FK Liepājas Metalurgs

Liepājas Metalurgs
	Liepājas Metalurgs
Basic data
Surname	Futbola Klubs Liepājas Metalurgs
Seat	Liepāja , Latvia
founding	1909
resolution	2013
First soccer team
Venue	Daugava Stadium
Places	5,000
league	no
Virslīga , 2013	5th place
home	Away

FK Liepājas Metalurgs , founded in 1909 as Olimpija Liepāja , after several renaming since 1997 Liepājas Metalurgs , was a Latvian football club from the city of Liepāja .

The namesake was the largest metal processing company in the Baltic States .

Sporting successes

In 2005, Metalurgs was the first club to break the supremacy of Skonto Riga , which had won the Latvian championship in uninterrupted order since the regaining of independence. Before that, Metalurgs was Latvian runner-up four times (1998, 1999, 2003, 2004), after the first championship title followed three more runner-ups in a row before the second championship title with the German coach and former national player Rüdiger Abramczik could be won in 2009 . In addition, Metalurgs was three times in the Latvian Cup final (1998, 2000, 2002), which was lost to Skonto Riga. 2006 won against Skonto Riga with a 2-1 after extra time, the first cup win since Latvia regained independence.

Qualifier for the 2011/12 UEFA Euro League in Salzburg against FC Salzburg

Internationally, Metalurgs has never made it past the second round of the European cup competitions. In the first qualifying round for the 2006/07 UEFA Champions League , Kazakh champions FK Aqtöbe were defeated 1-0 and 1-1. Then the team was eliminated against Dynamo Kiev . But in the Baltic League in 2007 they won 3-1 and 5-1 in the final against FK Ventspils . In qualifying for the 2011 UEFA Euro League, they were defeated by FC Salzburg. The home game was lost 4-1, but in Salzburg they achieved a respectable success with a 0-0 draw.

Latvian Championship : 2005, 2009
Latvian Cup : 1946, 1947, 1948, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963, 1964, 2006
Baltic League : 2007

In November 2013, the owner and his company Liepājas Metalurgs filed for bankruptcy, whereupon the sports club went bankrupt. The association was removed from the register of associations at the beginning of 2014. The former members of the association founded the successor association FK Liepāja in February 2014 .

player

The best-known player is Māris Verpakovskis , who with six goals in qualifying played a key role in ensuring that the Latvian national team was able to participate in the finals of the 2004 European Championship in Portugal . He started his career at Metalurgs before moving to Dynamo Kiev in the Ukrainian league via Skonto Riga at the end of 2003 .