{{Short description|Estonian football league season for second division}} {{infobox football league season | competition = Esiliiga | season = 2006 | winners = | relegated = | league topscorer = | biggest home win = | biggest away win = | highest scoring = | matches = | total goals = | prevseason = 2005 | nextseason = 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== {{#invoke:sports table|main|style=WDL |res_col_header=PR

|team1=LEV|name_LEV=Levadia II Tallinn |team2=KUR|name_KUR=FC Kuressaare |team3=KLV|name_KLV=Kalev Tallinn |team4=FLO|name_FLO=Flora II Tallinn |team5=NÕM|name_NÕM=Kalju Nõmme |team6=TVMK|name_TVMK=TVMK II Tallinn |team7=TUL|name_TUL=Tulevik II Viljandi |team8=LOT|name_LOT=Lootus Kohtla-Järve* |team9=DÜN|name_DÜN=Dünamo Tallinn |team10=ELV|name_ELV=FC Elva |win_LEV=28|draw_LEV=4|loss_LEV=4|gf_LEV=132|ga_LEV=24|status_LEV=C |win_KUR=22|draw_KUR=5|loss_KUR=9|gf_KUR=64|ga_KUR=44|status_KUR=P |win_KLV=20|draw_KLV=6|loss_KLV=10|gf_KLV=84|ga_KLV=63|status_KLV=OP |win_FLO=19|draw_FLO=3|loss_FLO=14|gf_FLO=81|ga_FLO=56 |win_NÕM=18|draw_NÕM=5|loss_NÕM=13|gf_NÕM=76|ga_NÕM=80 |win_TVMK=17|draw_TVMK=4|loss_TVMK=15|gf_TVMK=66|ga_TVMK=63 |win_TUL=9|draw_TUL=11|loss_TUL=16|gf_TUL=53|ga_TUL=52 |win_LOT=10|draw_LOT=3|loss_LOT=23|gf_LOT=46|ga_LOT=99|status_LOT=R |win_DÜN=7|draw_DÜN=8|loss_DÜN=21|gf_DÜN=44|ga_DÜN=85|status_DÜN=R |win_ELV=4|draw_ELV=3|loss_ELV=29|gf_ELV=20|ga_ELV=100

|note_LEV=Reserve teams are ineligible for promotion. |note_FLO=LEV |note_TVMK=LEV |note_TUL=LEV

|col_P=green1|text_P=Promotion to Meistriliiga |result2=P |col_PP=green2|text_PP=Qualification for relegation play-offs |result3=PP |col_RP=red2|text_RP=Qualification for relegation play-offs |result8=RP |col_R=red1|text_R=Relegation to II liiga |note_res_R=Denied Esiliiga license |result9=R |col_NR=inherit|text_NR=Spared from relegation |note_res_NR=Stayed up as Trans II decided against promotion and two clubs above were denied the Esiliiga license. |result10=NR |update=complete|source= }}

== Promotion/relegation playoff == {{football box |date = November 12, 2006 |team1 = Kalev Sillamäe |score = 5 - 1 |team2 = Lootus Kohtla-Järve |stadium = }}

{{football box |date = November 18, 2006 |team1 = Lootus Kohtla-Järve |score = 1 - 3 |team2 = Kalev Sillamäe |stadium = }}

==Season statistics==

===Top goalscorers=== :''As of 11 November 2007.''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jalgpall.ee/top10.php?b=EL&year=2007|title=EL VÄRAVALÖÖJATE EDETABEL (2007) |language=Estonian |publisher=Estonian Football Association}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- ! Rank ! width=175px| Player ! width=100px| Club ! Goals |- |rowspan=1|1 |align="left"|{{flagicon|EST}} Kaimar Saag||align="left"|Levadia II||37 |- |rowspan=1|2 |align="left"|{{flagicon|EST}} Andrus Mitt||align="left"|Nõmme Kalju||35 |- |rowspan=2|3 |align="left"|{{flagicon|EST}} Jevgeni Gurtšioglujants||align="left"|Levadia II||17 |- |align="left"|{{flagicon|EST}} Sander Puri||align="left"|Levadia II||17 |- |rowspan=2|5 |align="left"|{{flagicon|EST}} Artjom Dmitrijev||align="left"|TVMK II||16 |- |align="left"|{{flagicon|EST}} Tiit Tikenberg||align="left"|Tallinna Kalev||16 |- |rowspan=1|7 |align="left"|{{flagicon|EST}} Dmitri Kirilov||align="left"|Tallinna Kalev||15 |- |rowspan=1|8 |align="left"|{{flagicon|EST}} Kristian Marmor||align="left"|Levadia II||14 |- |rowspan=3|9 |align="left"|{{flagicon|EST}} Eino Puri||align="left"|Levadia II||12 |- |align="left"|{{flagicon|EST}} Anton Semjonov||align="left"|Lootus||12 |- |align="left"|{{flagicon|EST}} Rainer Veskimäe||align="left"|Kuressaare||12 |- |}

==See also== * 2006 Meistriliiga

==References== {{Reflist}}

{{Estonian Esiliiga Seasons}}

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