The 2025 Latvian Higher League, known as the TonyBet Virslīga for sponsorship reasons, was the 34th season of top-tier football in Latvia. The season began on 5 March 2025 and ended in November 2025 (not including play-off matches).
Teams
The league consisted of ten teams; the top nine clubs from the previous season, and one team promoted from the Latvian First League. RFS entered the season as defending champions (for the second consecutive season).
The promoted team was 2024 Latvian First League champions Super Nova (returning to the top flight after a single-season absence). They replaced the 2024 Latvian Higher League fourth-placed team Valmiera, who were disqualified from the last campaign and left the division after seven seasons in the top flight due to being refused a Latvian Higher League license.
2025 Virslīga competitors Club Seasons in Virsliga 2024 position Stadium CapacityAuda7th3rdSkonto Stadium6,747Daugavpils10th5thEsplanādes stadions575Grobiņa2nd9thDaugava Stadium (Liepāja)4,022FS Jelgava3rd10thZemgale Olympic Center1,560Liepāja12th6thDaugava Stadium (Liepāja)4,022Metta14th7thSloka Stadium2,500RFS10th1stLNK Sporta Parks1,700Riga10th2ndSkonto Stadium6,747Super Nova3rd1st in Latvian First LeagueJānis Skredelis' Stadium396Tukums 20005th8thTukuma Pilsētas Stadions425
Personnel Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Team Head coach CaptainAuda Jurģis Kalns Kemehlo NguenaDaugavpils Kirils Kurbatovs Edgars IvanovsGrobiņa Viktors Dobrecovs Dāvids DružiņinsJelgava Aleksandrs Basovs Armands PētersonsLiepāja Andreas Alm Danijel PetkovićMetta Andris Riherts Kārlis VilnisRFS Viktors Morozs Žiga LipuščekRiga Adrián Guľa Antonijs ČernomordijsSuper Nova Ervīns Pērkons Dāvis VējkrīgersTukums 2000 Kristaps Dišlers Bogdans Samoilovs
Managerial changes TeamOutgoing managerManner of departureDate of vacancyTableIncoming managerDate of appointmentLiepāja Tamaz PertiaSacked7 January 2025Pre-season Dino Skender7 January 2025Auda Zoran Zeljković7 January 2025 Aleksandre Rekhviashvili (interim)8 January 2025Riga Mareks Zuntners (interim)End of interim spell14 January 2025 Adrián Guľa14 January 2025Auda Aleksandre Rekhviashvili (interim)9 February 2025 Jurģis Kalns9 February 2025Liepāja Dino SkenderSacked6 April 20255th Jānis Goba (interim)6 April 2025
League table
Results Teams play each other four times (twice at home and twice away).
Latvian Higher League play-off The ninth-placed team (Grobiņa) will face the second-placed team of the 2025 Latvian First League (JDFS Alberts) in a two-legged play-off for the final place in the 2026 Latvian Higher League. First leg
Second leg
Grobiņa won 1–0 on aggregate
Statistics
Top scorers RankPlayerClubGoals1 Darko LemajićRFS282 Djibril GuèyeLiepāja19 Jānis IkaunieksRFS4 Ingars PūlisTukums 2000185 Marko RegžaRiga166 Reginaldo Ramires147 Kingsley EmenikeJelgava10 Kemelho NguenaAuda9 Anthony ContrerasRiga9 Mor TallaRFS Stefan Panić
Hat-tricks Player For Against Result Date Darko LemajićRFSDaugavpils5–1 (H)9 May 2025 Kemelho NguenaAudaTukums 20004–2 (A)13 June 2025 Darko LemajićRFS6–2 (H)26 July 2025
Clean sheets RankPlayerClubClean sheets1 Krišjānis ZviedrisRiga202 Danijel PetkovićLiepāja93 Jānis BeksDaugavpils84 Frenks OrolsGrobiņa (4) / Super Nova (3)7 Rihards MatrevicsAuda6 Raivo StūriņšTukums 20005 Ņikita ParfjonovsTukums 2000 (3) / Metta (2) Adam DvořákJelgava9 Sergejs VilkovsRFS4 Ņikita PinčuksGrobiņa
Discipline Player Most yellow cards: 16 Kaspars Anmanis (Tukums 2000) Most red cards: 2 Karl Wassom (Riga) Maroine Mihoubi (Tukums 2000)
Club Most red cards: 6 Auda Tukums 2000 Grobiņa Most yellow cards: 107 Grobiņa
Attendances
# Club Average 1 Rīga 1,173 2 RFS 744 3 Liepāja 461 4 Grobiņa 355 5 Daugavpils 318 6 Auda 291 7 Jelgava 290 8 Super Nova 259 9 Tukums 258 10 Metta 213
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