The league was founded together with other Latvian football competitions in 1992.

From 2007 to 2008, the tournament was known as the Traffic 1. līga, due to its first sponsorship deal concluded with the "Traffic auto advert" advertising company.

[1] From 2015 its name was Komanda.lv First League (Komanda.lv 1. līga) for sponsorship reasons, after the Komanda.lv sporting goods store became the league's main sponsor in 2015.

At the end of the season, the highest placed club is automatically promoted to the Virslīga.

[3] 14 clubs took part in the Optibet Nākotne līga season:[4]