2007 Latvian Higher League

Latvian football league season for the highest division Latvian Higher League 2007 FK Ventspils UEFA Champions League FK Ventspils UEFA Cup FK Liepajas Metalurgs UEFA Intertoto Cup FK Riga LVA Vits Rimkus (20 goals) 2006 2008 The 2007 Latvian Higher League season was the 16th Virslīga season. It started on 7 April 2007 and finished on 4 December 2007. Eight teams competed in the league, playing each other four times over the course of the season, twice at home and twice away. Season details For the second time in a row FK Ventspils won the championship. In mid-season FK Liepājas Metalurgs had a lead of 11 points over Ventspils who won their last 11 games, conceding just one goal. FK Rīga finished third for the first time in the club's history. FC Skonto finished the season without winning any competitions for the first time, and also for the first time they would not compete in any of the European cups in 2008 as one of the UEFA Cup qualifying spots was taken by JFC Olimps Rīga for reaching the Latvian Cup final. Vīts Rimkus from Ventspils was the top scorer with 20 goals. At the end of the season the Latvian Football Federation announced that the Virslīga would expand to 10 clubs for the 2008 season. Therefore, no club was relegated to the First League.Hartmanis Martins LMT Virsliga new season calendar published Latvian Football Federation 2007-12-01 http://www.lff.lv/en/news/2008/02/03/ 2008-02-20 2016-03-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230407/http://www.lff.lv/en/news/2008/02/03/ dead The last time there were ten clubs in the Virslīga was in the 1996 season. League standings main WDL Q VEN Ventspils LIE Liepājas Metalurgs RĪG Rīga SKO Skonto DAU Daugava Daugavpils JŪR Jūrmala DIN Dinaburg OLI Olimps Rīga 18 6 4 59 16 C 18 4 6 42 21 17 6 5 48 28 16 7 5 54 27 9 6 13 33 38 7 5 16 28 51 6 2 20 23 58 2 2 24 15 63 green1 Qualification for Champions League first qualifying round UCL blue1 Qualification for UEFA Cup first qualifying round UC #ccccff Qualification for Intertoto Cup first round IC complete Match table main First half of the season FBR grey DAU DIN JŪR MET OLI RĪG SKO VEN Ventspils 0-2 1-0 2-0 3-1 1-1 4-0 2-0 Liepājas Metalurgs 2-0 0-0 0-2 3-1 2-0 2-1 1-0 Rīga 1-0 3-0 1-0 3-2 2-0 2-0 3-2 Skonto 0-0 0-4 4-4 3-1 2-2 3-0 1-0 Daugava Daugavpils 1-1 1-2 1-3 1-3 1-0 1-3 2-0 Jūrmala 3-1 3-4 0-0 1-2 1-2 1-0 5-0 Dinaburg 2-4 1-2 0-2 2-2 2-1 0-0 1-0 Olimps Rīga 1-1 1-2 2-3 1-4 1-1 0-2 0-2 complete main Second half of the season FBR grey DAU DIN JŪR MET OLI RĪG SKO VEN Ventspils 1-0 2-1 3-1 1-0 10-0 6-0 4-0 Liepājas Metalurgs 0-2 2-0 0-1 0-0 3-0 4-1 1-0 Rīga 0-0 2-0 2-2 2-1 2-1 3-1 4-0 Skonto 0-1 0-0 3-0 3-1 4-0 2-0 3-0 Daugava Daugavpils 0-0 0-1 2-2 1-1 5-0 1-0 1-0 Jūrmala 0-1 1-1 2-0 0-1 0-1 3-0 0-2 Dinaburg 0-3 0-1 0-1 0-4 0-2 3-0 1-2 Olimps Rīga 0-5 0-3 0-2 0-3 0-1 1-2 2-3 complete Top scorers RankPlayerClubGoals1Vits Rimkus LATFK Ventspils202Andrei Nikolayev RUSFK Rīga153Ģirts Karlsons LATFK Liepājas Metalurgs124Mikalay Ryndzyuk BLRFK Daugava Daugavpils115Vitālijs Astafjevs LATSkonto FC7Kristaps Blanks LATSkonto FCArtjoms Rudņevs LATFK Daugava DaugavpilsAleksejs Višņakovs LATSkonto FCJurijs Žigajevs LATFK Rīga References External links Latvian Football Federation lv Latvian Football Federation news in EnglishAugust 2026 InternetArchiveBot Category:Latvian Higher League seasons 1 Latvia