Rīgas Futbola skola (Latvian for Riga Football School, also Rīgas FS or RFS) is a Latvian women's professional football club from Riga. The team is the women's section of the Riga Football School youth academy, founded in 1962 and owned by the Riga City Council (the senior team of which currently plays in the Latvian Third League). By 2013, a women's team of the school had been created.
The women play in the top level Latvian Women's League and won the championship from 2013 to 2018, and then in 2020 and 2021.
The similarly named RFS Women team (formerly SFK Rīga or SFK RFS until 2024) is the female section of the men's Virslīga side RFS, which was founded in 2021–2022 as the nucleus of the Rīgas FS squad with most of the players was spun off under the leadership of FK RFS. The remaining players continued playing for Rīgas FS.
Rīgas FS also fielded a farm team in the top league called RFS/46. vsk in partnership with the Riga Secondary School No. 46 football academy in 2015 and 2016.
Titles Latvian Women's League: Winners (8): 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 Latvian Women's Cup Winners (6): 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Current squad
Goalkeepers Defenders Midfielders Forwards 1. Ana Dubova 12. Marija Ibragimova 3. Anna Krūmiņa 18. Karīna Lūse 20. Veronika Širmanova 30. Jūlija Ņikiforova 5. Olga Gerasimenko 8. Stella Jemeļjanova 13. Sofija Seredina 15. Natālija Gromova 19. Margarita Ņikiforova 21. Anastasija Čemirtāne 2. Laima Kirtovska 4. Nadežda Ciplakova 9. Tatjana Baļičeva 14. Ieva Krasnova 22. Inga Zvonkova Head coach: Didzis Matīss
UEFA competition record Season Competition Stage Result Opponent2014–15 Champions League Qualifying 0–11 Konak Belediyespor 0–2 Zürich 0–7 FC Minsk2015–16 Champions League Qualifying 1–4 Zhytlobud Kharkiv 0–9 PK-35 Vantaa 3–2 Nové Zámky2017–18 Champions League Qualifying 0–6 Ajax 0–8 Standard Liège 0–2 Pärnu JK
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