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).[2][3] By 2013, a women's team of the school had been created.
| Full name | Rīgas Futbola skola | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1962 (main organization) 2013 (women's team) | ||
| Ground | Sporta bāze "Daugavgrīva" (Daugavgrīva Sports Base)[1] | ||
| Manager | Didzis Matīss | ||
| League | Latvian Women's League | ||
| 2025 | Latvian Women's League, 7th | ||
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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.[4][5][6]
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.[7][8] 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
editCurrent squad
edit- As of 18 August 2021[9]
| 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
edit| Season | Competition | Stage | Result | Opponent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014–15 | Champions League | Qualifying | 0–11 |  Konak Belediyespor |
| 0–2 |  Zürich | |||
| 0–7 |  FC Minsk | |||
| 2015–16 | Champions League | Qualifying | 1–4 |  Zhytlobud Kharkiv |
| 0–9 |  PK-35 Vantaa | |||
| 3–2 |  Nové Zámky | |||
| 2017–18 | Champions League | Qualifying | 0–6 |  Ajax |
| 0–8 |  Standard Liège | |||
| 0–2 | Pärnu JK |
References
edit- ↑ Sports Bases – RigasFS.lv
- ↑ SkolaRFS62. "Par skolu". Rīgas Futbola Skola (in Latvian). Retrieved 3 October 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ "Rīgas Futbola skola – Latvian Football Federation". lff.lv. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ↑ "LFF sacensību statistika v1.1". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
- ↑ "Rīgas Futbola skola 2014.gada Latvijas Sieviešu futbola līgas čempiones |". Retrieved 6 September 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "Rīgas FS sieviešu komanda 3. Gadu pēc kārtas izcīna čempionu titulu |". Archived from the original on 14 July 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
- ↑ "Vēsture". FC RFS (in Latvian). Retrieved 22 August 2025.
- ↑ Bācis, Ivars. "SFK "Rīga" nodrošina uzvaru Sieviešu futbola līgā". Sportacentrs.com. LFF. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
- ↑ "RFS – UWCL – Squad". UEFA.
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