FC Flora Tallinn

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FC Flora

Full name	Mittetulundusühing Jalgpalliklubi Football Club Flora[1]
Nickname(s)	Triibulised (Streakeds)
Founded	March 10, 1990
Ground	A. Le Coq Arena Tallinn (Capacity: 9,300[2])
Chairman	Aivar Pohlak
Manager	Tarmo Rüütli
League	Meistriliiga
2008	Meistriliiga, 2nd
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

MTÜ JK FC Flora is an Estonian football club that was founded in 1990. FC Flora are a multiple winner of the Meistriliiga title and the Estonian Cup. They have for years been raising the most number of players for the national team, and have also grown players from their successful youth system that have had a good career abroad. These players include for example Mart Poom, Andres Oper, Raio Piiroja, Ragnar Klavan. FC Flora have also developed many players that have gone on and brought success to other Estonian clubs.

Contents 1 History 2 Farm clubs 3 Stadium 4 Achievements 5 FC Flora in Estonian Football 6 UEFA club competition results 7 Players 7.1 Current squad 7.2 Players out on loan 7.3 Transfers winter 2008-09 7.4 Reserves 7.5 Notable former players 7.6 Player records 7.6.1 Most appearances 7.6.2 Most goals 8 Coaches 9 References 10 External links

[edit] History

The club was founded in 1990. Flora played their first season in the second division of Estonian SSR championship. The club was mostly packed with former Tallinna Lõvid players.

In 1994, Flora won their first Meistriliiga title under rather controversial circumstances, when the Estonian FA decided to disqualify the leaders Tevalte Tallinn on match-fixing allegations that were never proven. The title was then decided in a champioship playoff, since Norma and Flora finished level on points. But, as a protest against the disqualification of Tevalte, Norma Tallinn decided to field their youth squad and lost the game 2-5. Flora went on to secure the title the following season.

In the summer of 1998, Flora, the newly-crowned Meistriliiga champions, played AC Milan in a friendly in Sicilia. Flora shocked Milan, who fielded most of their star players, on the 16th minute when they took an unlikely lead through Urmas Kirs' header after Marko Kristal's corner. Milan equalized on 36 minutes, through George Weah's close-range header. The Italian giants scored their second of the night six minutes later to take a 2-1 lead, when Zvonimir Boban sent the ball past Toomas Tohver. Oliver Bierhoff came close to adding a third for Milan in the second half, but saw his one-on-one effort denied by the Estonian goalkeeper. The score remained unchanged for the rest of the game.^[3]

[edit] Farm clubs

As the only government-supported team in Estonia, Flora own and operate several reserve teams and farm clubs in different divisions. Tulevik Viljandi, one of the founding members of the Estonian Meistriliiga, the top tier of Estonian league system, are owned by FC Flora. Players who haven't made a sufficient impact at the club, are often sent over to play out the rest of their contracts at Tulevik. Tervis Pärnu, Flora's reserve team until 2005, was disbanded and replaced with FC Flora II ahead of the 2006 season. Upon their relegation from the Meistriliiga, Valga Warrior have been used as the club's second reserve team, one step behind the Flora's second team. In addition to Flora II and Valga Warrior, Flora own three more clubs in the Esiliiga, second overall tier (FC Kuressaare, Flora's second biggest farm club, Flora Paide and Flora Rakvere), three in the Second League (FC Elva, JK Viljandi Tulevik II, and FC Valga Warrior II), two in the Third League (FC Elva II and FC Flora Järva-Jaani SK) and one in the Fourth League (FC Flora Rapla).

[edit] Stadium

FC Flora's main rivals are FC Levadia and FC TVMK, all three teams come from the Estonian capital city of Tallinn. Flora's home stadium is a recently built A. Le Coq Arena which holds a capacity of 9,300 and has an under-soil heating system. The stadium complex also holds many training pitches with natural but also with artificial turf. There are short-term plans to add a full-sized indoor training pitch.^{[4] [5]}

[edit] Achievements

• Meistriliiga: (7)^[6]

1993-94, 1994-95, 1997-98, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003

• Estonian Cup: (4)^[7]

1994-95, 1997-98, 2007–08, 2008–09

• Estonian SuperCup: (5)^[8]

1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009

[edit] FC Flora in Estonian Football

Season	League	Pos	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes	Top Goalscorer	Avg. Att.	Cup
1992	1E	4	13	8	3	2	53	13	40	19	Advanced to Championship Group
	1C	4	7	3	2	2	17	9	8	8
1992–93	1	2	22	15	4	3	63	13	50	34
1993–94	1	1	22	15	6	1	61	9	52	36
1994–95	1	1	14	10	4	0	32	4	28	34	Half of the points from the first phase were taken to the Championship Group. .5 were rounded to the next biggest integer. e.g. 29 / 2 = 14.5 → 15			W
	1C	1	10	7	3	0	27	6	21	41
1995–96	1	3	14	6	4	4	37	19	18	22		Lembit Rajala (16)
	1C	2	10	6	2	2	14	3	9	31
1996–97	1	2	14	9	2	3	27	9	18	29
	1C	2	10	7	2	1	27	7	18	38
1997–98	1	1	14	12	1	1	39	6	33	37		Andres Oper (8)		W
	1C	1	10	7	2	1	34	10	24	42
1998	1	1	14	11	2	1	46	14	32	35		Andres Oper (10) Indrek Zelinski (10)
1999	1	3	28	13	8	7	60	33	27	47		Indrek Zelinski (14)		SF
2000	1	2	28	16	7	5	51	25	26	55		Meelis Rooba (10)
2001	1	1	28	21	5	2	62	18	44	68		Aleksandr Kulik (14)		F
2002	1	1	28	20	4	4	79	25	54	64		Tor Henning Hamre (23)		QF
2003	1	1	28	24	4	0	105	21	74	76		Tor Henning Hamre (39)		F
2004	1	3	28	18	4	6	83	25	58	58		Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko (28)	204	SF
2005	1	4	36	21	6	9	81	36	45	69		Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko (19)	252	SF
2006	1	3	36	26	4	6	93	34	59	82		Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko (25)		F
2007	1	2	36	26	5	5	108	30	78	83		Jarmo Ahjupera (17)		1/16
2008	1	2	36	28	7	1	113	28	85	91		Sander Post (19)	214	W
2009	1													W

C = Championship Group; E = Eastern Zone

[edit] UEFA club competition results

As of June 22, 2008:

Competition	P	W	D	L	GF	GA
Champions League	10	1	2	7	9	25
UEFA Cup Europa League	22	2	5	14	10	40
Total	32	3	7	22	19	65

Season	Cup	Rnd	Opponent	Score
1994–95	UEFA Cup	1Q	OB	0–3	0–3
1995–96	UEFA Cup	1Q	Lillestrøm	0–4	1–0
1996–97	UEFA Cup	1Q	FC Haka	2–2	0–1
1997–98	UEFA Cup	1Q	Hapoel Petah Tikva	0–1	1–2
1998–99	Champions League	1Q	Steaua Bucureşti	1–4	3–1
1999–00	Champions League	1Q	Partizan Belgrade	0–6	1–4
2000–01	UEFA Cup	1Q	Club Brugge	1–4	0–2
2001–02	UEFA Cup	1Q	Dinamo Zagreb	0–1	0–1
2002–03	Champions League	1Q	APOEL	0–0	0–1
2003–04	Champions League	1Q	Sheriff Tiraspol	0–1	1–1
2004–05	Champions League	1Q	ND Gorica	2–4	1–3
2005–06	UEFA Cup	1Q	Esbjerg	2–1	0–6
2006–07	UEFA Cup	1Q	Lyn Oslo	1–1	0–0
		2Q	Brøndby	0–0	0–4
2007–08	UEFA Cup	1Q	Vålerenga	0–1	0–1
2008–09	UEFA Cup	1Q	Djurgårdens	0–0	2–2
2009–10	Europa League	2Q	Brøndby

1Q – 1st Qualifying Round; 2Q – 2nd Qualifying Round

[edit] Players

[edit] Current squad

As of March 7, 2009.^[9]

No. Position Player 1 GK Stanislav Pedõk 2 MF Ken Kallaste 4 DF Urmas Rooba (captain) 5 MF Siksten Kasimir 6 MF Martin Vunk 7 MF Sergei Mošnikov 8 FW Oliver Konsa 9 FW Joonas Tamm 10 FW Henri Anier 11 FW Siim Luts 14 FW Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko

No. Position Player 15 DF Tõnis Vanna 16 DF Markus Jürgenson 17 DF Henri Rüütli 19 MF Gert Kams 20 FW Alo Dupikov 21 GK Mihkel Aksalu 22 DF Teet Allas 24 DF Karl Palatu 26 DF Mikk Reintam 33 MF Aivar Anniste

[edit] Players out on loan

No. Position Player 12 GK Aiko Orgla (on loan to JK Viljandi Tulevik) 25 FW Sander Post (on loan to Go Ahead Eagles) 31 DF Ervin Kõll (on loan to JK Viljandi Tulevik) –– DF Aleksei Jahhimovitš (on loan to JK Viljandi Tulevik) –– DF Armand Naris (on loan to JK Viljandi Tulevik) –– MF Jürgen Kuresoo (on loan to JK Viljandi Tulevik) –– DF Siim Roops (on loan to JK Viljandi Tulevik) –– MF Albert Taar (on loan to JK Viljandi Tulevik) –– MF Janar Toomet (on loan to JK Viljandi Tulevik) –– FW Rauno Alliku (on loan to FC Pärnu Vaprus)

[edit] Transfers winter 2008-09

In

Out

No. Position Player 4 DF Urmas Rooba (from TPS) 9 FW Joonas Tamm (from JK Tulevik Viljandi) 16 DF Markus Jürgenson (from FC TVMK) 17 DF Henri Rüütli (from JK Tulevik Viljandi) 20 FW Alo Dupikov (loan return from JK Sillamäe Kalev) 26 DF Mikk Reintam (from FC Warrior Valga) 33 MF Aivar Anniste (from FC TVMK) –– DF Aleksei Jahhimovitš (loan return from JK Sillamäe Kalev) –– DF Armand Naris (from JK Tulevik Viljandi) –– MF Jürgen Kuresoo (loan return from JK Sillamäe Kalev) –– MF Albert Taar (from JK Sillamäe Kalev)

No. Position Player 3 DF Andres Koogas (unknown) 8 FW Juha Hakola (to Heracles Almelo) 16 DF Martin Hurt (to JK Nõmme Kalju) 18 FW Jarmo Ahjupera (to Győri ETO) 20 MF Martin Reim (retired) 27 DF Martin Taska (unknown) –– DF Tanel Võtti (relegated to FC Flora II)

[edit] Reserves

[edit] Notable former players

Estonia Alo Bärengrub Enar Jääger Risto Kallaste Toomas Kallaste Janek Kiisman Urmas Kirs Dzintar Klavan Ragnar Klavan Marko Kristal Liivo Leetma Alari Lell Marek Lemsalu Martin Lepa Joel Lindpere Pavel Londak Andres Oper Mati Pari Raio Piiroja Mart Poom Taavi Rähn Lembit Rajala Martin Reim Meelis Rooba Urmas Rooba Tarmo Saks Maksim Smirnov Andrei Stepanov Sergei Terehhov Kristen Viikmäe Indrek Zelinski

Azerbaijan Zaur Tagizade Finland Juha Hakola Jasse Jalonen Jesper Johansson Jonatan Johansson Janne Oinas Georgia Otar Korghalidze Lithuania Algimantas Briaunis Darius Magdišauskas Viktoras Olšanskis Tomas Ražanauskas Tomas Sirevičius Raimondas Vainoras Ričardas Zdančius Netherlands Ray Fränkel Norway Tor Henning Hamre Glen Atle Larsen

See also: Cat:FC Flora Tallinn players

• A complete list of all the Club's former players can be found here

[edit] Player records

As of match played December 12, 2008.^[10] Players in bold are still currently playing for FC Flora Tallinn.

[edit] Most appearances

#	Name	Period	Games
1	Martin Reim	1992–1999 2001–2008	385
2	Marko Kristal	1989–1999 2001–2004	263
3	Teet Allas	2000–	207
4	Viktor Alonen	1992–2001	163
5	Kristen Viikmäe	1996–2000 2004–2008	141
6	Aleksander Saharov	1999–2005	138
7	Martin Kaalma	1996 1998 2001–2006	134
8	Erko Saviauk	1997–2004	133
9	Urmas Kirs	1992–1999	131
10	Kert Haavistu	1999–2005	131

[edit] Most goals

#	Name	Period	Goals
1	Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko	1999 2003–	108
2	Martin Reim	1992–1999 2001–2008	68
3	Kristen Viikmäe	1996–2000 2004–2008	64
4	Tor Henning Hamre	2002–2003	62
5	Indrek Zelinski	1993–1999 2001	62
6	Marko Kristal	1989–1999 2001–2004	51
7	Jarmo Ahjupera	2001 2003–2004 2006–	48
8	Andres Oper	1994–1999	44
9	Lembit Rajala	1987–1989 1991–1996	39
10	Joel Lindpere	2000–2001 2002–2004 2005–2006	38

[edit] Coaches

Season	Country	Name
1990–1991		Aivar Pohlak
1992		Raimondas Kotovas
1993–1995		Roman Ubakivi
1996–1999		Teitur Thordarson
2000		Tarmo Rüütli
2001–2004		Arno Pijpers
2004–2005		Janno Kivisild
2006–2008		Pasi Rautiainen
2009–		Tarmo Rüütli

See also: Cat:FC Flora Tallinn managers^[11]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website
• UEFA.com entry

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