2004 Meistriliiga Explained

Competition:Meistriliiga
Season:2004
Winners:Levadia
(3rd title)
League Topscorer:Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko (28)
Prevseason:2003
Nextseason:2005

2004 Meistriliiga was the 14th season of the Meistriliiga, Estonia's premier football league. Levadia won their third title.

Season overview

Levadia Tallinn won their third title with a six-point advantage over the runners-up TVMK Tallinn. Tammeka Tartu and Tervis Pärnu won promotion to the Meistriliiga as the Esiliiga champions and third placed team respectively, the runners-up Levadia Tallinn II were ineligible for promotion. Expansion of the league to ten teams from eight, for the upcoming season, also ensured that even the last placed Lootus Alutaguse had a chance to stay in the top flight, but were defeated by Esiliiga's fourth team Dünamo Tallinn, winning the away leg 2-1, but then losing at home 0-4 a week later. Tervis Pärnu were later denied the Meistriliiga license, sealing an unlikely promotion for the fifth-placed FC Kuressaare.

League table

Relegation play-off


Tallinna Dünamo won 5-2 on aggregate and were promoted for the 2005 Meistriliiga. Alutaguse Lootus were relegated to the 2005 Esiliiga.

Results

Each team played every opponent four times, twice at home and twice on the road, for a total of 36 games.

Second half of season

Top scorers

RankPlayerClubGoals[1]
1 Vjatšeslav ZahovaikoFlora28
2 Ingemar TeeverTVMK18
3 Egidijus JuškaTVMK16
4 Andrei AntonovValga13
Tarmo NeemeloTVMK
6 Deniss MalovTVMK11
Konstantin NahkLevadia
Anton SeredaMerkuur Tartu
Dmitri UstritskiTulevik
10 Argo ArbeiterLevadia9
Marius DovydėnasLevadia
Maksim GruznovNarva Trans
Konstantin VassiljevLevadia
Vladimir VoskoboinikovLevadia
Kristen ViikmäeFlora

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Estonia - List of Topscorers. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation.