FK Liepājas Metalurgs

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

Patron was the largest metal processing enterprises in the Baltics.

Sporting successes

In 2005 it succeeded Metalurgs as the first club to break the dominance of Skonto Riga, which had won to date since the restoration of independence of Latvia in consecutive order the Latvian championship. Previously Metalurgs four times Latvian runner-up ( 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004), after the first championship was followed by three other Vice championships in a row, before 2009, the second championship was won by the German coach and former national player Rüdiger Abramczik. In addition Metalurgs stood three times in the Latvian Cup finals (1998, 2000, 2002 ), which was lost in each case against Skonto Riga. 2006 succeeded against Skonto Riga with a 2-1 after extra time, the first Cup win since regaining independence, Latvia.

International never came Metalurgs far beyond the second round of the European Cup competitions. In the first qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League 2006/ 07, the Kazakh champions FK Aktobe was defeated 1-0 and 1-1. Then the team against Dynamo Kiev was eliminated. But the victory by a 3:1 and 5:1 succeeded in the Baltic League in 2007 in the final against FK Ventspils. In qualifying for the UEFA Euro League 2011 they lost to FC Salzburg. The home game went 1-4 lost in Salzburg, she reached for a 0-0 but a moderate success.

  • 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 Liepaja Metalurgs went bankrupt, as noted by the sports club went bankrupt. The club was removed from the register of associations in early 2014. The former members of the association subsequently founded the successor FK Liepāja in February 2014.

Known player

The most famous player is Māris Verpakovskis, the six goals in qualifying had significant role in ensuring that the Latvian national team in the finals of Euro 2004 could participate in Portugal. He began his career at Metalurgs before moving over Skonto Riga in late 2003 Dynamo Kyiv in the Ukrainian league.

Known coach

In the years 2008-2010 Rüdiger Abramczik was coach of Liepaja Metalurgs.

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