FK Liepājas Metalurgs was a Latvian football club in the city of Liepāja and playing in the Virslīga. They played at the Daugava Stadium. In 2005 Liepājas Metalurgs became the first team other than Skonto Riga to win the Virslīga since the league restarted in 1991. After the 2013 league season the club was dissolved due to the bankruptcy of its sole sponsor metallurgical plant Liepājas Metalurgs. The club was replaced by FK Liepāja, founded in 2014.
Aleksandrs Starkovs is a Latvian football coach and a former player. Most recently he coached FK Liepāja.
Jurijs Andrejevs is a former footballer who is currently the sporting director of Latvian Football Federation.
Jevgeņijs Miļevskis is a former Latvian football striker of Jewish origin, together with Aleksandrs Starkovs he was the main goal scoring force of FK Daugava Rīga.
Ilmārs Liepiņš (1947–2007) was a Latvian football midfielder who played for 10 years for FK Daugava Rīga.
Laimonis Laizāns was a former Soviet Latvian football goalkeeper who played for FK Daugava Rīga and Torpedo Moscow. He is considered one of the best Latvian goalkeepers of all time.
Astratijs Roškovs is a former Lithuanian-Russian-Latvian football central defender who, from 1960 to 1970, played for FK Daugava Rīga.
Jānis Dreimanis is a Latvian former football defender.
Sergejs Semjonovs is a Latvian football manager and a former footballer. He played as a defender.
Jurijs Popkovs is a Latvian football manager and former player. He last managed the Latvian Higher League club FK Spartaks Jūrmala.
Viktors Ņesterenko is a Latvian football coach and former player.
Genādijs Šitiks was a Latvian football manager and a former footballer, one of Latvia's best footballers of the 1980s.
Alfons Jēgers (1919–1999) was a Latvian football and hockey player. He is recognized as one of the greatest in the history of both of these sports in Latvia.
Vadims Ulbergs was a Latvian football player and manager, one of the most respected veterans of Latvian football.
Vilnis Straume is a former Latvian football player.
Georgijs Smirnovs is a former Latvian footballer and football manager. In 2006 Latvian Football Federation selected Smirnovs as one of the 11 greatest footballers in the first 100 years of football in Latvia.
Torpedo Rīga was a football club that played in Riga. The club played in the Latvian league with good success from 1979 to 2000 when it merged with Policijas FK.
FK Apgaismes tehnika was a Soviet Latvian football club from Riga, a four-time winner of the Latvian league. It went bankrupt together with the factory that supported it in the early 1990s.
FK ASK Riga was a Latvian football club of the Latvian army, founded in 1923. In the 1920s and 1930s it was one of the leading clubs in Latvia. In 1940s it was disbanded, a new football club of the Soviet army was created in Riga under the name FK AVN, later AVN was renamed to ASK. It became defunct in 1970.
Kārlis Tīls (1906-196?) was a Latvian international football defender and football manager, one of the most legendary footballers in the history of Liepāja.
