Riga women's football side finish Latvian league unbeaten with 5-2 derby win over RFS
Riga FC Women beat RFS 5-2 in the final round of the Latvian women's football league and ended the season with 24 wins from 24 matches. Metta took bronze after beating Rēzekne 22-0 in their last game.
The Latvian women's football championship ended on Saturday with Riga FC Women, the club from the capital, beating fellow Riga side RFS 5-2. The champions finished the season with a perfect record of 24 wins in 24 league matches.
How the derby unfolded
Signija Šenberga put Riga ahead in the third minute, and Tatjana Baličeva levelled for RFS 13 minutes later. By the 35th minute Ieva Krasnova and Azerbaijani player Milana Rahimova had made it 3-1. Shortly before the hour mark, Japanese player Shiori Kato scored a penalty to make it 4-1, and in the 84th minute 17-year-old Jekaterina Haritonova added a fifth. In stoppage time, 20-year-old Alīna Ansone pulled one back for RFS.
The two clubs had met six times earlier this year, and Riga won every match: 3-0 in the Super Cup, 3-0, 3-0, 2-1 and 6-0 in the league, and 3-0 in the cup final.
Other results
Bronze medallists Metta won their final match 22-0 against Rēzekne, whom the source describes as not ready for the top level. Seventeen-year-old Keita Zviedre scored eight goals, team captain Anastasija Vainere seven, and Elizabete Pelse four. Auda from Ķekava and the Riga Football School drew 0-0.
Final table
Riga FC Women finished first with 72 points and a goal difference record of 196-6. RFS took second place with 58 points, and Metta third with 46.
