The 2024 Latvian Higher League, known as the TonyBet Virslīga for sponsorship reasons, was the 33rd season of top-tier football 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 (Riga) qualified for the 2025–26 Conference League second qualifying round, with the third and fifth-placed teams (Auda and Daugavpils) qualifying for the first qualifying round. The ninth-placed team (Grobiņa) qualified for the Latvian Higher League play-off, winning and retaining their place in the league. The fourth-placed team (Valmiera) 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 (Jelgava).
Teams The league consisted of ten teams; the top nine clubs from the previous season, and one team promoted from the Latvian First League. RFS entered the season as defending champions.
Grobiņa were promoted as champions of the 2023 Latvian First League, replacing the 2023 Latvian Higher League bottom-placed team (Super Nova).
+2024 Virslīga competitors Club Seasons in Virsliga 2023 position Stadium CapacityAuda33rdSkonto Stadium8,087Daugavpils117thEsplanādes stadions1,980Grobiņa01st in Latvian First LeagueDaugava Stadium (Liepāja)4,022Jelgava26thZemgale Olympic Center2,500Liepāja115thDaugava Stadium (Liepāja)4,022Metta139thDaugava Stadium (Riga)10,461RFS91stLNK Sporta Parks2,300Riga92ndSkonto Stadium8,087Tukums 200038thTukuma Pilsētas Stadions1,000Valmiera74thJāņa Daliņa Stadions1,250
League table
Results Teams play each other four times (twice at home and twice away).
Latvian Higher League play-off The ninth-placed club (Grobiņa) faced the third-placed club from the 2024 Latvian First League (JDFS Alberts) in a two-legged play-off for the final place in the 2025 Latvian Higher League. Although Grobina won the play-off, the tie was bannalised following Valmeria's disqualification to the third tier.
First leg
Second leg
Statistics
Top scorers Flashscore RankPlayerClubGoals1 Reginaldo RamiresAuda/Riga252 Alioune NdoyeValmiera223 Marko RegžaRiga184 Jānis IkaunieksRFS165 Abdulrahman TaiwoRiga/Auda126 Ismaël DiomandéRFS11 Joseph Oloko EdeJelgava8 Darko LemajićRFS10 Lūkass VapneValmiera Mohamet CorréaMetta
Attendances
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