The 2018 Latvian Higher League was the 27th season of top-tier
football in
Latvia.
Spartaks Jūrmala were the defending champions, having won their second title in the
previous season.
Teams
At the end of the
2017
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season,
Babīte were excluded from the league due to match-fixing. This resulted in
METTA/LU ending up as the bottom-placed team. They were sent to the relegation playoffs against
FK Progress/AFA Olaine. METTA/LU won, keeping them in the
Latvian Higher League
Latvian Higher League or Virslīga is a professional football league and the top tier of association football in Latvia. Organised by the Latvian Football Federation, the Higher League is contested by 10 clubs. The full name of the league is O ...
.
Babīte were replaced by the champions of the
2017 Latvian First League,
Valmieras FK.
Source
Scoresway
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League table
Results
Each team played the other seven teams home-and-away twice, for a total of 28 games each.
Relegation play-offs
The seventh-placed team from the 2018 Higher League faced the runners-up of the
2018 Latvian First League in a two-legged play-off. The winner, METTA/LU, earned the right to participate in the
2019 Higher League.
Top scorers
References
External links
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