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

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.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Pts taken
1	Flora	14	12	1	1	39	6	+33	37	Qualification for Championship Tournament	37 → 19
2	Tallinna Sadam	14	9	4	1	42	15	+27	31		31 → 16
3	Tulevik	14	6	2	6	21	20	+1	20		20 → 10
4	Lantana	14	5	4	5	20	17	+3	19		19 → 10
5	Narva Trans	14	4	3	7	13	26	−13	15		15 → 8
6	TVMK	14	4	2	8	13	29	−16	14		14 → 7
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

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	Flora (C)	10	7	2	1	34	10	+24	42	UEFA Champions League 1998-99 First qualifying round
2	Tallinna Sadam	10	5	1	4	26	22	+4	32	1998–99 UEFA Cup First qualifying round
3	Lantana	10	4	3	3	13	9	+4	25	1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Qualifying round
4	Trans	10	5	1	4	14	19	−5	24
5	Tulevik	10	2	3	5	11	15	−4	19	1998 UEFA Intertoto Cup First round
6	TVMK	10	2	0	8	4	23	−19	13

Meistriliiga Transition Tournament

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	Qualification or relegation
1	Lelle	10	8	2	0	52	10	+42	26	1998 Meistriliiga
2	Eesti Põlevkivi Jõhvi	10	5	4	1	23	9	+14	19
3	Vall	10	4	5	1	14	3	+11	17	1998 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

Topscorers

Pos	Name	Team	Goals
1	Konstantin Nahk	Sadam Tallinn	18
2	Andres Oper	FC Flora Tallinn	15
3	Indrek Zelinski	FC Flora Tallinn	13
4	Pål Christian Alsaker	FC Flora Tallinn	12
5	Toomas Krõm	FC Flora Tallinn	11
6	Argo Arbeiter	JK Viljandi Tulevik	9
–	Andrei Krõlov	Sadam Tallinn	9
–	Vitali Leitan	FC Lantana Tallinn	9
9	Marko Kristal	FC Flora Tallinn	8
–	Dmitry Lipartov	FC Narva Trans	8
11	Kristen Viikmäe	FC Flora Tallinn	7

See also

• 1997 in Estonian football
• 1998 in Estonian football

References

• Estonia - List of final tables (RSSSF)