2001 Meistriliiga

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Estonian national championships in football

Football league season

Meistriliiga

Season	2001
Champions	Flora (5th title)
Top goalscorer	Maksim Gruznov (37)
← 2000 2002 →

The 2001 Meistriliiga was the 11th season of the Meistriliiga, Estonia's premier football league. Flora won their fifth title.

League table

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Flora (C)	28	21	5	2	62	18	+44	68	Qualification for Champions League first qualifying round
2	TVMK	28	16	8	4	77	30	+47	56	Qualification for UEFA Cup qualifying round
3	Maardu Levadia[a]	28	16	7	5	72	35	+37	55	Qualification for Intertoto Cup first round
4	Narva Trans	28	16	3	9	79	35	+44	51
5	Tulevik	28	11	6	11	41	37	+4	39
6	Tallinna Levadia[b]	28	6	5	17	30	78	−48	23	Qualification for UEFA Cup qualifying round[c]
7	Lootus	28	4	5	19	21	53	−32	17	Qualification for relegation play-offs
8	Kuressaare (R)	28	2	1	25	18	114	−96	7	Relegation to Esiliiga

Source: Estonian Football Association (in 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) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. ^ Club changed their name to Levadia Tallinn in 2004
2. ^ Club changed their name to Levadia II Tallinn in 2004
3. ^ Qualified As Estonian Cup winners

Relegation play-off

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12 November 2001

Valga	2–1	Lootus
Jääger 14' Kask 14'		Golitsõn 64'

17 November 2001

Lootus	1–0	Valga
Abornev 78'

2–2 on aggregate. Lootus won on away goals and retained their Meistriliiga spot for the 2002 season.

Results

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Each team played every opponent four times, twice at home and twice on the road, for a total of 36 games.

First half of season [edit] Home \ Away FLO KUR LOO LMA TRS LTA TUL TVM Flora 3–1 4–0 3–2 3–2 3–1 2–1 1–1 Kuressaare 0–3 3–1 1–3 1–5 1–2 0–1 1–6 Lootus 1–1 1–0 1–1 0–1 2–0 0–0 0–2 Maardu Levadia 1–2 2–1 3–3 3–0 6–2 4–1 3–0 Narva Trans 3–1 5–0 5–0 3–4 4–0 4–0 1–3 Tallinna Levadia 1–2 2–1 1–0 1–4 0–0 0–5 0–1 Tulevik 0–2 1–2 3–0 0–0 3–2 1–1 1–4 TVMK 1–1 5–1 2–1 1–1 1–3 7–2 1–1 Source: [citation needed] Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of season [edit] Home \ Away FLO KUR LOO LMA TRS LTA TUL TVM Flora 4–0 1–0 2–0 2–1 4–0 2–0 0–0 Kuressaare 0–5 0–5 0–7 0–12 2–4 1–2 1–7 Lootus 0–3 5–0 0–1 0–1 1–1 0–1 0–2 Maardu Levadia 0–1 4–1 5–0 3–3 6–2 2–0 1–1 Narva Trans 0–0 3–0 1–0 1–2 5–2 2–0 6–3 Tallinna Levadia 0–5 0–0 3–0 2–0 0–5 1–1 1–4 Tulevik 1–2 4–0 4–0 1–2 3–1 4–1 1–0 TVMK 1–0 12–0 4–0 2–2 1–0 4–0 1–1 Source: [citation needed] Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

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Rank	Player	Club	Goals[1]
1	Maksim Gruznov	Narva Trans	37
2	Andrei Krõlov	TVMK	23
3	Toomas Krõm	Levadia	20
4	Dmitri Ustritski	Tulevik	16
5	Aleksandr Kulik	Flora	14
	Vladimir Tšelnokov	Levadia
7	Anatoli Novožilov	TVMK	13
	Indrek Zelinski	Flora
9	Oleg Gorjatšov	Narva Trans	12
10	Dmitri Lipartov	Narva Trans	9
	Aleksandr Tarassenkov	Flora

References

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

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