The 2008 Virslëga season was the 17th Virslëga season. It began on 5 April 2008 with the first round of games and ended on 9 November 2008 with the final matches of the championship and relegation rounds. Ventspils were the defending champions.
For the 2008 season the league has expanded to ten clubs, and the fixture format has changed. Due to expansion there was no relegation at the end of the 2007 season, and the top two clubs from the 1. lëga 2007 season, champions FK Vindava (from Ventspils), and second placed SK BlÃÂzma (from RÃÂzekne) were both promoted. From the 2008 season on, the league will be held in two rounds.
In the first round each club played all the other nine clubs twice, home and away starting with Matchday 1 on 5 April and finishing with Matchday 18 on 10 August.
In the second round there were two "mini leagues", with the top six clubs after the First Round, playing each other twice and clubs in 7th to 10th place after the First Round playing each other four times. Second round matches started on 24 August and finished on 9 November.
At the end of the season, the club finishing bottom of the Virslëga were automatically relegated to the 1. lëga, and the champions of the 1. lëga were automatically promoted, taking the place of the relegated club. The club that finished next to the bottom in the Virslëga play a two-legged playoff for the final place in the Virslëga for the next season with the club that finished second in 1. lëga.
BlÃÂzma RÃÂzekne, the 9th placed team in the Virslëga, and 1. lëga runners-up, Tranzëts Ventspils, competed in a two-legged play-off for a spot in the Virslëga 2009. BlÃÂzma RÃÂzekne won 6âÂÂ1 on aggregate and thereby kept their spot in the next season of the Virslëga.