Latvian First League

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Established
1992 (33 years old)

First Recorded Event
2024-04-06

Current Season
2025

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Soccer

Location
Latvia

Gender
Male

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19 Apr	Smiltene	-	Mārupe	2:00pm
19 Apr	Riga Mariner	-	Leevon	4:30pm
21 Apr	Tukums II	-	JFK Ventspil	12:00pm
21 Apr	RFS II	-	Skanstes	4:30pm
26 Apr	Skanstes	-	JDFS Alberts	3:00pm
26 Apr	Ogre United	-	Tukums II	2:30pm
26 Apr	Olaine	-	Riga Mariner	3:00pm
27 Apr	Mārupe	-	RFS II	10:00am
27 Apr	Riga FC II	-	Rēzekne	12:00pm
27 Apr	JFK Ventspil	-	Augšdaugava	2:00pm
Results
18 Apr	JDFS Alberts	4 - 0	Riga FC II
18 Apr	Rēzekne	0 - 3	Ogre United
14 Apr	Olaine	0 - 1	Tukums II
14 Apr	Riga FC II	2 - 2	RFS II
13 Apr	JFK Ventspil	1 - 1	Ogre United
12 Apr	Leevon	1 - 1	Augšdaugava
12 Apr	Mārupe	1 - 2	Riga Mariner
12 Apr	JDFS Alberts	8 - 1	Rēzekne
12 Apr	Skanstes	1 - 1	Smiltene
07 Apr	Rēzekne	0 - 1	JFK Ventspil

Description

The Latvian First League (Latvian: Latvijas Pirmā līga, 1. līga) is the second tier of football in Latvia and is organised by the Latvian Football Federation. Since 2021, its full name is Optibet Nākotnes Līga (Optibet Future League) due to the sponsorship by sports betting company Optibet.

The league was founded together with other Latvian football competitions in 1992. From 2007 to 2008, the tournament was known as the Traffic 1. līga, due to its first sponsorship deal concluded with the "Traffic auto advert" advertising company. From 2015 its name was Komanda.lv First League (Komanda.lv 1. līga) for sponsorship reasons, after the Komanda.lv sporting goods store became the league's main sponsor in 2015.

here are 14 clubs in the First League. During the course of the season each club plays the every other club twice, once at home and once away, with a total of 26 games. At the end of the season, the highest placed club is automatically promoted to the Virslīga. The second lowest placed club in the Virslīga and the second placed club in the First League compete in a two-legged tie for the remaining place in the following season's Virslīga. The two clubs finishing at the bottom of the First League are relegated to the Second League, while the third-from-bottom team competes in a two-legged tie with the third-placed team of the Second League for a place in the First League.

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