2006 Esiliiga

Esiliiga
Season	2006
	← 2005 2007 →

The 2006 Esiliiga is the 16th season of the Esiliiga, second-highest Estonian league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1992.

FC Kuressaare gained automatic promotion to the Meistriliiga as FC Levadia II are the reserve team for Meistriliiga champions FC Levadia and therefore can not be promoted to the same league as its parent club. JK Tallinna Kalev also go up after winning the promotion-relegation play-off. The league's top-scorer was FC Levadia youngster Kaimar Saag with 37 goals. Nõmme Kalju's Andrus Mitt scored 35 goals.

Final table of Esiliiga season 2006

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Levadia II Tallinn^[a] (C)	36	28	4	4	132	24	+108	88
2	FC Kuressaare (C)	36	22	5	9	64	44	+20	71	Promotion to Meistriliiga
3	Kalev Tallinn	36	20	6	10	84	63	+21	66	Qualification for relegation play-offs
4	Flora II Tallinn^[a]	36	19	3	14	81	56	+25	60
5	Kalju Nõmme	36	18	5	13	76	80	−4	59
6	TVMK II Tallinn^[a]	36	17	4	15	66	63	+3	55
7	Tulevik II Viljandi^[a]	36	9	11	16	53	52	+1	38
8	Lootus Kohtla-Järve* (R)	36	10	3	23	46	99	−53	33	Qualification for relegation play-offs
9	Dünamo Tallinn (R)	36	7	8	21	44	85	−41	29	Relegation to II liiga^[b]
10	FC Elva	36	4	3	29	20	100	−80	15	Spared from relegation^[c]

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Reserve teams are ineligible for promotion.
^ Denied Esiliiga license
^ Stayed up as Trans II decided against promotion and two clubs above were denied the Esiliiga license.

Promotion/relegation playoff

November 12, 2006

Kalev Sillamäe	5 - 1	Lootus Kohtla-Järve

November 18, 2006

Lootus Kohtla-Järve	1 - 3	Kalev Sillamäe

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

As of 11 November 2007.^[1]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Kaimar Saag	Levadia II	37
2	Andrus Mitt	Nõmme Kalju	35
3	Jevgeni Gurtšioglujants	Levadia II	17
3	Sander Puri	Levadia II	17
5	Artjom Dmitrijev	TVMK II	16
5	Tiit Tikenberg	Tallinna Kalev	16
7	Dmitri Kirilov	Tallinna Kalev	15
8	Kristian Marmor	Levadia II	14
9	Eino Puri	Levadia II	12
	Anton Semjonov	Lootus	12
	Rainer Veskimäe	Kuressaare	12