FC FLORA TALLINN

'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. FC Flora have also developed many players that have gone on and brought success to other Estonian clubs, and therefore might be considered a club that has contributed the most to Estonian football.
FC Flora's main rivals are FC Levadia and FC TVMK, all three are 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.
===2006 - the start of the Pasi Rautiainen era===
The 2006 season was the first under charismatic Finnish ex-international and coach Pasi Rautiainen and for after the last title and the selling of key players, the club finally seems to be moving on under the right guidance. The third position finish in the Meistriliiga was a bit disappointing, and leaves the club out of the top two European club competitions for the first time, FC Flora will enter the Intertoto Cup in the summer of 2007. The season was more noteworthy in Europe though. In the UEFA Cup first qualifying round the club were drawn against Norwegian Tippeligaen outfit F.C. Lyn Oslo and FC Flora overcame their much more illustrious opponents on the away-goals rule. The second round draw paired FC Flora with top Danish club Brøndby IF. After an equal 0:0 draw at home, a 0:4 trashing was suffered on away soil, and the European campaign ended on a somewhat downside note. The season saw Pavel Londak establishing himself between the posts, international right-back Teet Allas making an influential season even though he suffered by injuries, defender Alo Bärengrub giving a solid performance throughout the season, veteran midfielder Martin Reim dictating the tempo once more, left-winger Andrei Sidorenkov receiving praise from Lyn coach Henning Berg and breaking into the national team as well as Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko scoring another bunch of goals on a regular basis. The season had a major downside though with key playmaker Joel Lindpere constantly getting in trouble with the referees, and finally being sacked by his employee FC Flora for being a negative role model.

Contents

Achievements

Flora Tallinn in Estonian Football

Flora Tallinn in Europe

2007 squad

Notable Former Players

Coaches

External links

Achievements

★ 'Meistriliiga': (7)
1993-94, 1994-95, 1997-98, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003.

★ 'Estonian Cup': (2)
1994-95, 1998.

★ 'Estonian SuperCup': (4)
1998, 2002, 2003, 2004.

Flora Tallinn in Estonian Football

Year	League	Position	Goals +/-	Points
1992	I	4	+8	8
92/93	I	2	+50	34
93/94	I	1	+52	36
94/95	I	1	+25	34
95/96	I	2	+29	31
96/97	I	2	+36	38
97/98	I	1	+33	37
1998	I	1	+32	35
1999	I	3	+27	47
2000	I	2	+26	55
2001	I	1	+44	68
2002	I	1	+54	64
2003	I	1	+84	76
2004	I	3	+58	58
2005	I	4	+45	69
2006	I	3	+59	82
2007	I

Flora Tallinn in Europe

★ 1Q = 1st Qualifying Round

★ 2Q = 2nd Qualifying Round

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Score
1994/95	UEFA Cup	1Q		Odense BK	0-3, 0-3
1995/96	UEFA Cup	1Q		Lillestrøm SK	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 Bucharest	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 Nicosia	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 fB	2-1, 0-6
2006/07	UEFA Cup	1Q		FC Lyn Oslo	1-1, 0-0
		2Q		Brøndby IF	0-0, 0-4
2007/08	UEFA Cup	1Q		Vålerenga I.F.	0-1, 0-1

2007 squad

Notable Former Players

'Estonia' ★ Aivar Anniste ★ Enar Jääger ★ Risto Kallaste ★ Ragnar Klavan ★ Marko Kristal ★ Marek Lemsalu ★ Joel Lindpere ★ Pavel Londak ★ Andres Oper ★ Raio Piiroja ★ Mart Poom ★ Taavi Rähn ★ Urmas Rooba ★ Maksim Smirnov ★ Andrei Stepanov ★ Sergei Terehhov ★ Indrek Zelinski

'Armenia' ★ Vahe Yaghmuryan'Finland' ★ Jonatan Johansson'Lithuania' ★ Algimantas Briaunis ★ Darius Magdišauskas ★ Viktoras Olšanskis ★ Tomas Ražanauskas ★ Ričardas Zdančius'Netherlands' ★ Ray Frankel'Norway' ★ Pål Christian Alsaker ★ Alfred Berge ★ Tor Henning Hamre ★ Trond Inge Haugland ★ Glen Atle Larsen

''See also: ''

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

Coaches

Season	Country	Name
1990-91		Aivar Pohlak
1992		Raimondas Kotovas
1993-95		Roman Ubakivi
1996-99		Teitur Thordarson
2000		Tarmo Rüütli
2001-04		Arno Pijpers
2004-05		Janno Kivisild
2006-present		Pasi Rautiainen

External links

★ Official website

★ UEFA.com entry