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
2005
2007

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

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Levadia II Tallinn[a] (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[a] 36 19 3 14 81 56 +25 60
5 Kalju Nõmme 36 18 5 13 76 80 −4 59
6 TVMK II Tallinn[a] 36 17 4 15 66 63 +3 55
7 Tulevik II Viljandi[a] 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[b]
10 FC Elva 36 4 3 29 20 100 −80 15 Spared from relegation[c]
Source: [citation needed]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b c d 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

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Kalev Sillamäe5 - 1Lootus Kohtla-Järve
Lootus Kohtla-Järve1 - 3Kalev Sillamäe

Season statistics

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Top goalscorers

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As of 11 November 2007.[1]
Rank Player Club Goals
1   Kaimar Saag Levadia II 37
2   Andrus Mitt Nõmme Kalju 35
3   Jevgeni Gurtšioglujants Levadia II 17
  Sander Puri Levadia II 17
5   Artjom Dmitrijev TVMK II 16
  Tiit Tikenberg Tallinna Kalev 16
7   Dmitri Kirilov Tallinna Kalev 15
8   Kristian Marmor Levadia II 14
9   Eino Puri Levadia II 12
  Anton Semjonov Lootus 12
  Rainer Veskimäe Kuressaare 12

See also

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References

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