2006 Meistriliiga

Estonian national championships in football Meistriliiga 2006 Levadia(4th title) Maksim Gruznov (31) 2005 2007 2006 Meistriliiga was the 16th season of the Meistriliiga, Estonia's premier football league. Levadia won their fourth title. Season overview FC Levadia won the 2006 Meistriliiga championship and entered the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League 1st Qualifying Round. Narva Trans finished in their best ever silver-medal position, while FC Flora also gained a place compared to last season on 2005 champions FC TVMK's disappointing year. The latter will enter the Intertoto Cup and the other two above mentioned teams enter the UEFA Cup qualifying rounds in the summer of 2007. The bottom of the table provided some intrigue as well. The two Tartu teams ended mid-table, with Tammeka's youthful-looking squad impressing under experienced coach and ex-international Sergei Ratnikov, in his first year as the head coach. Pärnu Vaprus was perhaps the surprise package of the season finishing seventh on their debut year in the Meistriliiga and bringing Pärnu back on to the Estonian football map. Mainly Russian-speaking Tallinn team, FC Ajax Lasnamäe, proved a point by staying up against all predictions. JK Viljandi Tulevik had a dreadful year and had to go into the play-offs against Esiliiga's JK Tallinna Kalev and lost, which should have meant their relegation. But after the merging of the Tartu clubs, JK Maag and Tammeka, they will still be in the Meistriliiga in 2007. The team with the youngest average aged squad in the league, Warrior Valga, were relegated without a meaningful fight. The league's top scorers were two JK Narva Trans strikers Maksim Gruznov (with 31 goals) and Dmitri Lipartov (27 goals). FC Flora Tallinn's Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko scored 25, FC Levadia Tallinn's Indrek Zelinski 21 goals. League table main WDL QR LEV Levadia NAR Narva Trans FLO Flora TVM TVMK MAAG Maag TAM Tammeka VPR Vaprus AJX Lasnamäe Ajax TUL Tulevik WAR Warrior 30 4 2 114 29 C 25 8 3 106 36 26 4 6 93 34 22 6 8 83 37 13 9 14 65 68 12 7 17 45 57 10 4 22 49 86 6 7 23 35 104 5 5 26 29 74 3 2 31 16 110 R green1 Qualification for Champions League first qualifying round CL1 blue1 Qualification for UEFA Cup first qualifying round UC1 UC1 #CCCCFF Qualification for Intertoto Cup first round IC1 black1 Merged together MER MER red1 Relegation to Esiliiga R SPARED Spared from relegation complete 1) points; 2) number of wins; 3) head-to-head points; 4) head-to-head goal difference; 5) head-to-head goals scored; 6) goal difference; 7) number of goals scored. Estonian Football Association et Relegation play-off 8 November 2006 Tallinna Kalev Tulevik + / - EFEFEF 12 November 2006 Tulevik - / + Tallinna Kalev Both games were awarded - / + to Tallinna Kalev since Tulevik fielded an ineligible player. Kalev had originally won 1 – 1 with away goals Tulevik kept their place in the Meistriliiga as a result of merger of Tammeka Tartu and Maag Tartu. http://epl.delfi.ee/news/sport/jalgpalliliit-tuhistas-kalevi-ja-tuleviku-mangude-tulemused.d?id=51203385 Jalgpalliliit tühistas Kalevi ja Tuleviku mängude tulemused 14 November 2006 Eesti Päevaleht Results Each team played every opponent four times, twice at home and twice on the road, for a total of 36 games. First half of season main FBR grey FLO AJX LEV MAA TRS TAM TUL TVM VAP WAR Levadia 1–1 4–1 2–1 1–1 4–1 4–1 8–0 2–0 5–0 Narva Trans 1–1 2–2 1–0 2–2 3–2 6–3 2–0 6–1 4–0 Flora 0–1 2–1 1–4 1–1 3–0 4–0 6–0 3–0 2–0 TVMK 0–2 1–1 1–0 5–0 1–1 7–1 8–1 2–1 4–1 Maag 1–2 2–2 1–2 2–0 0–2 0–3 3–1 0–0 6–0 Tammeka 0–5 0–3 0–1 0–2 1–2 2–0 4–1 0–0 3–0 Vaprus 1–2 1–4 2–4 1–0 2–3 0–2 1–0 3–0 2–0 Lasnamäe Ajax 0–3 0–3 1–4 1–2 3–3 1–2 3–1 1–0 2–0 Tulevik 1–3 0–3 0–3 1–2 0–3 0–2 1–1 5–2 3–0 Warrior 0–4 0–5 0–2 0–5 0–2 1–1 1–3 1–3 3–0 complete Second half of season main FBR grey FLO AJX LEV MAA TRS TAM TUL TVM VAP WAR Levadia 1–1 2–2 3–1 2–0 2–0 3–1 11–3 3–0 7–1 Narva Trans 2–3 2–1 3–2 6–1 2–0 5–1 2–0 3–0 4–0 Flora 1–0 3–2 1–1 2–0 5–2 2–0 6–0 2–0 6–0 TVMK 2–3 1–1 3–2 3–0 2–1 3–1 1–0 3–1 1–0 Maag 4–2 2–6 2–3 1–1 1–1 4–2 2–2 4–3 4–1 Tammeka 0–3 2–4 1–3 1–2 0–0 1–1 2–1 1–0 5–0 Vaprus 1–3 0–3 1–4 0–3 1–4 1–1 0–0 1–2 5–2 Lasnamäe Ajax 0–8 0–5 0–2 2–2 3–2 2–0 1–2 1–1 1–2 Tulevik 0–2 1–2 0–2 1–4 0–2 1–2 1–2 0–0 1–0 Warrior 0–1 0–3 0–5 0–3 1–0 0–2 1–2 0–0 1–4 complete Season statistics Top scorers RankPlayerClubGoalshttp://vana.jalgpall.ee/statistics.php?b=ML&year=2006 MÄNGUDE AJALUGU Estonian Estonian Football Association1EST Maksim GruznovNarva Trans312RUS Dmitri LipartovNarva Trans273EST Vjatšeslav ZahovaikoFlora254EST Indrek ZelinskiLevadia215EST Aleksandr DubõkinNarva Trans196EST Vitali GussevMaag Tartu18EST Vladislav GussevTVMKEST Konstantin VassiljevLevadia9RUS Nikita AndreevLevadia17LAT Viktors DobrecovsTVMK See also 2006 Esiliiga References Category:Meistriliiga seasons 1 Estonia