2006 Meistriliiga

Meistriliiga

Season	2006
Champions	Levadia Tallinn
Top goalscorer	Maksim Gruznov (31)
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Home cities of 2006 teams

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've meant their relegation a step down. 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 leagues 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.

Final standing

Pos	Club	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	Pts	Comments
1	FC Levadia Tallinn	36	30	4	2	114	29	94	Champions League 1st Qualifying Round
2	JK Narva Trans	36	25	8	3	106	36	83	UEFA Cup 1st Qualifying Round
3	FC Flora Tallinn	36	26	4	6	93	34	82
4	FC TVMK Tallinn	36	22	6	8	83	37	72	Intertoto Cup 1st Round
5	Maag Tartu	36	13	9	14	65	68	48
6	JK Tammeka Tartu	36	12	7	17	45	57	43
7	FC Pärnu Vaprus	36	10	4	22	49	86	34
8	FC Ajax Lasnamäe	36	6	7	23	35	104	25
9	JK Viljandi Tulevik	36	5	5	26	29	74	20	Promotion/Relegation Playoff
10	FC Warrior Valga	36	3	2	31	16	110	11	Relegated

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; Pts = Points
C = Champions

	UEFA Champions League First Qualifying Round
	UEFA Cup First Qualifying Round
	UEFA Intertoto Cup First Round
	Relegation Playoffs
	Relegated

Promotion/Relegation play-off

November 8, 2006	Kalev Tallinn	0 – 0 [1]	Tulevik Viljandi [2]	Att: 50

November 12, 2006	Tulevik Viljandi [3]	1–1	Kalev Tallinn	Att: 90
	Kirillov  32'		Laasberg  5'

Notes

1. ^ Both games were awarded 3–0 to Kalev Tallinn, since Tulevik Viljandi fielded an ineligible player.
2. ^ Tulevik Viljandi kept their place in the Meistriliiga as a result of merger of Tammeka Tartu and Maag Tartu
3. ^ Both games were awarded 3–0 to Kalev Tallinn, since Tulevik Viljandi fielded an ineligible player.

Season Statistic

Miscellaneous

• Oldest player: 39 years, 231 days – Sergei Bragin (Lasnamäe Ajax v Tammeka on 05/11/2006)
• Youngest player: 15 years, 265 days – Aleks Moneš (Lasnamäe Ajax v Trans on 19/03/2006)
• Oldest goalscorer: 39 years, 3 days – Sergei Bragin (Lasnamäe Ajax v Flora on 22/03/2006)
• Youngest goalscorer: 16 years, 110 days – Aleks Moneš (Lasnamäe Ajax v Levadia on 15/10/2006)

Topscorers

Pos	Name	Team	Goals
1	Maksim Gruznov (EST)	Trans Narva	31
2	Dmitry Lipartov (RUS)	Trans Narva	27
3	Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko (EST)	Flora Tallinn	25
4	Indrek Zelinski (EST)	Levadia Tallinn	21
5	Aleksandr Dubõkin (EST)	Trans Narva	19
6	Vitali Gussev (EST)	Maag Tartu	18
–	Vladislav Gussev (EST)	TVMK Tallinn	18
–	Konstantin Vassiljev (EST)	Levadia Tallinn	18
9	Nikita Andreev (RUS)	Levadia Tallinn	17
–	Viktors Dobrecovs (LAT)	TVMK Tallinn	17

See also

• 2006 Esiliiga