FHK Liepājas Metalurgs

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FHK Liepājas Metalurgs
Full name	FHK Liepājas Metalurgs
Founded	1997
Ground	Daugava Stadium Liepāja, Latvia
Capacity	5,100
Chairman	Sergejs Zaharins
Manager	Benjaminas Zelkevičius
League	Virsliga
2006	Virsliga, 2nd
Home colours 　 Away colours

FHK Liepājas Metalurgs (Futbola un Hokeja klubs "Liepājas metalurgs") is a Latvian football and ice hockey club, based in the city of Liepāja and playing in the Virsliga. The football team plays at the Daugava Stadium (capacity 5,008). Liepajas Metalurgs became the first team other than Skonto FC of Riga to win the Virsliga since the league restarted in 1991. They are current Latvian Cup holders.

Contents 1 Players 1.1 First-team squad 1.2 Squad changes during 2006 season 1.3 Famous players 1.4 Reserves 2 Honours 3 Participation in Champions League 4 Participation in UEFA cups 5 Participation in Latvian Championships 6 External links

[edit] Players

[edit] First-team squad

No. Position Player 1 GK Aleksejs Krucs 2 DF Andrejs Žuravļovs 3 DF Oskars Kļava 4 DF Dzintars Zirnis 6 DF Deniss Ivanovs 7 MF Vadim Petrenko 9 MF Tomas Tamošauskas 10 MF Mindaugas Kalonas 11 FW Aleksandr Katasonov 13 MF Pāvels Surņins

No. Position Player 15 MF Genādijs Soloņicins 16 MF Darius Miceika 18 FW Nerijus Astrauskas 19 GK Aleksandrs Vlasovs 20 FW Ģirts Karlsons 21 MF Jevgēņijs Kecs 23 FW Kristaps Grebis 24 MF Arturas Rimkjavičus 28 DF Antons Jemeļins 31 GK Viktors Spole

[edit] Squad changes during 2006 season

In

7		MF	Vadim Petrenko (from FK Šilutė)
24		MF	Arturas Rimkjavičus (from FBK Kaunas)

Out

[edit] Famous players

• Māris Verpakovskis
• Dzintars Zirnis
• Ģirts Karlsons

[edit] Reserves

Main article: Liepājas Metalurgs-2

[edit] Honours

• Virsliga winners
  • 2005
• Virsliga runners-up
  • 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2006
• Latvian Cup winners
  • 2006

[edit] Participation in Champions League

• 2006
  • Qualifying Phase 1
    • Jul 12 FC Aktobe (Kazakhstan) 1:0
    • Jul 19 FC Aktobe 1:1
  • Qualifying Phase 2
    • Jul 26 Dynamo Kyiv (Ukraine) 1:4
    • Aug 02 Dynamo Kyiv 0:4

[edit] Participation in UEFA cups

• 2005
  • First Qualifying Phase
    • Jul 14 NSÍ Runavík (Faroe Islands) 3:0
    • Jul 28 NSÍ Runavík 3:0
  • Second Qualifying Phase
    • Aug 11 Racing Genk (Belgium) 2:3
    • Aug 25 Racing Genk IF 0:3
• 2004
  • First Qualifying Phase
    • Jul 15 B36 Tórshavn (Faroe Islands) 3:1
    • Jul 29 B36 Tórshavn 8:1
  • Second Qualifying Phase
    • Aug 12 Östers IF (Sweden) 2:2
    • Aug 26 Östers IF 1:1
  • First Round
    • Sep 16 Schalke 04 (Germany) 1:5
    • Sep 30 Schalke 04 0:4
• 2003
  • Qualifying Phase
    • Aug 14 Dinamo Bucureşti (Romania) 2:5
    • Aug 28 Dinamo Bucureşti 1:1
• 2002
  • Qualifying Phase
    • Aug 15 FC Kärnten (Austria) 0:2
    • Aug 29 FC Kärnten 2:4

[edit] Participation in Latvian Championships

• 2006 - 2nd
• 2005 - champions
• 2004 - 2nd
• 2003 - 2nd
• 2002 - 3rd
• 2001 - 3rd
• 2000 - 3rd
• 1999 - 2nd
• 1998 - 2nd
• 1997 - 5th

[edit] External links

• (English) (Latvian) (Russian) Official website

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