The 2017 Latvian Higher League is the 26th season of top-tier

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. Spartaks Jūrmala are the defending champions, having won their first title in the previous season.

Teams

The bottom-placed team from the

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season,

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, were directly relegated to the

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. They were replaced by Babīte, champions of the

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. The seventh-placed team from the 2016 season, FS METTA/LU, retained their top-flight spot for the 2017 season by defeating 2016 First League runners-up,

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in the

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. Babīte was removed from the league on 22 June 2017 after the Latvian Football Federation received a notice from

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's Betting Fraud Detection System for 6 separate games involving Babīte. All the results for Babīte games were invalidated and do not count for the standings. Source
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League table

Results

Each team will play the other seven teams home-and-away twice, for a total of 28 games each.

Relegation play-offs

The seventh-placed side faced the runners-up of the

in a two-legged play-off, with the winner being awarded a spot in the 2018 Higher League competition.

Teams

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League table

Results

Relegation play-offs

Season statistics

Top scorers

References

External links