1997–98 Meistriliiga

Meistriliiga
Season	1997–98
Champions	Flora; (3rd title)
Top goalscorer	Konstantin Nahk (18)
	← 1996–97 1998 →

The 1997–98 Meistriliiga was the seventh season of the Meistriliiga, Estonia's premier football league. Flora won their third title.

Preliminary round edit

The preliminary round was played in the autumn. The top six teams continued the title play-off in the spring, taking half their points obtained in the preliminary round. The last two teams faced the top four of the Esiliiga in the Meistriliiga transition tournament.

League table edit

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Flora	14	12	1	1	39	6	+33	37	Qualification for Championship Tournament
2	Tallinna Sadam	14	9	4	1	42	15	+27	31
3	Tulevik	14	6	2	6	21	20	+1	20
4	Lantana	14	5	4	5	20	17	+3	19
5	Narva Trans	14	4	3	7	13	26	−13	15
6	TVMK	14	4	2	8	13	29	−16	14
7	Eesti Põlevkivi Jõhvi	14	2	5	7	11	23	−12	11	Qualification for Meistriliiga Transition Tournament
8	Lelle	14	3	1	10	11	34	−23	10	Qualification for Meistriliiga Transition Tournament

Source: rsssf.com

Results edit

Home \ Away	JEP	FLO	LAN	LEL	SAD	TRS	TUL	TVM
Eesti Põlevkivi Jõhvi		0–1	0–0	1–2	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–2
Flora	4–0		2–1	7–0	2–2	1–0	2–0	3–0
Lantana	1–1	0–3		2–0	2–2	3–0	3–1	2–1
Lelle	3–0	0–5	2–1		0–5	1–2	0–1	0–2
Tallinna Sadam	4–1	0–1	1–0	4–1		4–0	3–3	7–1
Narva Trans	1–0	0–5	0–0	0–0	2–4		0–2	2–0
Tulevik	2–0	3–1	3–2	2–1	1–2	2–3		1–2
TVMK	0–2	0–2	1–3	2–1	0–3	2–1	0–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Championship Tournament edit

The points obtained during the preliminary round were carried over halved and rounded up.

League table edit

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	BP	Pts	Qualification
1	Flora (C)	10	7	2	1	34	10	+24	19	42	Qualification for Champions League first qualifying round
2	Tallinna Sadam	10	5	1	4	26	22	+4	16	32	Qualification for UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3	Lantana	10	4	3	3	13	9	+4	10	25	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round
4	Narva Trans	10	5	1	4	14	19	−5	8	24
5	Tulevik	10	2	3	5	11	15	−4	10	19	Qualification for Intertoto Cup first round
6	TVMK	10	2	0	8	4	23	−19	7	13

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions

Results edit

Home \ Away	FLO	LAN	SAD	TRS	TUL	TVM
Flora		2–3	5–0	6–2	0–0	4–0
Lantana	1–3		3–3	0–0	1–1	2–0
Tallinna Sadam	2–5	4–1		5–1	1–3	5–0
Narva Trans	1–4	1–0	2–1		0–2	2–1
Tulevik	1–1	2–3	2–3	0–4		0–1
TVMK	0–4	1–3	0–2	0–1	1–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Meistriliiga Transition Tournament edit

Eesti Põlevkivi Jõhvi and Lelle, the teams finishing in the last two positions in the preliminary round, faced four best teams of the 1997–98 Esiliiga in the play-off for two places in the 1998 Meistriliiga.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Lelle	10	8	2	0	52	10	+42	26	Promotion to Meistriliiga
2	Eesti Põlevkivi Jõhvi	10	5	4	1	23	9	+14	19	Promotion to Meistriliiga
3	Vall	10	4	5	1	14	3	+11	17	Relegation to Esiliiga
4	Dokker	10	2	2	6	11	28	−17	8
5	Olümpia	10	2	1	7	7	10	−3	7
6	Merkuur	10	0	4	6	9	29	−20	4

Source: rsssf.com

Top scorers edit

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[1]
1	Konstantin Kolbasenko	Tallinna Sadam	18
2	Andres Oper	Flora	15
3	Indrek Zelinski	Flora	13
4	Pål Christian Alsaker	Flora	12
5	Toomas Krõm	Flora	13
6	Argo Arbeiter	Tulevik	9
	Andrei Krõlov	Tallinna Sadam
	Vitali Leitan	Lantana
9	Marko Kristal	Flora	8
9	Dmitri Lipartov	Narva Trans	8