Latvia Virsliga | 03/13 11:00 | 1 | FK Ventspils v Riga FC | W | DBFA | |
Europe Friendlies | 02/08 12:00 | - | Riga FC v FC Noah | L | 0-1 | |
Europe Friendlies | 02/07 12:00 | - | Spartak Moscow v Riga FC | L | 4-0 | |
Europe Friendlies | 01/31 12:00 | - | Riga FC v Shakhter Soligorsk | L | 0-1 | |
Europe Friendlies | 01/27 11:30 | - | Riga FC v Krasnodar | L | 0-1 | |
Club Friendly List | 01/21 13:00 | - | Zenit St Petersburg v Riga FC | L | 4-0 | |
Latvia Virsliga | 11/29 10:30 | 27 | Riga FC v FK Ventspils | L | 0-3 | |
Latvia Virsliga | 11/26 11:00 | 26 | Rigas FS v Riga FC | L | 3-0 | |
Latvia Virsliga | 11/07 11:00 | 25 | [10] Tukums 2000 v Riga FC [1] | W | 0-2 | |
Latvia Virsliga | 11/01 12:00 | 24 | [1] Riga FC v Metta/LU [9] | W | 5-1 | |
Latvia Virsliga | 10/25 14:00 | 23 | [1] Riga FC v BFC Daugavpils [8] | W | 2-0 | |
Latvia Cup | 10/21 17:00 | 3 | Rigas FS v Riga FC | L | 3-2 | |
Latvia Virsliga | 10/17 10:00 | 22 | [7] FK Jelgava v Riga FC [1] | W | 0-2 | |
Latvia Virsliga | 10/04 15:00 | 21 | [1] Riga FC v FK Liepaja [5] | W | 2-1 | |
Latvia Cup | 10/01 15:00 | 4 | Riga FC v Metta/LU | W | 4-0 | |
Latvia Virsliga | 09/27 13:00 | 20 | [4] FK Spartaks v Riga FC [1] | W | 1-2 | |
UEFA Europa League Qualifying | 09/24 17:00 | 16 | Riga FC v Celtic | L | 0-1 | |
Latvia Virsliga | 09/20 16:00 | 19 | [1] Riga FC v Valmiera FC [3] | W | 1-0 | |
UEFA Europa League Qualifying | 09/17 17:00 | 15 | Riga FC v Tre Fiori | W | 1-0 | |
Latvia Virsliga | 09/12 13:00 | 18 | [4] FK Ventspils v Riga FC [1] | W | 0-2 | |
Latvia Virsliga | 08/30 16:00 | 17 | [1] Riga FC v Rigas FS [2] | L | 0-2 | |
Latvia Virsliga | 08/26 15:00 | 15 | [7] Metta/LU v Riga FC [1] | W | 0-3 | |
Latvia Virsliga | 08/23 12:00 | 16 | [2] Riga FC v Tukums 2000 [10] | W | 5-2 | |
UEFA Champions League Qualifying | 08/19 17:00 | 14 | Maccabi Tel Aviv v Riga FC | L | 2-0 | |
Latvia Virsliga | 08/15 15:00 | 15 | Metta/LU v Riga FC | - | Postponed | |
Latvia Virsliga | 08/11 15:00 | 14 | [6] BFC Daugavpils v Riga FC [1] | W | 0-1 | |
Latvia Virsliga | 08/07 17:00 | 13 | [1] Riga FC v FK Jelgava [6] | W | 3-0 | |
Latvia Virsliga | 08/03 17:00 | 12 | [8] FK Liepaja v Riga FC [1] | W | 1-4 | |
Latvia Virsliga | 07/30 17:00 | 11 | [1] Riga FC v FK Spartaks [3] | W | 4-2 | |
Latvia Virsliga | 07/25 17:00 | 10 | [3] Valmiera FC v Riga FC [1] | W | 0-1 |
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.
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.
Season | Division (Name) | Pos./Teams | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Latvian Football Cup | Top Scorer (League) | Manager |
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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 |
Fully up to date as of 1 August 2024
Competition | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
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UEFA Champions League | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | –3 |
UEFA Europa League | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 12 | –1 |
UEFA Europa Conference League | 20 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 27 | 24 | +3 |
Total | 35 | 14 | 7 | 14 | 39 | 40 | –1 |
Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Agg. | |
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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 (a) | ||
3QR | HJK | 1−1 | 2−2 | 3−3 (a) | |||
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 (a.e.t.) | 4−2 | |||
PO | Lincoln Red Imps | 1−1 | 1−3 (a.e.t.) | 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 (a.e.t.) | 1−2 | 4−3 | |||
3QR | Twente | 0−3 | 0−2 | 0−5 | |||
2024–25 | UEFA Conference League | 2QR | Śląsk Wrocław | 1−0 | 1−3 | 2−3 |