2004 Meistriliiga was the 14th season of the
Meistriliiga
Meistriliiga (, known as the A. Le Coq Premium Liiga for sponsorship reasons) is the highest division of the Estonian Football Association annual football (soccer), football championship. The league was founded in 1992, and was initially semi-p ...
, Estonia's premier football league.
Levadia won their third title.
Season overview
Levadia Tallinn
Football Club Infonet Levadia Tallinn, commonly known as FCI Levadia, or simply as Levadia, is a professional football club based in Tallinn, Estonia, that competes in the Meistriliiga, the top flight of Estonian football. The club's home grou ...
won their third title with a six-point advantage over the runners-up
TVMK Tallinn.
Tammeka Tartu and
Tervis Pärnu won promotion to the
Meistriliiga
Meistriliiga (, known as the A. Le Coq Premium Liiga for sponsorship reasons) is the highest division of the Estonian Football Association annual football (soccer), football championship. The league was founded in 1992, and was initially semi-p ...
as the
Esiliiga
The Esiliiga is the second division in the Estonian football league system. The Esiliiga is ranked below the Meistriliiga and above the Esiliiga B.
As in most countries with low temperatures in winter time, the season starts in March and ends i ...
champions and third placed team respectively, the runners-up Levadia Tallinn II were ineligible for promotion. Expansion of the league to ten teams from eight, for the upcoming season, also ensured that even the last placed
Lootus Alutaguse had a chance to stay in the top flight, but were defeated by Esiliiga's fourth team
Dünamo Tallinn, winning the away leg 2-1, but then losing at home 0-4 a week later.
Tervis Pärnu were later denied the
Meistriliiga
Meistriliiga (, known as the A. Le Coq Premium Liiga for sponsorship reasons) is the highest division of the Estonian Football Association annual football (soccer), football championship. The league was founded in 1992, and was initially semi-p ...
license, sealing an unlikely promotion for the fifth-placed
FC Kuressaare
FC Kuressaare, commonly known as Kuressaare, is a professional football club, based in Kuressaare, Saaremaa, Estonia. The club's home ground is Kuressaare linnastaadion.
Founded on 14 March 1997, the club competes in the Meistriliiga, the top ...
.
League table
Relegation play-off
''Tallinna Dünamo won 5-2 on aggregate and were promoted for the
2005 Meistriliiga
2005 Meistriliiga was the 15th season of the Meistriliiga, Estonia's premier football league. TVMK won their first title.
Season overview
FC TVMK's first title-winning Meistriliiga campaign came in some style with strikers Tarmo Neemelo and I ...
. Alutaguse Lootus were relegated to the
2005 Esiliiga.''
Results
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
Second half of season
Top scorers
See also
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2003–04 Estonian Cup
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2004–05 Estonian Cup
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2004 Esiliiga
References
External links
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{{2004–05 in European football (UEFA)
Meistriliiga seasons
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Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...