Skonto FC was a Latvian football club, founded in 1991. 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, until the women of Faroese club KI Klaksvik won their 14th championship in a row in 2013.
Following financial problems, the club was demoted to the Latvian First League in 2016 and went bankrupt in December of that year.
History
Fourteen titles in a row (1991–2004)
Skonto FC was founded in 1991, and immediately started to win league championships, 14 in a row, until finishing second to FK Liepajas Metalurgsin 2005. In 2006, Skonto finished third in a close contest with FK Liepajas Metalurgs and FK Ventspils. Skonto also won the Latvian Cup on eight occasions, most recently in 2012.
Skonto had to win their early titles in fierce competition with FK Olimpija from Liepaja and RAF Jelgava. An additional game was required in 1992 season to break a tie and decide the winner. In the same 1992 season, Skonto FC made its debut in the Champion's League by beating the Faroe Islands champions Klaksvikar Itrottarfelag. At season's end, Aleksandrs Starkovs took over from Marks Zahodins as coach.
For the next 10 years in the domestic league none of their rivals were able to offer significant opposition to Skonto. For two seasons running the team did not lose a single match, surpassing their closest rivals by more than 20 points in the final standings, ensuring the regular title was awarded long before the end of the season. During the 1998 season, Skonto FC thrashed FK Valmiera 15–2, scoring the highest number of goals in a single game in the club's history.
During these years Skonto FC supplied the Latvian national team with most of its players: Maris Verpakovskis, Marians Pahars, Alek
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