2019. Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Fair-play ranking; 7) Play-off.

Results

Each club played the other eight clubs home-and-away twice, for a total of 32 matches each.

First half of the season

Home \ Away	DAU	JEL	LIE	MLU	RFS	RIG	SPJ	VAL	VEN
Daugavpils		0–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	4–1	1–0	0–3
Jelgava	1–0		1–2	1–2	0–0	0–1	0–3	0–1	2–1
Liepāja	2–3	1–0		2–1	0–0	1–2	0–1	1–0	4–0
METTA/LU	0–1	2–1	1–2		1–2	1–2	3–0	1–4	2–1
RFS	3–2	2–1	2–0	2–2		3–1	0–0	0–1	4–1
Riga	4–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	2–0		6–1	0–1	2–0
Spartaks Jūrmala	3–0	1–2	1–0	1–0	2–3	0–4		2–0	4–3
Valmiera	2–0	0–0	1–0	0–2	0–2	1–0	1–2		1–1
Ventspils	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	2–2

Source: soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of the season

Home \ Away	DAU	JEL	LIE	MLU	RFS	RIG	SPJ	VAL	VEN
Daugavpils				0–0	0–1	0–3	2–3	2–2	1–1
Jelgava	2–2		0–0	1–0	1–1		5–2		1–2
Liepāja	1–2	3–1		2–1	3–3		2–2		1–2
METTA/LU	1–0		2–3		1–1	0–4	1–1	0–0	3–3
RFS	2–0	2–0	1–2	6–1		1–2	6–0	1–0
Riga	2–0	0–1	1–0	5–0				0–0	0–0
Spartaks Jūrmala		1–2	4–2		1–0	2–4		3–0	0–1
Valmiera	1–1	3–1	2–1		1–3	0–1			2–0
Ventspils	3–0	1–1		2–1	3–0	2–1	2–2	2–2

Updated to match(es) played on 19 October 2019. Source: soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics

Top scorers

As of match played 16 June 2019

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Vugar Asgarov	BFC Daugavpils	7
	Tamirlan Dzhamalutdinov	METTA/Latvijas Universitāte
	Tosin Aiyegun	Ventspils
4	Tomáš Šimkovič	RFS	6
5	Darko Lemajić	Riga	5
	Tin Vukmanić	Spartaks Jūrmala
7	Vitālijs Jagodinskis	RFS	4
	Tomáš Malec	RFS
	Aleksejs Višņakovs	Riga
	Edgars Gauračs	Spartaks Jūrmala
	Nemanja Belaković	Spartaks Jūrmala
	Richie Ennin	Spartaks Jūrmala
	Kaspars Svarups	Ventspils

External links

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