1998 Latvian Higher League

The 1998 season in the Latvian Higher League, named Virslīga, was the 8th domestic competition since the Baltic nation gained independence from the Soviet Union on 6 September 1991. Eight teams competed in this edition, with Skonto FC claiming the title.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Template:Flagathlete	FHK Liepājas Metalurgs	23
2	Template:Flagathlete	Dinaburg FC	21
3	Template:Flagathlete	Skonto FC	20
4	Template:Flagathlete	Skonto FC	19
5	Template:Flagathlete	Skonto FC	11
	Template:Flagathlete	Skonto FC

Awards

Best	Name	Team
Goalkeeper	Template:Flagathlete	Skonto FC
Defender	Template:Flagathlete	Skonto FC
Midfielder	Template:Flagathlete	Skonto FC
Forward	Template:Flagathlete	Skonto FC

Skonto FC 1998

Pos	Name	Birthdate	P	File:Soccerball shade.svg	Template:Yel	Red card
	Template:Flagicon Nikolay Apilats	21.09.1974	2	-	-	-
MF	Template:Flagicon Vitālijs Astafjevs	03.04.1971	23	7	2	-
MF	Template:Flagicon Vladimirs Babičevs	22.04.1968	19	10	4	1
DF	Template:Flagicon Oļegs Blagonadeždins	16.05.1973	2	-	-	-
MF	Template:Flagicon Imants Bleidelis	16.08.1975	24	8	2	-
	Template:Flagicon Mamuka Cereteli	13.01.1979	9	1	2	-
GK	Template:Flagicon Davit Gvaramadze	08.11.1975	6	–7	-	-
MF	Template:Flagicon Jevgeņijs Ilovaiskis	22.10.1979	2	-	-	-
GK	Template:Flagicon Oļegs Karavajevs	13.02.1961	9	–7	-	-
MF	Template:Flagicon Vladimirs Koļesņičenko	04.05.1980	1	-	-	-
GK	Template:Flagicon Aleksandrs Koliņko	18.06.1975	5	0	5	-
MF	Template:Flagicon Juris Laizāns	06.01.1979	26	1	1	1
-	Template:Flagicon Vsevolods Līdaks	22.10.1977	12	1	-	-
-	Template:Flagicon Valentins Lobaņovs	23.10.1971	22	1	3	-
-	Template:Flagicon Vladimir Mel'nyk	21.11.1979	18	1	5	-
FW	Template:Flagicon/Template:Flagicon Mihails Miholaps	24.08.1974	25	20	1	-
	Template:Flagicon Iļja Novikovs	12.08.1977	9	3	-	-
FW	Template:Flagicon Marians Pahars	05.08.1976	26	19	1	1
GK	Template:Flagicon Andrejs Piedels	17.09.1970	8	–8	-	-
-	Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Pindejev	03.03.1971	15	5	2	-
-	Template:Flagicon Vitaliy Rozghon	23.03.1980	1	-	-	-
MF	Template:Flagicon Alexander Rekhviashvili	06.08.1974	17	1	2	-
FW	Template:Flagicon Vits Rimkus	21.06.1973	15	11	-	-
MF	Template:Flagicon Andrejs Rubins	26.11.1978	19	1	-	-
DF	Template:Flagicon Levan Silagadze	04.08.1976	15	1	3	-
-	Template:Flagicon Sergey Solovjov	03.04.1978	9	4	3	-
DF	Template:Flagicon Igors Stepanovs	21.01.1976	24	-	3	-
DF	Template:Flagicon Andrėjus Tereškinas	10.07.1970	7	2	2	-
DF	Template:Flagicon Mihails Zemļinskis	21.12.1969	13	-	1	-
Manager: Template:Flagicon Aleksandrs Starkovs

References

• RSSSF
• Skonto FC 1998