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Meistriliiga
Season	1995–96
Champions	Lantana (1st title)
Relegated	PJK Kalev
UEFA Cup	Lantana Flora
Cup Winners' Cup	Tallinna Sadam
Intertoto Cup	Narva Trans
Top goalscorer	Lembit Rajala (16)
← 1994–95 1996–97 →

The 1995–96 Meistriliiga was the fifth season of the Meistriliiga, Estonia's premier football league. Lantana won their first title.

Preliminary round

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Lantana	14	10	3	1	37	8	+29	33	Qualification for Championship Tournament
2	Narva Trans	14	6	4	4	22	16	+6	22
3	Flora	14	6	4	4	37	19	+18	22
4	Tallinna Sadam	14	6	3	5	23	16	+7	21
5	Tevalte-Marlekor	14	6	2	6	20	19	+1	20
6	Tervis	14	5	2	7	13	17	−4	17
7	Eesti Põlevkivi Jõhvi	14	3	8	3	13	17	−4	17	Qualification for Meistriliiga Transition Tournament
8	PJK Kalev	14	0	2	12	8	61	−53	2	Qualification for Meistriliiga Transition Tournament

Source:

Results

Home \ Away	JEP	FLO	PJK	LAN	SAD	TER	MAR	TRS
Eesti Põlevkivi Jõhvi		2–1	1–1	1–1	1–3	0–0	2–0	0–0
Flora	2–2		5–0	1–5	3–0	7–0	2–1	0–1
PJK Kalev	1–1	0–5		0–1	0–4	1–5	1–4	2–4
Lantana	4–1	1–1	10–0		2–1	2–0	-:+	1–0
Tallinna Sadam	0–0	2–2	7–1	0–2		0–1	1–0	1–0
Tervis	0–2	2–6	5–0	2–4	1–2		3–1	2–2
Tevalte-Marlekor	0–0	2–1	5–1	0–3	1–1	2–1		4–2
Narva Trans	4–0	1–1	4–0	1–1	0–1	0–3	1–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Championship Tournament

The points obtained during the preliminary round were carried over halved and rounded up.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	BP	Pts	Qualification
1	Lantana (C)	10	6	2	2	21	7	+14	17	37	Qualification for UEFA Cup preliminary round
2	Flora	10	6	2	2	14	3	+11	11	31	Qualification for UEFA Cup preliminary round
3	Tevalte-Marlekor	10	7	0	3	13	10	+3	10	31
4	Tallinna Sadam	10	4	1	5	17	19	−2	11	24	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round
5	Narva Trans	10	2	2	6	11	16	−5	11	19	Qualification for Intertoto Cup group stage
6	Tervis	10	1	1	8	7	28	−21	9	13

Source:
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	FLO	LAN	SAD	TER	MAR	TRS
Flora		0–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	0–1
Lantana	0–1		3–4	3–0	3–0	4–2
Tallinna Sadam	0–0	0–3		2–5	1–3	3–2
Tervis	1–5	0–3	0–5		-:+	0–5
Tevalte-Marlekor	0–4	2–0	2–0	2–0		2–0
Narva Trans	0–1	0–0	0–2	1–1	0–3

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Meistriliiga Transition Tournament

Eesti Põlevkivi Jõhvi and PJK Kalev, the teams finishing in the last two positions in the preliminary round, faced four best teams of the 1995-96 Esiliiga in the play-off for two places in the 1996-97 Meistriliiga.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Eesti Põlevkivi Jõhvi	10	7	0	3	23	7	+16	21	Promotion to Meistriliiga
2	Vall (P)	10	7	0	3	18	9	+9	21	Promotion to Meistriliiga
3	Norma	10	5	2	3	13	11	+2	17	Relegation to Esiliiga
4	PJK Kalev (R)	10	4	2	4	12	20	−8	14
5	Dünamo	10	2	2	6	8	14	−6	8
6	TJK	10	1	2	7	9	22	−13	5

Source:
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Lembit Rajala	Flora	16
2	Maksim Gruznov	Lantana	12
3	Andrei Borissov	Lantana	8
	Boriss Nejolov	Narva Trans
	Ivan O'Konnel-Bronin	Tervis Pärnu/Flora
	Aleksandr Olerski	Tevalte/Marlekor
	Dmitri Ustritski	Tallinna Sadam

References

"Estonia - List of Topscorers". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation.

Estonia - List of final tables (RSSSF)

v t e Meistriliiga
Meistriliiga seasons	1992 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
2024 teams	Flora FCI Levadia Kuressaare Narva Trans Nõmme Kalju Nõmme United Paide Linnameeskond Tallinna Kalev Tammeka Vaprus
Former teams	Ajax DAG Dünamo Eesti Põlevkivi FCI Tallinn Harju Keemik Lantana Lelle Levadia II Lokomotiv Lootus Maardu Merkuur Nikol Norma Pärnu Pärnu Levadia Pärnu Linnameeskond Sillamäe Kalev Tallinna Sadam Tarvas Tervis Pärnu TJK Legion Tulevik TVMK Valga Vall Vigri Viljandi Warrior
Top division seasons (before Meistriliiga)	1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991

v t e 1995–96 in European football (UEFA)
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League cups	England Finland '95 '96 France Iceland Israel Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Scotland Wales
Supercups	England Germany
UEFA competitions	Champions League (Qualifying, group stage, knockout stage, Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Intertoto Cup Super Cup

Categories:

Preliminary round

League table

Results

Championship Tournament

League table

Results

Meistriliiga Transition Tournament

Top scorers

See also

References