 fk ventspils is a latvian football club, based at ventspils olimpiskais stadions in ventspils city and is one of the most popular football clubs in the country. fk ventspils play in the latvian virsliga and are the current champions of the tournament. in total, the club has won six league titles and six latvian cups. in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2013 and 2014 they became the latvian higher league champions. in 2009 fk ventspils became the first latvian club to participate in the group stages of uefa competitions after beating bate borisov, football club from belarus. jurÄ£is puÄinsks has been the manager of the club since 17 may 2012, replacing sergei podpaly, who had been fk ventspils manager since 2011.http://www.fkventspils.lv/?p=news&off=&id=2181 ==history== fk ventspils was founded in 1997 with the merger of two former ventspils clubs â fk venta and fk nafta. its predecessor, venta, was one of the leading clubs in the latvian league in the 1960s. ===fk venta=== the next notable success for âventaâ was in 1967, when they won the latvian cup. by that time they had quite a fighting fit line-up, and 1969 already was their golden year when venta became champions. during the tournament they gained 43 points; 20 matches won, 3 matches ended with a draw and only 3 matches lost. additionally, they lost only in the away matches. they scored 45 goals and 16 conceded. at that time venta's leader was a player manager, who is well known not only to the admirers of ventspils, but the whole of latvian football, vladimir chikinov. this was the golden line-up: leonid virko, konstantin zhurkevich, aleksandr busarov, valery yashenko, aleksandr tronev, ariy shmerling, vladimir samohvalov, aleksandr novash, nikolay chaevky, nikolay pozdnyakov, vladimir chikinov, viktor yurinov, viktor litvinenko, aleksandr rakicky, valentin ipolitov, vladimir kutuzov, valentin vetrenko, genady hrustalov. of course, th
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