Meistriliiga

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Meistriliiga
Meistriliiga logoTemplate: Infobox football competition / maintenance / logo format
Association Eesti Jalgpalli Liit
First edition 1992
hierarchy 1st League
Teams 10
master FC Flora Tallinn
Record champions FC Flora Tallinn (12)
Record player Stanislav Kitto (515)
Record scorer Maksim Gruznov (304)
Current season 2020
Website www.jalgpall.ee
Qualification for Champions League
Europa League
Baltic League
↓ Esiliiga (II)

The Meistriliiga is the top division in Estonian football . The league was founded in 1992 .

mode

Ten teams are currently playing in the Meistriliiga . In the course of a season, each team plays four times against each other team in two home and two away games. At the end of the season, the last placed will be relegated to the Esiliiga . The penultimate plays two relegation games against the runner-up of the Esiliiga.

As in the Scandinavian countries, the season runs from March to November with the calendar year. Between 1992 and 1998, however, the championship was held in an "autumn-spring rhythm".

Clubs 2019

Previous masters

Record champions

  • 12 tracks: FC Flora Tallinn
  • 09 titles: FC Levadia Tallinn (formerly Levadia Maardu)
  • 02 titles: FC Nõmme Kalju, FC Lantana Tallinn, FC Norma Tallinn
  • 01 title: FC TVMK Tallinn, FC Infonet Tallinn

UEFA five-year ranking

Placement in the UEFA five-year ranking ( previous year's ranking in brackets ). The abbreviations CL and EL after the country coefficients indicate the number of representatives in the 2019/20 season of the Champions League and the Europa League .

  • 44. +2( 46 ) Armenia ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 5,250 - CL: 1, EL: 3ArmeniaArmenia 
  • 45. +2( 47 ) Malta ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 5.125 - CL: 1, EL: 3MaltaMalta 
  • 46. −4( 42 ) Estonia ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 5,000 - CL: 1, EL: 3EstoniaEstonia 
  • 47. −2( 45 ) Georgia ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 4,750 - CL: 1, EL: 3GeorgiaGeorgia 
  • 48. +2( 50 ) Wales ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 4.125 - CL: 1, EL: 3WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg 

Status: end of the European Cup season 2018/19

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UEFA rankings for club competitions. In: UEFA. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .