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FK RFS (also FC RFS) is a professional Latvia football club based in Riga. The club competes in the Virslīga, the top tier of Latvian football. It has existed in its current form since 2016, with predecessors dating back to 2005.
The team traditionally wears a blue home kit and a white away kit. After almost six years at Jānis Skredelis Stadium, RFS moved its home matches to LNK Sporta Parks in 2022.
RFS has won the Latvian championship three times (2021, 2023, 2024) and the Latvian Cup three times (2019, 2021, 2024). In 2022, the club was named Best Sports Club in Riga. That year, RFS became only the second Latvian club to qualify for the group stage of a European competition, following FK Ventspils in 2009–10, after defeating Linfield in the UEFA Europa Conference League play-off. In January 2025, RFS recorded the first-ever victory by a Latvian club in a UEFA group stage, defeating AFC Ajax in the Europa League.
On 19 May 2005, the semi-professional club FSK Daugava 90 was established, built around players born 1989–99. The team entered the Latvian First League in 2007 and was renamed FK Daugava the following year. After winning promotion in 2008, they were relegated from the Virslīga in 2009.
Between 2009 and 2011 the club operated as Rīgas futbola skola (not connected with the Riga Football School academy founded in 1962). The current legal entity, biedrība FC RFS, was registered on 9 September 2009.
Rīgas futbola skola placed third in the 1. līga in 2015, just missing promotion. In 2016, following the revocation of Skonto FC’s licence, the Latvian Football Federation awarded its spot to the club, which rebranded as RFS and returned to the Virslīga.
In 2017, under Andrejs Kaļiņins, RFS added Aleksandrs Cauņa, Roberts Savaļnieks, and Lasha Shergelashvili. Young striker Roberts Uldriķis scored twice on his debut against champions Jūrmalas Spartaks. The team finished fifth, just short of European qualification.
In 2019, strong transfers included Tomáš Šimkovič, Slavko Blagojević, and striker Darko Lemajič. RFS finished runners-up in the league and won the Latvian Cup, the club’s first major trophy. Their European debut ended in the first qualifying round against Olimpija Ljubljana.
In 2020 Dambrauskas departed for HNK Gorica, with assistant Viktors Morozs taking over. RFS finished second again in a COVID-affected season, with Brazilian loanee Emerson finishing top scorer.
In the league, RFS slipped to third, and lost the Latvian Cup final to FK Auda. In Europe, they drew against ACF Fiorentina and Istanbul Başakşehir but finished bottom of their group.
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| 2019–20 | UEFA Europa League | 1QR | Olimpija Ljubljana | 0–2 | 3–2 | 3–4 |
| 2020–21 | UEFA Europa League | 1QR | FK Partizan | 0–1 | ||
| 2021–22 | UEFA Conference League | 1QR | KÍ | 2–3 | 4–2 | 6–5 |
| 2QR | Puskás Akadémia | 3–0 | 2–0 | 5–0 | ||
| 3QR | Gent | 0–1 | 2–2 | 2–3 | ||
| UEFA Champions League | 1QR | HJK | 2–1 | 0–1 | 2–2 | |
| UEFA Conference League | 3QR | Hibernians | 1–1 | 3–1 | 4–2 | |
| PO | Linfield | 2–2 | 1–1 | 3–3 | ||
| GS | Başakşehir | 0–0 | 0–3 | 4th | ||
| ACF Fiorentina | 0–3 | 1–1 | ||||
| Hearts | 0–2 | 1–2 | ||||
| 2023–24 | UEFA Conference League | 1QR | Makedonija GP | 4–1 | 1–0 | 5–1 |
| 2QR | Sabah | 0–2 | 1–2 | 1–4 | ||
| UEFA Champions League | 1QR | Larne | 3–0 | 4–0 | 7–0 | |
| 2QR | Bodø/Glimt | 1–3 | 0–4 | 1–7 | ||
| UEFA Europa League | 3QR | UE Santa Coloma | 7–0 | 2–0 | 9–0 | |
| PO | APOEL FC | 2–1 | 1–2 | 3–3 | ||
| LP | AFC Ajax | 1–0 | align=center | 32nd | ||
| Eintracht Frankfurt | align=center | 0–1 | ||||
| PAOK FC | 0–2 | align=center | ||||
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | align=center | 1–2 | ||||
| Galatasaray | 2–2 | align=center | ||||
| Dynamo Kyiv | align=center | 0–1 | ||||
| Anderlecht | 1–1 | align=center | ||||
| FCSB | align=center | 1–4 | ||||
| UEFA Champions League | 1QR | FCI Levadia | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | |
| 2QR | Malmö FF | 1–4 | 0–1 | 1–5 | ||
| UEFA Europa League | 3QR | KuPS | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–3 | |
| UEFA Conference League | PO | Hamrun Spartans | 2–2 | 0–1 | 2–3 |
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| + ! style="background:blue; color:white; border:1px solid white" | Position ! style="background:blue; color:white; border:1px solid white" | Staff |
| Head coach | Viktors Morozs | |
| Assistant coach | Vladimirs Žavoronkovs | |
| Goalkeeping coach | Anton Savchenkov | |
| Fitness coach | Oļegs Semjonovs | |
| Sports therapist | Dmitrijs Jefremenkovs, Rihards Ūdris | |
| Technical analyst | Iļja Ščaņicins | |
| Head of media & communications | Paulius Jakelis | |
| Photographer | Sanita Ieva Sparāne |
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| President | Artjoms Milovs | |
| General director | Māris Verpakovskis | |
| Director of football | Aleksandrs Usovs | |
| Executive director | Nikolajs Kulmanakovs | |
| Team administrator | Kirils Butovskis |
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