Riga Football Club, commonly referred to as Riga FC, is a 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, the highest tier of the Latvian football league system.
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. However, for most of 2015, the legal name of the team was 'Riga Dinamo Football Club'. A club named Dinamo Riga played in 1940 and 1945–1960.
In 2017, Riga FC acquired the Šitiks Football Academy (SFK United), founded in 1999 by Genādijs Šitiks, and operates it 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.
2015 | 2nd | 1/(16) | 30 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 142 | 14 | 84 | Round of 16 | Verners Apiņš – 31 | Mihails Koņevs |
2016 | 1st | 5/(8) | 28 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 28 | 24 | 36 | Runner-up | Roberts Savaļnieks Yōsuke Saitō – 5 | Kiril Kurbatov Dmitri Khomukha Vladimir Volchek |
2017 | 1st | 3/(7) | 24 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 28 | 20 | 37 | Runner-up | Bogdan Vaštšuk – 8 | Vladimir Volchek Mihails Koņevs Yevgeny Perevertaylo Slaviša Stojanovič |
2018 | 1st | 1/(8) | 28 | 20 | 4 | 4 | 45 | 16 | 64 | Winner | Darko Lemajić – 15 | Goce Sedloski Mihails Koņevs Viktor Skrypnyk |
2019 | 1st | 1/(9) | 32 | 20 | 6 | 6 | 59 | 21 | 66 | Semi-Finals | Roman Debelko – 7 | Luís Berkemeier Pimenta Oleg Kubarev Mihails Koņevs |
2020 | 1st | 1/(10) | 27 | 23 | 0 | 4 | 60 | 21 | 69 | Quarter-finals | Kule Mbombo – 12 | Oleg Kononov Mihails Koņevs |
2021 | 1st | 4/(9) | 28 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 54 | 26 | 50 | Semifinals | Stefan Milošević – 13 | Denis Laktionov Kristaps Blanks Andris Rihters Sashko Poposki |
2022 | 1st | 2/(10) | 36 | 26 | 3 | 7 | 68 | 23 | 81 | Round of 16 | Marcelo Torres – 11 | Thorsten Fink Kristaps Blanks Sandro Perković |
2023 | 1st | 2/(10) | 36 | 27 | 7 | 2 | 89 | 21 | 88 | Winner | Marko Regža – 19 | Tomislav Stipić |
UEFA Champions League | –3 | ||||||
UEFA Europa League | –1 | ||||||
UEFA Europa Conference League | +5 | ||||||
Total | 41 | 17 | 8 | 16 | 50 | 49 | +1 |
2018–19 | UEFA Europa League | 1QR | CSKA Sofia | 1−0 | 0−1 | 1−1 | |
2019–20 | UEFA Champions League | 1QR | Dundalk | 0−0 | 0−0 | 0−0 | |
UEFA Europa League | 2QR | Piast Gliwice | 2−1 | 2−3 | 4−4 (away goals) | ||
3QR | HJK | 1−1 | 2−2 | 3−3 (away goals) | |||
PO | Copenhagen | 1−0 | 1−3 | 2−3 | |||
2020–21 | UEFA Champions League | 1QR | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 0−2 | |||
UEFA Europa League | 2QR | Tre Fiori | 1−0 | ||||
3QR | Celtic | 0−1 | |||||
2021–22 | UEFA Champions League | 1QR | Malmö | 1−1 | 0−1 | 1−2 | |
UEFA Europa Conference League | 2QR | Shkëndija | 2−0 | 1−0 | 3−0 | ||
3QR | Hibernians | 0−1 | 4−1 | 4−2 | |||
PO | Lincoln Red Imps | 1−1 | 1−3 | 2−4 | |||
2022–23 | UEFA Europa Conference League | 1QR | Derry City | 2−0 | 2−0 | 4−0 | |
2QR | Ružomberok | 2−1 | 3−0 | 5−1 | |||
3QR | Gil Vicente | 1−1 | 0−4 | 1−5 | |||
2023–24 | UEFA Europa Conference League | 1QR | Víkingur Reykjavík | 2−0 | 0−1 | 2−1 | |
2QR | Kecskemét | 3−1 | 1−2 | 4−3 | |||
3QR | FC Twente | 0−3 | 0−2 | 0−5 | |||
2024–25 | UEFA Conference League | 2QR | Śląsk Wrocław | 1−0 | 1−3 | 2−3 | |
2025–26 | UEFA Conference League | 2QR | Dila Gori | 2−1 | 3−3 | 5−4 | |
3QR | Beitar Jerusalem | 3−0 | 1−3 | 4−3 | |||
PO | Sparta Prague | 1−0 | 0−2 | 1−2 |
2015 | Adidas | — |
2016 | Jako | — |
2017 | Marine Service Group | |
2018 | ||
2019 | ||
2020 | ||
2021 | ||
2022 |
2016 | Midfielder | Oļegs Laizāns |
2017 | DF | Kaspars Gorkšs |
2018 | DF | Volodymyr Bayenko |
2019 | Midfielder | Aleksejs Višņakovs |
2020 | Midfielder | Stefan Panić |
2021 | DF | Antonijs Černomordijs |
2022 | ||
2023 | Midfielder | Miloš Jojić |
2024 | DF | Antonijs Černomordijs |
+ Coaches | |
Head coach | Adrián Guľa |
Assistant coach | Mareks Zuntners |
Coach | Norbert Gula |
Coach | Peter Argyusi |
Coach | Kristaps Blanks |
Goalkeeper coach | Oleksandr Nogin |
Fitness coach | Martin Kojnok |
Physiotherapist | Nikola Rodic |
Chief Scout | Arlo Jones |
+ Medical department | |
Doctor | Viktors Simanovičs |
Doctor | Rolands Brencāns |
+ Management and administration | |
Director-General | Aleksandrs Proņins |
Sport director | Aleksandrs Romašins |
Executive director | Romāns Lajuks |
Administrator | Deniss Čerņikovs |
Press officer | Krišs Upenieks |
Creative director | Sergejs Sobolevs |
Project manager | Andrejs Kaješovs |
Photographer | Zigismunds Zālmanis |
Video operator | Andrejs Guļko |
Mihails Koņevs | 1 | –||–|1 | |||||
Kiril Kurbatov | – | –||–|– | |||||
Dmitri Khomukha | – | –||–|– | |||||
Vladimir Volchek | – | –||–|– | |||||
Mihails Koņevs (caretaker) | – | –||–|– | |||||
Yevgeny Perevertaylo | – | –||–|– | |||||
Slaviša Stojanović | – | –||–|– | |||||
Goce Sedloski | – | –||–|– | |||||
Mihails Koņevs (caretaker) | – | –||–|– | |||||
Viktor Skrypnyk | 2 | 1||1|– | |||||
Luís Berkemeier Pimenta | – | –||–|– | |||||
Mihails Koņevs (caretaker) | – | –||–|– | |||||
Oleg Kubarev | – | –||–|– | |||||
Mihails Koņevs | 1 | 1||–|– | |||||
Oleg Kononov | – | –||–|– | |||||
Mihails Koņevs (caretaker) | 1 | 1||–|– | |||||
Denis Laktionov | 1 January 2021 | 25 May 2021 | – | – | – | – | |
Kristaps Blanks (caretaker) | – | –||–|– | |||||
Andris Rihters | – | –||–|– | |||||
Sashko Poposki (caretaker) | – | –||–|– | |||||
Thorsten Fink | – | –||–|– | |||||
Kristaps Blanks (caretaker) | – | –||–|– | |||||
Sandro Perković | – | –||–|– | |||||
Tomislav Stipić | 1 | –||1|– | |||||
Simo Valakari | – | –| | |||||
Adrián Guľa | – | –| | |||||
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