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Meistriliiga

Founded	1992
Country	Estonia
Confederation	UEFA
Number of teams	10
Level on pyramid	1
Relegation to	Esiliiga
Domestic cup(s)	Estonian Cup
International cup(s)	UEFA Champions League UEFA Europa League
Current champions	Flora (11th title) (2017)
Most championships	Flora (11 titles)
Top goalscorer	Maksim Gruznov (304)
TV partners	ETV2, Postimees
Website	Official website
2018 season

Meistriliiga (pronounced [ˈmeistriliːɡ̊ɑː], known as the A. Le Coq Premium Liiga for sponsorship reasons) is the highest division of the Estonian Football Association annual football championship. The league was founded in 1992, and is semi-professional with amateur clubs allowed to compete.

As in most countries with low temperatures in winter time, the season starts in March and ends in November. Meistriliiga consists of ten clubs, all teams play each other four times. After each season the bottom team is relegated and the second last team plays a two-legged play-off for a place in the Meistriliiga.

In February 2013, A. Le Coq, an Estonian brewery company, signed a five-year cooperation agreement with the Estonian Football Association, which included Meistriliiga naming rights.^[1]

Clubs

Current clubs

The following 10 clubs will compete in the Meistriliiga during the 2018 season.

^a = Founding member of the Meistriliiga
^b = Played in every Meistriliiga season
^c = Never been relegated from the Meistriliiga

Champions

Season	Champions	Runners-up	Third place	Top goalscorer	Goals
1992	Norma	Eesti Põlevkivi	TVMV	Sergei Bragin (Norma)	18
1992–93	Norma (7000200000000000000♠2)	Flora	Nikol	Sergei Bragin (Norma)	27
1993–94	Flora	Norma	Nikol	Maksim Gruznov (Narva Trans/Tevalte)	21
1994–95	Flora (7000200000000000000♠2)	Lantana-Marlekor	Narva Trans	Serhiy Morozov (Lantana-Marlekor)	25
1995–96	Lantana	Flora	Tevalte-Marlekor	Lembit Rajala (Flora)	16
1996–97	Lantana (7000200000000000000♠2)	Flora	Tallinna Sadam	Sergei Bragin (Lantana)	18
1997–98	Flora (7000300000000000000♠3)	Tallinna Sadam	Lantana	Konstantin Kolbassenko (Tallinna Sadam)	18
1998	Flora (7000400000000000000♠4)	Tallinna Sadam	Lantana	Konstantin Kolbassenko (Tallinna Sadam)	13
1999	Levadia	Tulevik	Flora	Toomas Krõm (Levadia)	19
2000	Levadia (7000200000000000000♠2)	Flora	TVMK	Egidijus Juška (TVMK) Toomas Krõm (Levadia)	24
2001	Flora (7000500000000000000♠5)	TVMK	Levadia	Maksim Gruznov (Narva Trans)	37
2002	Flora (7000600000000000000♠6)	Levadia	TVMK	Andrei Krõlov (TVMK)	37
2003	Flora (7000700000000000000♠7)	TVMK	Levadia	Tor Henning Hamre (Flora)	39
2004	Levadia (7000300000000000000♠3)	TVMK	Flora	Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko (Flora)	28
2005	TVMK	Levadia	Narva Trans	Tarmo Neemelo (TVMK)	41
2006	Levadia (7000400000000000000♠4)	Narva Trans	Flora	Maksim Gruznov (Narva Trans)	31
2007	Levadia (7000500000000000000♠5)	Flora	TVMK	Dmitri Lipartov (Narva Trans)	30
2008	Levadia (7000600000000000000♠6)	Flora	Narva Trans	Ingemar Teever (Nõmme Kalju)	23
2009	Levadia (7000700000000000000♠7)	Sillamäe Kalev	Narva Trans	Vitali Gussev (Levadia)	26
2010	Flora (7000800000000000000♠8)	Levadia	Narva Trans	Sander Post (Flora)	24
2011	Flora (7000900000000000000♠9)	Nõmme Kalju	Narva Trans	Aleksandrs Čekulajevs (Narva Trans)	46
2012	Nõmme Kalju	Levadia	Flora	Vladislav Ivanov (Sillamäe Kalev/Narva Trans)	23
2013	Levadia (7000800000000000000♠8)	Nõmme Kalju	Sillamäe Kalev	Vladimir Voskoboinikov (Nõmme Kalju)	23
2014	Levadia (7000900000000000000♠9)	Sillamäe Kalev	Flora	Yevgeni Kabaev (Sillamäe Kalev)	36
2015	Flora (7001100000000000000♠10)	Levadia	Nõmme Kalju	Ingemar Teever (Levadia)	24
2016	Infonet	Levadia	Nõmme Kalju	Yevgeni Kabaev (Sillamäe Kalev)	25
2017	Flora (7001110000000000000♠11)	Levadia	Nõmme Kalju	Albert Prosa (FCI Tallinn) Rauno Sappinen (Flora)	27

Total titles won

Club				Winning seasons
Flora	11	6	5	1993–94, 1994–95, 1997–98, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2017
Levadia	9	7	2	1999, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014
Lantana	2	1	2	1995–96, 1996–97
Norma	2	1	0	1992, 1992–93
TVMK	1	3	5	2005
Nõmme Kalju	1	2	3	2012
FCI Tallinn	1	0	0	2016
Tallinna Sadam	0	2	1
Sillamäe Kalev	0	2	1
Narva Trans	0	1	6
Eesti Põlevkivi	0	1	0
Tulevik	0	1	0
Nikol	0	0	2

All-time Meistriliiga table

The table is a cumulative record of all match results, points and goals of every team that has played in the Meistriliiga since its inception in 1992. The table that follows is accurate as of the end of the 2017 season. Teams in bold play in the Meistriliiga 2018 season. Numbers in bold are the record (highest) numbers in each column.

In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win, 1 for a draw, and 0 for a loss, although Meistriliiga awarded 2 points for a win until the 1994–95 season. Championship matches, relegation matches and relegation tournament matches involving clubs of lower leagues are not counted. In 1992 Preliminary Round matches were played in two groups. The results of the matches played between teams in same group were taken to second round, thus counted twice, in this table these results are counted once.

The table is sorted by all-time points.

Notes

• Note 1: 1999–2003 FC Levadia Maardu, 2004– FC Levadia. Not to be confused with FC Levadia Tallinn 2001-2003 a separate team owned by the steel company Levadia. In 2004 the clubs were merged FC Levadia Maardu were moved to Tallinn and became FC Levadia, former FC Levadia Tallinn become their reserves as FC Levadia II.


• Note 2: 1992 TVMV, 1995–1996 Tevalte-Marlekor, 1996–1997 Marlekor, 1997–2008 TVMK


• Note 3: 1992 Viljandi JK, 1993– Viljandi Tulevik


• Note 4: 1992–2005 Merkuur, 2006 Maag


• Note 5: 1992–1993 Vigri, 1993–1995 Tevalte, 1996–1999 Vigri


• Note 6: 2000–2003 Kohtla-Järve Lootus, 2004 Alutaguse Lootus, 2005–2012 Kohtla-Järve Lootus, 2013– Kohtla-Järve Järve


• Note 7: 1992 Tartu Kalev, 1992–1994 EsDAG, 1994– DAG


• Note 8: 1992 Pärnu JK, 1994–1996 PJK Kalev


• Note 8: 2011–2016 Infonet, 2017 FCI Tallinn

Records

All as of end of 2017 season if not stated otherwise.

Club records

• 
  Most titles: 11 – Flora
  


• 
  Most consecutive titles: 4 – Levadia (2006–2009)


• 
  Biggest title-winning margin: 21 points – 2009; Levadia (97 points) over Sillamäe Kalev (76 points)^[2]


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  Smallest title-winning margin: 0 points – 1993–94; Flora and Norma both finished on 36 points, Flora won the title in a Championship play-off match 5–2.


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  Most seasons in the Meistriliiga: 27 – Flora and Narva Trans (all seasons, 1992–present)


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  Most consecutive seasons in the Meistriliiga: 27 – Flora and Narva Trans (all seasons, 1992–present)


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  Most points in a season: 97 – Levadia (2009)^[2]


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  Fewest points in a season: 0 – Maardu (1992)


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  Longest unbeaten run: 61 – Levadia (10 May 2008 – 7 November 2009)^[3]


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  Most consecutive wins: 17 – Norma (15 May 1992 – 2 October 1993)


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  Record win: Tevalte 24–0 Sillamäe Kalev (27 May 1994)^[2]


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  Most goals scored in a season: 138 – TVMK (2005)^[2]


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  Most hat-tricks in a season: 9 – Norma (1992–93)^[2]


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  Fewest goals in a season: 11 – Sillamäe Kalev (1993–94, 22 games), Valga (2000, 28 games), Kuressaare (2003, 28 games), Lootus (2004, 28 games), Ajax (2011, 36 games)


• 
  Most goals per game in a season: 4.636 – Norma (1992–93, 102 goals in 22 games)^[2]


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  Fewest goals per game in a season: 0.306 – Ajax (2011, 11 goals in 36 games)


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  Most goals against in a season: 192 – Ajax (2011)^[2]


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  Most clean sheets in one season: 24 – Levadia (2014)^[2]

Player records

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  Oldest player: Boriss Dugan – 51 years and 153 days (for Ajax v. Tammeka, 5 November 2011)^[2]


• 
  Youngest player: Andrei Tjunin – 14 years and 336 days (for Merkuur v. Dünamo, 14 May 1994)^[2]


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  Oldest goalscorer: Sergei Zamogilnõi – 43 years and 16 days (for Eesti Põlevkivi v. Vall, 15 September 1996)^[2]


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  Youngest goalscorer: Ronaldo Tiismaa – 15 years and 334 days (for Vaprus v. Sillamäe Kalev, 1 April 2017)^[6]


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  Most goals in a season: 46 – Aleksandrs Čekulajevs (Narva Trans, 2011)^[2]


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  Most hat-tricks: 22 – Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko^[2]


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  Most goals in a match: 10 – Anatoli Novožilov (for Tevalte v. Sillamäe Kalev, 27 May 1994)^[2]


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  Most goals from the penalty spot: 55 – Konstantin Nahk^[2]


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  Fastest goal: 12 seconds – Aleksander Saharov (for Flora v. Lootus, 29 August 2004)^[7][8][9]


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  Fastest hat-trick: 4 minutes – Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko (for Flora v. Lootus, 18 October 2004)^[10][11]


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  Fastest own goal: 5 seconds – Jaanis Kriska (for Levadia v. Kuressaare, 12 September 2009)^[2]


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  Most clean sheets in one season: 24 – Roman Smishko (for Levadia, 2014)^[2]


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  Longest consecutive run without conceding a goal: 1,281 minutes – Roman Smishko (for Levadia, 5 April 2014 – 25 July 2014)^[12]

Estonian champions

Bold indicates club's first championship victory.

Estonian SSR champions

References

External links

• Official website


• 
  Estonia - List of Champions at the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation website