2004 Meistriliiga

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

Meistriliiga
Season2004
ChampionsLevadia
(3rd title)
Top goalscorerVjatšeslav Zahovaiko (28)
← 2003
2005 →

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
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Levadia (C) 28 21 6 1 82 14 +68 69 Qualification for Champions League first qualifying round
2 TVMK 28 19 6 3 89 29 +60 63 Qualification for UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3 Flora 28 18 4 6 83 25 +58 58
4 Narva Trans 28 15 2 11 43 39 +4 47 Qualification for Intertoto Cup first round
5 Merkuur 28 10 5 13 47 58 −11 35
6 Tulevik 28 6 7 15 30 53 −23 25
7 Valga 28 5 2 21 30 80 −50 17
8 Alutaguse Lootus (R) 28 1 2 25 11 117 −106 5 Qualification for relegation play-offs
Source: Estonian Football Association (in Estonian)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) number of wins; 3) head-to-head points; 4) head-to-head goal difference; 5) head-to-head goals scored; 6) goal difference; 7) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.

Promotion/Relegation Play-Off
Tallinna Dünamo1 – 2Alutaguse Lootus
Butajev  44' Popov  30'
Ametov  90+3'


Alutaguse Lootus0 – 4Tallinna Dünamo
Tšernoussov  8'
Krivošein  32'
Butajev  65'
Semko  76'

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

Top scorers
Rank Player Club Goals[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

References
  1. "Estonia - List of Topscorers". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation.
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