Igors Tarasovs

Igors Tarasovs
Personal information
Full name Igors Tarasovs
Date of birth (1988-10-16) 16 October 1988
Place of birth Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR
(now Republic of Latvia)
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position Centre-back
Youth career
2004–2006 JFC Skonto
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2011 Skonto Riga 84 (11)
2007–2008 → Olimps/RFS (loan) 50 (2)
2012 Simurq 14 (3)
2012–2013 Ventspils 37 (8)
2014 Neman Grodno 27 (1)
2015–2016 Jagiellonia Białystok 41 (3)
2016–2017 Giresunspor 15 (2)
2017–2019 Śląsk Wrocław 52 (2)
2019 Spartaks Jūrmala 10 (3)
2020 Kaposvár 7 (0)
2020 KuPS 8 (0)
2020 → KuFu-98 (loan) 2 (0)
2021–2022 Ethnikos Achna 35 (0)
2022 Liepāja 5 (0)
2022–2023 Ypsonas 25 (11)
2023 Nordic United 10 (0)
2024–2025 Hutnik Kraków 38 (1)
2025–2026 Jagiellonia Białystok II 14 (1)
Total 474 (48)
International career
2008–2010 Latvia U21 8 (1)
2010–2022 Latvia 47 (2)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Igors Tarasovs (born 16 October 1988) is a Latvian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.[1][2]

Club career

As a youth player, Tarasovs played for JFC Skonto and was promoted to the first team in 2006. Making just one first team appearance, he was soon loaned out to the unofficial Skonto Riga farm-team Olimps/RFS to get playing practice. During his loan spell from 2007 to 2008, Tarasovs played 50 matches and scored two goals. He returned to Skonto in 2009, becoming a starting player. Representing the club for three years, Tarasovs made 84 league appearances and scored eleven goals, becoming the Latvian champion in 2010 and the Baltic League champion in 2011.[3] In 2011, the fans voted him as the Skonto Riga Player of the Season.[4]

At the start of 2012, Tarasovs refused to extend his contract with Skonto and went on trials with Jagiellonia Białystok in Poland, Inter Baku in Azerbaijan and Tatran Prešov in Slovakia.[5] On 15 February, Tarasovs signed a contract with the Azerbaijan Premier League club Simurq PFC until the end of the season, joining his international team-mate Andrejs Rubins.[6] Tarasovs scored three goals in 14 games that season, helping his team secure a place in the top tier for the upcoming season.

In July 2012, Tarasovs returned to Latvia, signing a contract with the Latvian Higher League club Ventspils.[7] Throughout two seasons with the club, he scored eight goals in 37 league matches and helped the team win the championship and the Latvian Football Cup in 2013. Tarasovs also participated in the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League qualifying matches.

Tarasovs went on trials with Baník Ostrava[8] and Bodø/Glimt[9] in the Czech Republic and Norway, but eventually signed a contract with the Belarusian Premier League club Neman Grodno in February 2014.[10] On 22 March 2014, Tarasovs scored the winning goal for Neman in the extra-time of Belarusian Cup quarter-final match against BATE Borisov, securing his team a 2–1 victory and a place in the semi-finals.[11] He scored in the 100th minute, beating his international team-mate Germans Māliņš in the BATE Borisov goal.

On 27 November 2014, Tarasovs signed a one-year contract with the Polish Ekstraklasa club Jagiellonia Białystok, with an option to extend for two more seasons.[12]

On 7 July 2017, he moved to Śląsk Wrocław.[13]

On 9 August 2019, it was confirmed that Tarasovs had joined Spartaks Jūrmala.[14]

International career

Tarasovs was a regular player for Latvia U21 from 2008 to 2010. He scored once in eight appearances. Tarasovs was firstly called up for Latvia international squad for a friendly match against Angola on 3 March 2010.[15] He made his debut then coming on as a replacement for Vitālijs Astafjevs in the 73rd minute.[16]

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] Europe Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Skonto Riga 2006 Virslīga 10??0010
2009 Virslīga 302002[b]0322
2010 Virslīga 245202[b]0285
2011 Virslīga 294202[c]0334
Total 841140609411
JFK Olimps (loan) 2007 Virslīga 27010—280
2008 Virslīga 232002[d]0252
Total 5021020532
Simurq 2011–12 Azerbaijan Premier League 14300—143
Ventspils 2012 Virslīga 164——164
2013 Virslīga 214406[b]0314
Total 3784060478
Neman Grodno 2014 Belarusian Premier League 271412[b]0332
Jagiellonia Białystok 2014–15 Ekstraklasa 151——151
2015–16 Ekstraklasa 262104[b]0312
Total 4131040463
Giresunspor 2016–17 TFF 1. Lig 152——152
Śląsk Wrocław 2017–18 Ekstraklasa 35110—361
2018–19 Ekstraklasa 17120—191
Total 52130—551
Spartaks Jūrmala 2019 Virslīga 103——103
Kaposvár 2019–20 NB I 7000—70
KuPS 2020 Veikkausliiga 80003[b]1111
KuFu-98 2020 Kakkonen 20——20
Ethnikos Achna 2020–21 Cypriot First Division 16010—170
2021–22 Cypriot First Division 19051—241
Total 3506100411
Liepāja 2022 Virslīga 50103[e]090
Ypsonas 2022–23 Cypriot Second Division 251110—2611
Nordic United 2023 Ettan 100——100
Hutnik Kraków 2023–24 II liga 110——110
2024–25 II liga 27100—271
Total 3810000381
Jagiellonia II 2025–26 III liga, group I 141——141
Career total 4744825226152551
  1. ↑ Includes Latvian Cup, Belarusian Cup, Polish Cup
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Appearances in UEFA Europa League
  3. ↑ Appearances in UEFA Champions League
  4. ↑ Appearances in UEFA Cup
  5. ↑ Appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year[17]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Latvia
201010
201120
201310
201570
201670
201741
201880
201940
202021
202180
202230
Total472
Scores and results list Latvia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Tarasovs goal.[18]
List of international goals scored by Igors Tarasovs
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
110 October 2017Skonto Stadium, Riga, Latvia Andorra
4–0
4–0
2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
27 October 2020Podgorica City Stadium, Podgorica, Montenegro Montenegro
1–0
1–1
Friendly

Honours

Skonto Riga[19]

Ventspils[19]

References

  1. ↑ Igors Tarasovs at Soccerway
  2. ↑ "Igors Tarasovs zawodnikiem Hutnika" (in Polish). Hutnik Kraków. 12 February 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
  3. ↑ "Player profile". National-Football-Teams.com. Archived from the original on 14 May 2020. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  4. ↑ "Official Skonto FC Website". Archived from the original on 13 August 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  5. ↑ "I.Tarasovs uz Azerbaidžānu, Karlsona "Inter" sakaujas ar "Sturm"". 30 January 2012. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
  6. ↑ "Tarasovs pievienojas Rubinam Azerbaidžānā". 15 February 2012. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
  7. ↑ ""Ventspils" sastāvu papildina Dubra un Tarasovs – Virslīga – Futbols – Sportacentrs.com". Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
  8. ↑ "Tarasovs un Kozlovs centīsies iekļūt čehu "Banik" sastāvā". 4 January 2014. Archived from the original on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  9. ↑ "Karlsons pārbaudē uz baltkrievu "Neman", Tarasovs - uz Norvēģiju". 21 January 2014. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  10. ↑ "Lazdiņš pārbaudās Skotijā, Tarasovs un Karlsons paliks "Neman"". 26 February 2014. Archived from the original on 12 March 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  11. ↑ "Tarasovs izslēdz no kausa BATE (+video), Gorkšs uzvar, Maksimenko debitē". 22 March 2014. Archived from the original on 6 April 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
  12. ↑ "Tarasovam 1+2 gadu līgums ar poļu "Jagiellonia"". 27 November 2014. Archived from the original on 16 December 2014. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  13. ↑ "Igors Tarasovs piłkarzem Śląska" (in Polish). 90minut. 7 July 2017. Archived from the original on 10 September 2017. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  14. ↑ Igors Tarasovs znalazł klub. Zagra w ojczyźnie Archived 9 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine, gazetawroclawska.pl, 9 August 2019
  15. ↑ "Latvijas Futbola federācija". Archived from the original on 8 January 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
  16. ↑ "Latvijas izlasei neizšķirts Angolā". 3 March 2010. Archived from the original on 27 April 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
  17. ↑ "Igors Tarasovs". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  18. ↑ "NFT Profile". National Football Teams. Archived from the original on 14 May 2020. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  19. 1 2 "Igors Tarasovs". 90minut.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 12 February 2024.
This page is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.