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VEF Riga

Club · Latvia · Latvia-Estonian League

«Vefiņš»

293 Matches
213 wins
80 losses
24990–21646 Points
+3344 Difference
85.3 Average per match
Form L 4 May · Home Ventspils · 67:75 W 8 May · Home Rigas Zelli · 94:84 L 11 May · Away Rigas Zelli · 100:112 L 14 May · Home Rigas Zelli · 80:93 W 14 Sep · Home Absheron Lions · 105:88 L 17 Sep · Home Dziki Warszawa · 95:102

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.

Latest results

All matches
17 Sep Champions League Dziki Warszawa H 95:102 L
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

Standing

Champions League

Group stage · Group F

# Team M W L Goals Pts
1 AEK Athens 6 5 1 494:431 0
2 Szolnoki Olajbanyasz 6 3 3 451:439 0
3 Levice 6 3 3 461:467 0
4 VEF Riga 6 1 5 411:480 0
Full table

Team statistics

matches counted in total: 293
293 Matches
213 wins
80 losses
24990–21646 Points
+3344 Difference
85.3 Average per match
Match outcomes matches counted in total: 293
213wins: 213 · 72% 80losses: 80 · 27%
wins losses
Scored and conceded last matches
4 May · Home Ventspils · 67:75
8 May · Home Rigas Zelli · 94:84
11 May · Away Rigas Zelli · 100:112
14 May · Home Rigas Zelli · 80:93
14 Sep · Home Absheron Lions · 105:88
17 Sep · Home Dziki Warszawa · 95:102
scored — above the line conceded — below the line
Metric Total Home Away
Matches 293 154 139
Scored 24990 13152 11838
Conceded 21646 10996 10650
Average per match 85.3 85.4 85.2
Conceded per game 73.9 71.4 76.6
Difference +3344 +2156 +1188

Fixtures of VEF Riga

Honours of VEF Riga

  • 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