# List of Latvian football transfers winter 2011–12

This is a list of Latvian football transfers in the 2011–2012 winter transfer window by club. Only transfers of the Virsliga are included.
    All transfers mentioned are shown in the references at the bottom of the page. If you wish to insert a transfer that isn't mentioned there, please add a reference.

## Latvian Higher League
### Ventspils

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | LVA | Vitālijs Meļņičenko (free) |
| — | DF | LVA | Raivis Hščanovičs (from Jūrmala-VV) |
| — | DF | LVA | Oļegs Timofejevs (from Daugava) |
| — | DF | LVA | Vitālijs Smirnovs (from Skonto Riga) |
| — | DF | LVA | Vitālijs Stols (loan return from Gulbene) |
| — | MF | NGA | Michael Tukura (loan return from Rubin Kazan) |
| — | MF | LVA | Visvaldis Ignatāns (loan return from Jelgava) |
| — | MF | LVA | Romāns Bespalovs (loan return from Jelgava) |
| — | MF | MDA | Igor Ţîgîrlaş (on loan from Chornomorets Odesa) |
| — | MF | LVA | Pāvels Hohlovs (from Polonia Leszno) |
| — | MF | RUS | Igor Gilmanov (from Rubin-2 Kazan) |
| — | MF | NGA | Christian John Agoh (from Kwara Football Academy) |
| — | FW | LVA | Daniils Turkovs (from Zalaegerszegi TE) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | DF | RUS | Pavel Mochalin (free) |
| 4 | DF | RUS | Yevgeny Postnikov (to Shakhtyor Soligorsk) |
| 5 | MF | LVA | Jevgēņijs Kosmačovs (on loan to Sevastopol) |
| 7 | FW | LVA | Nikolajs Kozačuks (to Jūrmala-VV) |
| 10 | MF | LVA | Oļegs Žatkins (on loan to Jelgava) |
| 11 | MF | JPN | Yasuhiro Kato (to Hoverla-Zakarpattia Uzhhorod) |
| 12 | DF | LVA | Igors Savčenkovs (to Skonto Riga) |
| 14 | MF | LVA | Oļegs Laizāns (to ŁKS Łódź) |
| 18 | DF | JPN | Naoya Shibamura (to Pakhtakor Tashkent) |
| 25 | MF | LVA | Ritvars Rugins (to Illichivets Mariupol) |
| 26 | DF | LVA | Vladislavs Gabovs (to METTA/LU) |
| 54 | GK | RUS | Arbi Mezhiev (to Dynamo Stavropol) |
| — | DF | LVA | Vitālijs Stols (free) |
| — | MF | LVA | Deniss Tarasovs (to Spartaks, previously on loan) |

### Liepājas Metalurgs

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | LVA | Raivo Varažinskis (loan return from Varavīksne) |
| — | GK | LVA | Toms Vīksna (from Liepājas Metalurgs-2) |
| — | DF | LTU | Mindaugas Bagužis (from Kruoja Pakruojis) |
| — | DF | LVA | Oskars Kļava (from Anzhi Makhachkala) |
| — | MF | LVA | Valērijs Afanasjevs (from Daugava) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | LVA | Edgars Potapenko (on loan to Liepājas Metalurgs-2) |
| 3 | DF | LVA | Toms Mežs (to Jūrmala-VV) |
| 8 | MF | LVA | Igors Aleksejevs (to Jūrmala) |
| 10 | MF | LTU | Nerijus Valskis (to Minsk) |
| 16 | MF | LTU | Marius Činikas (to Minsk) |
| 23 | FW | LVA | Dāvis Ikaunieks (on loan to Liepājas Metalurgs-2) |
| 28 | DF | LVA | Antons Jemeļins (to Spartaks) |
| 31 | GK | LVA | Viktors Spole (retired) |
| 77 | FW | LTU | Vitalijus Kavaliauskas (to Ekranas) |

### Daugava Daugavpils

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | LVA | Kaspars Ikstens (from Skonto Riga) |
| — | GK | LVA | Igors Serkovs (from Jūrmala-VV) |
| — | DF | CRO | Matija Mihalj (from HNK Gorica) |
| — | DF | RUS | Dmitri Polovinchuk (from Torpedo Vladimir) |
| — | DF | RUS | Andrei Ivanov (from Gubkin) |
| — | MF | LVA | Maksims Rafaļskis (from Baltika Kaliningrad) |
| — | MF | RUS | Andrei Streltsov (from Dynamo Bryansk) |
| — | MF | RUS | Sergei Yashin (from Volga Nizhny Novgorod) |
| — | MF | RUS | Yuri Mamaev (from Baltika Kaliningrad) |
| — | FW | LVA | Guntars Silagailis (from Jūrmala) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | LVA | Māris Eltermanis (to Kruoja Pakruojis) |
| 3 | MF | LVA | Rolands Jankovskis (on loan to BFC Daugava) |
| 4 | DF | RUS | Yuriy Kotyukov (free) |
| 5 | DF | LVA | Oļegs Timofejevs (to Ventspils) |
| 8 | MF | GEO | Giorgi Chikhradze (to Chikhura Sachkhere) |
| 10 | FW | BRA | Lima (to Associação Desportiva Recreativa e Cultural Icasa) |
| 15 | DF | RUS | Yuri Shelenkov (retired) |
| 19 | MF | LVA | Valērijs Afanasjevs (to Liepājas Metalurgs) |
| 21 | MF | BRA | Allanzinho (free) |
| 26 | DF | LVA | Vladimirs Žavoronkovs (retired) |
| 35 | GK | LVA | Georgijs Čižovs (on loan to BFC Daugava) |
| 36 | MF | GEO | Jamal Jaliashvili (free) |

### Skonto

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | GER | Michael Kaltenhauser (loan return from Sillamäe Kalev) |
| — | DF | LVA | Vadims Gaiļus (loan return from Olimps) |
| — | DF | UKR | Sergiy Shmatovalenko (from Dynamo-2 Kyiv) |
| — | DF | MKD | Bojan Gjorgievski (on loan from BATE Borisov) |
| — | DF | LVA | Igors Savčenkovs (from Ventspils) |
| — | DF | RUS | Roman Amirkhanov (from Olimpia Gelendzhik) |
| — | DF | RUS | Adil Ibragimov (on loan from Fakel Voronezh) |
| — | DF | RUS | Aleksandr Kukanos (from Baltika Kaliningrad) |
| — | DF | LVA | Toms Rajeckis (from Olimps) |
| — | MF | LVA | Vjačeslavs Isajevs (from Olimps) |
| — | MF | LVA | Vladislavs Glutkovskis (from Olimps) |
| — | MF | PAN | Julio Segundo (from Sport Boys) |
| — | FW | LVA | Nikolajs Zaicevs (loan return from Olimps) |
| — | FW | LTU | Tadas Labukas (free) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | LVA | Kaspars Ikstens (to Daugava) |
| 3 | DF | LVA | Kaspars Dubra (to Polonia Bytom) |
| 4 | DF | LVA | Vitālijs Smirnovs (to Ventspils) |
| 5 | DF | GEO | Ivane Kandelaki (to Dila Gori) |
| 7 | FW | BRA | Nathan Júnior (to Kapfenberger SV) |
| 11 | MF | BRA | Fabinho (to Botafogo) |
| 13 | FW | RUS | Andrei Nikolayev (free) |
| 19 | MF | LVA | Igors Tarasovs (to Simurq Zaqatala) |
| 22 | MF | RSA | Bally Smart (free) |
| 24 | FW | RUS | Anton Volkov (to Skonto-2) |
| — | GK | GER | Michael Kaltenhauser (to Tammeka Tartu) |
| — | DF | LVA | Vadims Gaiļus (to Jelgava) |

### Jūrmala

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | LVA | Pāvels Davidovs (from Mash'al Mubarek) |
| — | GK | LVA | Jānis Krūmiņš (from Olimps) |
| — | GK | LVA | Jevgēņijs Laizāns (from Olimps) |
| — | DF | LVA | Staņislavs Pihockis (from Kruoja Pakruojis) |
| — | DF | LVA | Ingus Šlampe (from Jūrmala-VV) |
| — | DF | RUS | Mikhail Milshin (from Dush Nr. 80 Moscow) |
| — | DF | LVA | Sergejs Golubevs (from Jūrmala-VV) |
| — | MF | LVA | Igors Aleksejevs (from Liepājas Metalurgs) |
| — | MF | LVA | Oskars Ikstens (from Rīgas Futbola skola) |
| — | MF | LVA | Deniss Ostrovskis (from Jūrmala-VV) |
| — | MF | RUS | Igor Byrlov (from SKA-Energiya Khabarovsk) |
| — | MF | LVA | Vadims Žuļevs (free) |
| — | FW | LVA | Artjoms Osipovs (from Olimps) |
| — | FW | AZE | Ilvi Gaibov (from Serp i Molot Moscow) |
| — | FW | LVA | Edijs Joksts (from Ventspils-2) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 3 | DF | LVA | Deniss Sokoļskis (to Jūrmala-VV) |
| 6 | MF | RUS | Konstantin Belov (loan return to Khimki) |
| 8 | MF | LVA | Vadims Gospodars (to Jūrmala-VV) |
| 10 | FW | RUS | Vyacheslav Seletskiy (free) |
| 11 | FW | LVA | Intars Kirhners (to Šiauliai) |
| 12 | GK | LVA | Deniss Pavlovskis (free) |
| 16 | GK | LVA | Maksims Vitkovskis (free) |
| 33 | DF | LVA | Vadims Javoišs (free) |
| 33 | FW | LVA | Vīts Rimkus (to Spartaks) |
| 37 | GK | LVA | Pāvels Naglis (to Spartaks) |
| 69 | FW | LVA | Guntars Silagailis (to Daugava) |
| 77 | DF | LVA | Dmitrijs Šiļuks (to Jūrmala-VV) |
| 89 | MF | LVA | Jevgēņijs Koršakovs (free) |
| 91 | MF | LVA | Rolands Krjauklis (to Marmiksen Kuula) |
| 99 | FW | RUS | Pavel Kiryanov (free) |
| — | DF | LVA | Viktors Terentjevs (to Spartaks) |
| — | MF | CMR | Jocelyn Abada (free) |

### Jelgava

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | LVA | Alberts Bārbalis (from Jūrmala-VV) |
| — | DF | LVA | Artūrs Kļimovičs (from Olimps) |
| — | DF | LVA | Vadims Gaiļus (from Skonto Riga) |
| — | MF | JPN | Rei Ishikawa (from North York Astros) |
| — | MF | LTU | Mindaugas Grigaravičius (from Klaipėda) |
| — | MF | LVA | Oļegs Žatkins (on loan from Ventspils) |
| — | FW | LTU | Deividas Lukošius (from Klaipėda) |
| — | FW | LVA | Kristaps Neilands (from Jelgava-2) |
| — | FW | LVA | Kārlis Kinderēvičs (from Jelgava-2) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 6 | DF | LVA | Valdis Kaļva (free) |
| 11 | FW | LVA | Gatis Kalniņš (to METTA/LU) |
| 15 | MF | LVA | Visvaldis Ignatāns (loan return to Ventspils) |
| 19 | MF | LVA | Aivars Ķeris (free) |
| 20 | MF | LVA | Romāns Bespalovs (loan return to Ventspils) |
| 22 | GK | LVA | Niks Rubezis (to Hércules) |
| 28 | FW | BLR | Ales Navumik (free) |
| 55 | DF | LVA | Māris Savinovs (to METTA/LU) |
| 85 | MF | LVA | Gints Freimanis (to Pommern Greifswald) |

### Gulbene

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | JPN | Toshikazu Irie (from Tochigi) |
| — | DF | JPN | Shouhei Tsuchiya (from Kansai University) |
| — | DF | JPN | Shota Yanagi (from Kagoshima Jitsugyo High School) |
| — | DF | LVA | Zintis Milaknis (from youth system) |
| — | MF | KOR | Seung Ki Yoo (from JEF United Ichihara Chiba Reserves) |
| — | MF | JPN | Ryota Ishikawa (from Osaka F.C.) |
| — | MF | LVA | Anatolijs Maksimenko (from Olimps) |
| — | MF | LVA | Nils Sitenkovs (from Varavīksne) |
| — | MF | GEO | Lado Datunashvili (from Nistru Otaci) |
| — | FW | JPN | Yōsuke Saito (from Albirex Niigata Singapore) |
| — | FW | LVA | Edijs Skurjats (from youth system) |
| — | FW | LVA | Mareks Kozlovskis (from youth system) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 5 | DF | JPN | Masaki Hemmi (to Rochester Rhinos) |
| 8 | MF | GEO | Shalva Purtseladze (free) |
| 9 | MF | GEO | Nukri Gogokhia (free) |
| 10 | FW | JPN | Hideaki Takeda (to Nõmme Kalju) |
| 12 | MF | GEO | David Tsiskarishvili (free) |
| 14 | MF | LVA | Kristaps Priedēns (to METTA/LU) |
| 15 | DF | LVA | Vitālijs Stols (loan return to Ventspils) |
| 20 | FW | GEO | Irakli Arveladze (free) |

### Daugava Riga (former Jūrmala-VV)

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | LVA | Kristaps Dzelme (from Kruoja Pakruojis) |
| — | GK | LVA | Artūrs Vaičulis (free) |
| — | DF | LVA | Deniss Sokoļskis (from Jūrmala) |
| — | DF | LVA | Dmitrijs Šiļuks (from Jūrmala) |
| — | DF | LVA | Toms Mežs (from Liepājas Metalurgs) |
| — | DF | LVA | Reinis Broders (from Olimps) |
| — | DF | LVA | Ernests Pilats (free) |
| — | MF | LVA | Vadims Gospodars (from Jūrmala) |
| — | MF | LVA | Sandis Bokta (from Olimps) |
| — | MF | LVA | Aleksandrs Šumilovs (free) |
| — | MF | LVA | Otto Rihters (from Rēzekne/BJSS) |
| — | MF | RUS | Kirill Korban (free) |
| — | MF | LVA | Bogdans Petruks (from Liepājas Metalurgs-2) |
| — | MF | UKR | Stepan Glubokiy (from Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Reserves) |
| — | FW | LVA | Nikolajs Kozačuks (from Ventspils) |
| — | FW | LVA | Artis Novickis (free) |
| — | FW | LVA | Edgars Kārkliņš (from Rydaholms GoIF) |
| — | FW | LVA | Artjoms Uļjanovs (from Rīgas Futbola Skola) |
| — | FW | RUS | Alexey Alekseev (from Sillamäe Kalev) |
| — | FW | LVA | Vitālijs Ziļs (free) |
| — | FW | UKR | Vadim Gryppa (from Dynamo-2 Kyiv) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | DF | LVA | Vitālijs Jagodinskis (to Dynamo Kyiv) |
| 3 | DF | LVA | Sergejs Golubevs (to Jūrmala) |
| 4 | DF | UKR | Oleksandr Krutskevich (to Harbin Yiteng) |
| 5 | DF | LVA | Ingus Šlampe (to Jūrmala) |
| 6 | DF | LVA | Igors Stepanovs (retired) |
| 8 | MF | LVA | Romāns Bezzubovs (retired) |
| 11 | FW | BRA | Leonardo (free) |
| 12 | MF | LVA | Deniss Ostrovskis (to Jūrmala) |
| 16 | GK | LVA | Igors Serkovs (to Daugava) |
| 18 | DF | LVA | Alberts Bārbalis (to Jelgava) |
| 23 | GK | EST | Mihhail Lavrentjev (to Kuressaare) |
| 24 | DF | LVA | Raivis Hščanovičs (to Ventspils) |
| — | GK | LVA | Kristaps Dzelme (to Mureşul Deva) |

### METTA/LU

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | LVA | Artūrs Biezais (from Spartaks) |
| — | DF | LVA | Vladislavs Gabovs (from Ventspils) |
| — | DF | LVA | Māris Savinovs (from Jelgava) |
| — | DF | LVA | Mārcis Savinovs (free) |
| — | MF | LVA | Kristaps Priedēns (from Gulbene) |
| — | FW | LVA | Gatis Kalniņš (from Jelgava) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 4 | MF | LVA | Jaroslavs Zoricovs (on loan to METTA-2) |
| 13 | DF | LVA | Toms Aizgrāvis (retired) |
| 19 | MF | LVA | Raitis Grablovskis (on loan to METTA-2) |
| 25 | DF | LVA | Ēriks Melbārdis (on loan to METTA-2) |
| — | ? | LVA | Artašes Daniljans (on loan to METTA-2) |
| — | DF | LVA | Artis Ostrovskis (on loan to METTA-2) |
| — | ? | LVA | Maikls Poļakovs (on loan to METTA-2) |
| — | ? | LVA | Artūrs Švalbe (on loan to METTA-2) |

### Spartaks

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | LVA | Pāvels Naglis (from Jūrmala) |
| — | GK | LVA | Jānis Skābardis (from Auda) |
| — | GK | LVA | Andrejs Pavlovs (from Lokomotiv Plovdiv) |
| — | DF | LVA | Edgars Puliņš (free) |
| — | DF | COL | Duvan Castañeda (from Deportivo Gallegol) |
| — | DF | LVA | Antons Jemeļins (from Liepājas Metalurgs) |
| — | DF | LVA | Dmitrijs Plukaitis (free) |
| — | MF | GHA | Joseph Gyawu (from Asokwa Warriors) |
| — | MF | LVA | Deniss Tarasovs (from Ventspils, previously on loan) |
| — | MF | COL | Jose Mesa (from Deportivo Gallegol) |
| — | MF | ITA | Andrea Casimirri (from A.S.D Buttrio) |
| — | MF | LVA | Viktors Morozs (from PAEEK FC) |
| — | FW | COL | David Cortés (loan return from Sheriff Tiraspol) |
| — | FW | GHA | Patrick Twumasi (from Red Bull Ghana) |
| — | FW | LVA | Vīts Rimkus (from Jūrmala) |
| — | FW | UKR | Yaroslav Sokol (from Dynamo-2 Kyiv) |
| — | DF | LVA | Viktors Terentjevs (from Jūrmala) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | DF | LVA | Nikolajs Kulmanakovs (free) |
| 3 | DF | LVA | Pāvels Skaļenko (free) |
| 1 | GK | LVA | Artūrs Biezais (to METTA/LU) |
| 4 | DF | COL | Ezequiel Palomeque (on loan to Sigma Olomouc) |
| 7 | FW | COL | Daniel Buitrago (on loan to Spartak Nalchik) |
| 8 | DF | LVA | Mihails Poļakovs (free) |
| 10 | MF | LVA | Vitālijs Morgačovs (free) |
| 10 | FW | LVA | Vitālijs Puškovs (free) |
| 18 | DF | LVA | Aleksejs Dmitrijevs (free) |
| 21 | FW | LVA | Igors Avanesovs (free) |
| 29 | DF | LVA | Andrejs Berkuta (free) |
| 30 | GK | RUS | Aleksandr Nevokshonov (released) |
| 32 | FW | LVA | Vīts Rimkus (free) |