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	158
Goals	465 (2.94 per match)
Top goalscorer	Darko Lemajić (23 goals)
← 2024 2026 → All statistics correct as of 4 October 2025.

Teams

Daugavpils

Liepāja

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Grobiņa

Tukums 2000

Jelgava

Metta

Riga

Riga teams
Auda
RFS
Riga FC
Super Nova

Locations of the 2025 Latvian Higher League teams

RFS

Riga FC

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Auda

Super Nova

Locations of the 2025 teams from Riga

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]

Metta changed their stadium of play from Daugava Stadium (Riga) to Sloka Stadium in Jūrmala instead of their own home stadium of Rīgas Hanzas vidusskola.^{[needs copy edit]}

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	Sloka Stadium	2,500
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	Danijel Petković
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 (X)	32	26	5	1	80	21	+59	83	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	RFS (X)	32	24	3	5	84	33	+51	75	Qualification for the Conference League first qualifying round
3	Liepāja	32	16	6	10	53	48	+5	54
4	Daugavpils	32	13	7	12	48	55	−7	46
5	Auda	32	13	5	14	39	41	−2	44
6	Jelgava	32	8	10	14	34	41	−7	34
7	Tukums 2000	32	8	7	17	35	58	−23	31
8	Grobiņa	32	8	5	19	30	56	−26	29
9	Super Nova	32	5	12	15	38	51	−13	27	Qualification for the Latvian Higher League play-off
10	Metta	32	6	6	20	31	68	−37	24	Relegation to Latvian First League

Updated to match(es) played on 5 October 2025. Source: LFF, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored; 7) Play-off.^[11]
(X) Assured of at least Conference League

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	1–0	2–0	20 OCT	0–1	0–1	1–3	3–2	2 NOV
Daugavpils	2–1		3–2	1–0	4–2	2–0	1–2	0–1	1–1	3–0	1–0		3–2	2–0	2 NOV	4–2	1–7	0–1	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		3–2	0–1	0–1	2–3	2 NOV	18 OCT	1–0
Jelgava	3–1	4–1	1–0		0–1	2–1	2–2	1–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	18 OCT	0–1		1–2	2 NOV	0–1	2–3	1–0	1–1
Liepāja	0–0	1–1	4–1	1–0		4–0	2–1	2–5	2–2	0–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	25 OCT		1–0	2–2	2–3	0–3	4–1
Metta	0–1	2–2	1–1	0–0	2–3		1–0	0–3	0–2	3–2	26 OCT	9 NOV	0–1	2–2	1–2		0–4	19 OCT	2–1	0–3
RFS	1–0	5–1	6–0	1–0	4–1	2–0		0–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	5–1	26 OCT	1–4	2–1	5–1		0–0	4–1	6–2
Riga	2–2	1–2	3–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	3–1		2–0	3–0	6–0	1–1	2–0	3–0	3–0	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	1–1	9 NOV	1–1	2 NOV	2–6		1–0
Tukums 2000	2–4	0–0	2–0	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–5	0–3	2–2		1–0	0–1	2–1	9 NOV	1–3	3–2	19 OCT	0–1	2–1

Updated to match(es) played on 5 October 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 of the 2025 Latvian First League in a two-legged play-off for the final place in the 2026 Latvian Higher League.

Statistics

Top scorers

As of 29 September 2025^[12]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Darko Lemajić	RFS	23
2	Ingars Pülis	Tukums 2000	16
3	Marko Regža	Riga	14
	Jānis Ikaunieks	RFS
	Djibril Gueye	Liepāja
6	Reginaldo Ramires	Riga	10
7	Bruno Melnis	Liepāja	8
	Kemelho Nguena	Auda
9	Anthony Contreras	Riga	7
	Barthélemy Diedhiou	RFS
	Stefan Panić	RFS
	Mor Talla	RFS

Top assists

As of 29 September 2025^[12]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Petr Mareš	RFS	13
2	Emīls Birka	Riga	10
3	Gauthier Mankenda	Riga	9
	Meissa Diop	Riga
	Jānis Ikaunieks	RFS
6	Jevgenijs Miņins	Daugavpils	8
	Niks Dusalijevs	Tukums 2000
8	Lasha Odisharia	RFS	6
9	Darko Lemajić	RFS	5
	Mouhamed El Bachir Ngom	Riga
	Joao Grimaldo	Riga
	Ondřej Ullman	Jelgava

most clean sheet

As of 29 September 2025^[12]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Krišjānis Zviedris	Riga	15
2	Danijel Petković	Liepāja	9
3	Frenks Orols	Grobiņa	5
	Jānis Beks	Daugavpils
	Raivo Stūriņš	Tukums 2000
	Rihards Matrevics	Auda
7	Dāvis Veisbuks	Super Nova	3
	Ņikita Pinčuks	Grobiņa
	Adam Dvořák	Jelgava
	Robert Ozols	Auda
	Sergejs Vilkovs	RFS
	Marko Marić	RFS