The 2024 Latvian Higher League, known as the TonyBet Virslīga for sponsorship reasons, was the 33rd season of top-tier

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in Latvia. The season began on 8 March 2024 and ended on 9 November. The winners ( RFS, their second consecutive title win and third overall) qualified for the 2025–26 Champions League first qualifying round. The runners-up (

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) qualified for the 2025–26 Conference League second qualifying round, with the third and fifth-placed teams (

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and

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) qualifying for the first qualifying round. The ninth-placed team (

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) qualified for the Latvian Higher League play-off, winning and retaining their place in the league. The fourth-placed team (

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) were relegated to the 2025 Latvian Second League at the end of the season after being refused both Latvian Higher League and Latvian First League licenses, giving a reprieve to the bottom-placed team (

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Teams

The league consisted of ten teams; the top nine clubs from the previous season, and one team promoted from the

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. RFS entered the season as defending champions.

were promoted as champions of the 2023 Latvian First League, replacing the 2023 Latvian Higher League bottom-placed team ( Super Nova).

League table

Results

Teams play each other four times (twice at home and twice away).

Latvian Higher League play-off

The ninth-placed club (

) faced the third-placed club from the 2024 Latvian First League (

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) in a two-legged play-off for the final place in the 2025 Latvian Higher League.

First leg

Second leg

Statistics

Top scorers

Flashscore
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Attendances

References

External links

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