Latvian Higher League 2009 () was the 18th season of top-tier football in Latvia. It began on 14 March 2009 with the first round of games and ended on 8 November 2009 with the 36th round of matches. Ventspils were the defending champions.
Due to numerous pre-season team changes, such as club mergers and withdrawals, the format of the league was changed. Since there are only 9 clubs that participate in 2009 Virslëga, every team plays 4 times against every other team, what will make every team playing 32 games. Contrary to the previous season, there is not Championship and Relegation pool.
Olimps Rëga were relegated after finishing the relegation round in last place. They were replaced by First League champions FK Daugava Riga.
BlÃÂzma won the promotion/relegation play-off against Tranzëts Ventspils with 6âÂÂ1 on aggregate. However, after several mergers and withdrawals Tranzëts were also awarded a place in Virslëga, as the runners-up of First League.
FK Rëga withdrew due to unpaid debts. They eventually merged with Olimps Rëga and created a new club called Olimps/RFS. The new club plays in Virslëga, what saved Olimps Rëga from relegation.
On 12 January 2009 Vindava withdrew from Virslëga due to financial reasons.
FK Jà «rmala merged with JFC Kauguri/Multibanka, which is also a merger of JFC Kauguri Jà «rmala and FK Multibanka Rëga, to a new club named FK Jà «rmala-VV. The new club carried over the players and other personnel from FK Jà «rmala.
Daugava Daugavpils and Dinaburg also merged and remained under the Dinaburg FC name. It is not yet certain which club's staff will operate the new club. Dinaburg also took Daugava's 2009âÂÂ10 UEFA Europa League spot.
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Since there are only 9 clubs participating in 2009 Virslëga, no teams will be directly relegated. 9th placed Virslëga team and runners-up of First League will compete in relegation play-offs for one spot in Virslëga 2010. The other spot will be taken by First League champions. Since one of the teams were excluded from the league, the relegation play-off will be replaced with the direct promotion of the First League team placing second.
Goalkeepers: Viktors Spole (FK LiepÃÂjas Metalurgs ), Aleksandrs Vlasovs (Skonto FC )
Defenders: Oskars Küava (FK LiepÃÂjas Metalurgs ), Grigori Chirkin (FK Ventspils ), Deniss Ivanovs (FK LiepÃÂjas Metalurgs ), David Gamezardashvili (Skonto FC ), Tomas Tamoà ¡auskas (FK LiepÃÂjas Metalurgs ), VitÃÂlijs Smirnovs (Skonto FC ), Deniss KaÃÂanovs (FK Ventspils ), Dzintars Zirnis (FK LiepÃÂjas Metalurgs )
Midfielders: Jurijs à ½igajevs (FK Ventspils ), Andrejs Prohorenkovs (FK LiepÃÂjas Metalurgs ), VitÃÂlijs Astafjevs (FK Ventspils ), JevgÃÂà Âijs KosmaÃÂovs (FK Ventspils ), Maksims Rafaüskis (FK LiepÃÂjas Metalurgs ), Igors Kozlovs (Skonto FC ), PÃÂvels Surà Âins (FK LiepÃÂjas Metalurgs ), Igor Tigirlas (FK Ventspils )
Forwards: Vits Rimkus (FK Ventspils ), Vladimir Dvalishvili (Skonto FC ), Kristaps Grebis (FK LiepÃÂjas Metalurgs ), âirts Karlsons (FK LiepÃÂjas Metalurgs )