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Paide Linnameeskond
Paide Linnameeskond is a professional football club based in Paide, Estonia that competes in the Meistriliiga, the top flight of Estonian football. The club's home ground is Paide linnastaadion. Founded in 2004, the club has played in the Meistriliiga since 2009 and has never been relegated. Paide Linnameeskond have won the Estonian Cup once, in 2021–22. History Paide Linnameeskond was founded in 2004 as a satellite club of Flora. The team entered the Western division of the IV liiga and saw four consecutive promotions from 2005 to 2008, when they were promoted to the Meistriliiga. Paide Linnameeskond finished their first season in the Estonian top flight in ninth place, but escaped relegation by defeating Warrior 2–1 on aggregate in the play-offs. In July 2010, former Paide Linnameeskond player Meelis Rooba was appointed as manager. The club reached the 2014–15 Estonian Cup final, but lost to Nõmme Kalju 0–2. Rooba resigned as manager after the 2016 season and wa ...
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Paide Linnastaadion
Paide linnastaadion ( en, Paide City Stadium) is a multi-use stadium in Paide, Estonia. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Meistriliiga team Paide Linnameeskond. The stadium has a seating capacity Seating capacity is the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, in terms of both the physical space available, and limitations set by law. Seating capacity can be used in the description of anything ranging from an automobile that ... of 500. References External linksPaide linnastaadionat Paide Spordikeskus Paide Sport in Paide Football venues in Estonia Buildings and structures in Järva County Multi-purpose stadiums in Estonia Athletics (track and field) venues in Estonia {{Estonia-sports-venue-stub ...
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Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko
Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko (born 29 December 1981) is an Estonian football coach and former player who currently manages Gambian side Real de Banjul. Zahovaiko played for several professional clubs and was also a member of the Estonian national team. Club career FC Flora Tallinn In 2006, he was the world's most effective top division goal scorer with 1.2 goals per game. At the start of 2007, he was loaned out to Al Kuwait Kaifan, but after featuring in just a few friendly games for the Kuwaiti side he was told that his contract was invalid and he was sent back to Estonia. Both his club and his agent sent a complaint to FIFA. He plays the position of forward and is 1.87 m tall. U.D. Leiria On 30 December 2009, he signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with Portuguese team U.D. Leiria. In the first season he played in 6 league games and one cup game, but failed to score in these. Kuopion Palloseura In April 2012 Zahovaiko joined Finnish Veikkausliiga club Kuopion Palloseura. Statist ...
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UEFA Stadium Categories
UEFA stadium categories are categories for association football, football stadiums laid out in UEFA's Stadium Infrastructure Regulations. Using these regulations, stadiums are rated as category one, two, three, or four (renamed from elite) in ascending ranking order. These categories replaced the previous method of ranking stadiums on one to five star scale in 2006. A stadium must be rated as category four in order to host games in the playoffs of the qualifying stage for the UEFA Champions League, or any game in the main competition. Category four is also required to host any game in the main competition of the UEFA Europa League, UEFA Europa Conference League, UEFA Nations League or the UEFA European Championship final tournament. UEFA does not publish lists of stadiums fulfilling the criteria for any of the categories defined in the UEFA Stadium Infrastructure Regulations. General If a retractable roof is present, its use will be directed by consultation between the UEFA deleg ...
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Pärnu Rannastaadion
Pärnu Rannastaadion ( en, Pärnu Beach Stadium) is a multi-purpose stadium in Pärnu, Estonia. It is currently used mostly for football (soccer), football matches and is the home ground of Pärnu JK Vaprus and Pärnu Jalgpalliklubi, PJK. The stadium was opened after reconstruction in 2016 and seats 1,501. The address of the stadium is Ranna pst. 2, 80012 Pärnu. History Although sporting activities on the field, where today lies Pärnu Rannastaadion, date back to 1896, when a velodrome was opened by the association of German cyclists, the stadium was officially opened on 14 July 1929. The grandstand, which was also built to host singing festivals, was able to seat around 700 people and was labelled as 'the finest of the Baltic states'. However, on 9 February 1933 the grandstand was set on fire and the perpetrators were never caught. 6 months later, a new and larger grandstand was opened. The stadium survived World War II and hosted numerous post-war singing festivals, before ...
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Europa Conference League
The UEFA Europa Conference League (abbreviated as UECL) is an annual football club competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs. Clubs qualify for the competition based on their performance in their national leagues and cup competitions. It is the third tier of active European club football competitions, after the Champions League and the Europa League. First contested in the 2021–22 season, the competition serves as the bottom level of the Europa League, which was reduced from 48 to 32 teams in the group stage. The competition is primarily contested by teams from lower-ranked UEFA member associations. No teams qualify directly to the group stage, with 10 teams eliminated in the Europa League play-offs and the rest coming from the Europa Conference League qualifiers. The winners of the competition are awarded a position in the Europa League the following season, unless they qualify for the Champions League. ...
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FC Ararat-Armenia
FC Ararat-Armenia ( hy, Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ Արարատ-Արմենիա), is an Armenian football club based in Yerevan, founded in 2017. History It was founded in 2017 as FC Avan Academy by Ruben Hayrapetyan, on the basis of the young players of the Yerevan Football Academy graduates, as well as many young players from FC Pyunik. They club's inaugural match took place in July 2017 against Erebuni SC. The friendly match ended up with a score of 3–1 in favour of Avan Academy. At the beginning of 2018, the club was taken over by the Russian-Armenian businessman Samvel Karapetyan who renamed the football club as Ararat-Moskva, from Mount Ararat. The club was reorganized as soon as FC Ararat Moscow in Russia was denied certificate for the next season. Artak Oseyan managed the club during the 2017–18 Armenian First League season. After being promoted to the Armenian Premier League, it was again renamed, this time to Ararat-Armenia, and will participate in ...
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FC Dinamo Tbilisi
FC Dinamo Tbilisi ( ka, დინამო თბილისი, ) is a Georgian professional football club based in Tbilisi, Georgia, that competes in the Erovnuli Liga, the top flight of Georgian football. Dinamo Tbilisi was one of the most prominent clubs in Soviet football and a major contender in the Soviet Top League almost immediately after it was established in 1936. The club was then part of one of the leading sport societies in the Soviet Union, the All-Union Dynamo sports society which had several other divisions besides football and was sponsored by the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs. Its main claim to European fame was winning the Cup Winners' Cup in 1981, beating FC Carl Zeiss Jena of East Germany 2–1 in the final in Düsseldorf. It remains the only club based in Georgia to have ever lifted a trophy in European competition. Throughout its history, FC Dinamo Tbilisi produced many famous Soviet players: Boris Paichadze, Avtandil Gogoberidze, Shota Iamanidz ...
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Muhammed Sanneh
Muhammed Sanneh (born 19 February 2000) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Baník Ostrava. Career On 2 February 2019, Sanneh left his native Gambia and signed a professional contract with Paide. In December 2020, he was named into the Meistriliiga team of the season for his performance in the 2020 season. He joined the Czech team Baník Ostrava in January 2021. He made his professional debut with Baník Ostrava in a 1–1 Czech First League tie with Bohemians 1905 on 16 April 2021. Baník Ostrava activated his buyout clause on his loan, to keep with the club beyond the 2020–2021 season on 17 April 2021. Loan at Pohronie In January 2021, Sanneh signed a half-season loan with Pohronie. International career In June 2020, Sanneh received his first call-up to the senior Gambia national team. He debuted for the Gambia in a 1–0 friendly win over Togo Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in We ...
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Alassana Jatta
Alassane Jatta (born 12 January 1999) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Danish Superliga club Viborg FF. Career Paide Linnameeskond Born in Sukuta, The Gambia, Jatta began playing for Real de Banjul in his home country before moving to Estonian Meistriliiga club Paide Linnameeskond in November 2018. In the first half of the season, Jatta scored 13 goals in 17 league games and was top goalscorer of the Meistriliiga. Viborg On 5 August 2019, Jatta signed a four-year contract with Danish 1st Division club Viborg FF. He made his debut for the club on 21 August, coming on as a substitute in the 64th minute for Emil Scheel and scoring his first goal in injury time. Being part of the Viborg-team winning promotion to the Danish Superliga in the 2020–21 season, Jatta made his debut at the highest level on 18 July 2021, coming on as a substitute for Sofus Berger in a 2–1 away win over Nordsjælland. In August 2022, Jatta and Viborg teammate Ibrahim ...
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Real De Banjul FC
Real de Banjul Football Club is a Gambian professional association football club based in Banjul. The team compete in the GFA League First Division, the top flight of Gambian football league system. Real de Banjul is the most successful club in Gambian football history, having won a record 12 national titles History Real de Banjul was founded in the 1966–67 season after a group of secondary schoolboys international team returned from a trip to Thiès in Senegal and named it as Benson and Hedges FC. The name was eventually changed by the then Director of Youth and Sports to Real de Bathurst FC and upon its registration with the Gambia Football Federation, it headquartered at 81 Lancaster Street, Banjul. The team witnessed another name change in 1970 changing to its present name of Real de Banjul which led to the expansion of the team having basketball, volleyball and athletics teams. The team then consisted of the youngest talented players in comparison to other local teams a ...
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Estonia National Football Team
The Estonia national football team ( et, Eesti jalgpallikoondis) represents Estonia in international football matches and is controlled by the Estonian Football Association, the governing body for football in Estonia. Estonia's home ground is Lilleküla Stadium in Tallinn. Estonia's first match was held against Finland in 1920, being a 6–0 defeat. The team participated in the 1924 Olympic Games tournament, their only participation. In 1940, Estonia was occupied by the Soviet Union and did not regain independence (and the possibility of a national football team) until 1991. Estonia's first FIFA recognised match as an independent nation after the break-up of the Soviet Union, was against Slovenia on 3 June 1992, a 1–1 draw in the Estonian capital city of Tallinn. Estonia has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup or UEFA European Championship. The team has however reached the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying play-offs, by finishing second in their qualifying group, before being dr ...
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2021 Meistriliiga
The 2021 Meistriliiga, also known as A. Le Coq Premium Liiga for sponsorship reasons, was the 31st season of the Meistriliiga, the top Estonian league for association football clubs. The season was scheduled to begin on 5 March 2021, but was delayed due to COVID-19 pandemic until 13 March and concluded on 5 December. Flora were the defending champions. The title was decided in the last round match between Flora and FCI Levadia. FCI Levadia drew the game, holding on to their one point lead over Flora and winning their 10th Meistriliiga title, their first since 2014. Teams Ten teams were competing in the league, nine clubs from the 2020 season and 2020 Esiliiga champions Vaprus who had earned a promotion after a two-year absence. Vaprus were to be relegated at the end of the 2021 season after finishing in the bottom of the table, however 8th Tulevik chose voluntary relegation to due financial difficulties. Tammeka retained their Meistriliiga spot after winning a relegation pl ...
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