2005_Meistriliiga Knowpia

Meistriliiga
Season	2005
Champions	TVMK; (1st title)
Top goalscorer	Tarmo Neemelo (41)
	← 2004 2006 →

2005 Meistriliiga was the 15th season of the Meistriliiga, Estonia's premier football league. TVMK won their first title.

Season overview edit

FC TVMK's first title-winning Meistriliiga campaign came in some style with strikers Tarmo Neemelo and Ingemar Teever scoring most of the goals and veteran midfielder Andrei Borissov leading the team from midfield. Narva Trans finished in bronze-medal position after years of being fourth in the final table, while FC Flora have been busy rebuilding their squad and therefore not too upset by a disappointing fourth position finish. FC Kuressaare went out of the league via play-offs and Dünamo's defensive displays were awful and the team never seemed to have any kind of chance in staying up.

Tarmo Neemelo in the end scored 41 goals for the champions, and earned a move to top Swedish club Helsingborgs IF, Maksim Gruznov of Narva Trans scored 26 goals, Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko of FC Flora and Ingemar Teever for the champions scored 19 goals each. The latter secured a free transfer to Swedish outfit Östers IF.

League table edit

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	TVMK (C)	36	30	5	1	138	21	+117	95	Qualification for Champions League first qualifying round
2	Levadia	36	28	5	3	97	25	+72	89	Qualification for UEFA Cup first qualifying round^[a]
3	Narva Trans	36	23	6	7	99	34	+65	75	Qualification for Intertoto Cup first round
4	Flora	36	21	6	9	81	36	+45	69	Qualification for UEFA Cup first qualifying round^[a]
5	Tulevik	36	12	11	13	46	48	−2	47
6	Merkuur	36	11	7	18	52	86	−34	40
7	Tammeka	36	8	5	23	50	88	−38	29
8	Valga	36	8	4	24	38	78	−40	28
9	Kuressaare	36	7	6	23	40	96	−56	27	Qualification for relegation play-offs
10	Dünamo (R)	36	3	3	30	28	157	−129	12	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:

^ ^a ^b Flora qualified as Estonian Cup finalists

Relegation play-off edit

13 November 2005

Lasnamäe Ajax	1–0	Kuressaare
Rõtškov 49'

19 November 2005

Kuressaare	2–1	Lasnamäe Ajax
Kluge 11' Pukk 90+1'		Andrejev 46'

2–2 on aggregate. Lasnamäe Ajax won on away goals.

Kuressaare kept their place in the Meistriliiga, after Pärnu Tervis decided not to make the promotion.

Results edit

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 edit

Home \ Away	DÜN	FLO	KUR	LEV	MER	TRS	TAM	TUL	TVM	VAL
Dünamo		0–3	1–0	0–4	1–6	0–6	2–7	0–0	0–7	1–1
Flora	3–1		6–0	0–2	0–0	2–1	3–0	3–0	0–1	2–0
Kuressaare	2–0	1–3		0–2	1–2	1–3	1–0	1–1	1–6	0–0
Levadia	5–0	0–2	4–0		4–0	3–0	5–2	2–0	2–1	3–0
Merkuur	3–1	1–1	5–0	2–2		2–3	0–1	2–0	1–6	2–1
Narva Trans	7–3	2–2	4–1	3–1	6–2		5–1	1–2	0–3	3–1
Tammeka	9–0	0–2	2–2	0–2	2–2	0–3		2–2	0–3	3–4
Tulevik	4–1	3–2	1–0	2–2	5–0^[a]	0–2	1–1		0–2	0–2
TVMK	5–1	3–2	3–1	2–2	2–1	0–0	9–0	2–0		5–0
Valga	2–1	0–4	0–1	0–3	1–1	1–2	1–0	1–2	0–5

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ The game result was cancelled - Merkuur used disqualified player Vjatšeslav Lütter.

Second half of season edit

Home \ Away	DÜN	FLO	KUR	LEV	MER	TRS	TAM	TUL	TVM	VAL
Dünamo		0–2	3–4	0–4	2–1	0–5	1–2	2–0	0–12	3–6
Flora	7–0		7–0	1–3	1–0	0–0	3–1	2–1	1–3	1–0
Kuressaare	8–1	1–1		1–3	1–1	2–5	2–1	1–1	1–8	0–3
Levadia	3–1	2–0	2–0		8–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–2	3–0
Merkuur	4–0	0–6	2–0	2–3		0–7	3–0	2–1	1–3	2–1
Narva Trans	7–0	2–0	3–0	0–4	4–0		6–0	-:+^[a]	0–2	3–0
Tammeka	3–0	1–3	3–0	1–2	2–0	0–3		2–4	0–2	2–1
Tulevik	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–3	0–0	0–0	3–1		0–3	2–0
TVMK	9–1	4–2	6–1	0–0	8–1	0–0	5–0	1–1		3–0^[b]
Valga	5–0	1–3	2–4	0–4	2–1	0–2	1–1	1–5	0–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ The result of the game (5–0 for Trans) is cancelled - Narva Trans used disqualified player Aleksandr Kulatšenko.
^ The game result was cancelled - Valga used disqualified player Norman Kägo.

Season statistics edit

Top scorers edit

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[1]
1	Tarmo Neemelo	TVMK	41
2	Maksim Gruznov	Narva Trans	26
3	Ingemar Teever	TVMK	19
3	Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko	Flora	19
5	Indrek Zelinski	Levadia	18
6	Egidijus Juška	TVMK	17
7	Vitali Leitan	Levadia	16
8	Kristjan Tiirik	Tammeka Tartu	15
9	Anton Sereda	Merkuur Tartu	14
10	Dmitri Ustritski	Tulevik	13