2010 Latvian Higher League
2010 Latvian Higher League was the 19th season of top-tier football in Latvia. It began on 9 April 2010 with the first round of games. Liepājas Metalurgs were the defending champions, having won their second league title last season.
With the re-expansion of the league to 10 clubs, the format of the competition was altered for the third year in a row. The ten clubs played 18 rounds of matches, once at home and once away, against each of the other nine clubs in the league. After this, another nine rounds of matches were played for a total of 27 matches. The clubs finishing in the first five positions after 18 rounds received the benefit of hosting five of their last nine matches.
Teams
Due to a match fixing scandal last season, Dinaburg FC were excluded from the Latvian Higher League and were relegated to the Latvian First League.Promoted to the Higher League from the First Division automatically were last season's First Division champions, Jelgava.
Daugava Rīga finished in 8th place in last year's Higher League competition and competed in a promotion/relegation playoff against the runners-up of the First Division, Jaunība Rīga. Jaunība Rīga won this two-legged playoff 1–1 and won promotion to the Higher League for this season and Daugava Rīga was relegated to the First Division.
Despite finishing last year's First Division competition in 9th place, Daugava Daugavpils were offered a place in this year's Higher League competition, which the club accepted.
Team summaries
| Club | Location | Stadium | Capacity | Current manager |
| Daugavpils | Daugava Stadium | 3,500 |  Tamaz Pertia | |
| Riga | Daugava Stadium | 5,000 |  Sergejs Davidovs | |
| Jelgava | Zemgales Olimpiskais Sporta Centrs | 1,560 | Dainis Kazakevičs | |
| Jūrmala | Slokas Stadium | 5,000 | Vladimirs Babičevs | |
| Ventspils | Olimpiskais Stadium | 3,200 |  Nunzio Zavettieri | |
| Riga | Latvijas Universitates Stadions | 5,000 | Mihails Miholaps | |
| Liepāja | Daugava Stadium | 5,500 |  Rüdiger Abramczik | |
| Rēzekne | Sporta Aģentūras Stadions | 3,000 | Eriks Grigjans | |
| Riga | Skonto Stadium | 10,000 | Aleksandrs Starkovs | |
| Ventspils | Ventspils 2. pamatskolas stadions | 500 |  Igor Kichigin |
League table
Results
Regular home/away matches
Extra home matches
Relegation play-offs
At season's end, the 9th place club in the Latvian Higher League, Tranzīts Ventspils, was supposed to face the runners-up of the Latvian First League, FC Jūrmala, in a two-legged playoff, with the winner being awarded a spot on next year's Higher League competition. However, before this playoff began, the LFF received information from Tranzits that it would not participate in the playoff and, further, was forfeiting its place in the Latvian Higher League. Because of this, FC Jurmala achieved promotion to the Higher League automatically.Top goalscorers
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- Artūrs Karašausks '
- Andrejs Perepļotkins '
- Ruslan Mingazov '
- Daniils Turkovs '
- Pavel Ryzhevski '
Awards
Monthly awards
Golden boot
- Deniss Rakels with 18 goals.
Team of the tournament
'Goalkeepers: Marks Bogdanovs, Kaspars Ikstens
Defenders: Jevgēņijs Simonovs, Kaspars Dubra, Tomas Tamošauskas, Vitālijs Maksimenko, Māris Smirnovs, Yuriy Shelenkov
Midfielders: Ruslan Mingazov, Jurijs Žigajevs, Arturs Zjuzins, Valērijs Afanasjevs, Michael Tukura, Takafumi Akahoshi
Forwards:''' Nathan Júnior, Deniss Rakels, Daniils Turkovs, Oļegs Malašenoks
Best player awards
- Goalkeeper: Kaspars Ikstens
- Defender: Vitālijs Smirnovs
- Midfielder: Jurijs Žigajevs
- Forward: Nathan Júnior
- Manager of the season: Aleksandrs Starkovs
- The best youth player : Artūrs Zjuzins
- Player of the season: Jurijs Žigajevs
Organization
- Fair-play award: Skonto Riga
- The best matches' organization: Skonto Riga
- The best referee: Andrejs Sipailo and Harijs Gudermanis