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Season | 2010 |
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Manager | Tarmo Rüütli |
Captain | Raio Piiroja |
Home stadium | A. Le Coq Arena |
2010 Baltic Cup | third |
UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying | third (after 4 rounds) |
Matches played | 13 |
Wins | 3 |
Draws | 4 |
Losses | 6 |
Goals scored | 13 (1 per match) |
Goals against | 18 |
Top goalscorer | Konstantin Vassiljev (4 goals) |
Players | 38 |
Goalscorers | 8 |
Debutants | 6 |
Highest attendance | 40,000 v Georgia (3 March 2010 in Georgia) |
Lowest attendance | 300 v Latvia (19 June 2010 in Lithuania) |
← 2009 2011 → |
The 2010 season was the 19th full year of competitive football in Estonia as an independent nation. [1]
The team played total of thirteen – four UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying, two Baltic Cup and seven friendly – matches, of which they won three, drew four and lost six. They scored thirteen goals, averaging one goal per match, and conceded eighteen in these games.
3 March 2010 Friendly | Georgia ![]() | 2 – 1 | ![]() | Lokomotivi Stadium, Tbilisi |
17:00 UTC+3 | Kobiashvili ![]() Siradze ![]() | Report | Purje ![]() | Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Veaceslav Banari (Moldova) |
It was the farewell match for Indrek Zelinski, who acquired total of 103 caps and 27 goals. Sander Post scored his first international goal, which helped Estonia overcome Finland for the first time in 73 years. Karl Palatu was capped for the first time.
26 May 2010 Friendly | Estonia ![]() | 0 – 0 | ![]() | A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn |
21:30 UTC+3 | Report | Attendance: 4,800 Referee: Michael Svendsen (Denmark) |
Sergei Mošnikov was capped for the first time.
19 June 2010 2010 Baltic Cup | Latvia ![]() | 0 – 0 | ![]() | S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas |
18:10 UTC+3 | Report | Attendance: 300 Referee: Gediminas Mažeika (Lithuania) |
20 June 2010 2010 Baltic Cup | Lithuania ![]() | 2 – 0 | ![]() | S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas |
18:10 UTC+3 | Savėnas ![]() Rimkevičius ![]() | Report | Attendance: 600 Referee: Andrejs Sipailo (Latvia) |
11 August 2010 Euro 2012 qualifying | Estonia ![]() | 2 – 1 | ![]() | A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn |
20:00 UTC+3 | Saag ![]() Piiroja ![]() | Report | Edmundsson ![]() | Attendance: 5,201 Referee: Ante Vučemilović-Šimunović Jr. (Croatia) |
3 September 2010 Euro 2012 qualifying | Estonia ![]() | 1 – 2 | ![]() | A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn |
21:30 UTC+3 | Zenjov ![]() | Report | Cassano ![]() Bonucci ![]() | Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain) |
8 October 2010 Euro 2012 qualifying | Serbia ![]() | 1 – 3 | ![]() | Stadion FK Partizan, Belgrade |
20:30 UTC+2 | Žigić ![]() | Report | Kink ![]() Vassiljev ![]() Luković ![]() | Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Maksim Layushkin (Russia) |
12 October 2010 Euro 2012 qualifying | Estonia ![]() | 0 – 1 | ![]() | A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn |
21:30 UTC+3 | Report | Sidorenkov ![]() | Attendance: 5,722 Referee: Tommy Skjerven (Norway) |
Siim Luts was capped for the first time.
17 November 2010 Friendly | Estonia ![]() | 1 – 1 | ![]() | A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn |
18:45 UTC+3 | Vassiljev ![]() | Report | Frick ![]() | Attendance: 1,909 Referee: Aleksandr Gvardis (Russia) |
Rauno Alliku, Markus Jürgenson and Marko Meerits were capped for the first time.
18 December 2010 Friendly | China ![]() | 3 – 0 | ![]() | Zhuhai Sports Center Stadium, Zhuhai |
17:00 UTC+8 | Du Wei ![]() Yu Hai ![]() Yang Xu ![]() | Referee: Ko Hyung Jin (South Korea) |
22 December 2010 Friendly | Qatar ![]() | 2 – 0 | ![]() | Khalifa International Stadium, Doha |
16:00 UTC+3 | Soria ![]() Fábio César ![]() | Referee: Carlo Bertolini (Switzerland) |
These 38 players were capped during the 2010 season (listed alphabetically):
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All six were FC Flora Tallinn players at the time of their debuts.
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