2023 Esiliiga

Esiliiga

Season	2023
Dates	4 March 2023 – 3 December 2023
Champions	Nõmme United
Promoted	Nõmme United
Relegated	Alliance Legion
← 2022 2024 →

The 2023 Esiliiga was the 33rd season of the Esiliiga, the second tier of Estonian football. The season started on 4 March 2023 and concluded on 12 November 2023.

Teams

Stadiums and locations

Flora U21
Levadia U21
Legion
Nõmme
Tallinn

Paide U21

Elva

Tabasalu

Alliance

Viimsi

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Locations of the 2023 Esiliiga teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Alliance	Kiviõli	Kiviõli Arena	N/A[1]
Elva	Elva	Elva linnastaadion	30[2]
FCI Levadia U21	Tallinn	Maarjamäe Stadium	30[3]
Flora U21		Sportland Arena	1,161[4]
Legion
Nõmme United		Männiku Stadium	50[5]
Paide Linnameeskond U21	Paide	Paide linnastaadion	500[6]
Tabasalu	Tabasalu	Tabasalu Arena	1,630[7]
Tallinn	Tallinn	Lasnamäe Sports Complex Stadium	88[8]
Viimsi	Haabneeme	Viimsi Stadium	800[9]

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Alliance	Erik Šteinberg		Adidas	Viru Keemia Grupp
Elva	Joonas Horn	Martin Thomson	Nike	Sportland
FCI Levadia U21	Santi García	Igor Sokolov	Macron	Admirals, Viimsi Keevitus
Flora U21	Taavi Viik		Nike
Legion	Denis Belov	Aleksandr Volodin	Uhlsport
Nõmme United	Vladimir Vassiljev	Henri Leoke	Adidas	Apollo
Paide Linnameeskond U21	Kalmer Klettenberg		Nike	Exmet, Verston
Tabasalu	Risto Sarapik		Uhlsport	Eventtents, Rademar
Tallinn	Andrei Kalimullin	Albert Taar	Adidas
Viimsi	Ivo Lehtmets		Joma	Assa Abloy

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in the table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
FCI Levadia U21	Nikita Andreev	Mutual consent	24 November 2022	Pre-season	Santi García[10]	24 November 2022
Nõmme United	Martin Klasen		4 December 2022		Vladimir Vassiljev[11]	4 December 2022
Paide Linnameeskond U21	Meelis Rooba		9 December 2022		Kalmer Klettenberg[12]	9 December 2022
Elva	Veiko Haan[13]		9 April 2023	10th	Joonas Horn	9 April 2023

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Nõmme United (C, P)	36	28	6	2	114	29	+85	90	Promotion to Meistriliiga
2	Viimsi	36	21	8	7	67	35	+32	71	Qualification for Meistriliiga play-off
3	Flora U21	36	22	3	11	86	53	+33	69
4	FCI Levadia U21	36	16	9	11	57	46	+11	57
5	Tabasalu	36	18	1	17	81	70	+11	55
6	Tallinn	36	16	4	16	72	65	+7	52
7	Paide Linnameeskond U21	36	12	5	19	66	82	−16	41
8	Elva (O)	36	12	4	20	45	75	−30	40	Qualification for Esiliiga play-off
9	Legion (R)	36	5	6	25	37	97	−60	21	Relegation to Esiliiga B
10	Alliance (R)	36	6	2	28	50	123	−73	20

Source: Esiliiga
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^[14]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ALL	ELV	LEV	FLO	LEG	NÕM	PLM	TAB	TAL	VII	ALL	ELV	LEV	FLO	LEG	NÕM	PLM	TAB	TAL	VII
Alliance		1–2	2–6	3–2	1–0	0–6	1–7	2–5	2–3	2–6		2–0	1–2	1–3	3–4	1–3	2–5	4–2	1–5	1–3
Elva	3–0		1–2	2–1	3–2	0–2	0–3	2–3	1–1	1–3	3–0		0–0	1–4	0–0	0–7	1–0	3–0	4–3	0–1
FCI Levadia U21	4–0	5–1		1–2	1–2	1–0	2–0	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–2	3–0		0–0	4–0	0–3	2–2	1–2	0–0	2–4
Flora U21	6–1	2–1	0–2		5–2	3–6	3–3	3–2	1–0	3–1	6–0	2–0	3–1		2–1	0–3	1–2	7–3	2–1	1–2
Legion	1–0	0–3	1–2	0–6		0–6	2–2	2–1	3–2	0–3	1–1	1–4	0–0	0–4		0–5	2–4	1–4	2–3	0–1
Nõmme United	4–2	1–1	5–0	2–0	4–1		4–2	3–0	1–2	2–1	3–0	5–2	4–0	3–2	2–2		0–0	2–1	5–0	0–0
Paide Linnameeskond U21	2–3	6–2	1–2	0–1	2–0	1–3		0–5	0–1	2–2	1–3	0–1	2–1	1–4	3–2	1–8		0–1	1–0	3–1
Tabasalu	5–2	1–0	2–0	0–1	2–0	1–2	6–4		1–5	1–2	7–4	4–0	0–1	4–0	3–0	1–3	4–2		2–3	0–4
Tallinn	5–0	3–1	1–3	1–2	4–0	1–3	3–2	2–4		3–2	2–1	1–2	0–3	0–2	3–2	2–2	7–1	1–2		0–1
Viimsi	3–1	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	4–0		1–0	4–0	2–0	3–2	3–3	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–3

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

Esiliiga play-off

The eighth-placed club (Elva) faced the fourth-placed club from the 2023 Esiliiga B (Tartu Kalev) for the final place in the following season's Esiliiga.

First leg

Tartu Kalev v Elva

25 November 2023	Tartu Kalev	0–0	Elva	Tartu
10:30 BST				Stadium: Ülenurme Stadium

Second leg

Elva v Tartu Kalev

29 November 2023	Elva	2–1 (a.e.t.) (2–1 agg.)	Tartu Kalev	Elva
16:00 BST	Lokk 90+3' Reilson 99'		Peedo 6'	Stadium: Elva linnastaadion

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month
	Manager	Club	Player	Club
March[15]	Santi García	FCI Levadia U21	Gregor Lehtmets	Viimsi
April[16]	Vladimir Vassiljev	Nõmme United	Jevgeni Demidov	Nõmme United
May[17]	Taavi Viik	Flora U21	Henri Leoke
June/July[18]	Vladimir Vassiljev	Nõmme United	Maksimilian Skvortsov	FCI Levadia U21

References

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3. "Maarjamäe jalgpallikeskus". spordiregister.ee (in Estonian). Retrieved 1 March 2023.
4. "Sportland Arena" (in Estonian). Estonian Football Association. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
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6. "Paide linna staadion". spordiregister.ee (in Estonian). Retrieved 1 March 2023.
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10. "Levadia täiendab treeneriteridu". soccernet.ee. 24 November 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
11. "Vladimir Vassiljevist sai Nõmme Unitedi peatreener". soccernet.ee. 4 December 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
12. "Järvamaa naiste- ja tüdrukute jalgpalli arendama asuv Klettenberg: eesmärk on Eesti tipp". soccernet.ee. 9 December 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
13. "VAATA JÄRELE: treenerit vahetanud Elva ei saanud uustulnukast jagu". soccernet.ee. 9 April 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
14. "Eesti 2023. a jalgpalli meistrivõistluste Premium ja Esiliigade juhend" (PDF) (in Estonian). Estonian Football Association. pp. 17–18. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
15. "Esiliiga kuu parimad on Santiago Garcia Carrero ja Gregor Lehtmets" (in Estonian). Estonian Football Association. 3 April 2023. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
16. "Esiliiga kuu parimad on Demidov ja Vassiljev" (in Estonian). Estonian Football Association. 4 May 2023. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
17. "Esiliiga kuu parimad on Leoke ja Viik" (in Estonian). Estonian Football Association. 6 June 2023. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
18. "Esiliiga kuu parimad lähevad Levadia U21 ja Nõmme Unitedi ridadesse" (in Estonian). Estonian Football Association. 3 August 2023. Retrieved 3 August 2023.

External links

• Official website