Kaspars Dubra (born 20 December 1990) is a Latvian former professional
footballer
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who played as a
defender for the
Latvia national team.
Club career
Skonto Riga
Dubra started playing football at the age of seven, as a youth player he played for
Skonto Riga
Skonto FC was a Latvian professional football club, active from 1991 until 2016. 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 cor ...
academy JFC Skonto. In 2007, he was taken to the first team by that time manager Paul Ashworth, but didn't appear on the pitch that season.
Before the start of the 2008 season Dubra was loaned out to another
Latvian Higher League
Latvian Higher League or Virslīga, also known as TonyBet Virslīga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Latvia and the highest level of the Latvian football league system. Organised by the Latvian Footbal ...
club located in Riga
JFK Olimps
JFK Olimps was a Latvian football club, playing in the top division of Latvian football. The club was from the city of Riga. According to a study from January 2011, the club was the youngest team in Europe, with an average age of 19.02 years.
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. He played 25 matches through the season and managed to score twice. In 2009 Dubra was taken back to Skonto, but, playing only one match, was once again loaned to
Olimps, playing 9 games and scoring once during this loan spell.
In 2010, Dubra was one of several Olimps players to be taken to Skonto by the club's new manager
Aleksandrs Starkovs
Aleksandrs Starkovs (born 26 July 1955) is a Latvian football coach and a former footballer who played as a forward. Most recently he coached FK Liepāja.
Starkovs has managed clubs such as Spartak Moscow in Russia, FK Baku in Azerbaijan and ...
. Dubra made a surprisingly good impact and earned himself a place in the starting line-up right after joining. Being one of the best defenders in the league during the season, all in all he made 19 appearances and scored 5 goals for Skonto and helped his team become the champions of
Latvian Higher League
Latvian Higher League or Virslīga, also known as TonyBet Virslīga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Latvia and the highest level of the Latvian football league system. Organised by the Latvian Footbal ...
. In July 2010 he was named the best player of the month, being the only defender to receive this award during the season. At the end of the season he was included in the team of the tournament. In November 2010 Dubra went on trial with the
English Premier League
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club
Blackpool
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.
In 2011, Dubra suffered from a serious injury and managed to return to the pitch only at the end of the season, playing only 6 league matches.
On 1 January his contract with
Skonto Riga
Skonto FC was a Latvian professional football club, active from 1991 until 2016. 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 cor ...
expired, and Kaspars went on trial with the
English Premier League
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club
Wolverhampton Wanderers
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, Kaspars has left a good impression on Mick McCarthy coach of
Wolverhampton Wanderers
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, but his agent couldn't agree on a deal.
Polonia Bytom
Being linked with several Polish, Russian and Ukrainian clubs, Dubra signed with
Polish I liga club
Polonia Bytom
Polonia Bytom () is a Polish football club based in Bytom. Founded in 1920, the team won two List of Polish football champions, championships, in 1954 Ekstraklasa, 1954 and 1962 Ekstraklasa, 1962. As of the 2025–26 I liga, 2025–26 season, th ...
for a one-and-a-half-year contract with them in February 2012. After playing just 4 league games in July 2012 he terminated the contract with Polonia Bytom.
FK Ventspils
In July 2012, he joined the
Latvian Higher League
Latvian Higher League or Virslīga, also known as TonyBet Virslīga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Latvia and the highest level of the Latvian football league system. Organised by the Latvian Footbal ...
club
FK Ventspils
FK Ventspils was a Latvian professional football club based at Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions in Ventspils. It was one of the most prominent football clubs in the country. The club played in the Latvian Virslīga since 1997.
It folded in July ...
. He signed a contract till June 2015.
In May 2013, Dubra scored a goal against
FK Liepājas Metalurgs
FK Liepājas Metalurgs () was a Latvian football club in the city of Liepāja that played in the Virslīga. They played at the Daugava Stadium (capacity 5,083). In 2005 Liepājas Metalurgs became the first team other than Skonto Riga to win t ...
and brought victory in the cup final in Latvia.
Irtysh Pavlodar
On 4 January 2019, Dubra joined Kazakh club
FC Irtysh Pavlodar
FC Irtysh () is a Kazakh professional football club based at the Central Stadium in Pavlodar. Irtysh won the Kazakhstan Premier league in 1993 (as ''Ansat''), 1997, 1999, 2002 and 2003. The club was also founding members of the top league and ...
. On 3 July 2019, Dubra was released by Irtysh Pavlodar.
FK Panevėžys
On 17 June 2023, Dubra joined Lithuanian club
Panevėžys
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, on a contract until 31 December 2024.
International career
Dubra was a member of
Latvia
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. He also played for
Latvia U-21 and
Latvia U-19. Kaspars was firstly called up to
Latvia national football team
The Latvia national football team () represents Latvia in men's international Association football, football, and is controlled by the Latvian Football Federation, the governing body for football in Latvia. They have never qualified for the FIF ...
by coach
Aleksandrs Starkovs
Aleksandrs Starkovs (born 26 July 1955) is a Latvian football coach and a former footballer who played as a forward. Most recently he coached FK Liepāja.
Starkovs has managed clubs such as Spartak Moscow in Russia, FK Baku in Azerbaijan and ...
for a friendly match in
Kunming
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against
China
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on 17 November 2010. He made his debut, being just 19 years old, coming on as a substitute in the 90th minute.
Kaspars played all game against Lithuania in Baltic Cup 2014 final. Latvia won the Baltic Cup.
Career statistics
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International goals
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Honours
Skonto Riga
*
Virsliga
Latvian Higher League or Virslīga, also known as TonyBet Virslīga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Latvia and the highest level of the Latvian football league system. Organised by the Latvian Football ...
:
2010
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Baltic League
The Baltic League (officially known as the Triobet Baltic League) was a Baltic men's football club tournament held four times between the top club sides from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Launched in 2007 inspired by the now defunct Scandinavi ...
:
2010–11
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Ventspils
*
Virsliga
Latvian Higher League or Virslīga, also known as TonyBet Virslīga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Latvia and the highest level of the Latvian football league system. Organised by the Latvian Football ...
:
2013
2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years).
2013 was designated as:
*International Year of Water Cooperation
*International Year of Quinoa
Events
January
* January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
,
2014
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*
Latvian Cup
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:
2012–13
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BATE Borisov
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Belarusian Premier League
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:
2015
2015 was designated by the United Nations as:
* International Year of Light
* International Year of Soil __TOC__
Events
January
* January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
,
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
*
Belarusian Cup
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Belarusian Cup was established in 1992. Each year the winning team qualifies f ...
:
2014–15
*
Belarusian Super Cup
The Belarusian Super Cup () is an annual one-match association football competition in Belarus organized by the Football Federation of Belarus. This competition serves as the season opener and is played between the Belarusian Premier League Champi ...
:
2015
2015 was designated by the United Nations as:
* International Year of Light
* International Year of Soil __TOC__
Events
January
* January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
,
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
Panevėžys
*
A Lyga
The A Lyga is the top division of professional football in Lithuania. It is organized by Lithuanian Football Federation (LFF) ().
History
The first football league was established in Lithuania in 1924, and in various forms existed until 1939. ...
:
2023
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*
Lithuanian Supercup
The Lithuanian Supercup () or LFF Supercup is an annual football match contested between the champions of the previous A Lyga season and the holders of the Lithuanian Football Cup. It is organised by and named after Lithuanian Football Federation a ...
: 2024
Latvia
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Baltic Cup:
2014
The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
,
2018
Events January
* January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency.
* January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
Individual
*Latvian Higher League Player of the Month:
June 2010
*Latvian Higher League Best Defender:
2014
The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
References
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1990 births
Living people
Footballers from Riga
Men's association football defenders
Latvian men's footballers
21st-century Latvian sportsmen
Latvia men's international footballers
Skonto FC players
JFK Olimps players
Polonia Bytom players
FK Ventspils players
FC BATE Borisov players
FK RFS players
FC Irtysh Pavlodar players
FC Oleksandriya players
FK Panevėžys players
Latvian Higher League players
I liga players
Kazakhstan Premier League players
Ukrainian Premier League players
A Lyga players
Latvian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Poland
Expatriate men's footballers in Belarus
Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan
Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine
Expatriate men's footballers in Lithuania
Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Poland
Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Belarus
Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan
Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine
Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Lithuania