FC Daugava

FC Daugava Daugavpils

Full name	Football Club Daugava Daugavpils FK Ditton (2001–2006)
Founded	1944
Ground	Daugavas stadions Daugavpils, Latvia
Ground Capacity	4,100
Chairman	Edgars Limans
Manager	Ivan Tabanov
League	Second League
2014	5th (Higher League)
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

FC Daugava is a Latvian football club, based at the Daugava Stadium, in the city of Daugavpils. They play in the Latvian Second League in 2015 and are one of two clubs representing the city. They are also one of two clubs with the name Daugava and should not be confused with FK Daugava Rīga.

In 2008 they won the Latvian Cup and in 2012 won the Latvian Higher League championship for the first time in the club's history.^[1] The current manager of the team is Ivan Tabanov.

History

The club was founded in 1944.

They started the 1992 season with a young team, but later some experienced players were added to the squad and Ditton managed to regain a place in the higher league. In 2006 Ditton were taken over by new investors. Ukrainian manager Sergei Yuran was invited to join the team staff, but he was soon replaced by Sergei Kiriakov. That season the club achieved their highest position to that point, finishing 5th in the championship.

At the end of 2006, Russian businessman Igor Malishkov became the main shareholder in the club. It was his decision to change the club's name to FC Daugava. Meanwhile, he also created a plan to develop the infrastructure of the club and build a new stadium.^[2] Malishkov invited Sergei Petrenko, who was then famous for his success with Torpedo Moscow, to become the manager of the team. Petrenko left in May 2007 for family reasons. In June 2007 Igor Gamula was appointed, but he only started managing the team in August 2008. Till then the incumbent manager was Mihails Zemļinskis.^[3]

On 19 July 2008 the Daugava Stadium was officially opened.^[4] That year the club won the Latvian Cup for the first time in its history. On 8 February 2009, due to financial problems, FC Daugava merged with Dinaburg and formed one team under the name of Dinaburg for the 2009 season.^[5] That season Dinaburg were relegated from the Latvian Higher League due to suspicions of participation in match fixing.^[6] Daugava then decided to create a team that would play in the Latvian First League the following season, meanwhile Dinaburg ended its existence, stating that the club's image was spoiled. As Daugavpils is one of the biggest cities in Latvia, the LFF came up with a proposal to offer Daugava a place in the Latvian Higher League. The offer was accepted and Daugava were given a chance to represent Daugavpils in the higher league in the 2010 season.^[7]

In 2011 the club achieved its best result until then, finishing third in the championship.^[8] In 2012 Daugava became the champions of the Latvian Higher League for the first time in the club's history.^[9]

Match-fixing scandal

In July 2013 Federbet organization expressed its concerns in regards to possible match fixing attempts concerning Daugava's UEFA Champions League game against IF Elfsborg, which the club lost 7–1, with 7 goals being scored in the second half.^[10] Prior to the 2014 Latvian Higher League season Daugava was initially denied the participation license due to non-existing youth academy but it was later obtained in exchange of promises to develop one in the near future.^[11] In October 2014, during a spot-check at the club, several of its members were interrogated, with the club's former president Oleg Gavrilov being arrested for money laundering, legalization of illegal earnings and other crimes, including ignorance of the previously imposed disqualification upon him from any activates affiliated with Latvian football. Four other people, including the club's technical director, manager and two players were disqualified for an indeterminate period of time till the end of the investigation.^[12] The investigation is currently still in progress and is lead in cooperation of the Latvian Football Federation, UEFA and the State Police of Latvia.

Logo

FC Daugava are currently using a logo based on the design of the legendary Latvian football club FK Daugava Rīga that was founded in 1944 and played in the Soviet Top League.^[13]

Honours

• Virsliga
  • 2012
• Latvian Cup
  • 2008
• Latvian Supercup
  • 2013
• Virslīga Winter Cup
  • 2013

Participation in Latvian Championships

Season	Position	Matches	Wins	Draws	Loses	Goals	Points	Manager	Top-scorer
2001	11	4	4	0	0	15—0	12	Genādijs Pašins	Pjotrs Vnukovs – 7 goals
2002	22	28	19	7	2	94—22	65	Genādijs Pašins	Kirils Kurbatovs, Pjotrs Vnukovs – 15 goals
2003	32	27	16	2	9	79—32	50	Ēriks Grigjans	Kirils Kurbatovs – 11 goals
2004	7	28	7	5	16	20—62	26	Ēriks Grigjans	Kirils Kurbatovs – 6 goals
2005	52	26	14	5	7	59—28	47	Sergejs Pogodins	Maksims Deņisevičs – 10 goals
2006	5	28	10	8	10	33—41	38	Sergei Yuran, Sergei Kiriakov, Igor Kichigin	Aleksandr Sonin – 7 goals
2007	5	28	9	6	13	33—38	33	Sergei Petrenko, Igor Gamula	Mikalay Ryndzyuk – 11 goals
2008	5	28	10	7	11	40—35	37	Mihails Zemļinskis, Igor Gamula	Artjoms Rudņevs, Mikalay Ryndzyuk – 7 goals
2009	9	26	9	7	10	38—43	34	Kirils Kurbatovs	Ričards Raščevskis – 6 goals
2010	4	27	16	8	3	35—16	56	Tamaz Pertia	Mamuka Ghonghadze – 6 goals
2011	3	32	19	6	7	58—30	63	Tamaz Pertia, Leonid Nazarenko	Mamuka Ghonghadze – 21 goals
2012	1	36	23	9	4	64—25	78	Ravil Sabitov, Ivan Tabanov	Mamuka Ghonghadze – 18 goals
2013	3	27	15	7	5	44—19	52	Ivan Tabanov	Andrejs Kovaļovs – 16 goals
2014	5	36	19	8	9	53—39	65	Viktor Demidov, Hennadiy Orbu, Ivan Tabanov	Jevgēņijs Kosmačovs – 12 goals

Notes

¹ Season in the Latvian Second League

² Season in the Latvian First League

European Record

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2011–12	UEFA Europa League	First qualifying round	Tromsø IL	0–5	1–2	1–7
2012–13	UEFA Europa League	First qualifying round	FK Sūduva	2–3	1–0	3–3 (a)
2013–14	UEFA Champions League	Second qualifying round	IF Elfsborg	0–4	1–7	1–11
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	First qualifying round	Víkingur Gøta	1–1	1–2	2–3

UEFA ranking 2014/15

Rank	Country	Team	Points
366		FK Mogren	2.625
367		FC Daugava	2.600
368		ÍBV	2.600

Sponsors

Role	Sponsors
Kit manufacturer	Erreà
Sponsors	Mueller Sports Medicine Adidas Līgatne Radio Alise+ Nasha.lv D-fakti.lv Latgales Laiks Seichas grani.lv 7sport.lv

Players and staff

Current squad

Updated 30 November 2014

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Aleksandrs Vlasovs (captain) 2 MF Jans Radevičs 3 DF Rizvan Ablitarov 4 DF Giorgi Chikhradze 5 MF Pavlo Hryschenko 6 MF Rojs Grauze 7 MF Valeriy Kutsenko 8 DF Aleksandrs Solovjovs 9 FW Ričards Grauze 10 MF Visvaldis Ignatāns 11 MF Edgars Vērdiņš 12 DF Dmytro Kushnirov

No. Position Player 13 DF Bidzina Tsintsadze 15 MF Vladimirs Volkovs 16 FW Ēriks Kokins 17 DF Kirils Ševeļovs 19 MF Oļegs Žatkins 21 FW Žanis Zubovs 23 MF Jevgēņijs Kosmačovs 24 DF Pāvels Ostrovskis 26 MF Jurijs Morozs 29 DF Aleksejs Kuplovs-Oginskis 82 GK Jevgēņijs Ņerugals

For recent transfers see: List of Latvian football transfers winter 2013-14 and List of Latvian football transfers summer 2014

International players

Foreign players

Non-EU Nationals

Staff

Position	Name	President	Jevģēnijs Klopovs	Director	Edgars Limans
Technical secretary	Renāte Leitāne
Manager	Ivan Tabanov
Assistant manager	Vladimirs Žavoronkovs
Physiotherapist	Sergejs Ļesnovs
Doctor	Valērijs Bulavskis

Managers

References

External links

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• FC Daugava (Official Site) (Latvian) (Russian) (English)
• Latvian Football Federation website (Latvian) (English)
• uefa.com (English)