Riga Football Club, commonly referred to as Riga FC, is a Latvian football club, founded in 2014. The club is based at the Skonto Stadium in Riga. Since 2016, the club has been playing in the Virslëga, the highest tier of the Latvian football league system.
The club was officially registered in April 2014. The team was established before the 2015 season after a merger of two Riga based teams â FC Caramba and Dinamo Rëga.
In the 2015 season, under the name FC Caramba/Dinamo, the team played in the Latvian First League by using the licence received by FC Caramba, an unrelated team founded by future FK RFS co-founder Maksims Krivuà Âecs, which had won promotion to the 1. lëga after winning the Latvian Second League in 2014. After winning the 2015 First League and earning promotion to the Higher League, the club changed its name to Riga FC. However, for most of 2015, the legal name of the team was 'Riga Dinamo Football Club'. A club named Dinamo Riga played in 1940 and 1945âÂÂ1960.
In 2017, Riga FC acquired the à  itiks Football Academy (à  itika FA), founded in 1999 by GenÃÂdijs à  itiks, and operates it as one of its youth academies, Riga FC Academy.
In 2018, the Ukrainian Viktor Skrypnyk was appointed as coach. He managed to lead the club to two Latvian Higher Leagues in 2018, 2019 and the Latvian Football Cup in 2018.
Fully up to date as of 27 August 2025
As of 1 March 2025
As of 13 March 2021
In 2020, it was reported that Russian businessman Sergey Lomakin, the owner of Riga FC, was included in Latvia's persona non grata list. This was denied by the board of the club.
Bold signifies a current Riga FC player
Bold signifies a current Riga FC player