1996–97 Meistriliiga

Meistriliiga

Season	1996–97
Champions	Lantana (2nd title)
Top goalscorer	Sergei Bragin (18)
← 1995–96 1997–98 →

The 1996–97 Meistriliiga was the sixth season of the Meistriliiga, Estonia's premier football league. Lantana won their second title.

Preliminary round

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Lantana	14	11	2	1	30	9	+21	35	Qualification for Championship Tournament
2	Flora	14	9	2	3	27	9	+18	29
3	Marlekor	14	6	4	4	20	17	+3	22
4	Lelle	14	5	6	3	20	16	+4	21
5	Narva Trans	14	5	5	4	20	19	+1	20
6	Tallinna Sadam	14	5	1	8	24	26	−2	16
7	Eesti Põlevkivi Jõhvi	14	4	1	9	10	20	−10	13	Qualification for Meistriliiga Transition Tournament
8	Vall	14	0	1	13	9	44	−35	1

Source:

Results

Home \ Away	JEP	FLO	LAN	LEL	MAR	SAD	TRS	VAL
Eesti Põlevkivi Jõhvi		0–1	0–1	0–3	0–3	2–1	0–1	2–1
Flora	2–0		1–1	3–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	3–0
Lantana	1–0	2–1		2–0	5–1	3–1	2–1	+:-
Lelle	2–0	0–4	1–1		0–0	4–1	0–0	4–1
Marlekor	0–2	0–3	1–3	0–0		2–0	0–0	3–0
Tallinna Sadam	3–0	3–1	0–3	1–1	1–3		3–4	4–0
Narva Trans	0–0	0–1	2–1	2–2	0–3	2–3		5–3
Vall	1–4	0–4	0–5	1–3	2–2	0–3	0–2

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

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	7	2	1	22	6	+16	18	41	Qualification for Champions League first qualifying round
2	Flora	10	7	2	1	25	7	+18	15	38	Qualification for UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3	Tallinna Sadam	10	5	1	4	13	9	+4	8	24	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round
4	Lelle	10	3	0	7	6	21	−15	11	20
5	Marlekor	10	2	2	6	7	19	−12	11	19
6	Narva Trans	10	2	1	7	8	19	−11	10	17

Source:
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	FLO	LAN	LEL	MAR	SAD	TRS
Flora		4–2	5–1	2–0	0–1	5–1
Lantana	0–0		3–0	7–0	2–0	1–0
Lelle	0–2	0–2		3–0	0–4	+:-
Marlekor	1–2	1–1	0–1		0–1	3–1
Tallinna Sadam	1–1	0–2	3–1	0–1		3–1
Narva Trans	0–4	1–2	2–0	1–1	1–0

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

Meistriliiga Transition Tournament

Eesti Põlevkivi Jõhvi and PVall, the teams finishing in the last two positions in the preliminary round, faced four best teams of the 1996-97 Esiliiga in the play-off for two places in the 1997-98 Meistriliiga.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Eesti Põlevkivi Jõhvi	10	8	1	1	28	5	+23	25	Promotion to Meistriliiga
2	Vall	10	7	1	2	29	15	+14	22
3	Pärnu JK	10	4	1	5	9	27	−18	13	Relegation to Esiliiga
4	FC Lelle	10	4	0	6	22	18	+4	12
5	TJK	10	2	2	6	11	19	−8	8
6	Sillamäe Kalev	10	1	3	6	6	21	−15	6

Source:

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Sergei Bragin	Lantana	18
2	Andres Oper	Flora	13
3	Maksim Gruznov	Lantana	12
4	Jonatan Johansson	Flora	9
	Stanislav Kitto	Narva Trans

See also

• 1996 in Estonian football
• 1997 in Estonian football

References

• Estonia - List of final tables (RSSSF)