2006 Esiliiga

The 2006 Esiliiga is the 16th season of the Esiliiga, second-highest Estonian league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1992.

Esiliiga
Season2006
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FC Kuressaare gained automatic promotion to the Meistriliiga as FC Levadia II are the reserve team for Meistriliiga champions FC Levadia and therefore can not be promoted to the same league as its parent club. JK Tallinna Kalev also go up after winning the promotion-relegation play-off. The league's top-scorer was FC Levadia youngster Kaimar Saag with 37 goals. Nõmme Kalju's Andrus Mitt scored 35 goals.

Final table of Esiliiga season 2006
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Levadia II Tallinn[lower-alpha 1] (C) 36 28 4 4 132 24 +108 88
2 FC Kuressaare (C) 36 22 5 9 64 44 +20 71 Promotion to Meistriliiga
3 Kalev Tallinn 36 20 6 10 84 63 +21 66 Qualification for relegation play-offs
4 Flora II Tallinn[lower-alpha 1] 36 19 3 14 81 56 +25 60
5 Kalju Nõmme 36 18 5 13 76 80 −4 59
6 TVMK II Tallinn[lower-alpha 1] 36 17 4 15 66 63 +3 55
7 Tulevik II Viljandi[lower-alpha 1] 36 9 11 16 53 52 +1 38
8 Lootus Kohtla-Järve* (R) 36 10 3 23 46 99 −53 33 Qualification for relegation play-offs
9 Dünamo Tallinn (R) 36 7 8 21 44 85 −41 29 Relegation to II liiga[lower-alpha 2]
10 FC Elva 36 4 3 29 20 100 −80 15 Spared from relegation[lower-alpha 3]
Source:
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.
Notes:
  1. Reserve teams are ineligible for promotion.
  2. Denied Esiliiga license
  3. Stayed up as Trans II decided against promotion and two clubs above were denied the Esiliiga license.

Promotion/Relegation playoff
Kalev Sillamäe5 - 1Lootus Kohtla-Järve
Lootus Kohtla-Järve1 - 3Kalev Sillamäe

Season statistics

Top goalscorers
As of 11 November 2007.[1]
Rank Player Club Goals
1 Kaimar SaagLevadia II37
2 Andrus MittNõmme Kalju35
3 Jevgeni GurtšioglujantsLevadia II17
Sander PuriLevadia II17
5 Artjom DmitrijevTVMK II16
Tiit TikenbergTallinna Kalev16
7 Dmitri KirilovTallinna Kalev15
8 Kristian MarmorLevadia II14
9 Eino PuriLevadia II12
Anton SemjonovLootus12
Rainer VeskimäeKuressaare12

See also

References
  1. "EL VÄRAVALÖÖJATE EDETABEL (2007)" (in Estonian). Estonian Football Association.
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