2006 Esiliiga

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

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

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Levadia II Tallinn[a] (C) 36 28 4 4 132 24 +108 88
2 FC Kuressaare (C) 36 22 5 9 64 44 +20 71 Promotion to Meistriliiga
3 Kalev Tallinn 36 20 6 10 84 63 +21 66 Qualification for relegation play-offs
4 Flora II Tallinn[a] 36 19 3 14 81 56 +25 60
5 Kalju Nõmme 36 18 5 13 76 80 −4 59
6 TVMK II Tallinn[a] 36 17 4 15 66 63 +3 55
7 Tulevik II Viljandi[a] 36 9 11 16 53 52 +1 38
8 Lootus Kohtla-Järve* (R) 36 10 3 23 46 99 −53 33 Qualification for relegation play-offs
9 Dünamo Tallinn (R) 36 7 8 21 44 85 −41 29 Relegation to II liiga[b]
10 FC Elva 36 4 3 29 20 100 −80 15 Spared from relegation[c]
Source: [citation needed]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b c d 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 Sillamäe5 - 1Lootus Kohtla-Järve
Lootus Kohtla-Järve1 - 3Kalev Sillamäe

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

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

See also

References

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