Riga FC

Riga Football Club, commonly referred to as Riga FC, is a Latvian football club, founded in 2014. The club is based at the Skonto Stadium in Riga. Since 2016, the club has been playing in the Virslīga.

History
The club was officially registered in April 2014. The team was established before the 2015 season after a merger of two Riga based teams – FC Caramba and Dinamo Rīga. In the 2015 season, under the name FC Caramba/Dinamo, the team played in the Latvian First League by using the licence received by FC Caramba, an unrelated team founded by future FK RFS co-founder Maksims Krivuņecs, which had won promotion to the 1. līga after winning the Latvian Second League in 2014. After winning the 2015 First League and earning promotion to the Higher League, the club changed its name to Riga FC.

In 2017, Riga FC acquired the Šitiks Football Academy (Šitika FA), founded in 2001 by Genādijs Šitiks, and operates as one of its youth academies, Riga FC Academy.

In 2018, the Ukrainian Viktor Skrypnyk was appointed as coach. He managed to lead the club to two Latvian Higher Leagues in 2018, 2019 and the Latvian Football Cup in 2018.



European
Fully up to date as of 17 August 2023


 * Notes
 * 1QR: First qualifying round
 * 2QR: Second qualifying round
 * 3QR: Third qualifying round
 * PO: Play-off round

Honours

 * Latvian Higher League
 * Champions: 2018, 2019, 2020
 * Runners-up: 2022, 2023
 * Latvian Cup
 * Winners: 2018, 2023
 * Runners-up: 2016–17, 2017
 * Latvian First League
 * Champions: 2015

Out on loan
(on loan at FK Auda) (on loan at Auda) (on loan at Tukums 2000)

Current staff
As of 14 December 2023

Current board
As of 13 March 2021

Controversies
In 2020, it was reported that Russian businessman Sergey Lomakin, the owner of Riga FC, was included in Latvia's persona non grata list. This was denied by the board of the club.

Notable players

 * Latvia
 * 🇱🇻 Kristaps Blanks
 * 🇱🇻 Boriss Bogdaškins
 * 🇱🇻 Antonijs Černomordijs
 * 🇱🇻 Vladislavs Fjodorovs
 * 🇱🇻 Vladislavs Gabovs
 * 🇱🇻 Kaspars Gorkšs
 * 🇱🇻 Vadims Gospodars
 * 🇱🇻 Vladimirs Kamešs
 * 🇱🇻 Artūrs Karašausks
 * 🇱🇻 Andrejs Kovaļovs
 * 🇱🇻 Sergejs Kožans
 * 🇱🇻 Antons Kurakins
 * 🇱🇻 Oļegs Laizāns
 * 🇱🇻 Ivans Lukjanovs
 * 🇱🇻 Germans Māliņš
 * 🇱🇻 Roberts Ozols
 * 🇱🇻 Andrejs Perepļotkins
 * 🇱🇻 Armands Pētersons
 * 🇱🇻 Ēriks Punculs
 * 🇱🇻 Deniss Rakels
 * 🇱🇻 Deniss Romanovs
 * 🇱🇻 Ritvars Rugins
 * 🇱🇻 Roberts Savaļnieks
 * 🇱🇻 Vitālijs Smirnovs
 * 🇱🇻 Elvis Stuglis
 * 🇱🇻 Valērijs Šabala
 * 🇱🇻 Oļegs Timofejevs
 * 🇱🇻 Daniils Turkovs
 * 🇱🇻 Maksims Uvarenko
 * 🇱🇻 Aleksejs Višņakovs
 * 🇱🇻 Artūrs Zjuzins
 * Europe
 * 🇦🇱 Herdi Prenga
 * 🇦🇲 Edgar Babayan
 * 🇧🇦 Adnan Šećerović
 * 🇭🇷 Ivan Brkić
 * 🇭🇷 Ivan Paurević
 * 🇭🇷 Tomislav Šarić


 * 🇨🇿 Jakub Hora
 * 🇪🇪 Bogdan Vaštšuk
 * 🇫🇮 Mikael Soisalo
 * Davit Skhirtladze
 * 🇬🇷 Giorgos Valerianos
 * 🇬🇷 Thanos Petsos
 * 🇫🇷 Kévin Bérigaud
 * 🇫🇷 Joël Bopesu
 * 🇫🇷 Jean-Baptiste Léo
 * 🇮🇸 Axel Óskar Andrésson
 * 🇮🇸 Stefan Ljubicic
 * Besar Halimi
 * 🇲🇰 Egzon Belica
 * 🇲🇪 Stefan Milošević
 * 🇲🇪 Milan Vušurović
 * 🇳🇴 Abdisalam Ibrahim
 * 🇵🇱 Kamil Biliński
 * 🇵🇹 Pedrinho
 * 🇵🇹 Talocha
 * 🇷🇺 Khyzyr Appayev
 * 🇷🇺 Vitaliy Fedotov
 * 🇷🇺 Vladislav Khatazhyonkov
 * 🇷🇺 Denis Kniga
 * 🇷🇺 Ivan Knyazev
 * 🇷🇺 Stanislav Krapukhin
 * 🇷🇺 Ivan Sergeyev
 * 🇷🇺 Sergei Shumeyko
 * 🇷🇺 Danila Yanov
 * 🇷🇺 Ivan Yenin
 * 🇷🇸 Dušan Brković
 * 🇷🇸 Marko Đurišić
 * 🇷🇸 Darko Lemajić
 * 🇷🇸 Mario Maslać
 * 🇷🇸 Stefan Panić
 * 🇷🇸 Nedeljko Piščević
 * 🇷🇸 Miloš Vranjanin
 * 🇸🇮 Rene Mihelič
 * 🇸🇪 Doug Bergqvist
 * 🇺🇦 Volodymyr Bayenko
 * 🇺🇦 Roman Debelko
 * 🇺🇦 Oleksandr Filippov
 * 🇺🇦 Vladlen Yurchenko
 * 🇺🇦 Valeriy Fedorchuk
 * 🇺🇦 Bohdan Kovalenko
 * 🇺🇦 Ihor Lytovka
 * 🇺🇦 Myroslav Slavov
 * 🇺🇦 Vyacheslav Sharpar
 * 🇺🇦 Yuriy Vakulko
 * 🇺🇦 Serhiy Zahynaylov
 * 🇺🇦 Pavlo Fedosov
 * Africa
 * 🇧🇫 Aristide Bancé
 * 🇨🇲 Gaël Etock
 * Kule Mbombo
 * Ngonda Muzinga
 * Jordan Nkololo
 * 🇬🇭 David Addy
 * 🇬🇭 Joselpho Barnes
 * 🇲🇦 Karim Loukili
 * 🇸🇱 George Davies
 * 🇸🇱 John Kamara
 * Asia
 * 🇯🇵 Yōsuke Saitō
 * 🇯🇵 Minori Sato
 * South America
 * 🇦🇷 Federico Bravo
 * 🇦🇷 Marcelo Torres
 * Felipe Brisola
 * Dário
 * Stênio Júnior
 * Wesley Natã
 * Thiago Primão
 * Gabriel Ramos
 * Roger
 * Lipe Veloso
 * 🇨🇴 Brayan Angulo
 * 🇨🇴 Juan Camilo Saiz

Top goalscorers
Bold signifies a current Riga FC player

Most appearances
Bold signifies a current Riga FC player