2013 Meistriliiga

The 2013 Meistriliiga (also known as A. Le Coq Premium Liiga for sponsorship reasons) was the 23rd season of the Meistriliiga, the first level in the Estonian football system. The season began on 2 March 2013 and ended on 9 November 2013.^[2] Nõmme Kalju, the defending champions, finished runners-up behind Levadia, who won their 8th title.

Meistriliiga

Season	2013
Champions	Levadia 8th title
Relegated	Kuressaare
Champions League	Levadia
Europa League	Nõmme Kalju Sillamäe Kalev
Matches played	180
Goals scored	510 (2.83 per match)
Top goalscorer	Vladimir Voskoboinikov (23 goals)
Biggest home win	Flora 6–0 Kuressaare (21 May) Sillamäe Kalev 6–0 Tammeka (26 October)
Biggest away win	Tallinna Kalev 0–9 Sillamäe Kalev (2 November)
Highest scoring	Tallinna Kalev 0–9 Sillamäe Kalev (2 November)
Longest winning run	8 matches Levadia (13 April–24 May) Levadia (9 July–21 September)[1]
Longest unbeaten run	15 matches Nõmme Kalju (18 June–28 September)[1]
Longest winless run	16 matches Kuressaare (2 August–9 November)[1]
Longest losing run	9 matches Kuressaare (17 September–9 November)[1]
← 2012 2014 →

Teams

2012 Esiliiga champions Infonet, who lost out to Kuressaare in the promotion/relegation play-off as Esiliiga Runners-up in 2011, were promoted to this season's Meistriliiga making their first appearance in the top division.^[3] Esiliiga runners-up Tarvas lost out on promotion as Meistriliiga's 9th placed club Tallinna Kalev defeated them 3–1 on aggregate in the Promotion/relegation play-off.^[4]

Tammeka finished at the bottom of the 2012 season but escaped relegation due to dissolving of seventh place Viljandi.

Stadiums and locations

Kuressaare

Trans

Paide

Sillamäe Kalev

Flora
Levadia
Kalju
Tallinna Kalev
Infonet

Tammeka

Location of the 2013 Meistriliiga teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Seating capacity
Flora	Tallinn	A. Le Coq Arena	9,692
Infonet	Tallinn	Sportland Arena	540
Kuressaare	Kuressaare	Kuressaare Linnastaadion	1,000
Levadia	Tallinn	Kadriorg Stadium	5,000
Narva Trans	Narva	Kreenholm Stadium	1,065
Nõmme Kalju	Tallinn	Kadriorg Stadium	5,000
Paide Linnameeskond	Paide	Paide linnastaadion	368
Sillamäe Kalev	Sillamäe	Sillamäe Kalev Stadium	800
Tallinna Kalev	Tallinn	Kalevi Keskstaadion	11,500
Tammeka	Tartu	Tamme Stadium	1,750

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
Infonet	Aleksandr Puštov	Jevgeni Gurtšioglujants	Joma	Infonet
Kuressaare	Sergei Zamogilnõi	Sander Viira	Joma	Saaremaa Lihatööstus
Levadia	Marko Kristal	Roman Smishko	Adidas	Viimsi Keevitus
Narva Trans	Valeri Bondarenko	Stanislav Kitto	Nike	Sportland
Nõmme Kalju	Igor Prins	Alo Bärengrub	Adidas	Maxima
Paide Linnameeskond	Meelis Rooba	Carl Tubarik	Nike	Verston
Sillamäe Kalev	Sergei Ratnikov	Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko	Uhlsport	Alexela
Tallinna Kalev	Frank Bernhardt	Ats Sillaste	Jako	Viking Line
Tammeka	Uwe Erkenbrecher	Kristjan Tiirik	Nike	Tartu

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Tallinna Kalev	Sergei Ratnikov	Mutual agreement	18 November 2012[5]	Pre-season	Frank Bernhardt	4 December 2012[6]
Tammeka	Joti Stamatopoulos	Resigned	22 November 2012[7]		Uwe Erkenbrecher	8 January 2013[8]
Sillamäe Kalev	Algimantas Briaunys	Contract terminated	2 April 2013[9]	4th	Sergei Ratnikov	2 April 2013[9]
Narva Trans	Aleksei Yagudin	Mutual agreement	8 April 2013[10]	10th	Valeri Bondarenko	8 April 2013[11]
Flora	Marko Lelov	Sacked	20 July 2013[12]	3rd	Norbert Hurt (caretaker)	21 July 2013[12]

Player transfers

• Transfers made during the 2012–13 winter transfer window:

Main article: List of Estonian football transfers winter 2012–13

• Transfers made during the 2013 summer transfer window:

Main article: List of Estonian football transfers summer 2013

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Levadia (C)	36	30	1	5	69	24	+45	91	Qualification for Champions League first qualifying round
2	Nõmme Kalju	36	26	6	4	78	23	+55	84	Qualification for Europa League first qualifying round
3	Sillamäe Kalev	36	23	6	7	75	22	+53	75
4	Flora	36	21	5	10	83	40	+43	68
5	Paide	36	15	2	19	43	58	−15	47
6	Infonet	36	10	8	18	36	56	−20	38
7	Narva Trans	36	11	3	22	39	55	−16	36
8	Tallinna Kalev	36	10	4	22	35	77	−42	34
9	Tammeka (O)	36	8	8	20	30	68	−38	32	Qualification for relegation play-offs
10	Kuressaare (R)	36	2	5	29	22	87	−65	11	Relegation to Esiliiga

Source: Estonian Football Association (in Estonian)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) least 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^[13]
Europa League spot from 2013–14 Estonian Cup in this season went to 4th tier club Tartu FC Santos
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated

Relegation play-offs

Tammeka as 9th-placed team faced 2013 Esiliiga side Rakvere Tarvas in a two-legged play-off for the spot in next year's competition.^[14]

17 November 2013

13:00 EET (GMT+2)

Tarvas	1–2	Tammeka
Rebane 80'	Report	Tekko 26' Tomson 68'

Rakvere Kunstmurustaadion, Rakvere

Attendance: 350

Referee: Jaan Roos

23 November 2013

13:00 EET (GMT+2)

Tammeka	4–1	Tarvas
Tamm 9', 62' Sahkur 13' (o.g.) Tomson 21'	Report	Hang 51'

Valga Keskstaadion, Valga

Attendance: 174

Referee: Kristo Külljastinen

Tammeka won 6–2 on aggregate and retained their Meistriliiga spot for the 2014 season.

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 KUR LEV PAI SIL T.K TAM NAR Flora 1–1 1–0 6–0 0–3 1–0 3–0 4–1 2–0 1–0 Infonet 0–2 0–3 0–0 0–1 1–2 -:1[a] 2–0 0–0 1–0 Nõmme Kalju 4–3 2–0 2–1 1–0 1–0 0–0 2–0 2–0 4–0 Kuressaare 2–4 1–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–4 1–3 0–0 2–0 Levadia 1–0 2–1 1–0 2–1 1–0 0–0 1–0 3–1 3–0 Paide 0–6 4–0 2–3 3–0 3–4 2–1 2–1 6–2 0–1 Sillamäe Kalev 2–1 3–0 1–1 4–0 2–0 3–0 0–0 1–1 3–2 Tallinna Kalev 2–4 1–4 1–3 1–0 0–1 1–0 1–0 0–2 1–2 Tammeka 1–4 0–3 0–3 3–1 2–1 0–1 0–2 3–0 1–1 Narva Trans 0–3 1–1 2–0 2–0 1–0 0–1 1–2 1–1 1–2 Source: Estonian Football Association Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win. Notes: Sillamäe Kalev were awarded a -:1 win as Infonet fielded an ineligible player. The match ended 0–1.

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

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[15][16]
1	Vladimir Voskoboinikov	Nõmme Kalju	23
2	Rimo Hunt	Levadia	22
3	Kassim Aidara	Sillamäe Kalev	17
4	Albert Prosa	Flora	16
	Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko	Sillamäe Kalev
6	Hidetoshi Wakui	Nõmme Kalju	15
7	Sander Post	Flora	14
8	Tarmo Neemelo	Nõmme Kalju	11
9	Yevgeni Kabaev	Sillamäe Kalev	10
10	Rauno Alliku	Flora	9
	Nikolai Mashichev	Sillamäe Kalev
	Artur Rättel	Levadia

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Sander van de Streek	Flora	Paide Linnameeskond	6–0 (A)	9 March 2013
Sander Post 4	Flora	Kuressaare	6–0 (H)	21 May 2013
Vladimir Voskoboinikov	Nõmme Kalju	Flora	4–3 (H)	31 May 2013
Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko	Sillamäe Kalev	Tammeka	3–0 (A)	3 August 2013
Rimo Hunt	Levadia	Tallinna Kalev	4–1 (A)	20 August 2013
Yevgeni Kabaev	Sillamäe Kalev	Tammeka	6–0 (H)	26 October 2013
Kassim Aidara	Sillamäe Kalev	Tallinna Kalev	9–0 (A)	2 November 2013
Rimo Hunt	Levadia	Kuressaare	4–2 (A)	9 November 2013
Vladimir Voskoboinikov	Nõmme Kalju	Tammeka	3–0 (A)	9 November 2013

• ⁴ Player scored 4 goals.

Average attendance

Club	Average attendance[17]
Tartu JK Tammeka	357
Tallinna FC Flora	336
Tallinna FC Levadia	305
Nõmme JK Kalju	250
JK Sillamäe Kalev	180
Paide Linnameeskond	178
Tallinna FC Infonet	155
JK Tallinna Kalev	147
FC Kuressaare	138
JK Narva Trans	107
League average	215

Awards

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month
	Manager	Club	Player	Club
March[18]	Marko Kristal	Levadia	Hidetoshi Wakui	Nõmme Kalju
April[19]	Meelis Rooba	Paide Linnameeskond	Rimo Hunt	Levadia
May[20]	Valeri Bondarenko	Narva Trans	Vladimir Voskoboinikov	Nõmme Kalju
June[21]	Uwe Erkenbrecher	Tammeka	Nikolai Mashichev	Sillamäe Kalev
July[22]	Sergei Ratnikov	Sillamäe Kalev	Lauri Varendi	Paide Linnameeskond
August[23]	Marko Kristal	Levadia	Kassim Aidara	Sillamäe Kalev
September[24]	Igor Prins	Nõmme Kalju	Allan Kimbaloula	Nõmme Kalju
October[25]	Marko Kristal	Levadia	Rimo Hunt	Levadia

See also

• 2013 Esiliiga
• 2013 Esiliiga B
• 2012–13 Estonian Cup
• 2013–14 Estonian Cup