2010 Latvian Higher League () was the 19th season of top-tier football in Latvia. It began on 9 April 2010 with the first round of games. LiepÃÂjas Metalurgs were the defending champions, having won their second league title last season.
With the re-expansion of the league to 10 clubs, the format of the competition was altered for the third year in a row. The ten clubs played 18 rounds of matches, once at home and once away, against each of the other nine clubs in the league. After this, another nine rounds of matches were played for a total of 27 matches. The clubs finishing in the first five positions after 18 rounds received the benefit of hosting five of their last nine matches.
Due to a match fixing scandal last season, Dinaburg FC were excluded from the Latvian Higher League and were relegated to the Latvian First League.
Promoted to the Higher League from the First Division automatically were last season's First Division champions, Jelgava.
Daugava Rëga finished in 8th place in last year's Higher League competition and competed in a promotion/relegation playoff against the runners-up of the First Division, Jaunëba Rëga. Jaunëba Rëga won this two-legged playoff 1âÂÂ1 (1âÂÂ0 on away goals scored) and won promotion to the Higher League for this season and Daugava Rëga was relegated to the First Division.
Despite finishing last year's First Division competition in 9th place, Daugava Daugavpils were offered a place in this year's Higher League competition, which the club accepted.
At season's end, the 9th place club in the Latvian Higher League, Tranzëts Ventspils, was supposed to face the runners-up of the Latvian First League, FC Jà «rmala, in a two-legged playoff, with the winner being awarded a spot on next year's Higher League competition. However, before this playoff began, the LFF received information from Tranzits that it would not participate in the playoff and, further, was forfeiting its place in the Latvian Higher League. Because of this, FC Jurmala achieved promotion to the Higher League automatically.
Source: LMT Virslëga 2010
* Players in italics left the clubs they are listed in during the season.
Nathan Júnior from Skonto also scored 18 goals during the season, but while Rakels had scored all his goals from game-play, Junior netted 3 goals from the penalty spot.
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Goalkeepers: Marks Bogdanovs (Jelgava), Kaspars Ikstens (Skonto Riga)
Defenders: JevgÃÂà Âijs Simonovs (Daugava Daugavpils), Kaspars Dubra (Skonto Riga), Tomas Tamoà ¡auskas (LiepÃÂjas Metalurgs), VitÃÂlijs Maksimenko (Skonto Riga), MÃÂris Smirnovs (Tranzit Ventspils), Yuriy Shelenkov (Daugava Daugavpils)
Midfielders: Ruslan Mingazov (Skonto Riga), Jurijs à ½igajevs (Ventspils), Arturs Zjuzins (Ventspils), ValÃÂrijs Afanasjevs (Daugava Daugavpils), Michael Tukura (Ventspils), Takafumi Akahoshi (LiepÃÂjas Metalurgs)
Forwards: Nathan Júnior (Skonto Riga), Deniss Rakels (LiepÃÂjas Metalurgs), Daniils Turkovs (Skonto Riga), Oüegs Malaà ¡enoks (Jelgava)