2025 Latvian Higher League

The 2025 Latvian Higher League, known as the TonyBet Virslīga for sponsorship reasons, is the 34th season of top-tier football in Latvia. The season began on 5 March 2025 and will end in November 2025 (not including play-off matches).

Latvian Higher League

Season	2025
Dates	5 March 2025 – 9 November 2025[1]
Matches played	34
Goals scored	106 (3.12 per match)
Top goalscorer	Darko Lemajić (12 goals)
← 2024 2026 → All statistics correct as of 13 June 2025.

Teams

FK Liepāja

Grobiņa

RFS
Riga FC
Metta

Jelgava

Super Nova

BFC Daugavpils

Tukums 2000

FK Auda

Locations of the 2025 Latvian Higher League teams

The league consisted of ten teams; the top nine clubs from the previous season, and one team promoted from the Latvian First League. RFS entered the season as defending champions (for the second consecutive season).

The promoted team was 2024 Latvian First League champions Super Nova (returning to the top flight after a single-season absence). They replaced the 2024 Latvian Higher League fourth-placed team Valmiera, who were disqualified from the last campaign and left the division after seven seasons in the top flight due to being refused a Latvian Higher League license.^[2][3][4]

2025 Virslīga competitors

Club	Seasons in Virsliga	2024 position	Stadium	Capacity
Auda	7th	3rd	Skonto Stadium	6,747
Daugavpils	10th	5th	Esplanādes stadions	575
Grobiņa	2nd	9th	Daugava Stadium (Liepāja)	4,022
FS Jelgava	3rd	10th	Zemgale Olympic Center	1,560
Liepāja	12th	6th	Daugava Stadium (Liepāja)	4,022
Metta	14th	7th	Daugava Stadium (Riga)	10,461
RFS	10th	1st	LNK Sporta Parks	1,700
Riga	10th	2nd	Skonto Stadium	6,747
Super Nova	3rd	1st in Latvian First League	Jānis Skredelis' Stadium	396
Tukums 2000	5th	8th	Tukuma Pilsētas Stadions	425

Personnel

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Head coach	Captain
			Auda	Jurģis Kalns	Kemehlo Nguena
Daugavpils	Kirils Kurbatovs	Edgars Ivanovs
Grobiņa	Viktors Dobrecovs	Dāvids Družiņins
Jelgava	Aleksandrs Basovs	Armands Pētersons
Liepāja	Andreas Alm	Marko Simić
Metta	Andris Riherts	Kārlis Vilnis
RFS	Viktors Morozs	Žiga Lipušček
Riga	Adrián Guľa	Antonijs Černomordijs
Super Nova	Ervīns Pērkons	Dāvis Vējkrīgers
Tukums 2000	Kristaps Dišlers	Bogdans Samoilovs

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Liepāja	Tamaz Pertia	Sacked	7 January 2025	Pre-season	Dino Skender[5]	7 January 2025
Auda	Zoran Zeljković[6]		7 January 2025		Aleksandre Rekhviashvili (interim)[7]	8 January 2025
Riga	Mareks Zuntners (interim)[8]	End of interim spell	14 January 2025		Adrián Guľa[8]	14 January 2025
Auda	Aleksandre Rekhviashvili (interim)[9]		9 February 2025		Jurģis Kalns[9]	9 February 2025
Liepāja	Dino Skender[10]	Sacked	6 April 2025	5th	Jānis Goba (interim)[10]	6 April 2025

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Riga	25	20	4	1	59	17	+42	64	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	RFS	25	20	1	4	66	24	+42	61	Qualification for the Conference League first qualifying round
3	Liepāja	25	12	5	8	42	37	+5	41
4	Auda	25	11	4	10	34	29	+5	37
5	Daugavpils	25	9	7	9	37	43	−6	34
6	Jelgava	25	7	6	12	21	29	−8	27
7	Super Nova	25	4	11	10	27	33	−6	23
8	Tukums 2000	25	5	6	14	27	48	−21	21
9	Metta	25	5	5	15	21	50	−29	20	Qualification for the Latvian Higher League play-off
10	Grobiņa	25	5	5	15	23	47	−24	20	Relegation to the Latvian First League

Updated to match(es) played on 3 August 2025. Source: LFF, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Fair-play ranking; 7) Play-off.^[11]

Results

Teams play each other four times (twice at home and twice away).

Home \ Away	AUD	DAU	GRO	JEL	LIE	MLU	RFS	RIG	SNO	TUK	AUD	DAU	GRO	JEL	LIE	MLU	RFS	RIG	SNO	TUK
Auda		1–1	2–0	2–0	3–0	4–1	1–2	1–3	1–0	2–0		1–3	24 AUG	2–0	20 OCT	0–1	31 AUG	1–3	22 SEP	2 NOV
Daugavpils	2–1		3–2	1–0	4–2	2–0	1–2	0–1	1–1	3–0	5 OCT		15 SEP	2–0	2 NOV	23 AUG	1–7	26 SEP	25 OCT	1–2
Grobiņa	1–2	3–2		1–1	2–0	2–4	1–4	0–2	1–1	2–0	9 NOV	1–0		29 AUG	19 SEP	0–1	2–3	2 NOV	18 OCT	4 OCT
Jelgava	3–1	4–1	1–0		0–1	2–1	2–2	1–1	2–1	2–1	27 SEP	18 OCT	0–1		1–2	2 NOV	0–1	21 SEP	20 JUL	23 AUG
Liepāja	0–0	1–1	4–1	1–0		4–0	2–1	2–5	2–2	0–0	2–0	9 AUG	2–0	25 OCT		1–0	28 SEP	2–3	25 AUG	14 SEP
Metta	0–1	2–2	1–1	0–0	2–3		1–0	0–3	0–2	3–2	26 OCT	9 NOV	27 SEP	9 AUG	29 AUG		0–4	19 OCT	14 SEP	0–3
RFS	1–0	5–1	6–0	1–0	4–1	2–0		0–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	21 SEP	26 OCT	13 SEP	2–1	5 OCT		24 AUG	10 AUG	6–2
Riga	2–2	1–2	3–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	3–1		2–0	3–0	13 SEP	1–1	10 AUG	3–0	3 OCT	3–2	9 NOV		2–0	24 OCT
Super Nova	1–1	4–1	1–1	0–0	1–3	4–0	1–2	1–5		1–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	4 OCT	9 NOV	1–1	2 NOV	30 AUG		1–0
Tukums 2000	2–4	0–0	2–0	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–5	0–3	2–2		10 AUG	30 AUG	2–1	9 NOV	1–3	20 SEP	19 OCT	0–1	28 SEP

Updated to match(es) played on 3 August 2025. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Latvian Higher League play-off

The ninth-placed team will face the second-placed team from the 2025 Latvian First League in a two-legged play-off for the final place in the 2026 Latvian Higher League.

Statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals