Clubname: | Liepāja |
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Fullname: | Futbola klubs Liepāja |
Ground: | Daugava Stadium |
Capacity: | 5,100 |
Chairman: | Oļegs Hramovs |
Manager: | Tamaz Pertia |
League: | Virslīga |
Season: | 2024 |
Position: | Virslīga, 6th of 10 |
Website: | http://www.fkliepaja.lv/ |
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FK Liepāja is a Latvian professional football club founded in 2014. The club is based at the Daugava Stadium in Liepāja. FK Liepāja plays in the Latvian Higher League. In their first season they finished 4th in the 2014 Latvian Higher League.
FK Liepāja/Mogo was founded in March 2014 as a phoenix club and an indirect legatee of FK Liepājas Metalurgs, which was dissolved following the 2013 Latvian Higher League season due to the bankruptcy of its owner company and the sole sponsor metallurgical plant A/S Liepājas Metalurgs. FK Liepāja incorporated all the players, including youth teams, as well as the participation place in the 2014 Latvian Higher League, which had been at the disposal of Liepājas Metalurgs prior to its bankruptcy.[1] The club is mainly sponsored by the Liepāja City Council and led by the former Latvian international footballer Māris Verpakovskis. The first manager of the team was Viktors Dobrecovs.
In its debut season FK Liepāja finished the championship in the top four.[2] Jānis Ikaunieks, FK Liepāja midfielder, was voted as the best player of the 2014 season.[3]
On 15 November 2016, Tamaz Pertia was appointed as the new manager of FK Liepāja.[4]
On 14 September 2018, Gordon Young was appointed as the new manager of FK Liepāja.[5]
Season | Division | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Latvian Football Cup | Top Scorer (League) | Manager | ||
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2014 | 1st | 4th | 36 | 21 | 3 | 12 | 72 | 45 | 66 | Semifinal | Jānis Ikaunieks – 23 | Viktors Dobrecovs | ||
2015 | 1st | align=center bgcolor=gold | 1st | 24 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 48 | 23 | 52 | Quarterfinal | Dāvis Ikaunieks – 15 | Viktors Dobrecovs | |
2016 | 1st | 4th | 28 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 38 | 31 | 42 | Quarterfinal | Oskars Kļava – 6 | Viktors Dobrecovs | ||
2017 | 1st | align=center bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 24 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 32 | 25 | 37 | align=center bgcolor=gold | Winners | Artūrs Karašausks – 12 | Tamaz Pertia |
2018 | 1st | 4th | 28 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 46 | 25 | 51 | Quarterfinal | Ģirts Karlsons – 10 | Tamaz Pertia Dario Aurelio Gordon Young | ||
2019 | 1st | 6th | 32 | 11 | 6 | 15 | 41 | 43 | 39 | Quarterfinal | Jānis Ikaunieks – 7 | Gordon Young Aleksandrs Starkovs | ||
2020 | 1st | 5th | 27 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 57 | 34 | 42 | align=center bgcolor=gold | Winners | Dodô – 18 | Aleksandrs Starkovs Dmitry Molosh | |
2021 | 1st | 3rd | 28 | 16 | 3 | 9 | 47 | 26 | 51 | align=center bgcolor=silver | Runners Up | Dodô – 7 | Nebojša Vignjević | |
2022 | 1st | 4th | 36 | 21 | 7 | 8 | 72 | 42 | 70 | Round of 16 | Dodô – 13 | Kirill Alshevsky Tamaz Pertia | ||
1R: First round, 2Q: Second qualifying round, 3Q: Third qualifying round, PO: Play-off round
Season | Competition | Round | Opponent | Home | Away | Aggregate | ||
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2016–17 | UEFA Champions League | 2Q | Red Bull Salzburg | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–3 | ||
2017–18 | UEFA Europa League | 1Q | Crusaders | 2–0 | 1–3 | 3–3 (a) | ||
2Q | Sūduva Marijampolė | 0–2 | 1–0 | 1–2 | ||||
2018–19 | UEFA Europa League | 1Q | BK Häcken | 0–3 | 2–1 | 2–4 | ||
2019–20 | UEFA Europa League | 1Q | Dinamo Minsk | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | ||
2Q | IFK Norrköping | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–3 | ||||
2021–22 | UEFA Europa Conference League | 1Q | Struga | 1–1 | 4–1 | 5–2 | ||
2Q | CSKA Sofia | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | ||||
2022–23 | UEFA Europa Conference League | 1Q | Gjilani | 3–1 | 0–1 | 3−2 | ||
2Q | Young Boys | 0–1 | 0–3 | 0–4 | ||||
2024–25 | UEFA Conference League | 1Q | Víkingur | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1−3 |
Sponsors Mogo Liepājas Dome Firma UPTK Ambero Liepājas Olimpiskais Centrs Radio SWH Radio SWH+ NPK Expert Liepājas Enerģija Liepājas Papīrs |
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Position | Name |
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President | Oļegs Hramovs |
Director | Dāvids Jansons |
Manager | Tamaz Pertia |
Assistant manager | Ivan Đurđević |
Assistant manager | Maciej Stachowiak |
Goalkeeping coach | Toms Vīksna |
Doctor | Andrii Kolosov |
Masseur | Viktar Bulat |
Press secretary | Mihails Koroļovs |
Name | Nat. | From | To | P | W | D | L | GS | GA | %W | Honours | Notes |
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Viktors Dobrecovs | 1 March 2014 | 5 November 2016 | Latvian Higher League | |||||||||
Tamaz Pertia | 15 November 2016 | 30 July 2018 | Latvian Cup | |||||||||
Mareks Zuntners | 30 July 2018 | 14 September 2018 | ||||||||||
Gordon Young | 14 September 2018 |