 However, when the plant ran into financial difficulties, the team received new sponsorship from the University of Latvia in 1996 and, as a result, changed their name and relocated to Riga, and played in the Latvian University Stadium.As RAF Rīga the club only played one season, finishing 5th in the Latvian league, however it won the 1996 Latvian Cup.But after the season the club changed its name again – this time to Universitāte Rīga.