2022 in Estonian football

Football in Estonia

Season	2022
Men's football
Meistriliiga	Tallinna Flora
Esiliiga	Harju Laagri
Esiliiga B	Tallinn
Beach football	Nõmme Olybet
Futsal	Tallinna Cosmos
Tipneri karikas	Paide Linnameeskond
Supercup	Tallinna Levadia
Women's football
Meistriliiga	Tallinna Flora
Esiliiga	Lasnamäe Ajax
Futsal	–
Estonian Cup	Tallinna Flora
Supercup	Tallinna Flora
← 2021 2023 →

This page summarizes everything related to Estonian football in the year 2022. It contains information about different league systems, national teams, futsal, beach football and most important transfers.

The men's national team took part in the 2020-21 Nations League C-division relegation play-outs, where they played a two legged tie against Cyprus.^[1] Estonians managed to score two goals in the opening leg but both of them were later cancelled by VAR and the match therefore ended in a stalemate. Before the second leg, Estonian national team lost a few key players (Mattias Käit fell ill, Maksim Paskotši got injured; Karl Jakob Hein and Märten Kuusk got injured before the first game). In the end, Estonia lost the away game 0–2 and took part in League D in the 2022-23 UEFA Nations League.^[2]

Estonia had quite a successful season in League D: they won both games against San Marino and Malta by scoring last minute goals. Therefore Estonia got promoted back to League C on their first try.

At the end of the year, the Baltic states contested the 29th Baltic Cup. Due to only having two possible matchdays, it was decided that the 2022 tournament will be held as a knock-out tournament. Iceland was invited to be the fourth team. Estonia lost its first match against Latvia on penalties and therefore could not defend their 2020 Baltic Cup win. In the third-place match Estonia beat Lithuania.

U21

Although it was confirmed after the first seven matches of the groupstage that the men's national U21 team will not qualify for the 2023 U21 Euros, the team still has to play three more games in 2022.

U19

U18

U17

U16

U15

The national women's team continued their 2023 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign. On 16 December 2021, the Estonian FA declared that Jarmo Matikainen will step down as the head coach of the Estonian women's national football team.^[5] On 18 January, the Estonian FA announced that the women's national team will have two head coaches: Anastassia Morkovkina and Sirje Roops.^[6]

Although Estonians lost 0–9 to France at home, they also managed to win two games against Kazakhstan. In October they managed to win the Baltic Cup after five successive tournaments without a title.

U19

On 9 December 2021, the women's national U19 team were placed in pot C in the draw for the qualification round of the 2022 U19 EUROs. The Estonians were placed into the same group as Scotland, Kosovo and Kazakhstan.^[7]

U17

On 9 December 2021, the women's national U17 team were placed in pot B in the draw for the qualification round of the 2022 U17 EUROs. The Estonians were placed into the same group as Bulgaria and Georgia.^[7]

U15

The 2022 season of Premium liiga was originally supposed to have top nine clubs from the previous season in addition to Esiliiga champions Maardu Linnameeskond. But on two separate occasions two clubs - Viljandi Tulevik, who finished 8th in 2021, and Maardu Linnameeskond, who were the reigning Esiliiga champions - released a statement, where they confirmed that they will give up their place in the top division and due to financial problems play in the lower divisions. While Tulevik joined Esiliiga,^[8] Maardu decided to compete in II liiga.^[9] This therefore gave another opportunity to Pärnu Vaprus, who finished last season tenth, and Tallinna Kalev, who was second in Esiliiga, to compete in the Premium liiga.^[9][10] A few days before the beginning of the season, the Estonian FA announced that Tallinna Legion would receive -4 points and a transfer ban for missing multiple licensing dates.^[11]

The season ended with Tallinna Flora winning its 14th title. In the end, they were 18 points ahead of second-placed Tallinna Levadia, which is the largest gap between the top two teams in Meistriliiga since 2009. In addition, no team has ever gained more points in a season than Flora did in 2022. While Levadia finished second, Paide managed to get ahead of Kalju in the penultimate round by beating them 1–0. The season was also historical for fifth-placed Kuressaare who had never finished higher than the seventh place. Likewise, newcomer Tallinna Kalev had not received as many points as they did in 2022 since 2007. At first Pärnu Vaprus, who finished last, was supposed to be relegated to Esiliiga but after Tallinna Legion announced that due to financial difficulties they will play in Esiliiga, Vaprus got readmitted to the division.^[12]

FCI Levadia's Zakaria Beglarishvili was the division's top scorer with 21 goals. The top assister was Tallinna Kalev's Ioan Yakovlev, who managed to assist 13 goals. Flora's Konstantin Vassiljev was given the Meistriliiga Player of the Year trophy. In addition Paide's Robi Saarma was named as the Fans Player of the Year by Soccernet.ee readers.

Relegation play-off:

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Elva (Esiliiga 3rd)	1-3	Tallinna Legion (Meistriliiga 9th)	0-3	1-0

The 2022 season of Esiliiga had six competitors from last years Esiliiga and four newcomers. While last year's champion Maardu Linnameeskond got promoted to Premium liiga, the top divisions eight team - Viljandi Tulevik - was relegated due to financial difficulties.^[8] The other three teams all came from Esiliiga B: Viimsi and Harju Laagri will be debuting in the second division, whereas Ida-Virumaa Alliance returns after spending one year in Esiliiga B. They replace Tartu Welco, Tartu Tammeka U21 and Pärnu, who got relegated after last season.^[10] On 4 February Maardu Linnameeskond announced that due to financial difficulties they also cannot compete in the top division. Unlike Viljandi, they decided to compete in II liiga and therefore Tallinna Kalev got promoted and Pärnu got readmitted to Esiliiga.^[9]

In the penultimate round newcomer Harju Laagri defeated Pärnu 4:0, which crowned them champions of the division. FCI Levadia's reserve team finished second with 68 points and Elva completed the podium with the third place. On the other end of the table Pärnu and Viljandi Tulevik got relegated to Esiliiga B. The promotion/relegation play-offs did not add any new teams to the division because while Elva lost its promotion play-off to Tallinna Legion, Ida-Virumaa Alliance managed to narrowly beat Esiliiga B-s third-best Tallinna Kalev U21.

The best goalscorer was Nõmme United's 17-year-old Egert Õunapuu, who got 36 goals in 26 games. The young attacker was later named the best player of the season beating both Levadia U21's Daniel Luts and Harju Laagri's Roman Sobtšenko.^[14]

Relegation play-off:

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tallinna Kalev U21 (Esiliiga B 3rd)	3-4	Ida-Virumaa Alliance (Esiliiga 8th)	3-3	0-1

In comparison to the previous year, the tenth season of Esiliiga B had five new clubs in the division. While Viimsi, Harju Laagri and Ida-Virumaa Alliance got promoted, they are replaced by Tartu Welco, Tartu Tammeka U21 and Pärnu, who join the division after spending respectively one, three and two season in Esiliiga. On the other side of the table, Vändra Vaprus and Nõmme Kalju U21, who had spent the last nine years in the top three divisions, got relegated to II liiga. They were replaced by debutants Raplamaa and Tartu Kalev.^[10] On 4 February Maardu Linnameeskond announced that due to financial difficulties they cannot compete in the top division. Due to them deciding to play in the II liiga, Nõmme Kalju U21, who finished the previous year second to last, got readmitted to Esiliiga B and Pärnu JK, who was relegated due to losing the relegation play-offs, was also readmitted to Esiliiga.^[9]

Within the first few months Tabasalu managed to separate itself from the other teams. Slowly, FC Tallinn, who did not lose any of their last 27 games, joined them at the top. The champion of the division was crowned in the last round, when the top two teams went head-to-head. Tallinn, who had to win the game, went ahead on the 8th minute and held on to the lead for almost the whole match: Tabasalu got their first goal on the 90th minute. A few moments later Tallinn scored another goal, which gave them the divisions title in the presence of 381 spectators.^[15] While Tabasalu and Tallinn were promoted to Esiliiga, Raplamaa, who had the least amount of points in Esiliiga B's history, and Nõmme Kalju U21 got relegated to II liiga.

FC Tallinn's 16-year-old Maksim Kalimullin finished the season as the best goalscorer with 33 goals in 29 games. The second-best goalscorer, Tabasalu's Tristan Pajo, was voted as the player of the season, beating both Kalimullin and Tallinna Kalev U21's Kenlou Laasner.^[14]

Relegation play-off:

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
— (II N/E 2nd)	—	Tallinna Flora U19 (II S/W 3rd)	—	—

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tallinna Flora U19 (II league p-o winner)	1–4	Tallinna Legion U21 (Esiliiga B 6th)	0–3	1–2

On 16 December 2021, it was decided that due to the last season being cancelled prematurely, the two II liiga divisions will have 16 clubs in 2022 instead of the usual 14 teams. Therefore, no teams were relegated and the four III liiga champions were promoted.^[17] One month later, the Estonian FA announced that the earlier plan had been repealed. The season starts on 26 March and consists of 26 rounds. Reserve teams, which do not have "U21" or "U19" in their name, are ineligible for promotion.^[18]

North / East
The North/East division had little change in comparison to the previous year: only two new clubs have entered the league: the promoted Tartu Kalev was replaced by III liiga East's second-placed Jõhvi Phoenix, who will be debuting in II liiga, and Põhja-Tallinna Volta, who held last place when the previous season had been stopped, went to II liiga S/W, whereas Viimsi II will try their luck in the II liiga N/E. On 4 February Maardu Linnameeskond announced that due to financial difficulties they cannot compete in the top division. Therefore they decided to take their reserve teams place in II liiga, while the reserve team was disbanded.^[9] Two weeks after the news containing Maardu Linnameeskond, the FA announced that Lasnamäe Ajax would be transferred to II liiga S/W and FC Tallinn U21 will get promoted after finishing the previous season in III liiga West third.^[19]

South / West
For the second year in a row Kose, who was in the bottom two, managed to get readmitted to the league. Instead, 10th placed Raasiku Joker, who had been in II liiga or higher since 2013, and Rummu Dünamo decided against taking part of the 2022 II liiga. In addition, Viimsi II, Viljandi Tulevik U21 (dissolved) and Raplamaa (promoted to Esiliiga B) also left the division. These four teams were replaced by Nõmme Kalju U21, Vändra Vaprus (both relegated from Esiliiga B), Nõmme United U21 and Harju Laagri U21 (both at the top of III liiga West). Kuressaare and Pärnu Vaprus had their reserve teams change their names from "II" to "U21" for them to be eligible for promotion. On 4 February Maardu Linnameeskond announced that due to financial difficulties they cannot compete in the top division. Therefore due to them deciding to play in II liiga, Nõmme Kalju U21 was readmitted to Esiliiga B.^[9] A few weeks later, the FA announced that in addition to Nõmme Kalju U21 getting promoted, Põhja-Tallinna Volta decided against playing in the fourth tier. That gave an opportunity to Tabasalu U21, who finished the previous season's III West season fourth.^[19]

Champion's match:

Relegation play-off:

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Saku Sporting (III N 6th)	w/o	— (III E 2nd)	—	—
Saku Sporting (play-off winner)	2–7	Tartu Helios (II N/E 12th)	1–4	1–3

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Pärnu Poseidon (III W 3rd)	8–4	Tartu Kalev II (III S 2nd)	4–4	4–0
Pärnu Poseidon (play-off winner)	1–6	Keila (II S/W 12th)	1–1	0–5

The III liiga's competition format is the same as in the previous seasons. Each group has eleven or twelve competitors from which the first club gets promoted to II liiga and the second-placed team takes part in the promotion play-offs, where North - East and South - West go head-to-head. The winners from both pairs go against the 12th teams in II liiga. The clubs, which finish the year 11th and 12th, get relegated to IV liiga. The 10th team takes part of the relegation play-offs. As usual, reserve teams, which have their main team in II liiga, are ineligible for promotion. These teams are Tartu Welco X (South), Rakvere Tarvas II (East) and Tallinna Flora IV (West). The season starts on 9 April.^[21]

Group A (North)
The 2022 III liiga North division had two newcomers: the previous season's IV liiga champion Tallinna Wolves and second-placed Tallinna Olympic Olybet - who was most recently in the league in 2019 - will replace Tallinna Dünamo, who did not enter the league system this year. In addition, Tallinna Pocarr changed its name to Tallinna Cosmos.^[21]

Group B (South)
The South group had only one new team in the division: Tartu Kalev entered its reserve team to the competition. Due to two clubs leaving - Paide Linnameeskond IV and Viljandi Tulevik III - the division only had eleven entrants. There was also one name change: Põhja-Sakala changed its name back to Suure-Jaani United.^[21]

Group C (East)
III liiga East division had five newcomers. While Põhja-Tallinna Volta and Raasiku Joker, who have recently been in Esiliiga B, decided to step down from II liiga to III liiga, Kuusalu Kalev and Tallinna TransferWise got promoted from the sixth division. In addition, FCI Levadia also put out a third team called Tallinna Levadia U19. The four teams, which left the league, were Jõhvi Phoenix, Tallinn II (both promoted to II liiga), Lasnamäe Ajax II and Kohtla-Järve Järve III (both dissolved). Before the beginning of the season, Põhja-Tallinn also decided to not take part in the league system and therefore the East group had only eleven entrants in two years in a row.^[21]

Group D (West)
The 2022 III liiga West division had the most changes in its line-up. There were six new entrant - Rummu Dünamo (relegated from II liiga), Tallinna Jalgpallihaigla, Tallinna Rumori Calcio (both promoted from IV liiga), Tabasalu Ulasabat, Tallinna Flora IV and Pärnu Tervis (all three did not compete in the previous year) - and six teams, who left the league - Nõmme United U21, Harju Laagri II (got promoted to II liiga), Tabasalu II, Rummu Dünamo II, Tallinna Legion III (all dissolved) and Kernu Kadakas (relegated to IV liiga).^[21] One of the newcomers, Pärnu Tervis, had three players, who played in Meistriliiga the previous year.^[22]

Champion's match:

Relegation play-off:
The relegation play-offs were not held in 2023 because there were not enough teams interested in getting promoted to III liiga.

The 2022 season of IV liiga will differ from the previous year's: although the division has as many entrants as in the previous season (26), the clubs voted to have two regions with 13 members. In the first round, every team in the same region will play each other once. In the second round, the table is split into two, as teams ranked 1.-7. and 8.-13. will play five or six games more. At the end of the season, clubs placed in the top four get the opportunity to get promoted to III liiga. Fifth and sixth teams can take part in the promotion play-offs against III liiga's 10th-placed clubs. The season starts on 24 April and the first round concludes on 21 August.^[23]

North / South

North / West

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Relegation play-off:

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Viimsi (Esiliiga 2nd)	4–2	Põlva Lootos (Meistriliiga 7th)	2–2	0–2

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The highest division of futsal in Estonia began on 29 October 2021. Unlike previous seasons, this year the division had ten different clubs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which stopped 2021 Esiliiga season earlier than expected. Therefore, the top teams could not be decided and three teams competed for another two spots. Sillamäe Kalev and Rõuge Saunamaa managed to get promoted by being ahead of Aruküla Radius. In addition, Tartu Maksimum Welco - who finished 2021 Coolbet saaliliiga in 7th place - merged with Jõgeva Wolves. The team decided to take the Jõgeva-based team's name. While in the previous seasons only six teams have qualified to the final play-offs, then due to the increase of teams, eight teams will get to participate after the main season has ended. Every team will start in the quarterfinals.^[25]

Main phase:

Play-offs:

	Quarterfinal									Semifinal									Final
	1	Tallinna Cosmos	5	12	–	–	2
	8	Rummu Dünamo	1	3	–	–	0
										1	Tallinna Cosmos	6	7	–	–	2
										6	Kohila	5	0	–	–	0
	3	Narva United	2	1	–	–	0
	6	Kohila	5	2	–	–	2
																			1	Tallinna Cosmos	4	4	6	3	8
																			2	Viimsi Smsraha	5	3	2	5	0
	2	Viimsi Smsraha	7	7	9	–	2
	7	Sillamäe Alexela	2	9	2	–	1
										2	Viimsi Smsraha	6	5	–	–	2			Third place
										4	Tartu Ravens Futsal	3	2	–	–	0
	4	Tartu Ravens Futsal	6	3 (2)	–	–	2												4	Tartu Ravens Futsal	3 (5)	10	–	–	2
	5	Sillamäe Silmet	3	– (–)	–	–	0												6	Kohila	3 (4)	6	–	–	0

Relegation play-off:

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rantipol Võru Helios (Esiliiga 3rd)	—	Jõgeva Wolves (Coolbet Saaliliiga 9th)	—	—

Futsal's second division was for the first time in five years the lowest division in Estonia: due to lack of clubs interested in II liiga, the third division was cancelled for this season and the remaining teams were promoted to Esiliiga. Therefore, Rantipol Võru Helios, Otepää Ravens (formerly known as Otepää Kanepi vald) and Äksi Wolves were all promoted to Esiliiga. In addition, Tallinna Cosmos II returns after a four-year hiatus and Jõhvi Phoenix makes its debut. These teams replace Rõuge Saunamaa, Sillamäe Alexela (both promoted), Jõgeva Wolves (merged with Tartu Maksimum Welco) and Viimsi Smsraha U19 (did not compete in the league system).^[25]

The season was largely dominated by Tallinna Cosmos II who won the league for the second time after 2018. For the second time in Esiliigas history, the winner did not lose any games (same happened in 2014 with Tallinna Ararat TTÜ, although Ararat played two games less). Cosmos II's only point loss came against Narva Ganza, who drew 4-4 with them. The best team, which was eligible for promotion, was Aruküla Radius who lost only four games. Rantipol Võru Helios reached the promotion play-offs on its debut season. The seasons best goalscorer also came from Võru: Rantipols attacker Eduard Desjatski scored 30 goals. Most assists were given by Radius' Rando Randjõe.

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Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

PL

Narva Trans

2

PL

Tartu Tammeka

0

PL

Narva Trans

0

PL

Nõmme Kalju

1

PL

Nõmme Kalju

7

ELB

Tabasalu

0

PL

Nõmme Kalju

0

PL

Paide LinnameeskondAET

1

PL

Tallinna Flora

2

PL

Tallinna Levadia

0

PL

Tallinna Flora

0 (4)

PL

Paide Linnameeskond

0 (5)

PL

Tallinna Legion

0

PL

Paide Linnameeskond

2

Home teams listed on top of bracket. (AET): At Extra Time, (PL): Premium liiga, (ELB): Esiliiga B

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

II

Rakvere Tarvas

5

III

Raasiku Joker

0

II

Rakvere Tarvas

3

II

Maardu Linnameeskond

2

II

Maardu Linnameeskond

1 (4)

II

Paide Linnameeskond III

1 (3)

II

Rakvere Tarvas

1 (3)

II

Tallinna Flora U19

1 (2)

III

Tallinna ReUnited

5

III

Tallinna Zapoos

0

III

Tallinna ReUnited

3

II

Tallinna Flora U19

4

II

Tallinna Flora U19

1 (6)

III

Tallinna Cosmos

1 (5)

Home teams listed on top of bracket. (AET): At Extra Time, (II): II liiga, (III): III liiga

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

ML

Tabasalu

0

ML

Tallinna Flora

5

ML

Tallinna Flora

2

ML

Saku Sporting

0

EL

Jõhvi Phoenix

0

ML

Saku Sporting

9

ML

Tallinna Flora

7

ML

Tallinna Kalev

1

ML

Pärnu Vaprus

0

ML

Tallinna Kalev

5

ML

Tallinna Kalev

1

ML

Põlva Lootos

0

ML

Tartu Tammeka

1

ML

Põlva LootosAET

2

Home teams listed on top of bracket. (AET): At Extra Time, (PL): Premium liiga, (ELB): Esiliiga B

The 2021-22 Futsal Cup began on 23 November and had sixteen competitors. There were nine teams from Coolbet Saaliliiga and seven teams from Esiliiga. The three teams, who took part in the league system, but decided against competing in the cup competition, were Sillamäe Alexela (Coolbet Saaliliiga), Tallinna Cosmos II and Kadrina Vitamin Well (both Esiliiga).^[27] In the end, Viimsi Smsraha and Tallinna Cosmos reached the final, which meant that for the first time in Futsal Cup history, the competition had the same two finalists in successive seasons.

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

CL

Rummu Dünamo

4

CL

Tartu Ravens Futsal

12

CL

Tartu Ravens Futsal

4

CL

Viimsi SmsrahaAET

7

CL

Kohila

1

CL

Viimsi Smsraha

2

CL

Viimsi SmsrahaAET

7

CL

Tallinna Cosmos

5

EL

Rantipol Võru Helios

3

EL

Narva United II

4

EL

Narva United II

1

CL

Tallinna Cosmos

5

CL

Tallinna Cosmos

11

EL

Jõhvi Phoenix

2

Home teams listed on top of bracket. (AET): At Extra Time, (CL): Coolbet saaliliiga, (EL): Esiliiga

In 2022 Estonian County Competition returned after a hiatus of two years. The ninth round showed a few surprising results: first-placed Harjumaa lost 2–10 to Tartumaa, who has won its last three goals with a goal difference of 28–4. The year was also successful for Põlvamaa, who beat Pärnumaa 6–2. The South Estonian county had not won a game in 90 minutes (excluding penalty shoot-outs) since 2013. The only draw came on 3 September, when both Valgamaa and Tallinn scored two goals.

Due to Estonia being 53rd in the UEFA rankings, only three teams from Estonia can compete in the European competitions. The only club, who plays in the UEFA Champions League, is the reigning champion Tallinna Levadia. For the first time in Estonian football history, they will begin their journey in the preliminary round. In addition, second-placed Tallinna Flora and the Estonian Cup winner Paide Linnameeskond will play in the UEFA Europa Conference League.

Tallinna Levadia

Tallinna Flora

Paide Linnameeskond

Transfers are in alphabetical order. Players with "*" behind their name have changed teams inside and outside of Meistriliiga. Player's last team is listed as "free agent" if he has not represented a team in the previous six months. Player's next team is listed as "free agent" if he has not found a new club within the following six months.

Listed are players, who have joined or left a club participating in the 2022 Meistriliiga. The player must have represented the Estonian national team at least once. The list may also contain more known players, who have either changed their club inside the lower leagues or retired from football.

Name	Pos.	Age	From	To	Date	Notes
Mihkel Ainsalu	MF	25	Tallinna Legion	Tallinna Levadia	04.03	Contract with Legion ended. Signed a new contract with Levadia.[39]
Hannes Anier	FW	28	Tallinna Levadia	Tallinna Kalev	11.02	Contract with Levadia ended. Signed a new contract with Kalev.[40][41]
Artjom Artjunin	DF	32	Tallinna Legion	Tallinna Levadia U21	02.03	Started as a player-coach in FCI Levadia U21.[42]
Aleksandr Dmitrijev	MF	39	Tallinna Legion	retired	01.01	Contract with Legion ended.[43]
Trevor Elhi	DF	28	Tallinna Levadia	Nõmme Kalju	01.01	Contract with Levadia ended. Signed a new contract with Kalju.[44][40]
Marek Kaljumäe	DF	30	Pärnu Vaprus	Tallinna Kalev	13.01	Contract with Vaprus ended. Signed a new contract with Kalev.[45]
Tristan Koskor	FW	26	Tartu Tammeka	Tallinna Flora	01.01	Contract with Tammeka ended. Signed a new contract for 2 years.[46][47]
Vladislav Kreida*	MF	22	Helsingborgs	Tallinna Flora	01.01	Loan deal with Helsingborgs ended.[48]
			Veres Rivne	Tallinna Flora	06.03	Loan deal with Veres terminated.[49]
			Skövde	Tallinna Flora	06.03	Loan deal with Skövde ended.[50]
Dmitri Kruglov	DF	37	Maardu Linnameeskond	retired	01.01	Contract with Maardu ended. Started coaching FCI U17 team.[51]
Henri Järvelaid	DF	23	Sogndal	Nõmme Kalju	05.01	Contract with Sogndal ended. Signed a new contract for 2 years.[52]
Karl Mööl	MF	29	Kuressaare	Paide Linnameeskond	01.01	Loan deal with Kuressaare ended.
Artur Pikk	DF	28	Rīgas Futbola skola	Tallinna Levadia	03.01	Contract with RFS ended. Signed a new contract with Levadia.[53][54]
Sander Puri	MF	33	Tallinna Legion	Tartu Tammeka	10.02	Contract with Legion ended. Signed a new contract with Tammeka.[55]
Kaimar Saag	FW	33	Viljandi Tulevik	Paide Linnameeskond	02.01	Contract with Tulevik ended. Signed a new contract with Paide.[56][57]
Joonas Tamm	DF	30	Vorskla Poltava	Tallinna Flora	09.03	Signed a loan deal with Flora for 4 months.[58]
Deniss Tjapkin	MF	30	Nõmme Kalju	Tallinn	10.03	Contract with Kalju ended. Signed a new contract with Tallinn.[59][60]
Bogdan Vaštšuk*	MF	26	Vorskla Poltava	Tallinna Levadia	08.03	Loan deal with Vorskla terminated.[61]

Listed are all Estonian footballers, who have joined or left a foreign team.

Name	Pos.	Age	From	To	Date	Notes
Mihkel Ainsalu	MF	26	Tallinna Levadia	Telstar	01.07	Contract with Levadia terminated. Signed a new contract with Telstar.[62]
Deivid Andreas	MF	20	Lleida Esportiu B	Sighetu Marmației	24.08	Signed a new contract with Sighetu Marmației.[63]
Henri Anier	FW	31	Paide Linnameeskond	Muangthong United	04.01	Contract with Paide ended. Signed a new contract with Muangthong.[64]
Artjom Dmitrijev	MF	33	Zhetysu	Qizilqum Zarafshon	26.02	Signed a contract with Qizilqum for 1 year.[65]
Karl Hein	GK	19	Arsenal	Reading	24.01	Signed a loan deal with Reading for 6 months.[66]
		20	Reading	Arsenal	31.06	Loan deal with Reading ended.[67]
Matvei Igonen	GK	25	Tallinna Flora	Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała	01.01	Contract with Flora ended. Signed a new contract for 1.5 + 2 years.[68]
Oliver Jürgens	FW	19	Inter Milan Youth Sector	Torino Youth Sector	20.08	Signed a new contract with Torino for 3 years.[69]
Imre Kartau	MF	16	Harju Laagri	Venezia U18	09.09	Signed a new contract with Venezia for 3 years.[70]
Kaur Kivila	GK	18	Hellas Verona Primavera	Carpi	04.08	Signed a loan deal with Carpi for 1 year.[71]
Tristan Koskor	FW	26	Tallinna Flora	Peyia 2014	02.08	Signed a new contract with Peyia 2014 for 1+1 years.[72]
Vladislav Kreida*	MF	22	Tallinna Flora	Veres Rivne	17.01	Signed a loan deal with Rivne for 6 months.[73]
			Tallinna Flora	Skövde	31.03	Signed a loan deal with Skövde for 3 months.[74]
Aleksandr Kulinitš	DF	29	Nõmme Kalju	Rostocker	28.01	Contract with Kalju ended. Signed a new contract for 1.5 years.[75]
Märten Kuusk	DF	25	Tallinna Flora	Újpest	25.01	Signed a new contract with Újpest for 3.5 years.[76]
Johann Kõre	MF	18	Viimsi	Cosenza Primavera	04.09	Joined Cosenza Youth Academy.[77]
Kristofer Käit	MF	16	Tallinna Kalev	Porto Juniors	10.02	Signed a loan deal for 6 months. The deal can be made permanent.[78]
		17	Tallinna Kalev	Rio Ave U18	31.08	Signed a loan deal for 6 months.[79]
Mattias Käit	MF	23	Bodø/Glimt	Rapid București	18.01	Contract with Bodø/Glimt ended. Signed a new contract for 2.5 years.[80][81]
Kristoffer Grauberg Lepik	FW	20	Akropolis	Brommapojkarna	01.01	Loan deal with Akropolis ended.[82]
			Brommapojkarna	Polisportiva Torrese 1974	01.01	Contract with Brommapojkarna ended. Signed a new contract for 6 months.[82]
		21	Polisportiva Torrese 1974	San Nicolò Notaresco	27.08	Signed a new contract with Notaresco for 1 year.[63]
Frank Liivak	FW	26	Tallinna Levadia	Sligo Rovers	22.06	Signed a new contract with Sligo Rovers for 1.5 years.[83]
Karol Mets	DF	28	CSKA Sofia	Zürich	07.01	Signed a new contract with Zürich for 2.5 years.[84]
Mihhail Orlov	FW	18	Ida-Virumaa Alliance	Silon Táborsko U19	01.08	Signed a new contract with Silon Táborsko for 2 years.[85]
Kevor Palumets	MF	19	Paide Linnameeskond	Zulte Waregem	06.09	Signed a new contract with Zulte Waregem for 3 + 1 years.[86]
Daniil Pareiko	GK	17	Tallinna Levadia	SPAL Primavera	30.07	Joined S.P.A.L.-s youth academy.[87]
Rauno Sappinen	FW	25	Tallinna Flora	Piast Gliwice	01.01	Signed a new contract for 3.5 + 1 years.[88]
Vlasiy Sinyavskiy	FW	25	Karviná	Slovácko	23.05	Contract with Karviná ended. Signed a new contract for 3 years.[89]
Erik Sorga	FW	22	VVV-Venlo	D.C. United	08.01	Loan deal terminated.[90]
			D.C. United	Göteborg		Signed a new contract with Göteborg for 4 years.[91]
Rocco Robert Shein	MF	18	Tallinna Flora	Jong Utrecht	31.01	Signed a loan deal for 6 months. The deal can be made permanent.[92]
			Tallinna Flora	Utrecht	27.05	Signed a new contract for 3 years.[93]
Joonas Tamm	DF	30	Tallinna Flora	FCSB	11.07	Contract with Flora ended. Signed a new contract with FCSB.[94]
Bogdan Vaštšuk*	MF	26	Tallinna Levadia	Vorskla Poltava	08.02	Signed a loan deal for 6 months. The deal can be made permanent.[95]
			Tallinna Levadia	Stal Mielec	20.07	Signed a new contract for 2 years.[96]
Laurits Õunpuu	DF	16	Tartu Tammeka	Modena U19	04.09	Signed a new contract with Modena.[97]

Listed are all foreign players that have joined or left a team participating in the 2022 Meistriliiga.

Name	Pos.	Age	From	To	Date	Notes
Amar Abdallah	DF	22	Tallinna Levadia	Pärnu Vaprus	03.02	Signed a loan deal with Vaprus for 5 months.[98]
		23	Pärnu Vaprus	Tallinna Levadia	30.06	Loan deal ended.[99]
David Addy	DF	32	free agent	Tartu Tammeka	09.03	Signed a contract with Tammeka.[100]
Abdullahi Alfa	MF	25	Tallinna Kalev	free agent	01.01	Contract with Kalev ended.[101]
Dušan Bakić	MF	22	Tallinna Legion	Dinamo Minsk	01.01	Loan deal with Legion ended.
Mikhail Belov	MF	29	Narva Trans	Atom Novovoronezh	01.01	Contract with Trans ended. Signed a new contract with Atom.[102]
Tabrezi Davlatmir	DF	23	Narva Trans	Istiklol	01.01	Contract with Trans ended. Signed a new contract with Istiklol.[102]
Denys Dedechko	DF	34	Noah	Narva Trans	04.02	Signed a contract with Trans.[103]
Hadji Dramé	FW	21	Paide Linnameeskond	Dila Gori	27.01	Signed a contract with Dila.[104]
Andre Fortune II	MF	25	Memphis 901	Nõmme Kalju	07.02	Signed a contract with Kalju for 3 years.[105]
Vitali Kalenkovich	MF	28	Narva Trans	Salyut Belgorod	17.02	Contract with Trans ended. Signed a contract with Salyut.[102]
Oleksiy Khoblenko	FW	27	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Tallinna Levadia	10.03	Signed a contract with FCI Levadia.[106]
		28	Tallinna Levadia	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	30.06	Loan deal with Levadia ended.[107]
Vladyslav Khomutov	MF	23	Nõmme Kalju	FC ŠTK 1914 Šamorín	12.01	Contract with Kalju ended. Signed a new contract with Šamorín.[108]
Ishaku Konda	DF	22	Paide Linnameeskond	Asokwa Deportivo	01.01	Loan deal with Paide ended.[109]
Oleksandr Kozhevnikov	FW	21	Vorskla Poltava	Narva Trans	08.04	Signed a contract with Trans.[110]
Liliu	FW	31	Sport Huancayo	Tallinna Levadia	24.01	Signed a contract with FCI Levadia.[111]
Ryan Lindsay	DF	20	York United	Narva Trans	11.02	Signed a contract with Trans for 2 years.[112]
			Narva Trans	free agent	08.06	Contract terminated.[113]
Luka Luković	DF	20	Tallinna Levadia	Pärnu Vaprus	28.02	Signed a loan deal with Vaprus for 1 year.[114]
			Pärnu Vaprus	Tallinna Levadia	30.06	Loan deal ended.[99]
			Tallinna Levadia	free agent	04.07	Contract terminated.[115]
Milijan Ilić	DF	28	Tallinna Levadia	Mladost Novi Sad	17.01	Contract with Levadia terminated. Signed a new contract with Mladost.[116]
Ebrima Jarju	GK	23	Real de Banjul	Paide Linnameeskond	11.01	Signed a contract with Paide for 3 years.[117]
Yohan Mannone	DF	26	Paris Saint-Germain B	Nõmme Kalju	09.02	Signed a contract with Kalju for 3 years.[118]
Andriy Markovych	DF	26	Nõmme Kalju	Karpaty Lviv	26.01	Contract with Kalju ended. Signed a new contract with Karpaty.[119]
			Karpaty Lviv	Nõmme Kalju	06.04	Signed a contract with Kalju.[120]
Amir Natkho	MF	25	Tallinna Levadia	Armavir	23.02	Contract with Levadia terminated. Signed a new contract with Armavir.[121]
Sigitas Olberkis	DF	24	Tallinna Legion	Dalkurd	16.03	Contract with Legion ended. Signed a new contract with Dalkurd.[43]
Lucky Opara	DF	22	Spartaks Jūrmala	Narva Trans	10.03	Signed a loan deal with Trans.[122]
Volodymyr Pryyomov	FW	36	Tavriya Simferopol	Narva Trans	07.04	Signed a contract with Trans for six months.[123]
Artem Schedryi	MF	29	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	Tallinna Levadia	10.03	Signed a contract with FCI Levadia.[106]
		29	Tallinna Levadia	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	30.06	Loan deal with Levadia ended.[107]
Daniil Shevyakov	DF	22	Vitebsk-2	Nõmme Kalju	23.02	Signed a contract with Kalju.[124]
Daniils Skopenko	FW	21	Tartu Tammeka	free agent	01.01	Contract with Tammeka ended.
Dominique Simon	MF	21	Navarro	Paide Linnameeskond	23.02	Signed a contract with Paide for 2 years.[125]
Ebrima Singhateh	FW	18	Real de Banjul	Paide Linnameeskond	11.01	Signed a contract with Paide for 3 years.[117]
Valeriy Stepanenko	DF	23	Maktaaral	Tallinna Kalev	25.02	Signed a contract with Kalev.[126]
Nikita Zagrebelnyi	MF	25	Narva Trans	free agent	01.01	Contract with Trans ended.[102]
Edgaras Žarskis	DF	27	Narva Trans	Džiugas Telšiai	26.02	Contract with Trans ended. Signed a new contract with Džiugas.[127]
Bubacarr Tambedou	FW	19	Real de Banjul	Paide Linnameeskond	11.01	Signed a contract with Paide for 3 years.[117]
Denys Taraduda	DF	21	VPK-Ahro Shevchenkivka	Narva Trans	29.06	Signed a contract with Trans for six months.[128]
Daniil Timofeev	FW	19	Belgrade IMT U19	Tallinna Levadia	17.01	Signed a contract with FCI Levadia.[129]
Foday Trawally	MF	20	Paide Linnameeskond	Tallinna Kalev	25.02	Signed a loan deal with Kalev for 1 year.[130]
Welves	FW	21	Lviv	Nõmme Kalju	06.04	Signed a loan deal for 3 months with Kalju.[131]
Andriy Yakymiv	MF	24	free agent	Nõmme Kalju	08.04	Signed a contract with Kalju.[132]

Listed are all clubs, who play in the top divisions (Meistriliiga, Esiliiga, Esiliiga B), and national teams who changed managers after the end of the 2021 season.

Team	Division	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Paide Linnameeskond	Meistriliiga	Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko	End of contract	27 November 2021[133]	Karel Voolaid	6 December 2021[134]
Narva Trans		Igor Pyvin		29 November 2021[135]	Aleksei Yeryomenko	30 November 2021[136]
Pärnu Vaprus		Taavi Midenbritt		29 November 2021[137]	Dmitrijs Kalašņikovs	27 December 2021[138]
Tartu Tammeka		Dmitrijs Kalašņikovs		7 December 2021[139]	Carlos Santos	4 January 2022[140]
Nõmme Kalju		Sergey Frantsev	Sacked	8 December 2021[141]	Eddie Cardoso	4 January 2022[142]
Viljandi Tulevik	Esiliiga	Sander Post	Mutual consent	18 December 2021[143]	Indrek Ilves	8 January 2022[144]
Tallinna Flora U21		Ats Sillaste		21 December 2021[145]	Taavi Viik	21 December 2021[145]
Tartu Welco	Esiliiga B	Meelis Eelmäe		28 December 2021[146]	Jaanus Reitel	28 December 2021[146]
Tartu Tammeka U21		Marti Pähn		4 January 2022[140]	Siim Valtna	4 January 2022[140]'
Nõmme Kalju U21		Marko Kristal		4 January 2022[142]	Alger Džumadil	4 January 2022[142]
Tallinna Levadia U21	Esiliiga	Robert Sadovski		11 January 2022[147]	Ivan Stojković	11 January 2022[147]
Tallinna Levadia	Meistriliiga	Marko Savić Vladimir Vassiljev	Resigned	1 July 2022[148]	Ivan Stojković	1 July 2022
Tallinna Levadia U21	Esiliiga	Ivan Stojković	Mutual consent	1 July 2022[148]	Nikita Andreev	1 July 2022
Tartu Tammeka	Meistriliiga	Miguel Santos	Resigned	9 July 2022[149]	Marti Pähn	9 July 2022
Tallinna Levadia		Ivan Stojković	Sacked	12 September 2022[150]	Maksym Kalinichenko	12 September 2022
Tallinna Levadia		Maksym Kalinichenko		22 September 2022[151]	Nikita Andreev (caretaker)	12 September 2022
Tallinna Levadia U21	Esiliiga	Nikita Andreev	Mutual consent	22 September 2022[151]	Artjom Artjunin	22 September 2022
Nõmme Kalju	Meistriliiga	Eddie Cardoso	Sacked	16 October 2022[152]	Kaido Koppel	16 October 2022
Narva Trans		Aleksei Yeryomenko	Mutual consent	12 November 2022[153]	Aleksei Yagudin (caretaker)	12 November 2022