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FK Ventspils
Full name	Futbola Klubs Ventspils
Nickname(s)	Yellow-Blue
Founded	1997
Ground	Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions, Ventspils, Latvia
Capacity	3,200
Chairman	Jurijs Bespalovs
Manager	Roman Grigorshuk
League	Virsliga
2006	Virsliga, 1st
Home colours 　 Away colours

FK Ventspils is a Latvian Virsliga football team. The club's home ground is the 3,200 capacity Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions in Ventspils, Latvia. In total, FK Ventspils have won one league titles and three Latvian Cups. During the 2006 season, they became Virsliga champions.

Contents 1 History 2 First-team squad 2.1 Squad changes in January 2007 2.2 Squad changes in July-August 2006 2.3 Famous players 2.4 Reserves 3 Honours 4 Participation in UEFA cups 4.1 Participation in UEFA Cup 4.2 Participation in UEFA Intertoto Cup 5 Participation in Latvian Championships 6 External link

FK Ventspils was founded in 1997. FK Ventspils plays instead of Vecrīga (Rīga) due to Vecrīga's refusal. FK Ventspils is a merger of FK Venta and Nafta, which played in 1. līga last year.

Ventspils first played in a match for the Championship of the Latvia. The match was held on April 12, 1997. In the first game of Latvian championship, Ventspils lost to Skonto FC 0:3.

Their first game in the Cup of the Latvia took place on April 26, 1997 with Cerība/Līvāni from Preiļi. The game ended in a win 7:1.

Ventspils participated in 10 championships of the Latvia. Participants of 10 cup-ties of the Cup of the Latvia.

On June 19, 1999 Ventspils first played with a European team in the first round of the Intertoto Cup of UEFA. They played draw this game with Vålerenga IF (Oslo, Norway).

They have appeared in the UEFA Cup qualifiers on occasions, notably in a qualifying round versus Newcastle United of England in 2006, though this was held at the Skonto stadions in Rīga for television purposes. Newcastle went on to win the tie 1-0 on aggregate but were frequently frustrated with Ventspils' defensive display.

FK Ventspils currently lead the Latvian league with a record amount of games unbeaten.

No. Position Player 1 GK Māris Eltermanis 2 DF Aleksejs Soleičuks 3 DF Deniss Sokoļskis 4 MF Zakhar Dubenskiy 5 MF Jevgēņijs Kosmačovs 7 MF Sergei Zangareev 8 DF Deniss Kačanovs 9 FW Vits Rimkus 11 FW Vladimirs Koļesņičenko 12 DF Igors Savčenkovs 13 FW Igors Sļesarčuks

No. Position Player 14 MF Mihails Ziziļevs 16 GK Andris Vaņins 17 DF Jéan-Paul Ndeki 20 MF Igor Pokarynin 21 DF Artjoms Gončars 23 FW Andrejs Butriks 24 MF Artis Lazdiņš 77 GK Pāvels Davidovs MF Vadims Gospodars DF Vladimirs Bespalovs

In

DF

Vladimirs Bespalovs (from Tranzīts Ventspils)

Out

		DF	Kaspars Gorkšs (to Blackpool F.C.)
15		MF	Igors Stukaļinas
22		MF	Deimantas Bička
		DF	Miki Stojkovs
6		MF	Vladan Vukovič
		FW	Zoran Baldovaliev

In

		FW	Zoran Baldovaliev (from FK MKT Araz, Azerbaijan)
		DF	Miki Stojkovs (from FC Turnovo, Macedonia)
		MF	Vadims Gospodars (from FC Mika Ashtarak, Armenia)
		FW	Aleksandrs Torjans (return from loan Dinaburg FC)
		MF	Aleksejs Boruns (loan from Dinaburg FC)
		MF	Ritus Krjauklis (loan from Dinaburg FC)
		FW	Guntars Silagailis (loan from Dižvanagi Rēzekne)

Out

		FW	Aleksandrs Torjans (loan to Dinaburg FC)
		MF	Aleksejs Boruns (return from loan Dinaburg FC)
		MF	Ritus Krjauklis (return from loan Dinaburg FC)
		FW	Guntars Silagailis (return from loan Dižvanagi Rēzekne)
		DF	Vladimirs Bespalovs (to Tranzīts Ventspils)

• Vits Rimkus
• Vladimirs Koļesņičenko
• Māris Smirnovs
• Igors Korabļovs

Main article: Ventspils-2

• Virsliga winners
  • 2006
• Virsliga runners-up
  • 2000, 2001, 2002
• Latvian Cup winners
  • 2003, 2004, 2005

• 2006
  • First Qualifying Phase
    • Jul 13 GÍ Gøta (Faroe Islands)2:1
    • Jul 27 GÍ Gøta 2:0
  • Second Qualifying Phase
    • Aug 10 Newcastle United (England) 0:1
    • Aug 24 Newcastle United 0:0
• 2005
  • First Qualifying Phase
    • Jul 14 Linfield (Northern Ireland) 0:1
    • Jul 28 Linfield 2:1
• 2004
  • First Qualifying Phase
    • Jul 15 B68 (Toftir) (Faroe Islands) 3:0
    • Jul 29 B68 (Toftir) 8:0
  • Second Qualifying Phase
    • Aug 12 Brøndby IF (Denmark) 0:0
    • Aug 26 Brøndby IF 1:1
  • First Round
    • Sep 16 Amica Wronki (Poland) 1:1
    • Sep 30 Amica Wronki 0:1
• 2003
  • Qualifying Phase
    • Aug 14 Wisła Płock (Poland) 1:1
    • Aug 28 Wisła Płock 2:2
  • First Round
    • Sep 24 Rosenborg BK (Trondheim) (Norway) 1:4
    • Oct 15 Rosenborg BK (Trondheim) 0:6
• 2002
  • Qualifying Phase
    • Aug 15 FC Lugano (Switzerland) 3:0
    • Aug 29 FC Lugano 0:1
  • First Round
    • Sep 19 VfB Stuttgart (Germany) 1:4
    • Oct 03 VfB Stuttgart 1:4
• 2001
  • Qualifying Phase
    • Aug 09 HJK Helsinki (Finland) 1:2
    • Aug 23 HJK Helsinki 0:1
• 2000
  • Qualifying Phase
    • Aug 10 Vasas (Budapest) (Hungary) 2:1
    • Aug 24 Vasas (Budapest) 1:3

• 1999
  • Round 1
    • Jun 19 Vålerenga IF (Norway) 0:1
    • Jun 26 Vålerenga IF 2:0
  • Round 2
    • Jul 03 Kocaelispor (Turkey) 1:1
    • Jul 10 Kocaelispor 0:2

• 2006 - champions
• 2005 - 3rd
• 2004 - 3rd
• 2003 - 3rd
• 2002 - 2nd
• 2001 - 2nd
• 2000 - 2nd
• 1999 - 3rd
• 1998 - 3rd
• 1997 - 4th

• Official website

Virsliga 2007
Dinaburg | Daugava | Jūrmala | Metalurgs | Olimps | Rīga | Skonto | Ventspils
1. liga 2007
Alberts | Auda | Dižvanagi | Eirobaltija | Ilūkste | Jelgava | Multibanka | Tranzīts | Valmiera | Dinaburg-Zemessardze | Ditton-2 | Jūrmala-2 | Metalurgs-2 | Rīga-2 | Skonto-2 | Ventspils-2
2. liga 2007
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