Estonian national football team

This article is about the Estonian national football team . For the women's team, see Estonian Women's National Football Team .

Estonia
Eesti

Association	Eesti Jalgpalli Liit
confederacy	UEFA
Technical sponsor	Nike
Head coach	Karel Voolaid (since July 2019)
captain	Ragnar Klavan
Record scorer	Andres Opera (38)
Record player	Martin Reim (157)
Home stadium	A. Le Coq Arena , Tallinn
FIFA code	EST
FIFA rank	104th (1202 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
455 games 118 wins 101 draws 236 defeats
statistics
First international match Finland 6-0 Estonia ( Helsinki , Finland ; October 17, 1920 )
Biggest wins Estonia 6-0 Lithuania ( Tallinn , Estonia ; July 26, 1928 ) Gibraltar 0-6 Estonia ( Faro , Portugal ; October 7, 2017 )
Biggest defeats Finland 10-2 Estonia ( Helsinki , Finland ; August 11, 1922 ) Germany 8-0 Estonia ( Mainz , Germany ; June 11, 2019 )
(As of September 9, 2019)

The Estonian national soccer team , led by the Eesti Jalgpalli Liit ( German : Estonian Football Association; English : Estonian Football Association), EJL for short , played its first game in 1920 . 1940 was Estonia by the Soviet Union annexed the lost independence and the opportunity to own football team. After regaining independence in 1991, the national team played their first game against Lithuania in the Baltic Cup on November 15, 1991. They played their first FIFA- recognized game on June 3, 1992 against Slovenia with a 1-1 draw in Tallinn . So far, Estonia has not been able to qualify for either a European Championship or a World Championship final.

Younger story

Estonia played their first competitive games after independence as part of qualifying for the 1994 World Cup . In a total of ten games, the team reached only one draw in Malta and finished last in the group. They scored their only goal in the 3-1 defeat in Scotland .

In qualifying for the European Championship in 1996 , things didn't go any better. All ten games were lost. These included a 7-1 defeat in Croatia and a 5-0 defeat in Lithuania . Estonia only scored three goals and conceded 31.

The Estonian national team won their first competitive game in qualifying for the 1998 World Cup . On October 5, 1996, they defeated Belarus 2-0 in front of their home crowd. After another point win against Scotland , she finished fifth in the qualifying group ahead of Belarus.

In qualifying for the EM 2000 , the first competitive game away win came. On March 31, 1999, the Estonian national team won 2-1 in Lithuania. There are two more victories against the Faroe Islands , a draw in Bosnia-Herzegovina and a home draw against Scotland. In the final table, Estonia took fifth place behind the tied teams from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Lithuania.

In qualifying for the 2002 World Cup , the Estonian national team achieved two victories. They defeated the Andorran national football team 2-0 in front of their home crowd and 2-1 in the second leg in Andorra. After two more draws against Cyprus , Estonia finished fourth in the qualifying group, ahead of Cyprus and Andorra.

In the following qualification for the 2004 European Championship , Estonia again achieved two wins against Andorra. In addition, they achieved a 0-0 draw in Croatia and at home against Bulgaria . With eight points, they came fourth behind Bulgaria, Croatia and Belgium and ahead of Andorra.

In qualifying for the 2006 World Cup , Estonia achieved its best result so far. Five wins were compared to two draws and five defeats. Estonia took fourth place in the final table of the qualification group, ahead of Latvia , Liechtenstein and Luxembourg .

The record national player is Martin Reim with 157 appearances , which means that he was also the record national player until November 14, 2009. In addition to him, Mart Poom , Andres Oper , Marko Kristal , Kristen Viikmäe and Indrek Zelinski have more than 100 appearances in the national team.

In September 2011, Estonia achieved its 58th place in the FIFA world rankings . In qualifying for the European Championship 2012 , Estonia reached the relegation games as runners-up in Group C. There they were defeated by Ireland .

On June 5, 2012, Estonia played a friendly against France in Le Mans , which they lost 4-0. With this game, the first against France, Estonia was the first UEFA team until Gibraltar was admitted to UEFA to have played at least one game against all other national teams currently recognized by UEFA. The game against Gibraltar followed on March 5, 2014. Estonia also celebrated against Gibraltar on October 7, 2017 with a 6-0 away win in the World Cup qualifier, the highest competitive win in the country's international history. Now only one game is missing against Kosovo, which was also accepted by FIFA in 2016 .

Current squad

The following players were in the squad for the European Championship qualifiers against Belarus and the Netherlands in September 2019.

No.	player	society	Date of birth	International matches	International goals	debut	Last use
goal
1	Mihkel Aksalu	Seinäjoen JK	0Nov 7, 1984	045	00	Oct 17, 2010	26th Mar 2019
12	Sergei Lepmets	FC Levadia Tallinn	0Apr 5, 1987	009	00	May 30, 2018	0Sep 9 2019
22nd	Matvei Igons	FC Flora Tallinn	0Oct 2, 1996	002	00	23 Nov 2017	02nd June 2018
Defense
2	Gert Kams	FC Flora Tallinn	May 25, 1985	058	03	0Feb 3, 2007	June 11, 2019
3	Artur Pikk	Miedź Legnica	05th Mar 1993	034	01	0June 7, 2014	06 Sep 2019
5	Madis Vihmann	FC Flora Tallinn	0Oct 5, 1995	019th	00	June 12, 2017	June 11, 2019
15th	Ragnar Klavan	Cagliari Calcio	Oct. 30, 1985	127	03	0July 3, 2003	0Sep 9 2019
16	Joonas Tamm	Lillestrøm SK	0Feb. 2, 1992	033	03	June 20, 2011	0Sep 9 2019
18th	Karol Mets	AIK Solna	May 16, 1993	058	00	Nov 19, 2013	0Sep 9 2019
19th	Ken Kallaste	GKS Tychy	Aug 31, 1988	042	00	0Nov 8, 2012	0Sep 9 2019
21st	Märten Kuusk	FC Flora Tallinn	0Apr 5, 1996	001	00	Jan 15, 2019	Jan 15, 2019
23	Taijo teniste	Brann Bergen	Jan. 31, 1988	074	00	0Nov 9, 2007	0Sep 9 2019
midfield
4th	Mattias Käit	NK Domžale	June 29, 1998	022nd	05	0Jan. 6, 2016	0Sep 9 2019
6th	Mihkel Ainsalu	FC Flora Tallinn	0March 8 1996	004th	00	23 Nov 2017	0Sep 9 2019
13	Vladislav Kreida	FC Flora Tallinn	25 Sep 1999	001	00	June 11, 2019	June 11, 2019
14th	Konstantin Vassiljev	FC Flora Tallinn	Aug 16, 1984	0115	025th	May 31, 2006	06 Sep 2019
20th	Artyom Dmitriev	Oqschetpes Kokshetau	Nov 14, 1988	024	00	0June 9, 2015	0Sep 9 2019
attack
7th	Frank Liivak	FC Flora Tallinn	0July 7, 1996	013	02	May 26, 2014	0Sep 9 2019
8th	Vlasiy Sinyavskiy	FC Flora Tallinn	Nov 27, 1996	002	00	0June 8, 2019	06 Sep 2019
9	Erik Sorga	FC Flora Tallinn	0July 8, 1999	003	01	0June 8, 2019	0Sep 9 2019
10	Sergei Zenjov	Shakhtar Karagandy	Apr 20, 1989	080	13	Aug 20, 2008	0Sep 9 2019
11	Hindrek Ojamaa	Miedź Legnica	June 12, 1995	040	01	May 25, 2012	0Sep 9 2019
17th	Rauno Sappinen	NK Domžale	Jan. 23, 1996	023	02	Nov 11, 2015	0Sep 9 2019

World Championship participation

• 1930 - Did not take part.
• 1934 - Not qualified.
• 1938 - Not qualified.
• 1950 to 1990 - Did not take part, was part of the USSR national football team .
• 1994 to 2018 - Not qualified.

European Championship participation

• 1960 to 1992 - Did not participate, was part of the USSR national football team .
• 1996 to 2008 - Not qualified.
• 2012 - Not qualified - Failed in the group runners-up playoffs by Ireland
• 2016 to 2021 - Not qualified

Participation in the Summer Olympics for amateur teams (once)

1908 in London	not participated
1912 in Stockholm	not participated
1920 in Antwerp	not participated
1924 in Paris	qualification
1928 in Amsterdam	not participated
1936 in Berlin	not participated
1948 in London	not participated, part of the USSR
1952 in Helsinki	not participated, part of the USSR
1956 in Melbourne	not participated, part of the USSR
1960 in Rome	not participated, part of the USSR
1964 in Tokyo	not participated, part of the USSR
1968 in Mexico City	not participated, part of the USSR
1972 in Munich	not participated, part of the USSR
1976 in Montreal	not participated, part of the USSR
1980 in Moscow	not participated, part of the USSR

Participation in the Baltic Cup

• See also : Baltic Cup

Most frequent participation in international games

player	Member of the team	Participations (goals)
Martin rhyme	1992 to 2007	157 (14)
Marko Kristal	1991 to 2005	143 0(9)
Andre's opera	1995 to 2013	134 (38)
Ragnar Klavan	since 2003	127 0(3)
Enar Jaeger	since 2002	126 0(0)
Mart Poom	1991 to 2008	120 0(0)
Konstantin Vassiljev	since 2006	119 (25)
Dmitri Kruglov	since 2004	115 0(4)
Kristen Viikmäe	1997 to 2013	115 (15)
Raio Piiroja	1998 to 2015	114 0(8)
Joel Lindpere	1999 to 2016	107 0(7)
Aleksandr Dmitriev	2004 to 2018	106 0(0)
Indrek Zelinski	1994 to 2010	103 (27)
Sergei Terehhov	1997 to 2007	094 0(5)
Andrei Stepanov	1999 to 2012	089 0(1)
Marek Lemsalu	1991 to 2004	086 0(3)
Sergei Zenjov	since 2008	084 (13)
Tarmo Kink	2004 to 2014	082 0(6)
Urmas Kirs	1991 to 2000	080 0(5)
Sander Puri	since 2008	078 0(4)
Taijo teniste	since 2007	077 0(0)
Taavi Rähn	2001 to 2014	074 0(0)
Teet allas	1997 to 2007	073 0(2)
Viktor Alonen	1992 to 2001	071 0(0)

• As of November 19, 2019 ( players in bold are still active)
• Source: A-koondis-Statistika

Top Estonian goal scorers

player	Member of the team	Goals (games)
Andre's opera	1995 to 2013	38 (134)
Indrek Zelinski	1994 to 2007	27 (103)
Konstantin Vassiljev	since 2006	25 (119)
Eduard Ellman-Eelma	1921 to 1935	21 (59)
Richard Kuremaa	1933 to 1940	19 (42)
Arnold Pihlak	1920 to 1931	16 (44)
Kristen Viikmäe	1997 to 2009	15 (115)
Martin rhyme	1992 to 2009	14 (157)
Henri Anier	since 2011	13 (61)
Georg Siimenson	1932 to 1939	13 (42)
Sergei Zenjov	since 2008	13 (84)

As of November 19, 2019

International matches against German-speaking national teams

→ Main article : List of the international matches of the Estonian national football team

Games against the German national soccer team

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
1.	September 15, 1935	Szczecin	German Empire	5-0	Estonia
2.	August 29, 1937	Koenigsberg	German Empire	4: 1	Estonia
3.	June 29, 1939	Tallinn	Estonia	0: 2	German Empire
4th	June 11, 2019	Mainz	Germany	8-0	Estonia
5.	October 13, 2019	Tallinn	Estonia	0: 3	Germany

Games against the Liechtenstein national football team

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
1.	October 27, 1993	Balzers	Liechtenstein	0: 2	Estonia
2.	August 18, 2004	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	1: 2	Estonia
3.	June 4, 2005	Tallinn	Estonia	2-0	Liechtenstein
4th	17th November 2010	Tallinn	Estonia	1: 1	Liechtenstein
5.	19th November 2013	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	0: 3	Estonia

Games against the Luxembourg national football team

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
1.	April 26, 2000	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	1: 1	Estonia
2.	September 4, 2004	Tallinn	Estonia	4-0	Luxembourg
3.	October 12, 2005	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	0: 2	Estonia

Games against the Austrian national soccer team

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
1.	April 30, 1997	Vienna	Austria	2-0	Estonia
2.	August 20, 1997	Tallinn	Estonia	0: 3	Austria

Games against the Swiss national football team

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
1.	August 16, 1992	Tallinn	Estonia	0: 6	Switzerland
2.	17th November 1993	Zurich	Switzerland	4-0	Estonia
3.	March 27, 2015	Lucerne	Switzerland	3-0	Estonia
4th	October 12, 2015	Tallinn	Estonia	0: 1	Switzerland

Trainer

• Fritz Kerr (1925-1926)
• Antal Mally (1927)
• Fritz Kerr (1930-1932)
• Antal Mally (1935)
• Bernhard Rein (1937–1938)
• Elmar Saar (1939)
• Uno Piir (1991-1993)
• Roman Ubakivi (1994-1995)
• Teitur Thórdarson (1996-1999)
• Tarmo Rüütli (1999–2000)
• Arno Pijpers (2000-2005)
• Jelle Goes (2005-2007)
• Viggo Jensen (2007)
• Tarmo Rüütli (2008-2013)
• Magnus Pehrsson (2013-2016)
• Martin Reim (2016-2019)
• Karel Voolaid (since 2019)

Web links

Commons : Estonian National Football Team  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Estonian Football Association website (Estonian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ FIFA.com: Spain returns to the top ( Memento of December 29, 2011 on the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ weltfussball.de : "European record holder Estonia beats Gibraltar"
4. ↑ Estonia achieves record victory against Gibraltar on transfermarkt.de, accessed on October 8, 2017.
5. ↑ Estonia vs. Netherlands 0-4
6. ↑ The Estonian federation also counts one goal in the game on May 28, 1936, which is not counted by eu-football.info . In the Estonian rsssf statistics, only 16 goals are named.
7. ↑ In his eu football game list a goal on August 12, 1928 is also mentioned that the Estonian association does not count.
8. ↑ In its eu football match list , two goals are mentioned in the game on May 28, 1936, and rsssf names a total of 14 goals but without further details, the Estonian association only counts 1 goal on May 28, 1936.
9. ↑ A-Koondis - Statistika