“Liepājas” team reached the quarterfinals of “Viensviens” Latvian Cup in football on Thursday.
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In the eighth final, the city players of the wind beat “Daugavpils” in the eighth final with their field 1: 0 (0: 0).
In the first half, they lived without dangerous moments, only at the end of it Daugavpils slightly endangered the safety of the home goal. In the second half of the game, the “Liepāja” team had more and more opportunities, scoring the first goal with an active performance.
Eight minutes before the end of the regular time, performing a corner kick for Eduards Tīdenbergs, the ball was sent into the goal by Seidū Jahaja – 1: 0.
Even today, in the eighth final, the most titled team of the last years of the Latvian Cup “Jelgava” is visiting the third league team “Kauguri” / “Beitar”.
On Wednesday, the quarter-finals will be reached by the top league clubs “Ventspils”, “Valmiera”, “Tukums 2000” / TSS and Jūrmala “Spartaks”.
In the other eighth final duels, the top league teams “Riga” and “Metta” will meet, as well as RFS will face “Auda”.
In the Latvian Cup, domestic clubs compete not only for the trophy, but also for the right to represent Latvia in the UEFA club tournament.
In the first round, 26 teams from the Latvian second and third leagues participated, two teams automatically qualify for the next round. Thirteen first-round winners, two wild-card recipients, and nine first-league clubs took part in the second round.
Twelve second-round winners took part in the third round, and ten Optibet Premier League clubs joined the six winners in the eighth final.
The final at the Olympic Center “Ventspils” stadium will take place on November 8. The previous and for the first time the Ventspils Latvian Cup final was hosted in the 2014/2015 season, when the hosts acknowledged the superiority of “Jelgava” footballers in the final with 0: 2.
In the history of the Latvian Cup, since 1936, 38 different club teams have won the prestigious trophy, but since the restoration of the country’s independence, 12 different teams have raised the cup over their heads.
Since 2017, the winners of the tournament have been presented with a new design and identity trophy.
The current trophy holder is the RFS team, which was with it for the first time in history last year. Last year, the people of Riga only surpassed the most titled cup team “Jelgava” of the last decade in overtime.
The most titled team in the tournament is the defunct Skonto, which triumphed in the tournament eight times between 1992 and 2012.
The Latvian Cup in football was played in one season until 2008, but since 2009/2010 it has been started in the previous season for the next eight years and completed in the spring of next year. Thus, the fourth Latvian participant in the Euroccups was determined only about a month before the start of the new UEFA Europa League season.
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