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Revision as of 21:05, 11 June 2018

This article is about the club which was known as FC Levadia Maardu between 1998–2004. For its current feeder club, which was known as FC Levadia Tallinn between 2000–2004, see FCI Levadia U21. For Levadia women's team, see FC Levadia Tallinn (women).

FCI Levadia
Full nameFCI Levadia
Founded22 October 1998; 25 years ago (1998-10-22)
GroundKadriorg Stadium
Capacity5,000[1]
PresidentViktor Levada
ManagerAleksandar Rogić
LeagueMeistriliiga
2017Meistriliiga, 2nd
WebsiteClub website

FCI Levadia Tallinn, or simply FCI Levadia, is a professional football club based in Tallinn, Estonia, that competes in the Meistriliiga, the top flight of Estonian football.

Founded in 1998 as FC Levadia, based in Maardu, the club moved to Tallinn in 2004. After the 2017 season, Levadia merged with FCI Tallinn, and became known as FCI Levadia. The club has played in the Meistriliiga since the 1999 season and have never been relegated from the Estonian top division. They have won 9 Meistriliiga, 8 Estonian Cup and 7 Estonian Supercup trophies.

History

Early history

Levadia was founded on 22 October 1998, when metal manufacturing company OÜ Levadia became the official sponsor of Maardu based Esiliiga club Olümp, subsequently renamed Levadia. The club won the 1998 Esiliiga season and was promoted to Meistriliiga. Before the next season, the club merged with Meistriliiga club Tallinna Sadam and hired Sergei Ratnikov as a manager.

Levadia had tremendously successful start, winning the 1999 Meistriliiga, the 1998–99 Estonian Cup and the 1999 Estonian Supercup. Toomas Krõm won the goal scoring title with 19 goals in Meistriliiga. The club managed to defend the Meistriliiga title in the next 2000 season, along with winning another Estonian Cup and Estonian Supercup trophy. In the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League, Levadia defeated Total Network Solutions 2–6 on aggregate in the first qualifying round but lost to Shakhtar Donetsk 2–9 on aggregate in the second qualifying round. Following the loss to Shakhtar Donetsk, Ratnikov was sacked.

In January 2001, Valeri Bondarenko was appointed as a manager. Bondarenko began the season by winning the Estonian Supercup but failed to defend the Meistriliiga title, finishing the 2001 season in third place behind the winners Flora and runners-up TVMK. In 2002, Pasi Rautiainen took over as a manager. Under Rautiainen, Levadia finished the 2002 Meistriliiga season second, just two points behind Flora. After the season, Rautiainen left the club and returned to Finland for personal reasons and was replaced by Franco Pancheri. Pancheri coached Levadia for just 9 Meistriliiga matches, before he was sacked due being unable to maintain the level achieved with Rautiainen. In June 2003, Levadia hired former Estonia national team manager Tarmo Rüütli and finished the season in third place.

Relocation to Tallinn

In 2004, Levadia moved to Tallinn, while the previously Tallinn-based reserve team with the same name changed its name to Levadia II. Under Rüütli, Levadia won the 2004 Meistriliiga season but failed to defend the title in 2005, coming second behind TVMK. Levadia defeated both Haka and Twente 2–1 on aggregate in the 2006–07 UEFA Cup qualifying rounds but lost to Newcastle United 1–3 on aggregate in the first round. Levadia won two more Meistriliiga titles in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, Rüütli left Levadia, having been hired by the Estonian Football Association to coach the Estonia national team and was replaced by the previous assistant manager Igor Prins.[2]

Under Prins, Levadia won two consecutive Meistriliiga titles in 2008 and 2009 and an Estonian Cup in 2010. In August 2010, Prins was sacked due to disagreements with the club's board and replaced by Levadia II manager Aleksandr Pushtov.[3] Levadia finished the 2010 season second behind Flora. During the 2010–11 winter transfer window, Levadia lost several key players, including Estonia national team players Tarmo Neemelo, Eino Puri and Vladimir Voskoboinikov. In July 2011, Pushtov was sacked after disappointing results in the Meistriliiga and the Champions League and replaced by Sergei Hohlov-Simson. Levadia finished the 2011 season in fourth place, lowest since the club was promoted to the Meistriliiga.

Recent history

In January 2012, Marko Kristal was hired as a manager. Levadia won the 2011–12 Estonian Cup and finished the 2012 season in second place behind Nõmme Kalju. Under Kristal, Levadia won the Meistriliiga title in the 2013 season and defended the title in the 2014 season. Levadia failed to defend the title in the 2015 season, finishing in second place. After the season, it was announced that Sergei Ratnikov will return to Levadia after 15 years and replace Kristal as a manager. Ratnikov's second tenure as Levadia's manager lasted until 11 July 2016, when he was sacked after a 0–1 loss to Pärnu Linnameeskond in the Meistriliiga. He was replaced by another returning manager, Igor Prins. Levadia finished the 2016 season as runners-up.

Following another second-place league finish in the 2017 season, it was announced that Levadia would merge with FCI Tallinn, becoming FCI Levadia, with latter's Aleksandar Rogić taking over as manager.

Stadium

Kadriorg Stadium
Main article: Kadriorg Stadium

The club's home ground is the 5,000-seat Kadriorg Stadium. Built from 1922–1926 and opened on 13 June 1926, it is one of the oldest football stadiums in Estonia. Kadriorg Stadium used to be the home ground of the Estonia national team until the completion of the A. Le Coq Arena in 2001.[4][5]

The stadium is located in Kadriorg, at Roheline aas street 24, Tallinn.[1][6]

Levadia uses Sportland Arena and Maarjamäe Stadium artificial turfs during winter and early spring months for training and home matches.

Players

See also: Category:FCI Levadia Tallinn players

First-team squad

As of 3 March 2018.[7]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 DF Estonia EST Marko Lipp
3 DF Estonia EST Roman Nesterovski
4 DF Estonia EST Igor Morozov (vice-captain)
5 MF Ukraine UKR Yuriy Tkachuk (on loan from Karpaty Lviv)
6 MF Estonia EST Rasmus Peetson
7 MF Estonia EST Pavel Marin
9 FW Russia RUS Yevgeni Kharin
10 MF Cameroon CMR Marcelin Gando
11 MF Russia RUS Kirill Nesterov
12 GK Estonia EST Sergei Lepmets (vice-captain)
14 DF Estonia EST Dmitri Kruglov (captain)
15 MF Estonia EST Cristofer Kuusma
16 DF Estonia EST Markus Jürgenson
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 FW Ukraine UKR Roman Debelko (on loan from Karpaty Lviv)
19 FW Estonia EST Markus Vaherna
20 MF Estonia EST Pavel Dõmov
21 FW Russia RUS Nikita Andreev (vice-captain)
22 DF Estonia EST Martin Käos
23 DF Russia RUS Igor Dudarev
24 FW Estonia EST Georg-Eric Kurus
25 DF Estonia EST Maksim Podholjuzin
27 DF Estonia EST Mark Edur
28 MF Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Muamer Svraka
30 GK Estonia EST Priit Pikker
33 MF Estonia EST Mark Oliver Roosnupp

Reserves and academy

Further information: FCI Levadia U21 and FCI Tallinn

Personnel

See also: Category:FCI Levadia Tallinn managers

Honours

Winners (9): 1999, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014
Winners (1): 1998
Winners (9): 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2006–07, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2013–14, 2017–18
Winners (7): 1999, 2000, 2001, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2018

Statistics

League and Cup

Europe

References

  1. ^ a b "A. Le Coq Arena staadion ja tribüünihoone" (in Estonian). Eesti Spordiregister.
  2. ^ "Tarmo Rüütli kinnitati Eesti koondise peatreeneriks" [Tarmo Rüütli named manager of the Estonia national team]. Postimees. Retrieved 22 November 2007.
  3. ^ "Levadia lõpetas peatreener Igor Prinsiga lepingu" [Levadia terminated contract with manager Igor Prins]. Postimees. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
  4. ^ "Kadrioru staadion" (in Estonian). FC Levadia.
  5. ^ "Ajalugu". Kadrioru staadion. Retrieved 10 July 2008.
  6. ^ "Kadrioru staadion" (in Estonian). Estonian Football Association.
  7. ^ "Tallinna FCI Levadia" (in Estonian). Estonian Football Association. Retrieved 3 March 2018.

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