After returning to Latvia he played with Marss Riga and Amatieris for a short period but in 1924 Pavlovs joined the most important club of his career - RFK.
Playing with RFK Pavlovs won five Latvian Higher League titles and became a two-time winner of the Riga Football Cup.
From 1924 to 1933 he played for the Latvia national football team in total making 37 appearances and scoring 9 goals .
[4] After the 1934 football season Pavlovs joined the lower league club Kružoks Riga with which he played until 1939.
In 1938 Pavlovs was a member of the Kružoks squad that earned promotion to the Latvian Higher League.