2001 Meistriliiga

Meistriliiga

Season	2001
Champions	Flora (5th title)
Top goalscorer	Maksim Gruznov (37)
← 2000 2002 →

The 2001 Meistriliiga was the 11th season of the Meistriliiga, Estonia's premier football league. Flora won their fifth title.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Flora (C)	28	21	5	2	62	18	+44	68	2002–03 UEFA Champions League First qualifying round
2	TVMK	28	16	8	4	77	30	+47	56	2002–03 UEFA Cup Qualifying round
3	Maardu Levadia^1	28	16	7	5	72	35	+37	55	2002 UEFA Intertoto Cup First round
4	Narva Trans	28	16	3	9	79	35	+44	51
5	Tulevik	28	11	6	11	41	37	+4	39
6	Tallinna Levadia^2	28	6	5	17	30	78	−48	23	2002–03 UEFA Cup Qualifying round ^3
7	Lootus	28	4	5	19	21	53	−32	17	Relegation play-off
8	Kuressaare (R)	28	2	1	25	18	114	−96	7	Relegation to 2002 Esiliiga

Source: Estonian Football Association (Estonian)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) number of wins; 3) head-to-head points; 4) head-to-head goal difference; 5) head-to-head goals scored; 6) goal difference; 7) number of goals scored
¹ Club changed their name to Levadia Tallinn in 2004
²Club changed their name to Levadia II Tallinn in 2004
³Qualified As Estonian Cup winners
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Relegation playoff

Valga v Lootus

12 November 2001

Valga	2 – 1	Lootus
Jääger  14' Kask  14'		Golitsõn  64'

Lootus v Valga

17 November 2001

Lootus	1 – 0	Valga
Abornev  78'

2–2 on aggregate. Lootus won on away goals and retained their Meistriliiga spot for the 2002 season.

Topscorers

Pos	Name	Team	Goals
1	Maksim Gruznov	Trans Narva	37
2	Andrei Krõlov	TVMK Tallinn	23
3	Toomas Krõm	Levadia Maardu	20
4	Dmitri Ustritski	Tulevik Viljandi	16
5	Aleksandr Kulik	Flora Tallinn	14
–	Vladimir Tšelnokov	Levadia Maardu	14