2024 Meistriliiga

The 2024 Meistriliiga, also known as A. Le Coq Premium Liiga due to sponsorship reasons,^[1] was the 34th season of the Meistriliiga, the top Estonian league for association football clubs since its establishment in 1992. The season began on 1 March, and concluded on 9 November 2024.

Meistriliiga

Season	2024
Dates	1 March – 9 November 2024
Champions	FCI Levadia (11th title)
Relegated	Nõmme United
Champions League	FCI Levadia
Conference League	Flora Nõmme Kalju Paide Linnameeskond
Matches played	180
Goals scored	539 (2.99 per match)
Top goalscorer	Alex Tamm (28 goals)
← 2023 2025 →

FCI Levadia won their 11th Meistriliiga title.

Teams

The league consisted of ten teams; the top nine teams of the previous season, and one team promoted from the Esiliiga. Flora entered the season as defending champions.

Nõmme United were promoted as champions of the 2023 Esiliiga, replacing the bottom-placed 2023 Meistriliiga side Harju.

Stadiums and locations

Tallinn

Paide Linnameeskond

Vaprus

Tammeka

Narva Trans

Kuressaare

Tallinn teams:
FCI Levadia
Flora
Nõmme Kalju
Nõmme United
Tallinna Kalev

Locations of the 2024 Meistriliiga teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
FCI Levadia	Tallinn	A. Le Coq Arena	14,336[2]
Flora
Kuressaare	Kuressaare	Kuressaare linnastaadion	1,000[3]
Narva Trans	Narva	Narva Kreenholm Stadium	1,065[4]
Nõmme Kalju	Tallinn	Hiiu Stadium	570[5]
Nõmme United		Männiku Stadium	500[6]
Paide Linnameeskond	Paide	Paide linnastaadion	500[7]
Tallinna Kalev	Tallinn	Kadriorg Stadium	5,000[8]
Tammeka	Tartu	Tartu Tamme Stadium	1,638[9]
Vaprus	Pärnu	Pärnu Rannastaadion	1,501[10]

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
FCI Levadia	Curro Torres	Rasmus Peetson	Macron[11]	Viimsi Keevitus
Flora	Taavi Viik	Rauno Alliku	Nike	Optibet[12]
Kuressaare	Roman Kozhukhovskyi	Märten Pajunurm	Nike	Visit Saaremaa
Narva Trans	Ricardo Afonso (interim)	Irié	Nike	Sportland
Nõmme Kalju	Nikita Andreev	Henri Perk	Adidas	Marsbet[13]
Nõmme United	Martin Klasen	Kevin Mätas	Adidas	TonyBet
Paide Linnameeskond	Ivan Stojković	Andre Frolov	Capelli[14]	Verston
Tallinna Kalev	Teemu Tainio	Tristan Toomas Teeväli	Macron	Unibet[15]
Tammeka	Marti Pähn	Richard Aland	Nike
Vaprus	Igor Prins	Magnus Villota	Nike	Coolbet

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in the table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Nõmme United	Vladimir Vassiljev[16]	Signed by ŠTK Šamorín	26 November 2023	Pre-season	Jani Sarajärvi[17]	30 December 2023
Flora	Jürgen Henn[18]	Resigned	3 December 2023		Norbert Hurt[19]	7 December 2023
Nõmme United	Jani Sarajärvi[20]	Contract terminated	2 April 2024	10th	Randin Rande Juan Martínez (interim)	2 April 2024
Narva Trans	Aleksei Eremenko[21]	Mutual consent	24 April 2024	9th	Valeri Bondarenko (interim)	24 April 2024
	Valeri Bondarenko	End of interim spell	6 June 2024	7th	Miguel Moreira[22]	6 June 2024
Flora	Norbert Hurt[23]	Resigned	11 July 2024	3rd	Taavi Viik[24]	12 July 2024
Nõmme United	Randin Rande Juan Martínez	End of interim spell	22 July 2024	10th	Martin Klasen[25]	22 July 2024
Tallinna Kalev	Daniel Meijel	Demoted to assistant manager	1 August 2024	9th	Teemu Tainio[26]	1 August 2024
Narva Trans	Miguel Moreira[27]	Mutual consent	7 September 2024	6th	Ricardo Afonso (interim)	7 September 2024

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	FCI Levadia (C)	36	27	6	3	82	19	+63	87	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	Nõmme Kalju	36	21	9	6	79	44	+35	72[a]	Qualification for the Conference League first qualifying round[b]
3	Paide Linnameeskond	36	23	3	10	74	39	+35	72[a]
4	Flora	36	21	7	8	69	43	+26	70
5	Tammeka	36	11	9	16	47	54	−7	42[c]
6	Narva Trans	36	10	12	14	48	63	−15	42[c]
7	Vaprus	36	9	8	19	35	57	−22	35
8	Kuressaare	36	8	10	18	46	67	−21	34
9	Tallinna Kalev (O)	36	8	7	21	37	74	−37	31	Qualification for the Meistriliiga play-off
10	Nõmme United (R)	36	2	9	25	22	79	−57	15	Relegation to the 2025 Esiliiga

Source: Premium Liiga, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Less matches awarded against; 3) Head-to-head points; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Matches won; 6) Goal difference; 7) Goals scored; 8) Away goals scored; 9) Fair-play points; 10) Draw
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Head to head points: Nõmme Kalju 7, Paide Linnameeskond 4.
2. The 2024–25 Estonian Cup winners also qualified for the Conference League first qualifying round. Since the cup winners (Nõmme Kalju) qualified based on league position, the Conference League spot was passed to the fourth-placed team.
3. Head to head points: Tammeka 9, Narva Trans 3.

Results

Teams face each other four times (twice at home and twice away).

Home \ Away	FCI	FLO	KUR	NAR	NÕK	NÕU	PLM	TAK	TAM	VAP
FCI Levadia	—	1–0	2–0	6–0	0–0	2–0	2–0	2–2	2–1	1–1
—	4–2	0–0	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–0	4–0	3–1	3–1
Flora	1–0	—	1–0	4–3	2–2	2–0	2–0	2–2	3–1	0–1
2–1	—	3–0	3–1	3–2	1–0	1–3	5–1	2–1	3–0
Kuressaare	0–6	2–2	—	5–0	0–6	1–1	0–2	3–0	0–0	2–2
0–1	3–4	—	0–1	1–2	4–1	0–2	2–1	0–0	1–1
Narva Trans	1–2	1–3	0–1	—	4–1	2–0	1–1	2–2	0–5	0–0
0–2	1–1	0–2	—	2–2	2–1	0–3	2–2	0–1	1–1
Nõmme Kalju	1–5	0–0	3–0	3–0	—	1–1	2–1	2–0	4–2	4–2
0–4	3–0	5–1	2–2	—	3–0	2–4	3–1	3–0	2–1
Nõmme United	0–6	1–1	1–1	1–3	0–0	—	0–1	0–2	2–1	2–1
0–1	0–4	2–2	0–4	0–4	—	0–4	1–1	1–2	0–2
Paide Linnameeskond	0–1	2–1	3–1	2–2	0–2	3–1	—	2–0	0–1	0–1
3–0	2–1	4–3	2–3	1–1	7–2	—	3–1	2–0	1–0
Tallinna Kalev	0–2	2–3	2–2	1–0	0–2	2–0	2–5	—	1–1	3–1
1–2	0–3	0–3	0–1	0–2	1–0	3–2	—	1–2	1–0
Tammeka	0–3	0–0	1–2	0–2	1–1	2–1	1–2	4–0	—	1–0
0–3	2–0	2–1	3–3	2–3	1–1	1–3	4–1	—	0–1
Vaprus	0–2	1–3	3–2	1–4	1–2	2–1	0–3	0–1	1–1	—
1–4	0–1	3–1	0–0	0–4	2–0	0–1	2–0	2–2	—

Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Meistriliiga play-off

The ninth-placed club (Tallinna Kalev) faced the second-placed club from the 2024 Esiliiga (Viimsi) in a two-legged play-off for the final place in the 2025 Meistriliiga.

First leg

Viimsi v Tallinna Kalev

24 November 2024	Viimsi	1–1	Tallinna Kalev	Haabneeme
10:30 BST	Gohi 58'	Report	Smirnov 1'	Stadium: Viimsi Stadium Attendance: 505 Referee: Joonas Jaanovits

Second leg

Tallinna Kalev v Viimsi

30 November 2024	Tallinna Kalev	1–0 (a.e.t.) (2–1 agg.)	Viimsi	Tallinn
10:30 BST	Nõmm 93' (o.g.)	Report		Stadium: Sportland Arena Attendance: 650 Referee: Kristo Tohver

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[28]
1	Alex Tamm	Nõmme Kalju	28
2	Sergei Zenjov	Flora	17
3	Ahmed Adebayo Basher	Tammeka	15
	Mark Anders Lepik	Flora
	Robi Saarma	Paide Linnameeskond
6	Promise David	Nõmme Kalju	14
7	Abdoulie Ceesay	Paide Linnameeskond	13
8	Mihkel Ainsalu	FCI Levadia	11
	Pierre Landry Kaboré	Narva Trans
	Sergo Kukhianidze	Narva Trans
	Ats Purje	Tallinna Kalev
	Felipe Felicio	FCI Levadia

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Alex Tamm	Nõmme Kalju	Kuressaare	6–0 (A)[29]	2 March 2024
Mark Anders Lepik	Flora	Narva Trans	4–3 (H)[30]	6 April 2024
		Tallinna Kalev	3–0 (A)[31]	1 May 2024
Felipe Felicio	FCI Levadia	Nõmme United	6–0 (A)[32]	19 June 2024
Alex Tamm	Nõmme Kalju	Tammeka	3–0 (H)[33]	27 July 2024
Danil Kuraksin	Flora	Kuressaare	4–3 (A)[34]	14 September 2024
Abdoulie Ceesay4	Paide Linnameeskond	Nõmme United	7–2 (H)[35]
Sergei Zenjov4	Flora		4–0 (A)[36]	5 October 2024

Note: ⁴ – player scored 4 goals

Average attendance

Club	Average attendance[37]
Tallinna FC Flora	713
FCI Levadia	694
Pärnu JK Vaprus	569
Nõmme Kalju FC	396
JK Tallinna Kalev	391
Tartu JK Tammeka	364
Paide Linnameeskond	309
FC Nõmme United	254
JK Narva Trans	200
FC Kuressaare	168
League average	406

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month
	Manager	Club	Player	Club
March[38]	Curro Torres	FCI Levadia	Alex Tamm	Nõmme Kalju
April[39]	Roman Kozhukhovskyi	Kuressaare	Promise David
May[40]	Norbert Hurt	Flora	Mark Anders Lepik	Flora
June/July[41]	Curro Torres	FCI Levadia	Alex Tamm	Nõmme Kalju
August[42]	Ivan Stojković	Paide Linnameeskond	Dimitri Jepihhin	Paide Linnameeskond
September[43]	Nikita Andreev	Nõmme Kalju	Alex Tamm	Nõmme Kalju
October[44]	Ivan Stojković	Paide Linnameeskond	Sergei Zenjov	Flora

Annual awards

Award	Winner	Club
Player of the Season[45]	Alex Matthias Tamm	Nõmme Kalju
Goalkeeper of the Season	Karl Andre Vallner	FCI Levadia
Defender of the Season	Rasmus Peetson
Midfielder of the Season	Mihkel Ainsalu
Forward of the Season	Alex Matthias Tamm	Nõmme Kalju
Under-21 Player of the Season	Patrik Kristal	Paide Linnameeskond
Manager of the Season[46]	Curro Torres	FCI Levadia
Goal of the Season[47]	Danyl Mashchenko	Nõmme Kalju