2007 Latvian Higher League

Latvian Higher League

Season	2007
Champions	FK Ventspils
UEFA Champions League	FK Ventspils
UEFA Cup	FK Liepajas Metalurgs
UEFA Intertoto Cup	FK Riga
Top goalscorer	Vits Rimkus (20 goals)
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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. The last time there were ten clubs in the Virslīga was in the 1996 season.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ventspils (C)	28	18	6	4	59	16	+43	60	Qualification for Champions League first qualifying round
2	Liepājas Metalurgs	28	18	4	6	42	21	+21	58	Qualification for UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3	Rīga	28	17	6	5	48	28	+20	57	Qualification for Intertoto Cup first round
4	Skonto	28	16	7	5	54	27	+27	55
5	Daugava Daugavpils	28	9	6	13	33	38	−5	33
6	Jūrmala	28	7	5	16	28	51	−23	26
7	Dinaburg	28	6	2	20	23	58	−35	20
8	Olimps Rīga	28	2	2	24	15	63	−48	8

Source:
(C) Champions

Match table

First half of the season

Home \ Away	DAU	DIN	JŪR	MET	OLI	RĪG	SKO	VEN
Daugava Daugavpils		1–3	1–0	1–2	2–0	1–3	1–3	1–1
Dinaburg	2–1		0–0	1–2	1–0	0–2	2–2	2–4
Jūrmala	1–2	1–0		3–4	5–0	0–0	1–2	3–1
Liepājas Metalurgs	3–1	2–1	2–0		1–0	0–0	0–2	2–0
Olimps Rīga	1–1	0–2	0–2	1–2		2–3	1–4	1–1
Rīga	3–2	2–0	2–0	3–0	3–2		1–0	1–0
Skonto	3–1	3–0	2–2	0–4	1–0	4–4		0–0
Ventspils	3–1	4–0	1–1	0–2	2–0	1–0	2–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of the season

Home \ Away	DAU	DIN	JŪR	MET	OLI	RĪG	SKO	VEN
Daugava Daugavpils		1–0	5–0	0–1	1–0	2–2	1–1	0–0
Dinaburg	0–2		3–0	0–1	1–2	0–1	0–4	0–3
Jūrmala	0–1	3–0		1–1	0–2	2–0	0–1	0–1
Liepājas Metalurgs	0–0	4–1	3–0		1–0	2–0	0–1	0–2
Olimps Rīga	0–1	2–3	1–2	0–3		0–2	0–3	0–5
Rīga	2–1	3–1	2–1	2–0	4–0		2–2	0–0
Skonto	3–1	2–0	4–0	0–0	3–0	3–0		0–1
Ventspils	1–0	6–0	10–0	1–0	4–0	2–1	3–1

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Vits Rimkus (LAT)	FK Ventspils	20
2	Andrei Nikolayev (RUS)	FK Rīga	15
3	Ģirts Karlsons (LAT)	FK Liepājas Metalurgs	12
4	Mikalay Ryndzyuk (BLR)	FK Daugava Daugavpils	11
5	Vitālijs Astafjevs (LAT)	Skonto FC	7
	Kristaps Blanks (LAT)	Skonto FC
	Artjoms Rudņevs (LAT)	FK Daugava Daugavpils
	Aleksejs Višņakovs (LAT)	Skonto FC
	Jurijs Žigajevs (LAT)	FK Rīga

External links

• Latvian Football Federation (in Latvian)
• Latvian Football Federation news in English