2014 Meistriliiga

Meistriliiga

Season	2014
Champions	Levadia 9th title
Relegated	Tallinna Kalev Lokomotiv
Champions League	Levadia
Europa League	Sillamäe Kalev Flora Nõmme Kalju
Matches played	180
Goals scored	642 (3.57 per match)
Top goalscorer	Yevgeni Kabaev (36 goals)
Biggest home win	Levadia 9–0 Tallinna Kalev (15 June) Infonet 10–1 Lokomotiv (1 August) Nõmme Kalju 9–0 Lokomotiv (16 September) Levadia 9–0 Lokomotiv (2 November)
Biggest away win	Tallinna Kalev 0–8 Levadia (15 March)
Highest scoring	Infonet 10–1 Lokomotiv (1 August)
Longest winning run	8 games Sillamäe Kalev Flora Nõmme Kalju
Longest unbeaten run	19 games Levadia
Longest winless run	23 games Lokomotiv
Longest losing run	19 games Tallinna Kalev
← 2013 2015 →

The 2014 Meistriliiga, also known as A. Le Coq Premium Liiga due to sponsorship reasons, ^[1] was the 24th season of the Meistriliiga, the first level in the Estonian football system. The season ran from 1 March 2014 to 8 November 2014. ^[2] Levadia successfully defended the title, securing the championship in the last round.

Teams

Kuressaare were relegated to the 2014 Esiliiga after finishing in the bottom of the table at the end of the 2013 season, ending their five-year tenure in the top flight. They were replaced by Lokomotiv, Esiliiga runners-up and first among promotion-eligible teams. Lokomotiv will make their first appearance in the top division. ^[3]

One spot in the league was decided in a two-legged play-off between Esiliiga's 4th Tarvas and Meistriliiga's 9th-placed team Tammeka. Tammeka won 6–2 on aggregate and therefore retained its place in Meistriliiga. ^[4]

Tammeka hit financial trouble in the second half of 2013 season, ^[5] but refused the reorganization plan set by Estonian Football Association. ^[6] In February Tammeka were stripped of their Meistriliiga license. ^[7] Tammeka entry was later granted for 2014 season to Football School Tammeka, financially independent part of the club run by former employees of football club Tammeka. ^[8]

Stadiums and locations

Trans

Paide

Sillamäe
Kalev

Flora
Levadia
Kalju
Tallinna Kalev
Infonet

Lokomotiv

Tammeka

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Location of the 2014 Meistriliiga teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Seating capacity
Flora	Tallinn	A. Le Coq Arena	9,692 [9]
Infonet		Sportland Arena	540
Levadia		Kadriorg Stadium	5,000 [10]
Lokomotiv	Jõhvi	Jõhvi linnastaadion	60 [11]
Narva Trans	Narva	Kreenholm Stadium	1,065 [12]
Nõmme Kalju	Tallinn	Kadriorg Stadium	5,000 [10]
Paide Linnameeskond	Paide	Paide linnastaadion	268 [13]
Sillamäe Kalev	Sillamäe	Sillamäe Kalev Stadium	800 [14]
Tallinna Kalev	Tallinn	Kalev Keskstaadion	11,500 [15]
Tammeka	Tartu	Tartu Tamme Stadium	1,750 [16]

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Flora	Norbert Hurt	Sander Post	Nike	Tele2 [17]
Infonet	Aleksandr Puštov	Vladimir Avilov	Joma	Infonet
Levadia	Marko Kristal	Roman Smishko	Adidas	Viimsi Keevitus
Lokomotiv	Aleksei Tikhomirov	Valeri Smelkov	Adidas	Spacecom [18]
Narva Trans	Aleksei Yagudin	Roman Nesterovski	Nike	Fama [19]
Nõmme Kalju	Igor Prins	Vitali Teleš	Adidas	Optibet [20]
Paide Linnameeskond	Meelis Rooba	Liivo Leetma	Nike	Verston
Sillamäe Kalev	Sergei Frantsev	Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko	Uhlsport	Alexela
Tallinna Kalev	Sergei Zamogilnõi	Daniil Savitski	Jako	Viking Line
Tammeka	Indrek Koser	Jürgen Lorenz	Nike	Goldtime

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Tallinna Kalev	Frank Bernhardt	Mutual agreement	13 December 2013	Pre-season	Tarmo Rüütli	13 December 2013 [21]
Tammeka	Uwe Erkenbrecher	End of contract	31 December 2013		Indrek Koser	14 February 2014 [22]
Tallinna Kalev	Tarmo Rüütli	Signed by Irtysh Pavlodar	6 March 2014 [23]	9th	Sergei Zamogilnõi	10 March 2014 [24]
Lokomotiv	Viktors Ņesterenko	Sacked	22 April 2014 [25]	10th	Aleksei Tikhomirov	23 April 2014 [26]
Sillamäe Kalev	Sergei Ratnikov	Mutual agreement	26 April 2014 [27]	1st	Vadym Dobizha (caretaker)	26 April 2014 [27]
Lokomotiv	Aleksei Tikhomirov	Mutual agreement	3 June 2014 [28]	10th	Andrei Škaleta	6 June 2014 [29]
Narva Trans	Valeri Bondarenko	Sacked	14 June 2014 [30]	7th	Aleksei Yagudin	14 June 2014
Sillamäe Kalev	Vadym Dobizha	Caretaker spell over	13 July 2014	4th	Sergei Frantsev	13 July 2014 [31]
Lokomotiv	Andrei Škaleta	Mutual agreement	6 August 2014 [32]	10th	Aleksei Tikhomirov	6 August 2014 [32]

Player transfers

• Transfers made during the 2013–14 winter transfer window (3 January – 28 February 2014) ^[33]

Main article: List of Estonian football transfers winter 2013–14

• Transfers made during the 2014 summer transfer window (20 June – 20 July 2014) ^[33]

Main article: List of Estonian football transfers summer 2014

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Levadia (C)	36	26	6	4	112	19	+93	84	Qualification for Champions League first qualifying round
2	Sillamäe Kalev	36	25	4	7	108	34	+74	79	Qualification for Europa League first qualifying round [lower-alpha 1]
3	Flora	36	24	7	5	88	36	+52	79
4	Nõmme Kalju	36	24	6	6	85	19	+66	78
5	Infonet	36	19	9	8	80	44	+36	66
6	Paide Linnameeskond	36	9	8	19	39	67	−28	35
7	Tammeka	36	7	7	22	37	83	−46	28
8	Narva Trans	36	6	10	20	37	79	−42	28
9	Lokomotiv (R)	36	4	6	26	35	115	−80	18	Qualification for relegation play-offs
10	Tallinna Kalev (R)	36	3	3	30	21	146	−125	12	Relegation to Esiliiga

Source: Estonian Football Association (in Estonian)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) fewest withdrawals or annulled matches; 3) overall wins; 4) head-to-head points; 5) head-to-head goal difference; 6) goal difference; 7) goals scored; 8) away goals scored; 9) fair-play points.
If two (or more) teams on the top have the same number of points by the end of the season, the aforementioned rules will not apply and additional game(s) will be played to determine the champions ^[34]
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Nõmme Kalju qualified for the first qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League as winners of the 2014–15 Estonian Cup

Relegation play-offs

At season's end Lokomotiv, the ninth place club in the Meistriliiga, participated in a two-legged play-off with Tulevik, the runners-up (of the independent teams) of the 2014 Esiliiga, for the spot in next year's competition. ^[35]

Tulevik v Lokomotiv

16 November 2014	Tulevik	0–0	Lokomotiv	Viljandi
13:00 EET (GMT+2)		Report		Stadium: Viljandi Linnastaadion Attendance: 260 Referee: Kristo Tohver

Lokomotiv v Tulevik

22 November 2014	Lokomotiv	1–1	Tulevik	Kohtla-Järve
13:00 EET (GMT+2)	Yablokov 53'	Report	Ilves 71'	Stadium: Ahtme Gümnaasiumi kunstmuru Attendance: 96 Referee: Eiko Saar

1–1 on aggregate. Tulevik won on away goals and secured promotion to 2015 Meistriliiga

Results

Each team plays every opponent four times, twice at home and twice away, for a total of 36 games.

First-half of season Home \ Away FLO INF NÕM LEV LOK PAI SIL T.K TAM NAR Flora 2–3 1–0 0–0 3–1 5–0 1–1 5–1 3–0 1–0 Infonet 2–3 0–0 0–4 2–0 1–1 3–3 6–0 3–0 4–0 Nõmme Kalju 1–1 w/o [lower-alpha 1] 0–0 5–1 3–0 1–0 2–1 6–0 2–1 Levadia 1–1 3–0 1–0 6–0 0–1 2–2 9–0 2–0 1–0 Lokomotiv 1–3 1–1 0–2 0–4 1–2 1–3 0–1 2–2 0–2 Paide 1–5 0–1 0–6 0–2 3–0 0–3 6–2 0–4 0–0 Sillamäe Kalev 1–2 3–1 0–3 0–2 6–1 3–1 6–1 5–0 1–1 Tallinna Kalev 1–4 1–3 0–3 0–8 2–1 1–1 0–6 1–6 3–1 Tammeka 1–1 0–4 0–2 0–7 1–1 2–4 0–6 2–0 1–1 Narva Trans 0–1 1–1 0–4 0–0 5–0 1–0 1–4 1–1 1–2 Source: Estonian Football Association Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win. Notes: Infonet were awarded a win as Nõmme Kalju fielded a suspended player. The match had ended 1–0.

Second-half of season Home \ Away FLO INF NÕM LEV LOK PAI SIL T.K TAM NAR Flora 2–2 0–2 1–2 6–2 3–0 1–0 2–0 1–0 6–0 Infonet 1–3 1–3 2–0 10–1 0–0 0–2 5–0 3–2 5–2 Nõmme Kalju 1–0 1–1 0–1 9–0 3–1 0–2 5–0 3–0 1–0 Levadia 1–1 2–3 3–2 9–0 4–1 0–3 5–0 1–0 7–0 Lokomotiv 2–5 0–3 1–3 1–5 0–0 1–2 1–0 2–0 3–2 Paide 1–2 0–1 1–1 0–3 1–0 2–3 4–1 0–1 1–1 Sillamäe Kalev 3–2 3–0 2–3 0–1 2–0 4–0 8–0 1–0 7–1 Tallinna Kalev 0–2 0–4 0–7 0–7 0–5 0–3 1–8 1–1 0–3 Tammeka 2–4 1–1 0–1 0–1 3–3 0–4 1–4 2–1 2–1 Narva Trans 0–1 0–3 0–0 1–8 2–2 0–0 0–1 4–1 2–1 Source: Estonian Football Association Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals [36] [37]
1	Yevgeni Kabaev	Sillamäe Kalev	36
2	Igor Subbotin	Levadia	32
3	Manucho	Infonet	30
4	Albert Prosa	Flora	22
5	Hidetoshi Wakui	Nõmme Kalju	21
6	Vladislav Ivanov	Levadia	19
7	Stanislav Murikhin	Sillamäe Kalev	16
8	Rauno Alliku	Flora	15
	Ingemar Teever	Levadia
10	Tarmo Neemelo	Nõmme Kalju	14

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Kristjan Tiirik	Tammeka	Tallinna Kalev	6–1 (A)	29 March 2014
Rauno Alliku	Flora	Tallinna Kalev	4–1 (A)	19 April 2014
Manucho	Infonet	Tallinna Kalev	6–0 (H)	25 April 2014
Vladislav Ivanov	Levadia	Infonet	4–0 (A)	12 May 2014
Stanislav Murikhin	Sillamäe Kalev	Tammeka	6–0 (A)	20 May 2014
Rasmus Tomson	Paide Linnameeskond	Tallinna Kalev	6–2 (H)	20 May 2014
Vladislav Ivanov 4	Levadia	Tammeka	7–0 (A)	10 June 2014
Vladislav Ivanov	Levadia	Tallinna Kalev	9–0 (H)	15 June 2014
Igor Subbotin
Yevgeni Kabaev	Sillamäe Kalev	Tallinna Kalev	6–1 (H)	7 July 2014
Manucho 4	Infonet	Tallinna Kalev	5–0 (H)	13 July 2014
Hidetoshi Wakui	Nõmme Kalju	Tammeka	3–0 (H)	14 July 2014
Jarmo Ahjupera	Nõmme Kalju	Tallinna Kalev	5–0 (H)	28 July 2014
Robert Kirss	Nõmme Kalju	Lokomotiv	5–1 (H)	22 August 2014
Albert Prosa	Flora	Paide Linnameeskond	3–0 (H)	23 August 2014
Stanislav Murikhin	Sillamäe Kalev	Tallinna Kalev	8–0 (H)	30 August 2014
Yevgeni Kabaev 4
Yevgeni Kabaev	Sillamäe Kalev	Tallinna Kalev	8–1 (A)	13 September 2014
Felipe Nunes 4	Nõmme Kalju	Lokomotiv	9–0 (H)	16 September 2014
Tarmo Neemelo
Igor Subbotin 4	Levadia	Tallinna Kalev	5–0 (H)	19 September 2014
Tarmo Neemelo	Nõmme Kalju	Tallinna Kalev	7–0 (A)	25 October 2014
Igor Subbotin 4	Levadia	Lokomotiv	9–0 (H)	2 November 2014
Igor Subbotin 4	Levadia	Narva Trans	8–1 (A)	8 November 2014
Manucho	Infonet	Tallinna Kalev	4–0 (A)	8 November 2014

Notes

⁴ Player scored 4 goals
(H) – Home team
(A) – Away team

Awards

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month
	Manager	Club	Player	Club
March [38]	Sergei Ratnikov	Sillamäe Kalev	Albert Prosa	Flora
April [39]	Igor Prins	Nõmme Kalju	Mikk Reintam	Nõmme Kalju
May [40]	Norbert Hurt	Flora	Daniil Ratnikov	Sillamäe Kalev
June [41]	Marko Kristal	Levadia	Lasha Omanidze	Tallinna Kalev
July [42]	Aleksandr Puštov	Infonet	Karl-Eerik Luigend	Flora
August [43]	Sergei Frantsev	Sillamäe Kalev	Yevgeni Kabaev	Sillamäe Kalev
September [44]	Igor Prins	Nõmme Kalju	Roman Smishko	Levadia
October [45]	Sergei Frantsev	Sillamäe Kalev	Manucho	Infonet

Meistriliiga Player of the Year

Yevgeni Kabaev was named Meistriliiga Player of the Year.

See also

• 2013–14 Estonian Cup
• 2014–15 Estonian Cup
• 2014 Esiliiga
• 2014 Esiliiga B

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