FK Liepāja is a
Latvia
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n professional
football
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club established in 2014. The club is based at the
Daugava Stadium in
Liepāja
Liepāja () (formerly: Libau) is a Administrative divisions of Latvia, state city in western Latvia, located on the Baltic Sea. It is the largest city in the Courland region and the third-largest in the country after Riga and Daugavpils. It is an ...
. FK Liepāja plays in the
Latvian Higher League. In their first season they finished 4th in the
2014 Latvian Higher League.
History
FK Liepāja/Mogo was founded in March 2014 as a
phoenix club and an indirect legatee of
FK Liepājas Metalurgs, which was dissolved following the
2013 Latvian Higher League season due to the bankruptcy of its owner company and the sole sponsor metallurgical plant ''A/S Liepājas Metalurgs''. FK Liepāja incorporated all the players, including youth teams, as well as the participation place in the
2014 Latvian Higher League, which had been at the disposal of Liepājas Metalurgs prior to its bankruptcy. The club is mainly sponsored by the Liepāja City Council and led by the former Latvian international footballer
Māris Verpakovskis. The first manager of the team was
Viktors Dobrecovs.
In its debut season FK Liepāja finished the championship in the top four.
Jānis Ikaunieks, FK Liepāja midfielder, was voted as the best player of the 2014 season.
On 15 November 2016,
Tamaz Pertia was appointed as the new manager of FK Liepāja.
On 14 September 2018, Gordon Young was appointed as the new manager of FK Liepāja.
League
Europe
1R: First round, 2Q: Second qualifying round, 3Q: Third qualifying round, PO: Play-off round
Honours
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Virslīga
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**Champions (1):
2015
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* 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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Latvian Football Cup
**Winners (2):
2017
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Events January
* January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...
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2020
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Sponsors
Players
Current squad
Out on loan
Staff
Managers
References
External links
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Football clubs in Latvia
Sport in Liepāja
Association football clubs established in 2014
2014 establishments in Latvia
Phoenix clubs (association football)