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The semi-finals of the Latvian Cup football will be played in the middle of the day

Tamazs Pertija | Photo: Optibet Premier League

The “Viensviens” Latvian Cup semi-final games will be held on Wednesday this week at 1 pm, the Latvian Football Federation (LFF) reports on Monday.

It has already been reported that the owner of the Latvian Cup will meet with Ventspils in the semifinals of the RFS tournament, but Liepāja will host Valmiera.

On Monday, LFF reports that all four teams will play their games on Wednesday at 13.

In the quarter-final of the Cup holder RFS, “Riga” won in a tense battle with 3: 2, Valmiera managed to win Tukums 2000 ″ / TSS at the very end with 1: 0, “Liepāja” won Jūrmala “Spartaku” 3: 1, but in Jelgava “Ventspils” after 0: 0 draw In the minutes of 120 games, “Jelgava” won with 4: 3 in a series of 11-meter penalties.

In the Latvian Cup, domestic clubs compete not only for the trophy, but also for the right to represent Latvia in the UEFA club tournament.

In the first round, 26 teams from the Latvian second and third leagues participated, two teams automatically qualify for the next round. The second round was attended by thirteen first-round winners, two wild-card recipients, and nine first-league clubs.

Twelve second-round winners took part in the third round, and ten Optibet Premier League clubs joined the six winners in the eighth final.

The final at the stadium of the Olympic Center “Ventspils” will take place on November 8. The Ventspils Latvian Cup final was hosted for the only time in the 2014/2015 season, when the hosts acknowledged the superiority of “Jelgava” footballers in the final with 0: 2.

In the history of the Latvian Cup, since 1936, 38 different club teams have won the prestigious trophy, but since the restoration of the country’s independence, 12 different teams have raised the cup over their heads.

Since 2017, the winners of the tournament have been presented with a new design and identity trophy.

The current trophy holder is the RFS team, which was with it for the first time in history last year. Last year, the people of Riga only surpassed the most titled cup team of the last decade “Jelgava” in overtime.

The most titled team in the tournament is the non-existent Skonto, which triumphed in the tournament eight times between 1992 and 2012.

Latvian Cup in football was played in one season until 2008, but since 2009/2010 it has been started in the previous season for the next eight years and completed in the spring of the following year. Thus, the fourth Latvian participant in the Euroccups was determined only about a month before the start of the new UEFA Europa League season.

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