FK Liepāja
Latvian football club
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FK Liepāja is a Latvian professional football club established 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.
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| Full name | Futbola klubs Liepāja | |||
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| Founded | 2014 | |||
| Ground | Daugava Stadium | |||
| Capacity | 5,100 | |||
| Chairman | Oļegs Hramovs | |||
| Manager | Andreas Alm | |||
| League | Virslīga | |||
| 2025 | Virslīga, 3rd of 10 | |||
| Website | www | |||
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History
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]
League
| 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 | 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 | 2nd | 24 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 32 | 25 | 37 | 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 | Winners |  Dodô – 18 |
Aleksandrs Starkovs  Dmitry Molosh |
| 2021 | 1st | 3rd | 28 | 16 | 3 | 9 | 47 | 26 | 51 | 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 |
| 2023 | 1st | 5th | 36 | 14 | 9 | 13 | 52 | 54 | 51 | Semifinal | Dodô – 13 |
Tamaz Pertia |
| 2024 | 1st | 6th | 36 | 10 | 9 | 17 | 37 | 56 | 39 | Semifinal | Dodô – 9 |
Tamaz Pertia |
Europe
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 (a.e.t.) | 0–0 | 0–0 (1–3 p) | ||
| 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 |
| 2026–27 | UEFA Conference League | 1Q |  Dečić |
1–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 |
| 2Q | Austria Wien |
0–2 | 1–3 | 1–5 |
Honours
- Virslīga
- Champions (1): 2015
- Latvian Football Cup
Sponsors
Players
Current squad
- As of 4 September 2026[6]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Out on loan
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Staff
| Position | Name |
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| President | Oļegs Hramovs |
| Director | Dāvids Jansons |
| Manager | Andreas Alm |
| Assistant manager | Michel Huff Dos Santos |
| Assistant manager | Jānis Goba |
| Goalkeeping coach | Andrejs Piedels |
| Video analyst |  Oleksandr Panchuk |
| Doctor | Andrii Kolosov |
| Masseur | Viktar Bulat |
| Press secretary | Mihails Koroļovs |
Managers
- As of match played 10 March 2019
| Name | Nat. | From | To | P | W | D | L | GS | GA | %W | Honours | Notes |
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| Viktors Dobrecovs | Latvia |
1 March 2014 | 5 November 2016 | 96 | 52 | 16 | 28 | 175 | 108 | 54.17 | Latvian Higher League | |
| Tamaz Pertia | Georgia |
15 November 2016[4] | 30 July 2018 | 50 | 27 | 8 | 15 | 85 | 57 | 54.00 | Latvian Cup | |
| Mareks Zuntners | Latvia |
30 July 2018 | 14 September 2018 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 16.67 | ||
| Gordon Young | Scotland |
14 September 2018[5] | 23 April 2019[7] | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 60.00 | ||
| Aleksandrs Starkovs | Latvia |
April 2019 | September 2019 | |||||||||
| Andrejs Kaļiņins | Latvia |
January 2020 | June 2020 | |||||||||
| Dmitry Molosh | Belarus |
June 2020 | June 2021 | |||||||||
| Nebojša Vignjević | Serbia |
July 2021 | 31 January 2022[8] | 3rd place Latvian Higher League | ||||||||
| Kirill Alshevsky | Belarus |
February 2022 | June 2022 | |||||||||
| Tamaz Pertia | Georgia |
2022 | 2024 | |||||||||
| Dino Skender |  Croatia |
7 January 2025[9] | 6 April 2025 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 40.00 | ||
| Jānis Goba | Latvia |
6 April 2025[10] | 8 May 2025[11] | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 33.33 | ||
| Andreas Alm | Sweden |
8 May 2025[12] |