Olimpija Liepāja was a

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club. It was based in

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and founded in 1922. It won the Latvian Top League on seven occasions between 1927 and 1939, becoming the first non-

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team to win the title. Otto Fischer moved in 1936 to Latvia, where he coached the team until 1940.Liepājas ebreji pēta pagātni, dzīvojot šodienai un nākotnei II
at irliepaja.lv, 1-8-2014, retrieved 2-12-2015 Under him, the team did not lose a game as they won the League in Fischer's first season, and again in 1938 and 1939. After the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940, the club was dissolved. It was briefly revived during the Nazi occupation of the Baltic states from 1941 to 1944. Fischer, who had stayed in Liepāja, was killed by the Nazis during the

Liepāja massacres The Liepāja massacres were a series of mass executions, many public or semi-public, in and near the city of Liepāja (), on the west coast of Latvia in 1941 after the German occupation of Latvia. The main perpetrators were detachments of the ' ...

. With the return of the Soviet occupation, the players of Olimpija formed the core of the newly created Dinamo Liepāja and Sarkanais Metalurgs teams.

Honours

* Latvian Top League: **Winners: 7 (1927–1929,1933, 1936, 1938–1939)

References

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