Latvia national football team

**Latvia national football team** is the national football team of Latvia. They never qualified for the FIFA World Cup, but they did qualify for the UEFA Euro 2004.

## Most appearances

|#|Name|Career|Caps|Goals|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1.|align="left"|Vitālijs Astafjevs|1992–2010|167|16||
|2.|align="left"|Andrejs Rubins|1998–2011|117|10||
|3.|align="left"|Juris Laizāns|1998–2013|113|15||
|4.|align="left"|Imants Bleidelis|1995–2007|106|10||
|5.|align="left"|Mihails Zemļinskis|1992–2005|105|12||
|6.|align="left"|Māris Verpakovskis|1999–2014|104|29||
|7.|align="left"|Igors Stepanovs|1995–2011|100|4||
|8.|align="left"|**Aleksandrs Koļinko**|1997–2015|94|0||
|9.|align="left"|Andrejs Štolcers|1994–2005|81|7||
|10.|align="left"|**Kaspars Gorkšs**|2005–present|77|5||
|11.|align="left"|Marians Pahars|1996–2007|75|15||
|12.|align="left"|**Andris Vaņins**|2000–present|74|0||
|13.|align="left"|Vīts Rimkus|1995–2008|73|11||
|14.|align="left"|Oļegs Blagonadeždins|1992–2004|70|2||
|rowspan=3 align=center|15.|align="left"|Valērijs Ivanovs|1992–2001|68|1|
|align="left"|Dzintars Zirnis|1997–2010|68|0|||
|align="left"|**Aleksejs Višņakovs**|2004–present|68|9|||
|18.|align="left"|**Oskars Kļava**|2005–2013|65|1||
|19.|align="left"|Ēriks Pētersons|1929–1939|63|24||
|20.|align="left"|**Deniss Ivanovs**|2003–2013|60|2||

## Top scorers

|#|Player|Career|Goals (Caps)|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1.|style="text-align:left;"|Māris Verpakovskis|1999–2014|29 (104)||
|2.|style="text-align:left;"|Ēriks Pētersons|1929–1939|24 (63)||
|3.|style="text-align:left;"|Vitālijs Astafjevs|1992–2010|16 (167)||
|rowspan=2|4.|style="text-align:left;"|Marians Pahars|1996–2007|15 (75)|
|style="text-align:left;"|Juris Laizāns|1998–2013|15 (113)|||
|6.|style="text-align:left;"|Alberts Šeibelis|1925–1939|14 (54)||
|7.|style="text-align:left;"|Iļja Vestermans|1935–1938|13 (23)||
|rowspan=2|8.|style="text-align:left;"|**Aleksandrs Cauņa**|2007–present|12 (45)|
|style="text-align:left;"|Mihails Zemļinskis|1992–2005|12 (105)|||
|10.|style="text-align:left;"|Vīts Rimkus|1995–2008|11 (73)||
|rowspan=3|11.|style="text-align:left;"|Arnolds Tauriņš|1925–1935|10 (39)|
|style="text-align:left;"|Imants Bleidelis|1995–2007|10 (106)|||
|style="text-align:left;"|Andrejs Rubins|1998–2011|10 (117)|||
|rowspan=7|14.|style="text-align:left;"|Ādolfs Sīmanis|1932–1940|9 (9)|
|style="text-align:left;"|Voldemārs Plade|1923–1929|9 (16)|||
|style="text-align:left;"|Aleksandrs Vanags|1937–1940|9 (18)|||
|style="text-align:left;"|**Valērijs Šabala**|2013–present|9 (26)|||
|style="text-align:left;"|Arkādijs Pavlovs|1924–1933|9 (37)|||
|style="text-align:left;"|**Ģirts Karlsons**|2003–2011|9 (49)|||
|style="text-align:left;"|**Aleksejs Višņakovs**|2004–present|9 (68)|||

## Latvia coaches

|Coach|Latvia career||
| --- | --- | --- |
|Jānis Gilis|align=center|1992 – 1997|
|Revaz Dzodzuashvili|align=center|1998 – 1999|
|Gary Johnson|align=center|1999 – 2001|
|Aleksandrs Starkovs|align=center|2001 – 2004|
|Jurijs Andrejevs|align=center|2004 – 2007|
|Aleksandrs Starkovs|align=center|2001–2004|
|Jurijs Andrejevs|align=center|2004–2007|
|Aleksandrs Starkovs|align=center|2007–2013|
|Marians Pahars|align=center|2013–2017|
|Aleksandrs Starkovs|align=center|2017–2018|
|Mixu Paatelainen|align=center|2018|
|Slaviša Stojanovič|align=center|2019–2020|
|Dainis Kazakevičs|align=center|2020–2023|
|Paolo Nicolato|align=center|2024–present|

## Infobox (national football team)

- **name**: Latvia
- **nickname**: 11 vilki
(_11 Wolves_)
- **badge size**: 132
- **association**: Latvian Football Federation, _Latvijas Futbola federācija_
- **confederation**: UEFA
- **coach**: Paolo Nicolato
- **captain**: Andris Vaņins
- **most caps**: Vitālijs Astafjevs (167)
- **top scorer**: Māris Verpakovskis (29)
- **home stadium**: Daugava Stadium (Riga), Daugava Stadium
- **fifa trigramme**: LVA
- **fifa max**: 45
- **fifa max date**: November 2009
- **fifa min**: 148
- **fifa min date**: September 2017
- **elo max**: 45
- **elo max date**: 25 September 1938
- **elo min**: 138
- **elo min date**: November 2018
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- **first game**: **Latvia** 1–1
(Riga, Latvia; 24 September 1922)
- **largest win**: **Latvia** 6–1
(Riga, Latvia; 30 May 1935)
 **Latvia** 5–0
(Võru, Estonia; 1 June 2012)
 0–5 **Latvia**
(Gibraltar, Gibraltar; 29 March 2016)
- **largest loss**: 12–0 **Latvia**
(Stockholm, Sweden; 29 May 1927)
- **regional name**: UEFA European Football Championship, European Championship
- **regional cup apps**: 1
- **regional cup first**: 2004 European Football Championship, 2004
- **regional cup best**: Group stage, 2004 European Football Championship, 2004