Latvian Higher League also known as SynotTip Higher League for sponsorship reasons with SynotTip, is a professional football league and the top tier of association football in Latvia. Organised by the Latvian Football Federation, Higher League is contested by 8 clubs. The new season kicks off in mid-March of every year, and runs until early November.
The League has changed sponsors for several times. From 2005 until 2011, the league was sponsored by the telecommunications operator LMT, naming the league LMT Virslīga. In 2012 the league was reorganised in partnership with the NGO "Latvijas Futbola virslīga", adopting the NGO's name. Before the current season in March 2013, the league signed a sponsorship deal with the microfinancing company SMScredit.lv and acquired its name SMScredit.lv Virslīga.In March 2016, it was announced that the Virslīga would be sponsored by SynotTip on a three-year contract.
The 2017 Latvian Higher League is the 26th season of top-tier football in Latvia. Spartaks Jūrmala are the defending champions, having won their first title in the previous season. The season began on 10 March 2017 and is scheduled to conclude on 4 November 2017; the relegation play-offs will take place afterwards.
Teams
The bottom-placed team from the 2016 season, BFC Daugavpils, were directly relegated to the 2017 Latvian First League. They were replaced by Babīte, champions of the 2016 Latvian First League.
The seventh-placed team from the 2016 season, FS METTA/LU, retained their top-flight spot for the 2017 season by defeating 2016 First League runners-up, AFA Olaine in the play-offs.
Babīte was removed from the league on 22 June 2017 after the Latvian Football Federation received a notice from UEFA's Betting Fraud Detection System for 6 separate games involving Babite. All the results for Babīte games were invalidated and do not count for the standings.
Each team will play the other seven teams home-and-away twice, for a total of 28 games each
Each team will play the other seven teams home-and-away twice, for a total of 28 games each
Source: http://synottipvirsliga.lv
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