2003 Meistriliiga

Meistriliiga

Season	2003
Champions	Flora 7th title
Relegated	Kuressaare
Champions League	Flora
UEFA Cup	TVMK Levadia Maardu
Intertoto Cup	Narva Trans
Matches played	140
Goals scored	423 (3.02 per match)
Top goalscorer	Tor Henning Hamre (39)
← 2002 2004 →

The 2003 Meistriliiga was the 13th season of the Meistriliiga, the top Estonian league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1992.

Flora won their 7th Meistriliiga title.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Flora (C)	28	24	4	0	105	21	+84	76	Qualification for Champions League first qualifying round
2	TVMK	28	20	5	3	82	26	+56	65	Qualification for UEFA Cup first qualifying round [a]
3	Levadia Maardu [b]	28	15	4	9	54	30	+24	49
4	Narva Trans	28	14	5	9	58	43	+15	47	Qualification for Intertoto Cup first round
5	Tulevik	28	8	6	14	44	56	−12	30
6	Levadia Tallinn [c]	28	8	4	16	44	63	−19	28
7	Valga	28	3	8	17	25	63	−38	17	Qualification for relegation play-offs
8	Kuressaare (R)	28	1	2	25	11	121	−110	5	Relegation to Esiliiga

Source: Estonian Football Association (in Estonian)
Rules for classification: 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.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Levadia Maardu qualified as 2003–04 Estonian Cup winners.
2. Levadia Maardu changed their name to Levadia Tallinn in 2004.
3. Levadia Tallinn changed their name to Levadia II Tallinn in 2004.

Relegation play-off

12 November 2003

Tervis Pärnu	2–2	Valga
Valejev 24' Savotškin 28'		Raamat 10' Tarassenkov 37'

22 November 2003

Valga	3–0	Tervis Pärnu
Antonov 33' Tarassenkov 43' Anniste 54'

Valga won 5–2 on aggregate and retained their Meistriliiga spot for the 2004 season.

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 Home \ Away FLO KUR LMA LTA TRS TUL TVM VAL Flora 7–1 2–0 3–0 2–2 3–1 2–2 3–2 Kuressaare 0–4 0–6 3–9 0–3 0–4 0–4 2–1 Levadia Maardu 1–2 7–0 1–0 1–0 1–4 0–3 0–0 Levadia Tallinn 1–4 4–2 2–3 0–1 2–1 0–3 2–1 Narva Trans 1–3 3–0 1–0 2–1 2–2 1–2 4–0 Tulevik 0–2 0–0 0–2 3–1 1–1 0–0 3–3 TVMK 4–4 3–0 1–1 0–0 4–0 4–0 4–1 Valga 0–4 0–0 0–3 1–1 2–2 1–2 0–3 Source: RSSSF Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of season Home \ Away FLO KUR LMA LTA TRS TUL TVM VAL Flora 17–0 1–0 4–1 2–0 2–1 2–0 5–0 Kuressaare 0–6 0–2 0–5 1–3 0–3 0–2 0–1 Levadia Maardu 1–3 2–0 4–0 5–3 3–0 1–4 0–0 Levadia Tallinn 1–3 3–1 1–1 1–3 4–2 1–4 0–0 Narva Trans 0–0 8–0 5–1 1–2 3–2 2–0 3–0 Tulevik 0–5 5–0 0–1 2–0 3–4 1–3 3–1 TVMK 1–3 5–0 2–0 6–1 4–3 8–1 3–1 Valga 1–7 4–1 0–3 4–1 0–1 0–0 1–3 Source: RSSSF Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals [1]
1	Tor Henning Hamre	Flora	35
2	Andrei Krõlov	TVMK	22
3	Ingemar Teever	TVMK	21
4	Maksim Gruznov	Narva Trans	16
5	Argo Arbeiter	Levadia Maardu	14
	Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko	Flora
7	Dmitri Lipartov	Narva Trans	12
	Vladimir Tšelnokov	Levadia Maardu
9	Enver Jääger	Tulevik	11
	Maksim Rõtškov	Levadia Maardu
	Kristen Viikmäe	Flora

See also

• 2002–03 Estonian Cup
• 2003–04 Estonian Cup
• 2003 Esiliiga

References

1. "Estonia - List of Topscorers". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation.

External links

• Official website (in Estonian)