Skonto FC
Latvian football club / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Skonto FC was a Latvian professional football club, active from 1991 until 2016. The club played at the Skonto Stadium in Riga. Skonto won the Virsliga in the first 14 seasons of the league's resumption (15 in total), and often provided the core of the Latvia national football team. With those 14 national championships in a row, they set a European record, men and women's football combined,[1] until the women of Faroese club KÍ Klaksvík won their 14th championship in a row in 2013.[2]
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Full name | Skonto Football Club | ||
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Founded | 15 December 1991; 32 years ago (1991-12-15) as Forums-Skonto | ||
Dissolved | 1 December 2016; 7 years ago (2016-12-01) | ||
Ground | Skonto Stadium, Riga | ||
Capacity | 9,500 | ||
Chairman | Guntis Indriksons | ||
League | Latvian First League | ||
2016 | 8th | ||
Website | Club website | ||
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Following financial problems, the club was demoted to the Latvian First League in 2016 and went bankrupt in December of that year.[3]