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Club · Latvia · Latvia-Estonian League

«Vefiņš»

292 Matches

213 wins

79 losses

24895–21544 Points

+3351 Difference

85.3 Average per match

Form W L W L L W

Riga's basketball identity runs through the Riga Radio Engineering Factory, VEF, whose works team took the court in 1958 and carried the plant's name across Soviet-era Latvia. The Soviet collapse ended the club in 1992, and it sat dormant for fifteen years before Valdis Valters, once its own star guard, took charge of the rebuild in 2007 and returned it to the domestic game.

What followed turned VEF Rīga into the dominant force in Latvian basketball: twelve Latvian Basketball League titles between 2011 and 2025, with barely a season since 2011 passing without the trophy going to Riga. The Latvian Cup arrived later and just as consistently, won four years running from 2022 to 2025, alongside two Latvian-Estonian League championships. In 2011, VEF became the first Baltic club to reach the EuroLeague, a step no team from Latvia, Lithuania or Estonia had managed before.

Domestic games are played at the Komandu sporta spēļu halle, a hall built for team sports rather than spectacle, while European nights move to the Xiaomi Arena, where the seating stretches to 11,200 for basketball. The gap between the two venues says something about the club's two lives: a steady league operation at home, and occasional nights when Riga wants a bigger stage.

The fiercest fixture in Latvian basketball is the derby with BK Ventspils. Valters, playmaker turned coach, remains the name tying the two eras together, the man who wore the factory's colours as a player and put them back on the court as a manager.

All matches

14 Sep	Champions League	Absheron Lions H	105:88	W
14 May	LBL	Rigas Zelli H	80:93	L
11 May	LBL	Rigas Zelli A	100:112	L
8 May	LBL	Rigas Zelli H	94:84	W
4 May	LBL	Ventspils H	67:75	L
2 May	LBL	Ventspils A	104:94	W

Champions League

Group stage · Group F

Full table

matches counted: 292

292 Matches

213 wins

79 losses

24895–21544 Points

+3351 Difference

85.3 Average per match

Season results matches counted: 292

213 79

wins losses

Scored and conceded last matches

scored — above the line conceded — below the line

Metric	Total	Home	Away
Matches	292	153	139
Scored	24895	13057	11838
Conceded	21544	10894	10650
Average per match	85.3	85.3	85.2
Conceded per game	73.8	71.2	76.6
Difference	+3351	+2163	+1188

14 Sep Absheron Lions H 105:88 W
14 May Rigas Zelli H 80:93 L
11 May Rigas Zelli A 100:112 L
8 May Rigas Zelli H 94:84 W
4 May Ventspils H 67:75 L
2 May Ventspils A 104:94 W
30 Apr Ventspils H 59:82 L
27 Apr Ventspils A 84:86 L

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Latvian Basketball League 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 12
Latvian Basketball Cup 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 4
Latvian–Estonian Basketball League 2022, 2025 2
BBL Cup 2011 1