Referees · Latvia
Kristaps Ratnieks: referee stats
Kristaps Ratnieks has refereed 13 league games in the 2026 Virslīga, with 3.2 yellow cards and 0.5 penalties a game and no red card. That is below the league average this season: 4.2 yellow and 0.1 red a game. The latest game was Tukums – Grobiņa 1–1 on 20 September (4 yellow, 0 red). Kristaps Ratnieks has refereed 40 league games in our data in three seasons (2024–2026), 13 of them this season. Cards a game: 4.0 yellow and 0.2 red; the average in the same leagues and seasons was 4.6 yellow and 0.2 red.
This season's games
| Date | Match | Score | Yellow | Red |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Sep | Tukums – Grobiņa | 1–1 | 4 | 0 |
| 31 Aug | FK Liepāja – Riga FC | 3–2 | 3 | 0 |
| 26 Jul | Auda – BFC Daugavpils | 1–0 | 4 | 0 |
| 5 Jul | Grobiņa – Tukums | 3–1 | 4 | 0 |
| 21 Jun | Riga FC – FK Liepāja | 4–0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 Jun | Grobiņa – Rīgas FS | 1–3 | 1 | 0 |
| 26 May | FS Jelgava – FK Liepāja | 1–1 | 5 | 0 |
| 21 May | BFC Daugavpils – Ogre United | 3–1 | 1 | 0 |
| 11 May | Grobiņa – FS Jelgava | 0–0 | 4 | 0 |
| 2 May | Ogre United – Rīgas FS | 3–4 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 Apr | FK Liepāja – Auda | 1–2 | 7 | 0 |
| 21 Mar | FS Jelgava – Grobiņa | 0–1 | 4 | 0 |
| 13 Mar | FK Liepāja – Rīgas FS | 0–1 | 3 | 0 |
Yellow and red cards of both teams. A match with a page of its own is a link.
By season
| Season | League | Games | Yellow a game | Red a game | Penalties a game | Home wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Virslīga | 13 | 3.15 | 0.00 | 0.54 | 38% |
| 2025 | Virslīga | 15 | 4.73 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 47% |
| 2024 | Virslīga | 12 | 3.92 | 0.33 | 0.08 | 50% |
| 3 seasons | 40 | 3.98 | 0.17 | 0.28 | 45% |
Cards of both teams as the source records them, a red counted once (twice when a card tip is settled). Penalties awarded in play, scored or missed, where our data has every game's events (else –).
Leagues
- Virslīga40 games
See also
Latvia: all referees Virslīga: table and matches All referees
League games of the last three seasons in our data. A name that appears in two games on one day belongs to two people and gets no page. History only, never a prediction.
The day's tips on Telegram
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