2018 Meistriliiga

10 teams competed in the league. Sillamäe Kalev lost their Meistriliiga license due to a failure to meet their financial obligations and were relegated to the II liiga.^[4] On 4 November 2017, it was announced that FCI Tallinn would merge with Levadia.^[5]

The two clubs were replaced by 2017 Esiliiga champions Maardu Linnameeskond and runners-up Tallinna Kalev.^[6] On 18 December 2017, Kuressaare replaced Maardu Linnameeskond after the latter withdrew from the league due to financial reasons.^[7]

Flora
Kalev
Kalju
FCI Levadia

Paide

Tammeka

Trans

Tulevik

Vaprus

Kuressaare

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Locations of the 2018 Meistriliiga teams

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
FCI Levadia	Aleksandar Rogić	Dmitri Kruglov	Adidas	Viimsi Keevitus
Flora	Jürgen Henn	Gert Kams	Nike	Tele2[18]
Kuressaare	Jan Važinski	Sander Viira	Joma	Saaremaa Lihatööstus
Narva Trans	Cenk Özcan	Irié	Nike	Sportland
Nõmme Kalju	Sergei Frantsev	Vitali Teleš	Adidas	help.ee
Paide Linnameeskond	Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko	Andre Frolov	Nike	Verston
Tallinna Kalev	Argo Arbeiter	Hidetoshi Wakui	Nike	Coolbet
Tammeka	Kaido Koppel	Tauno Tekko	Nike	Metec[19]
Tulevik	Sander Post	Indrek Ilves	Joma	Viljandi Aken ja Uks[20]
Vaprus	Indrek Zelinski	Joosep Sarapuu	Nike	Coolbet[21]

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Vaprus	Marko Lelov	Resigned	5 November 2017[22]	Pre-season	Indrek Zelinski	5 November 2017[23]
FCI Levadia	Igor Prins	End of contract	5 November 2017[24]		Aleksandar Rogić	6 November 2017[25]
Tulevik	Aivar Lillevere	Resigned	15 November 2017[26]		Marko Kristal	30 December 2017[27]
Tallinna Kalev	Marko Pärnpuu	Sacked	16 November 2017[28]		Argo Arbeiter	17 November 2017[29]
Tammeka	Mario Hansi Kaido Koppel	Mutual consent	21 November 2017[30]		Kaido Koppel	21 November 2017[30]
Flora	Arno Pijpers	Resigned	13 December 2017[31]		Jürgen Henn	5 January 2018[32]
Kuressaare	Sander Viira	Mutual consent	19 December 2017		Jan Važinski	19 December 2017[33]
Tulevik	Marko Kristal	Mutual consent	19 April 2018[34]	9th	Sander Post	19 April 2018[34]
Narva Trans	Adyam Kuzyaev	Resigned	14 August 2018[35]	4th	Cenk Özcan	17 August 2018[35]

Each team played every opponent four times, twice at home and twice away. A total of 180 matches has been played, with 36 matches played by each team.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[37]
1	Liliu	Nõmme Kalju	31
2	Zakaria Beglarishvili	Flora	30
3	Roman Debelko	FCI Levadia	28
4	Tristan Koskor	Tammeka	21
5	Dmitri Barkov	Narva Trans	17
6	Frank Liivak	Flora	16
7	Sander Laht	Kuressaare	15
8	Marcelin Gando	FCI Levadia	14
	Rimo Hunt	Nõmme Kalju
10	Viktor Plotnikov	Narva Trans	13
	Muamer Svraka	FCI Levadia

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Tristan Koskor4	Tammeka	Kuressaare	4–0 (A)	30 March 2018[38]
Roman Debelko	FCI Levadia	Tulevik	5–0 (H)	5 May 2018[39]
Liliu	Nõmme Kalju	Vaprus	6–0 (A)	5 May 2018[40]
Marcelin Gando4	FCI Levadia	Vaprus	6–1 (H)	26 May 2018[41]
Liliu	Nõmme Kalju	Paide Linnameeskond	3–0 (A)	18 August 2018[42]
Zakaria Beglarishvili	Flora	Tulevik	3–1 (A)	3 November 2018[43]

⁴ Player scored 4 goals

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month
	Manager	Club	Player	Club
March[45]	Sergei Frantsev	Nõmme Kalju	Roman Debelko	FCI Levadia
April[46]	Aleksandar Rogić	FCI Levadia	Liliu	Nõmme Kalju
May[47]	Jürgen Henn	Flora	Samson Iyede	Paide Linnameeskond
June/July[48]	Sergei Frantsev	Nõmme Kalju	Madis Vihmann	Flora
August[49]	Kaido Koppel	Tammeka	Gert Kams
September[50]	Aleksandar Rogić	FCI Levadia	Viktor Plotnikov	Narva Trans
October[51]	Jürgen Henn	Flora	Herol Riiberg	Tulevik

Zakaria Beglarishvili was named Meistriliiga Player of the Year.^[52]

Tõnis Vihmoja's goal against Paide Linnameeskond was chosen Goal of the Year.^[53]

• Winter 2017–18 – before the season
• Summer 2018 – during the season