2006 Esiliiga

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Esiliiga
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2005
2007

The 2006 Esiliiga is the 16th season of the Esiliiga, second-highest Estonian league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1992.

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FC Kuressaare gained automatic promotion to the Meistriliiga as FC Levadia II are the reserve team for Meistriliiga champions FC Levadia and therefore can not be promoted to the same league as its parent club. JK Tallinna Kalev also go up after winning the promotion-relegation play-off. The league's top-scorer was FC Levadia youngster Kaimar Saag with 37 goals. Nõmme Kalju's Andrus Mitt scored 35 goals.

Final table of Esiliiga season 2006

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPromotion or relegation
1 Levadia II Tallinn [a] (C)36284413224+10888
2 FC Kuressaare (P)3622596444+2071Promotion to Meistriliiga
3 Kalev Tallinn (O, P)36206108463+2166Qualification for relegation play-offs
4 Flora II Tallinn [a] 36193148156+2560
5 Kalju Nõmme 36185137680459
6 TVMK II Tallinn [a] 36174156663+355
7 Tulevik II Viljandi [a] 36911165352+138
8 Lootus Kohtla-Järve* (R)361032346995333Qualification for relegation play-offs
9 Dünamo Tallinn (R)36782144854129Relegation to II liiga [b]
10 FC Elva 364329201008015Spared from relegation [c]
Source: [ citation needed ]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. 1 2 3 4 Reserve teams are ineligible for promotion.
  2. Denied Esiliiga license
  3. Stayed up as Trans II decided against promotion and two clubs above were denied the Esiliiga license.

Promotion/relegation playoff

Kalev Sillamäe 5 - 1 Lootus Kohtla-Järve
Lootus Kohtla-Järve 1 - 3 Kalev Sillamäe

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

As of 11 November 2007. [1]
RankPlayerClubGoals
1 Flag of Estonia.svg Kaimar Saag Levadia II 37
2 Flag of Estonia.svg Andrus Mitt Nõmme Kalju 35
3 Flag of Estonia.svg Jevgeni Gurtšioglujants Levadia II 17
Flag of Estonia.svg Sander Puri Levadia II 17
5 Flag of Estonia.svg Artjom Dmitrijev TVMK II 16
Flag of Estonia.svg Tiit Tikenberg Tallinna Kalev 16
7 Flag of Estonia.svg Dmitri Kirilov Tallinna Kalev 15
8 Flag of Estonia.svg Kristian Marmor Levadia II 14
9 Flag of Estonia.svg Eino Puri Levadia II 12
Flag of Estonia.svg Anton Semjonov Lootus 12
Flag of Estonia.svg Rainer Veskimäe Kuressaare 12

See also

References

  1. "EL VÄRAVALÖÖJATE EDETABEL (2007)" (in Estonian). Estonian Football Association.