Full name | Rīgas "Unions" | |
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Founded | 1907 | |
Dissolved | 1939 | |
Ground | Union Stadium, Riga | |
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Union Riga was a football club established in Riga in 1907 and the second oldest club of the country after the Riga British Football Club. It was the winner of the Riga football league in 1910. In the period of independence of Latvia between the world wars Union played in the Latvian Higher League for several years. Being essentially a sports club of Baltic Germans, Union was disestablished in 1939 with the repatriation of Baltic Germans.
A team named FK Union, that pays homage to the original club, was founded in 2022 and currently plays in the Latvian Second League.
The home ground of the original club was Union Stadium ("Union" stadions) on Elizabetes iela in central Riga, where since 1974 the World Trade Center Riga office building stands.