Skonto FC

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Skonto FC
Full name	Skonto Football Club
Founded	1991, as Forums-Skonto
Ground	Skonto Stadions, Riga
Capacity	8,300
Chairman	Guntis Indriksons
Manager	Paul Ashworth
League	Virsliga
2006	Virsliga, 3rd
Home colours 　 Away colours

Skonto FC is a Latvian soccer club, founded in 1991. It is a Virsliga team that plays at Skonto Stadions football ground in Riga. Skonto won the Virsliga in the first 13 seasons of the league's existence, and provides the core of the Latvia national football team. In the 2005 season they finished in second place, below FHK Liepājas Metalurgs.

Contents 1 Honours 2 Players 2.1 First-team squad 2.2 Squad changes in January, 2007 2.3 Squad changes in July-August, 2006 2.4 Famous players 2.5 Reserves 3 Participation in Champions League 4 Participation in UEFA cups 5 Participation in Latvian Championships 6 External links

[edit] Honours

• Virslīga champions (13)
  • 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

• Latvian Soviet Republic champions (1)
  • 1991

• Latvian football Cup winners (7)
  • 1992, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002

• Latvian football Cup finalists (6)
  • 1991, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2006

[edit] Players

[edit] First-team squad

No. Position Player 1 GK Pāvels Doroševs 3 MF Vitālijs Astafjevs 4 DF Josef Piaček 5 DF Maxim Usanov 6 MF Marian Sluka 7 MF Andrejs Perepļotkins 8 MF Aleksejs Višņakovs 9 FW Kristaps Blanks 10 MF Viktors Morozs 11 FW Marian Dirnbah 12 MF Aleksandrs Cauņa 14 MF Oļegs Laizāns 15 MF Igors Semjonovs

No. Position Player 16 GK Andrejs Piedels 17 FW Ivans Lukjanovs 18 DF Vitālijs Smirnovs 19 FW Gatis Kalniņš 20 DF Zaali Eliava 24 DF Raivis Hščanovičs 25 DF David Gamezardashvili GK Germans Māliņš DF Sergejs Golubevs DF Deniss Petrenko DF Vadims Gaiļus MF Aleksandrs Fertovs

[edit] Squad changes in January, 2007

In

		FW	Marian Dirnbah
		DF	David Gamezardashvili (from FC Torpedo Kutaisi, Georgia)

Out

4		DF	Jozefs Pjačeks (loan to 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Germany)
2		DF	Artūrs Zakreševskis (to FK Rīga)
3		DF	Aleksandrs Isakovs (to Dinaburg FC)
17		MF	Andrejs Štolcers (to JFK Olimps Rīga)
11		FW	Mihails Miholaps (to FC Shakhter, Kazakhstan)

[edit] Squad changes in July-August, 2006

In

10		FW	Aleksandrs Cauņa (from JFK Olimps Rīga)
24		MF	Ivans Lukjanovs (from JFK Olimps Rīga)

[edit] Famous players

• Marians Pahars
• Māris Verpakovskis
• Aleksandrs Koliņko
• Igors Stepanovs
• Vitalijs Astafjevs
• Andrejs Rubins
• Mihails Zemlinskis

[edit] Reserves

Main article: Skonto-2

[edit] Participation in Champions League

• 2005
  • Qualifying Phase 1
    • Jul 13 Rabotnicki Skopje (Macedonia) 0:6
    • Jul 20 Rabotnicki Skopje 1:0
• 2004
  • Qualifying Phase 1
    • Jul 14 Rhyl (Wales) 4:0
    • Jul 21 Rhyl 3:1
  • Qualifying Phase 2
    • Jul 28 Trabzonspor (Turkey) 1:1
    • Aug 04 Trabzonspor 0:3
• 2003
  • Qualifying Phase 1
    • Jul 16 Sliema Wanderers (Malta) 0:2
    • Jul 23 Sliema Wanderers 3:1
• 2002
  • Qualifying Phase 1
    • Jul 17 Barry Town (Wales) 5:0
    • Jul 24 Barry Town 1:0
  • Qualifying Phase 2
    • Jul 31 Levski Sofia (Bulgaria) 0:0
    • Aug 07 Levski Sofia 0:2
• 2001
  • Qualifying Phase 1
    • Jul 11 F'91 Dudelange (Luxembourg) 6:1
    • Jul 18 F'91 Dudelange 0:1
  • Qualifying Phase 2
    • Jul 25 Wisla Kraków (Poland) 1:2
    • Aug 01 Wisla Kraków 0:1
• 2000
  • Qualifying Phase 1
    • Jul 11 FK Shamkir (Azerbaijan) 2:1
    • Jul 18 FK Shamkir 1:4
• 1999
  • Qualifying Phase 1
    • Jul 14 Jeunesse d'Esch (Luxembourg) 2:0
    • Jul 21 Jeunesse d'Esch 8:0
  • Qualifying Phase 2
    • Jul 28 Rapid Bucureşti (Romania) 3:3
    • Aug 04 Rapid Bucureşti 2:1
  • Qualifying Phase 3
    • Aug 11 Chelsea (England) 0:3
    • Aug 25 Chelsea 0:0

[edit] Participation in UEFA cups

• 2006
  • First Qualifying Phase
    • Jul 13 Jeunesse d'Esch (Luxembourg) 2:0
    • Jul 27 Jeunesse d'Esch 3:0
  • Second Qualifying Phase
    • Aug 10 Molde FK (Norway) 0:0
    • Aug 24 Molde FK 1:2
• 1999
  • First Round
    • Sep 16 Widzew Lódz (Poland) 1:0
    • Sep 30 Widzew Lódz 0:2

[edit] Participation in Latvian Championships

• 2006 - 3rd
• 2005 - 2nd
• 2004 - champions
• 2003 - champions
• 2002 - champions
• 2001 - champions
• 2000 - champions
• 1999 - champions
• 1998 - champions
• 1997 - champions
• 1996 - champions
• 1995 - champions
• 1994 - champions
• 1993 - champions
• 1992 - champions
• 1991 - champions

[edit] External links

• Official website (Latvian)

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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