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| Full name | Skonto Football Club | ||
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| Founded | 15 December 1991 as Forums-Skonto | ||
| Dissolved | 1 December 2016 | ||
| Ground | Skonto Stadium, Riga | ||
| Capacity | 9,500 | ||
| Chairman | Guntis Indriksons | ||
| League | Latvian First League | ||
| 2016 | 8th | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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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]
Following financial problems, the club was demoted to the Latvian First League in 2016 and went bankrupt in December of that year.[3]
- ^ "KÍ maintain Faroe Islands monopoly". UEFA. 14 October 2011. Retrieved 14 October 2011.
European record, set by Latvia's Skonto FC between 1991 and 2004
- ^ "KÍ er føroyameistari" (in Faroese). Knassar. 12 October 2013. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
KÍ-kvinnurnar settu eina tjúkka striku undir sítt 14. føroyameistaraheiti á rað, tá tær í dag vunnu 9–0 á ÍF í Fuglafirði.
- ^ Menary, Steve (24 March 2017). "Mind the gap: the haves continue to flourish at the expense of the have-nots". World Soccer. Retrieved 7 May 2017.