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FK Liepājas Metalurgs
FK Liepājas Metalurgs ( lv, Futbola klubs "Liepājas metalurgs") was a Latvian football club in the city of Liepāja and playing in the Virslīga. They played at the Daugava Stadium (capacity 5,083). In 2005 Liepājas Metalurgs became the first team other than Skonto Riga to win the Virslīga since the league restarted in 1991. After the 2013 league season the club was dissolved due to the bankruptcy of its sole sponsor metallurgical plant ''Liepājas Metalurgs''. The club was replaced by FK Liepāja, founded in 2014. History Based in Liepāja, FK Liepājas Metalurgs, got their name from the city's metallurgical factory, founded in 1882, the only one of its kind in the Baltic states. The history of the club can be traced back to 1945 when two football clubs were founded in Liepāja – Daugava Liepāja and Dinamo Liepāja. Daugava Liepāja and Dinamo Liepāja: 1945–1947 In its debut season Daugava Liepāja were runners-up in the Latvian league behind the champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daugava Stadium (Liepāja)
Daugava Stadium ( lv, Daugavas stadions) is a multi-purpose stadium in Liepāja, Latvia. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FK Liepāja, also it was the home stadium of FHK Liepājas Metalurgs FHK may refer to: * Feeding Hong Kong, food bank in Hong Kong * Fredericia HK, Danish handball club * " Free Hong Kong", slogan for Hong Kong democracy movement * Kempten University of Applied Sciences (formerly Fachhochschule Kempten) * Technic .... The stadium holds 4,022 people, and hosted the Baltic Cup 1992. The women's national side have also played at the stadium. From 1925 to 1934 the stadium was named "Strādnieku stadions" (''workers' stadium''), from 1934 to 1990 "Pilsētas stadions" (''town stadium''). References * http://loc.lv/lv/stadioni/daugavas/ Buildings and structures in Liepāja Football venues in Latvia Multi-purpose stadiums in Latvia {{Latvia-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latvian Football Cup
The Latvian Football Cup () is the main knockout cup competition in Latvian football. Since 2021, its full name is Responsible Game Latvian Football Cup (''Atbildīgas spēles Latvijas kauss'') due to the sponsorship by sports betting company William Hill. The tournament was launched in 1937, replacing the previous knockout tournament – the Riga Football Cup. The competition is a knockout (single elimination) tournament. From 1937 to 2008 and again since 2017, all of the games of the tournament are played within the year. During the Soviet occupation ( 1940–1941, 1944–1991) it served as a qualification tournament for the Soviet Cup. The competition was also fully played once during the German occupation of the Baltic states, in 1943. List of finals The results of the finals are: Total titles won The following 34 clubs have won the Latvian Football Cup. * Bold clubs play in top flight. * ''Italic'' clubs dissolved or merged. References External linksOfficial we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ainārs Linards
Ainārs Linards (born 12 May 1964) is a retired Latvian football midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie .... References 1964 births Living people Soviet footballers Latvian footballers FK Liepājas Metalurgs players FC Daugava players Örebro SK players Spårvägens FF players Association football midfielders Latvia international footballers Latvian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Sweden Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden {{Latvia-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimirs Babičevs
Vladimirs Babičevs (born 22 April 1968) is a Latvian football manager and a former footballer. Currently, he is the manager of Latvia national under-19 football team. Babičevs has played 51 matches for Latvia internationally. Club playing career His first club was 9. maijs where he played under Juris Docenko. In 1987 Babičevs joined Zvejnieks Liepāja for which he played 2 matches in the second Soviet league. In 1988, he switched to RAF Jelgava. With RAF he played for four seasons in different divisions of Soviet football, and in 1992 – in Latvian Virslīga. In 1992 RAF played a golden match against Skonto FC and lost 2:3. After the seasons Babičevs switched to the side of the victors – he joined Skonto. With Skonto came the most successful years of Vladimirs' career – the club was by far the strongest in Latvia and Babičevs soon became one of the key players of Skonto. In 1994, he was the best goalscorer in the Latvian league with 14 goals and was selected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilmārs Verpakovskis
Ilmārs Verpakovskis (15 October 1958 – 6 February 2022) was a Latvian footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent the bulk of his career with the Latvian club FK Liepājas Metalurgs, and was the father of the Latvia national team's all-time top scorer, Māris Verpakovskis. International career Verpakovskis made three appearances for the Latvia national team from 1991–1992. His first two appearances were in the unofficial 1991 Baltic Cup. His final appearance was in Latvia's first ever FIFA recognized match, a 2–0 friendly loss to Romania on 8 April 1992. Personal life and death Verpakovskis was the father of Māris Verpakovskis, who became a renowned Latvian footballer. Verpakovskis managed his son in his brief stint as player-manager for FK Liepājas Metalurgs in 1994. The Verpakovskis were the only father-son pair to both play for the Latvia national football team The Latvia national football team ( lv, Latvijas futbola izlase) represents Latvia in internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jānis Intenbergs
Jānis is a Latvian masculine given name. The first written use of the name Jānis dates back to 1290. It may refer to: * Jānis Ādamsons (born 1956), Latvian politician *Jānis Akuraters (1876–1937), Latvian poet, writer, playwright and politician * Jānis Andersons (born 1986), Latvian ice hockey defenceman *Jānis Balodis (1881–1965), Latvian army general and politician *Jānis Frīdrihs Baumanis (1834–1891), Latvian architect *Jānis Bebris (1917–1969), Latvian footballer * Jānis Beinarovičs (1907–1967), Latvian wrestler * Jānis Bērziņš (1889–1938), Latvian and Soviet communist military official and politician * Jānis Bērziņš (born 1993), Latvian basketball player * Jānis Birks (born 1956), Latvian politician *Jānis Blūms (born 1982), Latvian professional basketball player * Jānis Bojārs (born 1956), Latvian shot putter *Jānis Brikmanis (1940–2019), Latvian zoologist, environmental conservationist, radio and television presenter, and writer *Jān ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mārtiņš Lube
Mārtiņš is a Latvian language, Latvian masculine given name. It is a cognate of the name Martin (name), Martin. Mārtiņš may refer to: *Latvian mythology, Mārtiņš, ancient Latvian deity *Mārtiņš Antons (1888–1941), Latvian lawyer and politician *Mārtiņš Bondars (born 1971), Latvian financier, politician, and basketball player *Mārtiņš Bots (born 1999), Latvian luger *Mārtiņš Brauns (1951–2021), Latvian composer and musician *Mārtiņš Cipulis (born 1980), Latvian ice hockey left winger *Mārtiņš Freimanis (1977–2011), Latvian musician, singer, songwriter, actor and TV personality *Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds (1942–2016), Latvian computer scientist and mathematician *Mārtiņš Grundmanis (1913–1944), Latvian basketball player *Mārtiņš Karsums (born 1986), Latvian professional ice hockey player *Mārtiņš Ķibilds (born ????), Latvian journalist and television personality *Mārtiņš Kravčenko (born 1985), Latvian professional basketball g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republics Of The Soviet Union
The Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Union Republics ( rus, Сою́зные Респу́блики, r=Soyúznye Respúbliki) were National delimitation in the Soviet Union, national-based administrative units of the Soviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The Soviet Union was formed in 1922 by a Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, treaty between the Soviet republics of Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussia, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia, Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Transcaucasia, and Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukraine, by which they became its constituent republics. For most of its history, the USSR was a highly Centralisation, centralized state despite its nominal structure as a federation of republics; the decentralization reforms during the era of ''perestroika'' and ''glasnost'' conducted by Mikhail Gorbachev are cited as o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LMR Liepāja
LMR Liepāja was a Latvian football club that in the early 1960s won the Latvian Cup two years in a row and was then disbanded because of a disciplinary decision. Club history The club appeared in 1961 and it was coached by one of the most popular former Liepāja footballers Harijs Feldmanis. In 1961 the club for which played several former players from the main Liepāja club – Geislers, Lazdenieks, Āboltiņš, Prokofjevs, Gusevs, Jānis Karaškēvičs, E.Feldmanis reached the Latvian Cup semifinals, but in 1962 it sensationally won the Latvian Cup although LMR didn't even play in the top Latvian league. In 1963 LMR strengthened with previous season champion of Latvia with ASK Rīga Harijs Balcers made its debut in the republican league with a bang – five victories in first five matches. Although the rest of the season wasn't as brilliant and the club finished only fourth in the Latvian league (a result still unsurpassed by any Liepāja club for three decades). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet First League
The Soviet First League in football (russian: Первая лига СССР по футболу) was the second highest division of Soviet football,Evgeni Kazakov. The Soviet First Football League (Первая лига СССР по футболу)'. History of Soviet football championships. Volume 1 (1936–1969). Litres, 2019 below the Soviet Top League. While the second tier competitions in football among "teams of masters" (an official term for the Soviet professional clubs) existed since 1936, the First League has been officially formed in 1971 out of the Class A First Group. It followed the transitional 1970 season when the Class A was expanded to three groups (Vysshaya Gruppa, Pervaya Gruppa, Vtoraya Gruppa) and discontinuation of the Class B competitions for the 1971 season. The league existed until the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. Overview The second tier competitions and predecessors of the First League has been known as ''Group B'', ''Group 2'', ''Class B'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
