Maardu Linnameeskond

Maardu Linnameeskond is a football club based in Maardu, Estonia. The team compete in the II liiga, the fourth tier of the Estonian football league system. They adopted their current name in 2016, before being promoted to the Estonian top tier Meistriliiga for the first time in 2019. They were relegated the following season and played in Esiliiga for the next two seasons. After winning 2021 Esiliiga they should have been promoted to Meistriliiga, but due to financial reasons they waived the opportunity and were relegated to II liiga, taking their reserve squad's place.^[1]

Maardu Linnameeskond

Full name	Maardu Linnameeskond
Founded	1997; 28 years ago (1997)
Ground	Maardu Stadium
Capacity	1.000
Chairman	Aleksandr Matvejev
Manager	Algimantas Briaunys
League	II liiga
2022	II liiga, 4th
Home colours Away colours

Honours

Domestic

• Esiliiga

Winners (3): 2017, 2018, 2021

• Esiliiga B

Winners (1): 2015

• II Liiga

Winners (1): 2013

• III Liiga

Winners (1): 2011

Third place (4): 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

• IV Liiga

Third place (1): 2006

Players

Current squad

As of 12 August 2021.^[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  EST Vitali Teleš 4 DF  UKR Klymentiy Boldyrev 5 DF  EST Anton Aristov 6 FW  EST Denis Maksimenko 7 MF  EST Vladislav Ogordnik 8 MF  EST Maksim Krivošein 9 FW  EST Vitali Gussev 10 MF  EST Timur Bulavkin 11 MF  EST Ilja Zelentsov (captain)

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 DF  EST Erik Grigorjev 16 MF  EST Vadim Aksjonov 17 MF  EST Roman Sobtšenko 18 MF  EST Vadim Mihhailov 22 DF  EST Dmitri Kruglov 23 DF  EST Aleksandr Shevchenko 24 MF  EST Kirill Vinogradov 69 GK  EST Ilja Kassjantšuk

Personnel

Current technical staff Position Name Manager Algimantas Briaunys

Managerial history Manager Career Valeri Brõlin 2011–2013 Andrei Borissov 2014–2019 Mark Kolk 2019 Algimantas Briaunys 2020–

Statistics

League and Cup

Season	Division	Pos	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Top goalscorer	Cup	Notes
2006	IV liiga E	3	22	15	1	6	108	36	+72	46	Vjatšeslav Gušinets (29)		as Maardu Esteve
2007	III liiga E	3	22	18	0	4	123	37	+86	54	Tõnis Starkopf (43)	Second round
2008		3	20	13	4	3	65	37	+28	43	Tõnis Starkopf (23)	Fourth round
2009		3	22	17	0	5	99	39	+60	51	Maksim Krivošein (34)	Third round
2010		3	22	14	4	4	90	37	+53	46	Maksim Krivošein (29)	Second round	as FC Maardu
2011		1	22	19	2	1	78	18	+60	59	Maksim Krivošein (19)
2012	II liiga N/E	8	26	9	4	13	62	61	+1	31	Vadim Šalabai (12)	Fourth round
2013		1	24	19	2	3	80	29	+51	59	Klimentiy Boldyrev (26)	Third round	as Maardu FC Starbunker
2014	Esiliiga B	5	36	16	2	18	70	85	−15	50	Klimentiy Boldyrev (14)	Second round
2015		1	36	26	3	7	92	38	+54	81	Klimentiy Boldyrev (25)	Fourth round
2016	Esiliiga	4	36	16	6	14	83	75	+8	54	Vitali Gussev (31)	Second round	as Maardu Linnameeskond
2017		1[3]	36	24	5	7	92	44	+48	77	Vitali Gussev (38)	Second round
2018		1	36	29	1	6	126	38	+88	88	Vitali Gussev (46)	First round
2019	Meistriliiga	10	36	4	5	27	30	118	–88	17	Jasper Uwaegbulam (10)	Quarter-final
2020	Esiliiga	2	32	20	4	8	68	45	+23	64	Ilja Zelentsov (22)	Third round
2021		1	30	23	4	3	99	30	+69	73	Vitali Gussev (21)	Quarter-final