2004 Meistriliiga

Meistriliiga
Season 2004
Champions Levadia
(3rd title)
Top goalscorer Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko (28)
2003
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

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Levadia (C) 28 21 6 1 82 14+68 69 2005–06 UEFA Champions League First qualifying round
2 TVMK 28 19 6 3 89 29+60 63 2005–06 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 2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup First round
5 Merkuur 28 10 5 13 47 5811 35
6 Tulevik 28 6 7 15 30 5323 25
7 Valga 28 5 2 21 30 8050 17
8 Alutaguse Lootus (R) 28 1 2 25 11 117 106 5 Relegation play-off

Source: Estonian Football Association (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; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Promotion/Relegation Play-Off

13 November 2004
Tallinna Dünamo 1 – 2 Alutaguse Lootus
Butajev  44' Popov  30'
Ametov  90+3'


20 November 2004
Alutaguse Lootus 0 – 4 Tallinna 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.

Topscorers

Pos  Name Team Goals
1Vjatšeslav ZahovaikoFlora Tallinn28
2Ingemar TeeverTVMK Tallinn18
3Egidijus JuškaTVMK Tallinn16
4Andrei AntonovFC Valga13
Tarmo NeemeloTVMK Tallinn13
6Deniss MalovTVMK Tallinn12
Konstantin NahkLevadia Tallinn12
8Anton SeredaMerkuur Tartu11
Dmitri UstritskiTulevik Viljandi11
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