The Second Year of RIGA FC Women in Numbers

2025 Season – Four Competitions, Two Debuts

This season we competed in four tournaments, including two historic debuts:

• Women’s Football League

• Women’s Football Cup

• Baltic Women’s Football League (BWFL) – debut

• UEFA Women’s Champions League – debut

Four Competitions – Four Trophies

• Women’s Super Cup 2025 – a historic tournament held for the first time in the history of Latvian women’s football.

• Women’s Football League Champions – the title secured with three rounds still remaining in the season.

• Women’s Football Cup Winners – for the second consecutive year we played at Skonto Stadium, and this time celebrated victory in front of our own supporters, lifting the trophy at the most historic football stadium in Latvia.

• Baltic Women’s Football League Champions – the season concluded at the end of October at our home stadium, where we lifted our fourth trophy of the season. This was the first Baltic League title ever won by a Latvian club in women’s football.

Matches Played – 38 in Total

• 24 matches – Women’s Football League

• 3 matches – Women’s Football Cup

• 4 matches – Baltic Women’s Football League

• 2 matches – UEFA Women’s Champions League

• 5 international friendly matches:

  • Riga FC Women vs FK Transinvest Women (Lithuania)

  • Riga FC Women vs JK Tabasalu Women (Estonia)

  • Riga FC Women vs HJK (Finland)

  • Riga FC Women vs HPS Helsinki (Finland)

  • Riga FC Women vs GKS Katowice (Poland)

Women’s Football League – A Perfect Season

• 24 wins from 24 matches

• 180 goals scored

• 72 points earned

Top three goal scorers in the Women’s Football League (all from Riga FC Women):

• Alexxs Sierra Lipsey – 56 goals

• Elizabeth Millard Hill – 21 goals

• Kumba Zanaib Brima – 18 goals

Baltic Women’s Football League

• 4 matches – 4 wins

• Baltic League Champions

Instead of the originally scheduled four group matches, we played two (against FC Flora and FK Gintra). Two fixtures were cancelled due to technical reasons; as a result, we were awarded three points in the standings and finished as group leaders.

After defeating RFS Women in the semi-final, we secured the Baltic Women’s Football League trophy with a 3:1 victory over MFA Žalgiris in the final.

UEFA Women’s Champions League

• 2 matches

• 1 win

Our European journey began in the first qualifying round, held in Luxembourg in late July and early August. Following a convincing win against the Estonian champions, we were defeated by the hosts in the second match, which prevented us from advancing to the second qualifying round.

• Riga FC Women vs FC Flora 4:1

• Riga FC Women vs Racing FC Luxembourg 0:1

Squad & Staff Highlights

• We started the season with eight foreign players, the highest number of foreign players in the history of Latvian women’s football. Despite squad changes during the season, the number of foreign players remained unchanged.

• Head coach change: the season began under Igor Kļosovs, but in early August Vadims Burlačuks was appointed as head coach.

National Team Representation

During the year, ten Riga FC Women players represented their national teams:

• Manyima Stevelmans (Gambia)

• Elza Renāte Strazdiņa (Latvia)

• Katrīna Daņilova (Latvia)

• Anna Kristīne Gornela (Latvia)

• Laura Sondore (Latvia)

• Marina Teļukeviča (Latvia)

• Nikola Preijere (Latvia)

• Līva Šteinberga (Latvia)

• Renāte Gaugere (Latvia)

• Laura Kallase (Latvia)/wu19