FK Valmiera

Football club infobox
clubname = FK Valmiera


fullname = Futbola klubs Valmiera
nickname =
founded = 1996
ground = Jānis Daliņš stadium Valmiera, Latvia
capacity =
chairman = flagicon|Latvia Imants Saulītis
manager = flagicon|Latvia Jevgēnijs Katajevs
league = 1. liga
season = 2007
position = 10th
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Futbola klubs Valmiera is a Latvian football club, playing in the second-highest division of Latvian football. The are from the city of Valmiera.

History

Club founded in 1996. It participated in the first Latvian league (second-highest division of Latvian football). The team finished second in the league which gave Valmiera a possibility to battle with the second from the bottom team of Virslīga - Skonto-Metāls for a place in the top division of Latvian football. In the first game in Riga Skonto-Metāls won 1:0 but at home Valmiera overcame the one goal deficit and won 2:0 (I.Maļukovs, Dz. Savaļnieks), thus earning a place in Virslīga.

In the debut season in Virslīga Valmiera managed to finish 7th from 9 teams with a comfortable margin over the two weakest teams. The following season was even more successful as the team finished 5th in Virslīga, the same result was repeated in 1999. The new millennium brought hard financial times for FK Valmiera. After the 2003 season the team had to leave Virslīga begause of financial difficulties and since then has been playing the 1st league paying more attention to evolving of young talents.

Several of former Valmiera players have played in the Latvia national football team. Those include Vits Rimkus (FK Ventspils), Viktors Morozs (FC Skonto), Gatis Kalniņš (FC Skonto), Deniss Romanovs (F.C. Dinamo Bucureşti) and Māris Smirnovs (FK Ventspils).

Participation in Latvian Championships

* 2007 - 10th (1. līga)
* 2006 - 7th (1. līga)
* 2005 - 6th (1. līga)
* 2004 - 7th (1. līga)
* 2003 - 6th
* 2002 - 5th
* 2001 - 6th
* 2000 - 6th
* 1999 - 5th
* 1998 - 5th
* 1997 - 7th
* 1996 - 2nd (1. līga)

Players

First-team squad

Reserves squad