In 1969 Venta won the first Latvian league title for Ventspils under Vladimirs Čikiņovs, a former FK Daugava Rīga footballer.

As the Latvian league was officially an amateur competition, for 3 months a year the Venta players had to work in the city port.

In 1970 Venta finished second in the league but then the results started to decline and after the 1982 season the club lost most of its financial support.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union for several years Venta went into total oblivion, until it re-emerged in the 1st Latvian league in 1994.

Before the 2005 season the club moved to Kuldīga and stated its great ambitions to become one of the leading Latvian clubs over a few years, it bought several popular footballers both from Latvia and from other post-Soviet countries – including former Arsenal London defender Oleh Luzhnyi, Valentīns Lobaņovs and Aliaksandr Khatskevich – a FC Dynamo Kiev veteran.