1981 Latvian SSR Higher League
Encyclopedia
League standings
| Pos | Club | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts |
| 1 | Elektrons Elektrons Riga Elektrons Rīga was a Latvian football club from Riga that was one of the leading clubs in the Latvian league in 1970s and 1980s.-History:... |
30 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 83 | 18 | 50 |
| 2 | Celtnieks Celtnieks Riga Celtnieks Rīga was a Latvian football club that won the Latvian Cup 3 times.-History:Celtnieks made its debut in the Latvian league in 1978. In the 1980s it was one of the strongest clubs in the Latvian league as it finished second in the league in four seasons and for three years in a row it won... |
30 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 73 | 18 | 47 |
| 3 | Kimikis | 30 | 20 | 5 | 5 | 71 | 21 | 45 |
| 4 | VEF FK VEF Riga VEF Rīga was a football club in Latvia, one of the strongest teams in the Latvian league between 1945 and 1994.-Team history:... |
30 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 65 | 24 | 45 |
| 5 | Energija Energija Riga Enerģija Rīga was a Soviet Latvian football club from Riga, a four-time winner of the Latvian league. It went bankrupt together with the factory that supported it in early 1990s.-History:... |
30 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 69 | 28 | 40 |
| 6 | Torpedo Torpedo Riga Torpedo Rīga was a football club that played in Riga. The club played in the Latvian league with good success from 1979 to 2000 when it merged with Policijas FK.-As Torpedo Rīga:... |
30 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 42 | 24 | 34 |
| 7 | Automobilists | 30 | 13 | 7 | 10 | 43 | 43 | 33 |
| 8 | Gauja Gauja Valmiera Gauja Valmiera was a Latvian football from Valmiera that played in the top Latvian league from 1979 to 1993.It was named after the river Gauja. In the 1990s another Valmiera football club - FK Valmiera - was renamed to Gauja.-History:... |
30 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 44 | 46 | 32 |
| 9 | Jurnieks | 30 | 12 | 5 | 13 | 45 | 37 | 29 |
| 10 | Progress | 30 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 41 | 38 | 25 |
| 11 | Radiotehnikis | 30 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 42 | 67 | 24 |
| 12 | RPI RPI RPI is an abbreviation for a number of terms, including* Ratings Percentage Index, the NCAA ranking system * Recognition Professionals International* Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a university in Troy, New York... |
30 | 8 | 5 | 17 | 39 | 61 | 21 |
| 13 | Sarkanais Metalurgs | 30 | 7 | 5 | 18 | 26 | 55 | 19 |
| 14 | Dizelists | 30 | 4 | 5 | 21 | 31 | 93 | 13 |
| 15 | Masinbuvetajs | 30 | 4 | 4 | 22 | 19 | 83 | 12 |
| 16 | Vulkans Vulkans Kuldiga Vulkāns Kuldīga was a Latvian football club from Kuldīga. It was one of the leading clubs in Latvian football in 1950s and 1960s.-History:A football club by the name of Vulkāns appeared in Kuldīga in the early 1930s as a football club of the Vulkāns factory... |
30 | 5 | 1 | 24 | 33 | 110 | 11 |