From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Liepaja is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Liepaja this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
9 new faces, and Liepaja are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
Marvin Martins was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Janis Oss is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Liepaja training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andriy Korobenko is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market28 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Liepaja is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Liepaja this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Vjačeslavs Isajevs falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market21 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Iļja Korotkovs
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Iļja Korotkovs will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Liepaja the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Marvin Martins was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Upbeat
Market14 Sep 2026
Bruno Melnis has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Liepaja they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Andriy Korobenko falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Metta/LU to sit and watch. I want to come back to Liepaja and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market14 Sep 2026
3 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Liepaja could get for him.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
Supporters turn on the $450.0K sale of Amadou Traoré
He is going to BATE, the club has $450.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Liepaja this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market31 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Liepaja is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Liepaja this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Danijel Petković has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Liepaja will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Liepaja know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
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Triumph
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Andriy Korobenko obliged against Spartaks. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Liepaja.
Match19 Aug 2026
Andriy Korobenko wins it after the whistle should have gone
110 minutes played. Andriy Korobenko found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Spartaks went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Liepaja, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Liepaja is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Market24 Aug 2026
Liepaja say no — this time
The offer from Skonto for Amar Haïdara was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market24 Aug 2026
The chase for Vitalijs Ikaunieks ended with $310.0K changing hands and Spartaks out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Marvin Martins was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
In brief
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The terraces
Liepaja spend $310.0K on the signing the town wanted
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Player ratings
A masterclass from Andriy Korobenko
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Squad
Words at Liepaja training over how hard people work
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match12 Aug 2026
Liepaja through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Metta/LU, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Fellipe Vieira Cardoso, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.70
A mark of 8.70 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Liepaja this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Fellipe Vieira Cardoso has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Timi Ogunniyi, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Vjačeslavs Isajevs falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market17 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Amar Haïdara again, and this time the name on the line is Skonto. Liepaja are listening politely and promising nothing.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Bart Straalman dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Liepaja say no — this time
The offer from Ventspils for Rodolphe Ekou was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Liepaja this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Liepaja have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Andriy Korobenko has his answer from Liepaja; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Marvin Martins's contract
36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jānis Grīnbergs will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Liepaja the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Ivans Patrikejevs has agreed terms with Metta/LU for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Danijel Petković commits to Liepaja for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Marvin Martins was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Rodolphe Ekou has come up in conversations Liepaja were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market3 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ingars Pūlis has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Liepaja.