# 2020 Latvian Higher League

The 2020 Latvian Higher League , known as the Optibet Virslīga for sponsorship reasons, was the 29th season of top-tier football in Latvia. The season began on 15 June 2020 and ended on 29 November 2020. The league winners earned a place in the UEFA Champions League and the second and third-placed clubs earned a place in the new UEFA Europa Conference League.
Riga were the defending champions after winning the league the previous season.

## Teams

The nine clubs from the previous season remained in the league and Tukums joined as champions of 1.Liga.

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Riga (C) | 27 | 23 | 0 | 4 | 60 | 21 | +39 | 69 | Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round |
| 2 | Rīgas FS | 27 | 21 | 3 | 3 | 66 | 21 | +45 | 66 | Qualification for the Europa Conference League first qualifying round |
| 3 | Valmiera/BSS | 27 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 47 | 33 | +14 | 47 | Qualification for the Europa Conference League first qualifying round |
| 4 | Ventspils | 27 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 40 | 25 | +15 | 44 | |
| 5 | Liepāja | 27 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 57 | 34 | +23 | 42 | Qualification for the Europa Conference League first qualifying round |
| 6 | Spartaks Jūrmala | 27 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 53 | 44 | +9 | 40 | |
| 7 | Jelgava | 27 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 19 | 64 | −45 | 22 | |
| 8 | Daugavpils | 27 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 30 | 48 | −18 | 20 | |
| 9 | Metta/LU | 27 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 22 | 55 | −33 | 16 | |
| 10 | Tukums (R) | 27 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 21 | 70 | −49 | 14 | Relegation to the Latvian First League |
* ↑ Liepāja qualified for the Europa Conference League as the 2020 Latvian Football Cup winners.

## Results
### Rounds 1–18

Rounds 1–18 :
| Home \ Away | DAU | JEL | LIE | MLU | RIG | RFS | SPJ | TUK | VAL | VEN |
| Daugavpils | | 0–0 | 0–2 | 4–2 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 3–1 |
| Jelgava | 1–0 | | 1–5 | 2–2 | 0–3 | 0–4 | 2–3 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 |
| Liepāja | 1–1 | 3–1 | | 3–0 | 1–4 | 2–5 | 3–2 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 |
| Metta / LU | 1–4 | 1–0 | 2–1 | | 0–3 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–2 |
| Riga | 3–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | | 0–2 | 4–2 | 5–2 | 2–0 | 1–0 |
| Rīgas FS | 2–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 5–1 | 1–2 | | 4–1 | 3–0 | 5–2 | 1–0 |
| Spartaks Jūrmala | 3–3 | 4–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | | 1–1 | 2–3 | 1–3 |
| Tukums | 0–6 | 1–2 | 0–5 | 1–3 | 1–5 | 0–3 | 0–2 | | 2–3 | 0–0 |
| Valmiera / BSS | 3–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–4 | 2–2 | 2–0 | | 3–0 |
| Ventspils | 2–0 | 5–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 | |

### Rounds 19–27

Rounds 19–27 :
| Home \ Away | DAU | JEL | LIE | MLU | RIG | RFS | SPJ | TUK | VAL | VEN |
| Daugavpils | | | 0–4 | 1–0 | | 1–2 | 1–3 | | | 0–0 |
| Jelgava | 2–0 | | 0–7 | | 0–2 | | | | 2–2 | 0–5 |
| Liepāja | | | | 3–0 | | 1–0 | 0–1 | 5–0 | 1–1 | |
| Metta / LU | | 0–1 | | | | 0–3 | 1–1 | | 1–2 | |
| Riga | 2–0 | | 2–1 | 5–1 | | | | | 1–0 | 0–3 |
| Rīgas FS | | 1–0 | | | 3–0 | | 2–1 | | | 1–1 |
| Spartaks Jūrmala | | 7–0 | | | 1–2 | | | 2–4 | | 1–2 |
| Tukums | 2–1 | 0–0 | | 3–1 | 0–2 | 0–2 | | | | |
| Valmiera / BSS | 3–0 | | | | | 2–2 | 0–1 | 5–0 | | |
| Ventspils | | | 0–2 | 1–0 | | | | 2–0 | 1–1 | |

## Statistics
### Top scorers

    As of matches played 29 November 2020
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Dodô | Liepāja | 18 |
| 2 | Tolu Arokodare | Valmiera | 15 |
| 2 | Nemanja Belaković | Spartaks | 15 |
| 4 | Kule Mbombo | Riga | 12 |
| 5 | Yevgeni Kozlov | Ventspils | 11 |
| 5 | Raimonds Krollis | METTA/LU | 11 |
| 7 | Chinonso Offor | Daugavpils RFS | 10 |
| 7 | Emerson Deocleciano | RFS | 10 |
| 9 | Artūrs Karašausks | Liepāja | 9 |
| 10 | Alain Kouadio | RFS | 8 |
| 10 | Tomáš Šimkovič | RFS | 8 |
| 10 | Kaspars Svārups | Ventspils | 8 |