A football club connected to the VEF plant was founded in the mid-1930s, in 1939 it first won promotion to the top Latvian league by beating Ventspils Stars 6:2 in the playoff final.
VEF was the only Latvian football club to keep its name through the 1940s – it played in the Latvian league under German occupation and it remained where after the second Russian occupation.
[1] In that period VEF was managed by former FK Daugava Rīga star player Georgijs Smirnovs.
Another retired Daugava forward, Nikolajs Jermakovs, played in the team's attack.
When Latvia regained independence and the VEF plant was rapidly losing its former glory, the football team was also affected.