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FK Grobiņa
FK Grobiņa is a Latvian association football, football club based in Grobiņa and plays in the first tier of Latvian football, the Latvian Higher League and the Latvian Football Cup. The club was founded as Grobiņas SC (short for Grobiņas sporta centrs, ) in 2009. In 2016 Grobiņas SC won the Latvian Second League Kurzeme Regional League and therefore qualified for the 2nd League final tournament which they won as well (beating SK Cēsis in finals) and with that earning promotion to Latvian First League, First League. In their First League debut season they achieved 4th place. From 2022 to mid-2024 the club had a cooperation agreement with the FK Liepāja youth academy (''Liepājas futbola skola''), thus having regular players joining/getting loaned from Liepāja and having the prefix LFS next to their name. In 2025, the club was renamed FK Grobiņa. Season by season results : Players First-team squad ''As of 8 July, 2025.'''' References E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grobiņa Stadium
Grobiņa (; ) is a town in South Kurzeme Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia, eleven kilometers east of Liepāja. It was founded by the Teutonic Order, Teutonic Knights in the 13th century. Some ruins of their Grobina castle are still visible. The town was given its charter in 1695. During the Early Middle Ages, Grobiņa (or Grobin) was the most important political centre on the territory of Latvia. There was a centre of Scandinavian settlement on the Baltic Sea, comparable in many ways to Hedeby and Birka but probably predating them both. About 3,000 surviving burial mounds contain the most impressive remains of the Vendel Age in Northern Europe. Scandinavian settlement The settlement at Grobin was excavated by Birger Nerman in 1929 and 1930. Nerman found remains of an earthwork stronghold, which had been protected on three sides by the Ālande River. Three Vendel Age cemeteries may be dated to the period between 650 and 800 AD. One of them was military in character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |