1995–96 Meistriliiga

Meistriliiga

Season	1995–96
Champions	Lantana (1st title)
Relegated	PJK Kalev
UEFA Cup	Lantana Flora
Cup Winners' Cup	Tallinna Sadam
Intertoto Cup	Narva Trans
Top goalscorer	Lembit Rajala (16)
← 1994–95 1996–97 →

The 1995–96 Meistriliiga was the fifth season of the Meistriliiga, Estonia's premier football league. Lantana won their first title.

Preliminary round

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Lantana	14	10	3	1	37	8	+29	33	Qualification for Championship Tournament
2	Narva Trans	14	6	4	4	22	16	+6	22
3	Flora	14	6	4	4	37	19	+18	22
4	Tallinna Sadam	14	6	3	5	23	16	+7	21
5	Tevalte-Marlekor	14	6	2	6	20	19	+1	20
6	Tervis	14	5	2	7	13	17	−4	17
7	Eesti Põlevkivi Jõhvi	14	3	8	3	13	17	−4	17	Qualification for Meistriliiga Transition Tournament
8	PJK Kalev	14	0	2	12	8	61	−53	2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results

Home \ Away	JEP	FLO	PJK	LAN	SAD	TER	MAR	TRS
Eesti Põlevkivi Jõhvi		2–1	1–1	1–1	1–3	0–0	2–0	0–0
Flora	2–2		5–0	1–5	3–0	7–0	2–1	0–1
PJK Kalev	1–1	0–5		0–1	0–4	1–5	1–4	2–4
Lantana	4–1	1–1	10–0		2–1	2–0	-:+	1–0
Tallinna Sadam	0–0	2–2	7–1	0–2		0–1	1–0	1–0
Tervis	0–2	2–6	5–0	2–4	1–2		3–1	2–2
Tevalte-Marlekor	0–0	2–1	5–1	0–3	1–1	2–1		4–2
Narva Trans	4–0	1–1	4–0	1–1	0–1	0–3	1–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Championship Tournament

The points obtained during the preliminary round were carried over halved and rounded up.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	BP	Pts	Qualification
1	Lantana (C)	10	6	2	2	21	7	+14	17	37	Qualification for UEFA Cup preliminary round
2	Flora	10	6	2	2	14	3	+11	11	31
3	Tevalte-Marlekor	10	7	0	3	13	10	+3	10	31
4	Tallinna Sadam	10	4	1	5	17	19	−2	11	24	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round
5	Narva Trans	10	2	2	6	11	16	−5	11	19	Qualification for Intertoto Cup group stage
6	Tervis	10	1	1	8	7	28	−21	9	13

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	FLO	LAN	SAD	TER	MAR	TRS
Flora		0–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	0–1
Lantana	0–1		3–4	3–0	3–0	4–2
Tallinna Sadam	0–0	0–3		2–5	1–3	3–2
Tervis	1–5	0–3	0–5		-:+	0–5
Tevalte-Marlekor	0–4	2–0	2–0	2–0		2–0
Narva Trans	0–1	0–0	0–2	1–1	0–3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Meistriliiga Transition Tournament

Eesti Põlevkivi Jõhvi and PJK Kalev, the teams finishing in the last two positions in the preliminary round, faced four best teams of the 1995-96 Esiliiga in the play-off for two places in the 1996-97 Meistriliiga.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Eesti Põlevkivi Jõhvi	10	7	0	3	23	7	+16	21	Promotion to Meistriliiga
2	Vall (P)	10	7	0	3	18	9	+9	21
3	Norma	10	5	2	3	13	11	+2	17	Relegation to Esiliiga
4	PJK Kalev (R)	10	4	2	4	12	20	−8	14
5	Dünamo	10	2	2	6	8	14	−6	8
6	TJK	10	1	2	7	9	22	−13	5

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[1]
1	Lembit Rajala	Flora	16
2	Maksim Gruznov	Lantana	12
3	Andrei Borissov	Lantana	8
	Boriss Nejolov	Narva Trans
	Ivan O'Konnel-Bronin	Tervis Pärnu/Flora
	Aleksandr Olerski	Tevalte/Marlekor
	Dmitri Ustritski	Tallinna Sadam

See also

• 1995 in Estonian football
• 1996 in Estonian football

References

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

• Estonia - List of final tables (RSSSF)