1. Liga is a men’s football league in Latvia, with recorded competition coverage from 2012 through 2025. Use this page to follow live scores, fixtures, results, standings, and player and team statistics across the available seasons. It brings the competition’s recorded data together in one place, making it easier to review league activity and compare information from different seasons.
Upcoming matches, 1. Liga
Regular Season - 21
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- Regular Season - 21
Valmiera / BSS
Riga Mariners
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- Regular Season - 21
Tukums II
Rēzekne FA
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- Regular Season - 21
JDFS Alberts
Metta / LU
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- Regular Season - 21
Smiltene
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- Regular Season - 21
Leevon / PPK
Rīgas FS II
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- Regular Season - 21
Mārupe
Riga FC II
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- Regular Season - 21
JFK Ventspils
Skanste
Regular Season - 17
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- Regular Season - 17
Tukums II
JFK Ventspils
Regular Season - 22
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- Regular Season - 22
Rīgas FS II
Mārupe
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- Regular Season - 22
Metta / LU
Riga Mariners
Latest played matches, 1. Liga
Regular Season - 20
Regular Season - 19
1. Liga Standings
| Rank | Club | MP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Last 5 | |
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| 1 |
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Metta / LU | 20 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 86 | 16 | 70 | 51 | WDWWW |
| 2 |
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Valmiera / BSS | 20 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 58 | 19 | 39 | 51 | WDWWW |
| 3 |
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Leevon / PPK | 20 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 37 | 22 | 15 | 46 | DWWWW |
| 4 |
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Riga Mariners | 20 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 46 | 21 | 25 | 44 | LWWWW |
| 5 |
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JDFS Alberts | 20 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 41 | 28 | 13 | 37 | LWWWW |
| 6 |
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Mārupe | 20 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 34 | 32 | 2 | 28 | WLLWL |
| 7 |
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Skanste | 20 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 43 | 41 | 2 | 26 | WLWDW |
| 8 | Super Nova 2 | 20 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 28 | 30 | -2 | 25 | DLDLW | |
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Riga FC II | 20 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 29 | 37 | -8 | 25 | DWDLL |
| 10 |
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Rīgas FS II | 20 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 31 | 56 | -25 | 15 | LWLLL |
| 11 |
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Smiltene | 20 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 27 | 57 | -30 | 13 | WLLLL |
| 12 |
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JFK Ventspils | 19 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 20 | 40 | -20 | 12 | LLDLL |
| 13 |
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Tukums II | 19 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 23 | 59 | -36 | 12 | LLLLD |
| 14 |
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Rēzekne FA | 20 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 16 | 61 | -45 | 6 | DLLLL |
1. Liga Statistics
Top scorers 2026
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Top assists 2026
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Top key passes
Top tackles
Top yellow cards
Top red cards
1. Liga teams participation since 2012
History
| Team | Nb participations |
|---|---|
| Rēzekne FA | 14 |
| Smiltene | 12 |
| JDFS Alberts | 11 |
| Auda | 10 |
| Tukums | 9 |
| Grobiņa | 7 |
| Valmiera / BSS | 6 |
| Super Nova | 5 |
| Preiļu BJSS | 5 |
| Jēkabpils | 5 |
| Progress / AFA Olaine | 5 |
| Staiceles Bebri | 4 |
| Ogre | 4 |
| Rīgas FS | 4 |
| 1625 Liepāja | 4 |
| Saldus SS/Leevon | 4 |
| Skanste | 4 |
| Riga FC II | 4 |
| Rīgas FS II | 4 |
| Tukums II | 4 |
| RTU | 3 |
| BFC Daugavpils | 3 |
| Olaine / Super Nova | 3 |
| Saldus / Brocēnu | 3 |
| Salaspils | 3 |
| Dinamo Rīga | 3 |
| Valmiera II | 3 |
| JFK Ventspils | 3 |
| Balvu | 2 |
| Dinamo Rīga / Staicele | 2 |
| Gulbene | 2 |
| SFK United | 2 |
| Jelgava II | 2 |
| Liepājas Metalurgs II | 2 |
| Metta II / Salaspils | 2 |
| Skonto II | 2 |
| Ventspils II | 2 |
| Mārupe | 2 |
| Ogre United | 2 |
| Leevon / PPK | 2 |
| New Project | 1 |
| Daugavpils / Progress | 1 |
| Babīte | 1 |
| Skonto | 1 |
| Riga | 1 |
1. Liga top scorer teams
1. Liga About
1. Liga is Latvia’s national second-tier men’s football league, also known as the Latvian First League and, for sponsorship purposes, the Optibet Nākotnes līga. Organised by the Latvian Football Federation (LFF), it occupies the level below the Latvian Higher League (Virslīga) and provides the main competitive route for clubs seeking to reach the country’s top division.
Role in Latvian football
Established in 1992, the competition combines promotion-driven senior football with a strong developmental purpose. It gives ambitious clubs from across Latvia the opportunity to progress through the national pyramid, while also providing a demanding environment for emerging players. The league’s Nākotnes branding, meaning “Future”, reflects its role in developing talent and strengthening football in regional centres as well as in Riga.
The competition is national in scope and forms an important bridge between the regional Second League and the Virslīga. It has also served as a platform for established clubs rebuilding after relegation, developing sides seeking senior experience and reserve teams affiliated with Higher League clubs. Reserve teams may compete and can win matches or finish highly, but they cannot be promoted to the top division alongside their parent club.
Xtra-Stats records seasons from 2012 through 2025, covering 14 recorded editions. The competition’s historical formation year is 1992, while the recorded match data begins with an event dated 6 April 2024.
Organisation, entry and licensing
The LFF is responsible for the competition’s technical regulations, matchday procedures, disciplinary framework and club participation requirements. Sporting results are important, but entry also depends on meeting the federation’s licensing standards. These requirements cover areas such as stadium and infrastructure provision, financial stability and youth development.
Clubs generally enter the league in one of two ways: promotion from the Latvian Second League or relegation from the Virslīga. A promoted club must satisfy the relevant licensing conditions before taking its place in the competition. Reserve sides of Higher League clubs are eligible where permitted by the regulations, although their restricted promotion status affects how the final table is interpreted.
League format and match rules
The typical structure features 14 teams in a double round-robin league phase. Each club plays every other team twice, once at home and once away, producing 26 matches per side. The table is decided by the standard football points system: three points for a win, one for a draw and none for a defeat.
When teams finish level on points, the published hierarchy begins with points gained in head-to-head matches, followed by head-to-head goal difference. Overall goal difference and total goals scored are then considered, with fair-play records also forming part of the stated ranking process where required. These criteria make individual results between competing clubs particularly important during a close promotion or relegation race.
The LFF may also use draws to determine the home-and-away sequence for promotion or relegation play-offs. In a two-legged play-off, a level aggregate score after 180 minutes leads to extra time and, if necessary, a penalty shoot-out.
Promotion, play-offs and relegation
The league champion normally earns automatic promotion to the Virslīga, subject to eligibility and licensing. Where the champion is an ineligible reserve team, the promotion position is handled according to the applicable competition regulations. The runner-up enters a two-legged promotion play-off against the ninth-placed team from the Higher League, with a place in the top division at stake.
At the bottom of the table, the last two teams are automatically relegated to the Latvian Second League. The team finishing 12th, described as the third-bottom side in the standard 14-team arrangement, enters a relegation play-off against a Second League challenger. This creates pressure throughout the table: the title race offers a direct route upward, while clubs in the lower positions fight either to avoid automatic relegation or to preserve their status through a play-off.
Season calendar and competitive identity
The league follows the Northern European summer-football calendar, with seasons generally beginning in late March or April and concluding in November. This schedule limits the impact of the harshest Baltic winter conditions and broadly aligns the competition with the Virslīga season. Promotion and relegation contests often become especially significant in the autumn as the remaining fixtures narrow the margins between clubs.
More than a simple second division, 1. Liga is a central part of Latvia’s football pathway. It connects regional and professional football, tests clubs against national competition and helps prepare players and organisations for the demands of the Virslīga. Its combination of sporting ambition, licensing standards, reserve-team participation and movement between divisions makes it one of the key competitions in the Latvian football pyramid.