1995–96 Meistriliiga

The 1995–96 Meistriliiga was the 5th season of the Meistriliiga, Estonia's premier football league. Lantana won their first title.

Preliminary Round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Pts taken
1	Lantana	14	10	3	1	37	8	+29	33	Qualification to Championship Tournament	33 → 17
2	Trans	14	6	4	4	22	16	+6	22		22 → 11
3	Flora	14	6	4	4	37	19	+18	22		22 → 11
4	Tallinna Sadam	14	6	3	5	23	16	+7	21		21 → 11
5	Tevalte-Marlekor	14	6	2	6	20	19	+1	20		20 → 10
6	Tervis	14	5	2	7	13	17	−4	17		17 → 9
7	Eesti Põlevkivi Jõhvi	14	3	8	3	13	17	−4	17	Qualification to Meistriliiga Transition Tournament
8	PJK Kalev	14	0	2	12	8	61	−53	2

Championship Tournament

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Lantana (C)	10	6	2	2	21	7	+14	37	1996–97 UEFA Cup Preliminary round
2	Flora	10	6	2	2	14	3	+11	31
3	Tevalte-Marlekor	10	7	0	3	13	10	+3	31
4	Tallinna Sadam	10	4	1	5	17	19	−2	24	1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Qualifying round
5	Trans	10	2	2	6	11	16	−5	19	1996 UEFA Intertoto Cup Group stage
6	Tervis	10	1	1	8	7	28	−21	13

Meistriliiga Transition Tournament

Eesti Põlevkivi Jõhvi and PJK Kalev, the teams finishing in the last two positions in the preliminary round, faced four best teams of the 1995-96 Esiliiga in the play-off for two places in the 1996-97 Meistriliiga.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Eesti Põlevkivi Jõhvi	10	7	0	3	23	7	+16	21	1996-97 Meistriliiga
2	Vall (P)	10	7	0	3	18	9	+9	21
3	Norma	10	5	2	3	13	11	+2	17	1996-97 Esiliiga
4	PJK Kalev (R)	10	4	2	4	12	20	−8	14
5	Dünamo	10	2	2	6	8	14	−6	8
6	TJK	10	1	2	7	9	22	−13	5

Topscorers

Pos	Name	Team	Goals
1	Lembit Rajala	FC Flora Tallinn	16
2	Maksim Gruznov	FC Lantana Tallinn	12
3	Ivan O'Konnel-Bronin	JK Tervis Pärnu / FC Flora Tallinn	8
	Andrei Borissov	FC Lantana Tallinn	8
	Aleksandr Olerski	Tevalte-Marlekor Tallinn	8
	Boriss Nejolov	FC Narva Trans	8
	Dmitri Ustritski	Sadam Tallinn	8

See also

• 1995 in Estonian football
• 1996 in Estonian football

References

• Estonia - List of final tables (RSSSF)