2016 Meistriliiga

A total of 10 teams will contest the league. These include 9 teams from the 2015 season and one promoted team from the 2015 Esiliiga: Tarvas, making their debut in the top flight. Tarvas replaces Tulevik who were relegated from the Meistriliiga after a single season. In the relegation play-off Tammeka successfully defended their league spot by defeating challengers Tallinna Kalev.

Flora
Levadia
Kalju
Infonet

Paide

Sillamäe

Trans

Pärnu

Tarvas

Tammeka

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Location of the 2016 Meistriliiga teams

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Flora	Argo Arbeiter	Gert Kams	Nike	Tele2[14]
Infonet	Aleksandr Puštov	Andrei Kalimullin	Joma	Infonet
Levadia	Igor Prins	Rimo Hunt	Adidas	Viimsi Keevitus
Narva Trans	Adyam Kuzyaev	Roman Nesterovski	Nike	Sportland
Nõmme Kalju	Sergei Frantsev	Vitali Teleš	Adidas	Optibet[15]
Paide Linnameeskond	Meelis Rooba	Lauri Varendi	Nike	Enemat
Pärnu Linnameeskond	Marko Lelov	Karl Palatu	Hummel	Wendre[16]
Sillamäe Kalev	Algimantas Briaunys Vadym Dobizha	Mihhail Starodubtsev	Uhlsport	Alexela
Tammeka	Indrek Koser	Kaarel Kiidron	Nike	Sportland
Tarvas	Urmas Kirs	Kaarel Saar	Nike	Aqva Hotel & Spa

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Levadia	Marko Kristal	Sacked	7 November 2015[17]	Pre-season	Sergei Ratnikov	7 November 2015[17]
Nõmme Kalju	Getúlio Fredo	Caretaker spell over	7 November 2015[18]		Sergei Frantsev	7 November 2015[18]
Sillamäe Kalev	Denis Ugarov	Sacked	24 May 2016[19]	8th	Algimantas Briaunys (caretaker) Vadym Dobizha (caretaker)	24 May 2016
Tarvas	Valeri Bondarenko	Sacked	4 June 2016[20]	10th	Urmas Kirs	4 June 2016
Flora	Norbert Hurt	Resigned	8 July 2016[21]	4th	Jürgen Henn (caretaker)	8 July 2016
Levadia	Sergei Ratnikov	Sacked	11 July 2016 [22]	2nd	Igor Prins	11 July 2016[23]
Flora	Jürgen Henn	Caretaker spell over	13 July 2016	4th	Argo Arbeiter	13 July 2016[24]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[28]
1	Yevgeni Kabaev	Sillamäe Kalev	25
2	Rauno Sappinen	Flora	19
	Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko	Paide Linnameeskond
4	Rauno Alliku	Flora	15
5	Anton Miranchuk	Levadia	14
	Dmitri Proshin	Narva Trans
	Ats Purje	Nõmme Kalju
	Sakari Tukiainen	Flora
9	Kristjan Tiirik	Tammeka	12
	Vladimir Voskoboinikov	Infonet

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Sakari Tukiainen5	Flora	Tarvas	6–0	8 March 2016[29]
Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko	Paide Linnameeskond	Tarvas	4–2	13 May 2016[30]
Albert Prosa	Flora	Sillamäe Kalev	4–2	13 May 2016[31]
Rauno Alliku4	Flora	Tarvas	5–0	19 June 2016[32]
Rizvan Umarov	Narva Trans	Tammeka	4–1	19 June 2016[33]
Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko	Paide Linnameeskond	Tammeka	3–0	9 July 2016[34]
Ats Purje	Nõmme Kalju	Tarvas	6–1	10 July 2016[35]
Anton Miranchuk	Levadia	Paide Linnameeskond	7–1	24 July 2016[36]
Sakari Tukiainen	Flora	Paide Linnameeskond	3–0	29 July 2016[37]
Yevgeni Kabaev4	Sillamäe Kalev	Tammeka	5–1	30 July 2016[38]
Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko	Paide Linnameeskond	Pärnu Linnameeskond	4–1	9 September 2016[39]
Kaspar Paur	Tammeka	Tarvas	5–0	9 September 2016[40]
Andrei Sidorenkov	Nõmme Kalju	Pärnu Linnameeskond	4–0	17 September 2016[41]
Rauno Alliku	Flora	Pärnu Linnameeskond	6–1	1 October 2016[42]
Dmitri Barkov	Narva Trans	Pärnu Linnameeskond	7–1	29 October 2016[43]

⁴ Player scored 4 goals.
⁵ Player scored 5 goals.