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VEF Rīga is a Latvian professional
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. VEF Rīga is an twelven-time Latvian Basketball League champion.


History


Early years

The club name VEF came from the
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manufacturing company VEF which created the basketball club in 1958. VEF Rīga has been home to some of the best Latvian players for over five decades. In the beginning with legendary Alfrēds Krauklis as head coach and players like Cezars Ozers, Oļģerts Jurgensons, Bruno Drake, Juris Kalnins, Edmunds Dobelis, Juris Merksons, Visvaldis Eglitis and others, VEF soon started to compete in the Soviet Union League. Back in those days, Latvia was a reference in Soviet and European basketball, as ASK Rīga was the best team in the continent, winning three consecutive European Cup titles from 1958 and 1960 with stars like
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, Maigonis Valdmanis and head coach Aleksander Gomelskiy. ASK's tremendous success overshadowed VEF's achievements, such as finishing third in the very competitive USSR championship in 1960. VEF's star player Cezars Ozers made it to the Soviet Union national team that reached the Olympics title game against the
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1960. VEF Rīga confirmed its status as a Soviet Union League regular, keeping its name in the first division and becoming a hard-to-beat team at any level. However, the lack of a second continental club competition prevented VEF from proving its value against European teams. VEF had its first golden age throughout the 1960s, with Merksons, Kalnins, Jurgensons Ozers, Eglitis and Drake as its core players. A major addition had taken place, too, as Krumins, the most dominant player in Europe for many years, decided to finish his legendary career at VEF, joining the club in 1964. Olgerts Altbergs replaced Krauklis as head coach and had a sudden impact, helping VEF to finish fourth in 1965. Kalnins won a silver Olympic medal with the Soviet Union in 1964, becoming the second VEF player to do so. The team did even better in 1966, finishing third in its domestic competition for the second time in club history. In 1969 team went down to the second division of Soviet league and it took some time to rebuild as the team got back into the Soviet Union elite in 1977 led by legendary player Valdis Valters. Valters was a true superstar, the starting point guard in the Soviet Union national team that won the 1982 World Championships and lifted the EuroBasket trophy in 1981 (Valters was named tournament MVP) as well as in 1985. Valters was also part of a team that reached Eurobasket title games in 1983 and 1987. Valters left the national team when Sarunas Marciulionis took over, but still played for the VEF until 1990. In later years, Valters got some help as VEF added young talents like
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, Gundars Vētra, Raimonds Miglinieks, Kārlis Muižnieks and Ainars Bagatskis. With arguably its best roster ever VEF was fifth in the Soviet Union League in 1985 and ranked sixth in 1987 and 1988. Vētra and Miglinieks led VEF to finish third in the 1991 Soviet Union League, a historical season in which the club made its debut in European club competitions. VEF downed ICED Bucuresti but fell against Iraklis in the 1991 Korac Cup second preliminary round. VEF went one step higher in 1992, playing in the Saporta Cup. The club knocked off Braunschweig but VEF registered two narrow losses against Union Olimpija in the next round to step down before the group stage. Despite its good season, VEF ceased to exist in 1992.


Re-foundation

The club was re-founded in 2007 with Valdis Valters as the head coach. VEF Riga started by competing in the Latvian League and the
Baltic League The Baltic League (officially known as the Triobet Baltic League) was a Baltic men's football club tournament held four times between the top club sides from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Launched in 2007 inspired by the now defunct Scandinavi ...
second division. VEF Riga was made up of young and talented players, so the team improved gradually. It all paid off right away, as VEF Riga made it to the Baltic League second division title game in 2008 and 2009, earning the right to join the first division in 2009-10. In the same season, VEF returned to European competitions as it played in FIBA Euro Challenge. Also, VEF Rīga took part in
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's inaugural regular season. In 2010, led by Alex Renfroe and Sandis Valters, VEF Riga reached the Latvian League finals for the first time, losing 3-4 to Barons Riga. In the 2010 off-season, VEF Riga made another step forward as they got a chance to play in Eurocup. VEF Riga named
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as the head coach and made some key roster moves like re-signing Sandis Valters along with acquisitions of other top Latvian players such as Kristaps Janičenoks, Kaspars Bērziņš and Dairis Bertāns. During the season, Kurtinaitis left Riga for Russian powerhouse BC Khimki and he was replaced by another Lithuanian Ramūnas Butautas, who already had experience in Latvia, having won the 2007 Latvian league championship with ASK Rīga. VEF Riga finished the season as the winners of BBL regular season. Later in BBL play-off stage VEF Riga caused a surprise by eliminating the
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n club
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at the BBL
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, beating them 79:68. It was the first time that one of the BBL finalists wasn't Lietuvos Rytas. However, VEF Rīga lost in the
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to
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n basketball club Žalgiris, with a final score of 69:75. In the Latvian League, VEF Rīga returned to the finals, where they faced BK Ventspils. During the intense series, VEF Rīga managed to beat Ventspils, 4-3, winning first Latvian championship.


Rise under Butautas

Before the 2011-2012 season, VEF Rīga participated in the Euroleague qualification round for the first time, where they lost to
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. It meant VEF Rīga had to play in Eurocup, where they reached the Last 16 round for the first time. In Baltic League, they finished in third place, while in the Latvian league VEF Rīga repeated as champions defeating Ventspils, in the finals, 4-1. During the following off-season, VEF Rīga got lucky by getting E.J. Rowland, who was loaned from Unicaja Málaga with favorable conditions. Rowland turned out to be a massive part of upcoming success. Rowland, surrounded by a strong core consisting of Latvian players, helped VEF Rīga get wins over well-established teams. The culmination of the season was on 15 January 2013 when VEF Rīga trashed
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at Arēna Rīga, 99-76. In the VTB United League, VEF Rīga stopped after Quarterfinals, but in Latvian League, they won the third consecutive title against Ventspils (4-1). After a very good season, VEF Rīga lost its top players as Bilbao bought out Dairis Bertāns, and E.J. Rowland signed a lucrative contract in Turkey, followed by other departures. The season wasn't as good as the previous one. One of the reasons was the inconsistent lineup. One of the biggest signings of the summer, Gani Lawal, left the team in the preseason. VEF Rīga had a first-round exit in the Euroleague qualification round which was followed by not making the second round in the Eurocup. In the end, affected by injuries and some unexpected events like Derrick Nix leaving the team on the eve of the Latvian League finals, after three years of dominance VEF Rīga lost the domestic championship, losing to Ventspils, 1-4. In the 2014 off-season, VEF Riga went through rebuilding as several new faces (
Jānis Timma Jānis Timma (2 July 1992 – 17 December 2024) was a Latvian professional basketball player. Standing at , he mainly played at the small forward position. He also represented the senior Latvia men's national basketball team, Latvia national team ...
, Mareks Mejeris) joined the team. VEF struggled in international tournaments and failed to make the playoffs, but finished the season by the winning Latvian championship. After the departure of Nikolajs Mazurs, VEF hired Carlos Frade as the next head coach. The Spanish coach tried to change the philosophy of the basketball VEF played under previous coaches, but it didn't turn out well, and on 12 December 2015, VEF fired Frade. Long-time assistant Jānis Gailītis was promoted as a head coach and took the team to the Latvian League finals, but lost to Valmiera/Ordo. Gailītis continued as head coach. The following season VEF signed Latvian National Team captain Jānis Blūms and another veteran Armands Šķēle. They helped to regain the Latvian championship, and VEF returned to the VTB League quarterfinals for the first time in four years. Following the 2016-17 season, Blums and Skele veterans left the team, but VEF signed another two experienced players: Kristaps Janičenoks and Kaspars Bērziņš. Alex Pérez was also signed, giving him his first experience in European basketball. The team again qualified for the VTB League quarterfinals but failed to win the Latvian championship.


Leaving VTB League and joining Champions League

In 2018-19 season VEF joined newly created Latvian-Estonian Basketball League. They lost in the final to biggest rivals
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, but revenged in Latvian League finals, winning Latvian championship for the 6th time. It was Janičenoks' last season in his professional career. Mareks Mejeris had become a star player of the team, and VEF wasn't able to keep him in the 2019 off-season. Mejeris signed with Parma Basket. Team's budget became smaller and the management decided to leave
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. Instead, VEF returned to international competition stage, joining
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, organized by
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. In 2019 off-season VEF signed back veteran Jānis Blūms and promising Latvian talent Artūrs Kurucs, loaned by Spanish
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team
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. Kurucs used the opportunity, becoming one of the best young players in
Basketball Champions League The Basketball Champions League (BCL), also commonly known as the FIBA Champions League, is an annual professional basketball competition for European sports club, clubs, organised by FIBA. It is the European professional club basketball system ...
. Debut in Champions League was rough, VEF won only one of 14 games in regular season and was dead last in the standings. End of the season was interrupted by
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. VEF was awarded Latvian championship, so they could get back to Champions League the following season. Second participation in the Basketball Champions League was way better, as VEF qualified for the playoffs round, and also won the Latvian championship. However, team again failed to win the 2020–21 Latvian–Estonian Basketball League, losing to Estonian Kalev/Cramo in the final. Many players used the platform to rise their name and got better contracts for the next season: Kyle Allman signed with Paris Basketball, Michale Kyser signed with Hapoel Holon, Isaiah Piñeiro signed with Darüşşafaka. Kristers Zoriks became a Latvian NT starter. On 7 March 2022 VEF won the Latvian Cup for the first time ever. It was first Latvian Cup organized since 1994. Alexander Madsen was named the Latvian Cup MVP.


Honours


League

* Latvian League: ::Winners (12): 2011, 2012, 2013,
2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
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2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...
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2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
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2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...
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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
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2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
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2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...
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2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...
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2025 So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...
:::''Runners-up (4)'': 2010,
2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
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2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
*
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: ::Winners (4): 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 *
Baltic League The Baltic League (officially known as the Triobet Baltic League) was a Baltic men's football club tournament held four times between the top club sides from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Launched in 2007 inspired by the now defunct Scandinavi ...
::''Runners-up (1)'':
2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
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2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...
* BBL Cup ::Winners (1):
2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
* Latvian–Estonian League ::Winners (2):
2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
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2025 So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...
:::''Runners-up (1)'':
2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
,
2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
::::''Bronze medal (1)'':
2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...
* USSR Championship ::''Bronze medal (3)'': 1960, 1966, 1991


Season by season record


Players


Current roster


Depth chart


Squad changes for the 2024–25 season


In


Out


FIBA Hall of Famers


Notable former players

*
Artis Ate Artis Ate (born 29 July 1989) is a Latvian professional basketball player, who plays the shooting guard and small forward The small forward (SF), also known as the three, is one of the five Basketball position, positions in a regulation basket ...
* Ainars Bagatskis * Dairis Bertāns * Artūrs Bērziņš * Jānis Bērziņš * Kaspars Bērziņš * Roberts Bērziņš * Jānis Blūms * Roberts Blūms * Rolands Freimanis * Raitis Grafs * Andrejs Gražulis * Māris Gulbis * Gatis Jahovičs * Ingus Jakovičs * Kristaps Janičenoks * Edgars Jeromanovs * Verners Kohs *
Jānis Krūmiņš Jānis Krūmiņš (30 January 1930 – 20 November 1994) was a Soviet-Latvian professional basketball player. Helped by his height (about 220 cm, or 7'3"), he was the first giant center that dominated under European baskets, for years. As ...
* Rihards Kuksiks * Artūrs Kurucs * Rodions Kurucs * Mārtiņš Laksa *
Andris Misters Andris Misters (born April 8, 1992) is a Latvian professional basketball player for BK Ogre of the Latvian-Estonian Basketball League. He plays as shooting guard The shooting guard (SG), also known as the two, two guard or off guard,Shootin ...
* Mārtiņš Meiers * Mareks Mejeris *
Igors Miglinieks Igors Miglinieks (born 4 May 1964) is a retired Soviet Union, Soviet and Latvian professional basketball player and basketball coach, coach. He played at the point guard and shooting guard positions. Professional career Miglinieks was a member of ...
* Raimonds Miglinieks * Kārlis Muižnieks * Cēzars Ozers *
Anžejs Pasečņiks Anžejs Pasečņiks (; born 20 December 1995) is a Latvian professional basketball player for Tofaş S.K., Tofaş of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). Professional career VEF Rīga (2012–2015) He made his professional debut in the Latvian Leagu ...
* Žanis Peiners * Artūrs Strēlnieks * Aigars Šķēle * Armands Šķēle * Andrejs Šeļakovs *
Jānis Timma Jānis Timma (2 July 1992 – 17 December 2024) was a Latvian professional basketball player. Standing at , he mainly played at the small forward position. He also represented the senior Latvia men's national basketball team, Latvia national team ...
* Maigonis Valdmanis * Sandis Valters * Valdis Valters *
Kaspars Vecvagars Kaspars Vecvagars (born 3 August 1993) is a former Latvian professional basketball player and currently an assistant coach An athletic coach is a person coaching in sport, involved in the direction, instruction, and training of a sports team or ...
* Gundars Vētra * Ričmonds Vilde * Ronalds Zaķis * Kristers Zoriks * Jamar Abrams * Brendan Adams * Andrew Andrews * Kyle Allman * Glenn Cosey * Josh Bostic * Dee Brown * Da'Sean Butler * Tyler Cain * Paul Carter * Justin Cobbs * Vincent Council * Ron Curry * Will Daniels * Kevin Dillard * Abdul Gaddy * Rayshaun Hammonds * Josh Harrellson * Justin Hamilton * C. J. Harris * Baden Jaxen * Speedy Smith * Trevon Hughes * Michale Kyser * Robert Lowery * Austin Luke * Quinn McDowell * Lester Medford * Anthony Miles * Curtis Millage * Keaton Nankivil * Derrick Nix * P.J. Pipes * Marque Perry * Alex Renfroe * Antywane Robinson * Gerald Robinson * LaQuinton Ross * E. J. Rowland * Patrick Sanders *
Courtney Sims Courtney Sims (born October 21, 1983) is an American former professional basketball player. He is a center. He now runs the basketball program Team Sims Basketball located in Sandwich, Massachusetts. Early career Sims played his college ball a ...
* Stephen Zack *
Devondrick Walker Devondrick Deshawn Walker (born July 11, 1992) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Borneo Hornbills of the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL). He played three years of college basketball for the Texas A&M–Comme ...
* Xavier Thames * Kristijan Krajina * Artsiom Parakhouski * Kenan Bajramović * Siim-Sander Vene * Antanas Kavaliauskas * Arnas Labuckas * Martynas Mažeika *
Donatas Zavackas Donatas Zavackas (born 23 April 1980) is a Lithuanian professional basketball executive and former player, who is the sports director for Wolves Twinsbet of the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL) and the EuroCup. He played college basketball at ...
* Tomas Delininkaitis *
Bojan Bakić Bojan Bakić (Serbian Cyrillic: Бојан Бакић; born January 8, 1983) is a Montenegrin professional basketball player for Barsy Atyrau of the Kazakhstan Basketball Championship. Professional career The Montenegrin guard started his prof ...
* Gani Lawal * Nemanja Bezbradica * Evgeny Kolesnikov * Bamba Fall * Elijah Clarance * Ludvig Håkanson * Alexander Madsen * Francisco Cruz * Alex Perez * Guille Rubio * Kris Richard * Isaiah Piñeiro


Coaches


Notable former coaches

* Alfrēds Krauklis * Alvils Gulbis * Armands Krauliņš * Maigonis Valdmanis * Valdis Valters *
Rimas Kurtinaitis Rimas Kurtinaitis (born 15 May 1960) is a Lithuanian professional basketball coach and former player who is currently the head coach of the Lithuania men's national basketball team, Lithuania men's national team and Sabah BC. As a player, he was ...
* Ramūnas Butautas * Nikolajs Mazurs * Carlos Frade * Jānis Gailītis


References


External links


Official VEF Rīga Site

VEF Rīga VTB-League.com

VEF Rīga LBL.lv

VEF Rīga BBL.net

VEF Rīga EuroCupBasketball.com
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