Latvian national football team
Association | LFF | ||
confederacy | UEFA | ||
Technical sponsor | Adidas | ||
Head coach | Dainis Kazakevics (since 2020) | ||
captain | Andris Vaņins | ||
Record scorer | Māris Verpakovskis (29) | ||
Record player | Vitālijs Astafjevs (167) | ||
Home stadium | Discount stadium | ||
FIFA code | LVA | ||
FIFA rank | 137th (1079 points) (as of July 16, 2020) |
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Balance sheet | |||
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389 games 111 wins 91 draws 187 defeats |
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statistics | |||
First international match Latvia 1: 1 Estonia Riga , Latvia ; September 24, 1922 |
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Biggest win Estonia 1: 8 Latvia Tallinn , Estonia ; August 18, 1942 |
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Biggest defeat Sweden 12: 0 Latvia Stockholm , Sweden ; May 29, 1927 |
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Successes in tournaments | |||
European Championship | |||
Participation in the finals | 1 ( first : 2004 ) | ||
Best results | 2004 preliminary round | ||
(As of October 15, 2019) |
The Latvian national football team is the national football team of the Republic of Latvia . It is controlled by the Latvian football association Latvijas Futbola federācija (LFF), which was founded in 1921.
Latvia has not yet qualified for a World Cup. The greatest success so far is the qualification for the 2004 European Championship under coach Aleksandrs Starkovs . From this they were eliminated in the preliminary round, but were able to achieve a 0-0 against the highly favored Germany .
Since then, Latvia has not been able to match the success of participating in the 2004 European Championship. Today the team plays a subordinate role in Europe. After the poor showing in the UEFA Nations League 2018/19 Latvia plays in the UEFA Nations League 2020/21 the only national team that is not from a small state comes in which letztklassigen League D .
The most important tournament for Latvia so far has been the Baltic Cup , of which the team is the record winner.
In the FIFA world rankings, the Latvian national soccer team ranks 143rd out of 210 places (as of October 24, 2019).
Participation in international competitions
Participation in the UEFA European Championship
After leaving the Soviet Union, Latvia took part in qualifying for the European Championship in 1996 for the first time and has so far qualified once for a final round. Since Latvian football did not play a major role in the Soviet Union, no Latvian players were used in the national football team of the USSR .
year | Host country | Participation until ... | Last opponent | Result | Comments and special features |
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1996 | England | not qualified | In the qualification of Portugal and Ireland failed, which also could not qualify. | ||
2000 | Netherlands and Belgium | not qualified | In the qualification of Norway and Slovenia failed. | ||
2004 | Portugal | Preliminary round | Czech Republic , Germany , Netherlands | - | After two defeats and a draw, eliminated as bottom of the group. |
2008 | Austria and Switzerland | not qualified | In qualifying at the eventual winners Spain and Sweden failed. | ||
2012 | Poland and Ukraine | not qualified | In the qualification to Greece and Croatia failed. | ||
2016 | France | not qualified | In the qualification of Czech Republic , Iceland and Turkey failed. | ||
2021 | Europe | not qualified | In the qualification to Poland and Austria failed. |
Participation in the FIFA World Cup
1930 in Uruguay | not participated |
1934 in Italy | not participated |
1938 in France | not qualified |
1950 to 1990 | was part of the USSR |
1994 to 2018 | not qualified |
Participation in the Baltic Cup
Record winner with 24 of 49 titles, including the last four competitions (2018, 2016, 2014, 2012).
Current squad
Source: (As of October 15, 2019)
Trainer
- Ferenc Voggenhuber (1935)
- Rudolf Stanzel (1936–1937)
- Rudolf Stanzel (1938–1939)
- Second World War (1939–1945)
- Part of the national soccer team of the USSR (1945–1991)
- Janis Gilis (1992-1997)
- Revaz Dzodzuashvili (1998-1999)
- Gary Johnson (1999-2001)
- Aleksandrs Starkovs (2001-2004)
- Jurijs Andrejevs (2004-2007)
- Aleksandrs Starkovs (2007-2013)
- Marians Pahars (2013-2017)
- Aleksandrs Starkovs (2017-2018)
- Mixu Paatelainen (2018-2019)
- Slavisa Stojanovic (2019-2020)
- Dainis Kazakevics (2020–)
Source:
statistics
Record player
Vitālijs Astafjevs replaced on February 2, 2000 with his 64th international match from the pre-war record holder Ēriks Pētersons , who came to 63 games between 1929 and 1939. Astafjevs was also the European record holder from November 14, 2009 to March 24, 2017 when he replaced Estonian Martin Reim with his 158th international match and was then surpassed by Gianluigi Buffon . Worldwide, only six players have played more international matches, and Astafjevs has never played in a World Cup finals.
rank | Surname | Calls | Gates | position | Period |
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1. | Vitālijs Astafjevs | 167 | 16 | midfield | 1992-2010 |
2. | Andrejs Rubins | 117 | 9 | midfield | 1998-2011 |
3. | Juris Laizāns | 113 | 15th | midfield | 1998-2010 |
4th | Imants Bleidelis | 106 | 10 | midfield | 1995-2007 |
5. | Mihails Zemļinskis | 105 | 12 | Defense | 1992-2005 |
6th | Māris Verpakovskis | 104 | 29 | attack | 1999-2014 |
7th | Igors Stepanovs | 102 | 4th | Defense | 1995-2011 |
8th. | Andris Vaņins | 100 | 0 | goal | 2000– |
9. | Aleksandrs Koļinko | 94 | 0 | goal | 1997-2015 |
10. | Kaspars Gorkšs | 89 | 5 | Defense | 2005-2017 |
Source: (As of November 19, 2019)
Record goal scorers
Māris Verpakovskis has been the record scorer since October 10, 2009 when he beat Ēriks Pētersons' pre-war record with his 25th goal in a 2: 5 in the World Cup qualifier against Greece .
rank | Surname | Gates | Calls | Quota | Period |
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1. | Māris Verpakovskis | 29 | 104 | 0.28 | 1999-2014 |
2. | Ēriks Pētersons † | 24 | 63 | 0.38 | 1929-1939 |
3. | Vitālijs Astafjevs | 16 | 167 | 0.10 | 1992-2010 |
4th | Juris Laizāns | 15th | 113 | 0.13 | 1998-2014 |
Marian's Pahars | 15th | 75 | 0.20 | 1996-2007 | |
6th | Alberts Šeibelis † | 14th | 54 | 0.26 | 1925-1939 |
7th | Ilya Vestermans † | 13 | 23 | 0.57 | 1935-1938 |
Mihails Zemļinskis | 13 | 105 | 0.12 | 1992-2005 | |
9. | Aleksandrs Cauņa | 12 | 45 | 0.27 | 2007-2015 |
Valerijs Sabala | 12 | 53 | 0.23 | 2013– |
Sources: (as of November 19, 2019)
International matches against German-speaking national soccer teams
International matches against the German national soccer team
date | place | Home team | result | Visiting team | |
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1. | October 13, 1935 | Koenigsberg | German Empire | 3-0 | Latvia |
2. | June 25, 1937 | Riga | Latvia | 1: 3 | German Empire |
3. | June 19, 2004 | Postage ( ) | Latvia | 0-0 | Germany |
International matches against the Liechtenstein national football team
date | place | Home team | result | Visiting team | |
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1. | November 15, 1994 | Ash trees | Liechtenstein | 0: 1 | Latvia |
2. | September 6, 1995 | Riga | Latvia | 1-0 | Liechtenstein |
3. | February 28, 2001 | Vaduz | Liechtenstein | 0: 2 | Latvia |
4th | November 17, 2004 | Vaduz | Liechtenstein | 1: 3 | Latvia |
5. | June 8, 2005 | Riga | Latvia | 1-0 | Liechtenstein |
6th | March 28, 2007 | Vaduz | Liechtenstein | 1-0 | Latvia |
7th | November 17, 2007 | Riga | Latvia | 4: 1 | Liechtenstein |
8th. | October 16, 2012 | Riga | Latvia | 2-0 | Liechtenstein |
9. | 22th of March 2013 | Vaduz | Liechtenstein | 1: 1 | Latvia |
International matches against the Luxembourg national football team
date | place | Home team | result | Visiting team | |
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1. | March 27, 2002 | Hesperange | Luxembourg | 0: 3 | Latvia |
2. | March 8, 2004 | Luxembourg | Luxembourg | 3: 4 | Latvia |
3. | March 30, 2005 | Riga | Latvia | 4-0 | Luxembourg |
4th | September 6, 2006 | Hesperange | Luxembourg | 0-0 | Latvia |
5. | March 28, 2009 | Luxembourg | Luxembourg | 0: 4 | Latvia |
6th | April 1, 2009 | Riga | Latvia | 2-0 | Luxembourg |
7th | 2nd September 2016 | Riga | Latvia | 3: 1 | Luxembourg |
International matches against the Austrian national football team
date | place | Home team | result | Visiting team | |
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1. | October 5, 1937 | Vienna | Austria | 2: 1 | Latvia |
2. | March 29, 1995 | Salzburg | Austria | 5-0 | Latvia |
3. | August 16, 1995 | Riga | Latvia | 3: 2 | Austria |
4th | November 9, 1996 | Vienna | Austria | 2: 1 | Latvia |
5. | June 8, 1996 | Riga | Latvia | 1: 3 | Austria |
6th | February 9, 2005 | Limassol ( ) | Latvia | 1: 1 (5: 3 i.E.) | Austria |
7th | June 7, 2011 | Graz | Austria | 3: 1 | Latvia |
8th. | September 6, 2019 | Wals-Siezenheim | Austria | 6-0 | Latvia |
9. | 19th November 2019 | Riga | Latvia | 1-0 | Austria |
International matches against the Swiss national football team
date | place | Home team | result | Visiting team | |
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1. | April 2, 1997 | Lucerne | Switzerland | 1-0 | Latvia |
2. | October 11, 2008 | St. Gallen | Switzerland | 1: 2 | Latvia |
3. | September 9, 2009 | Riga | Latvia | 2: 2 | Switzerland |
4th | March 25, 2017 | Lancy | Switzerland | 1-0 | Latvia |
5. | 3rd September 2017 | Riga | Latvia | 0: 3 | Switzerland |
See also
Web links
- Website of the Latvian Football Association LFF (Latvian, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Iepriekšējā spēle ( Latvian ) lff.lv. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
- ↑ https://www.transfermarkt.de/lettland/mitarbeiterhistorie/verein/3555
- ↑ Nākamā spēle ( Latvian ) lff.lv. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
- ^ Latvia - Record International Players
- ↑ PLAYERS for Latvia
- ↑ lff.lv: Statistics