2016 Meistriliiga

The 2016 Meistriliiga (known as A. Le Coq Premium Liiga for sponsorship reasons ) was the 26th season of the Meistriliiga, the highest division of Estonian football system. The season began on 4 March 2016 and concluded on 5 November 2016.

Infonet won the league on the last matchday of the season, finishing with 80 points. It was their first league title.

Teams
A total of 10 teams will contest the league. These include 9 teams from the 2015 season and one promoted team from the 2015 Esiliiga: Tarvas, making their debut in the top flight. Tarvas replaces Tulevik who were relegated from the Meistriliiga after a single season. In the relegation play-off Tammeka successfully defended their league spot by defeating challengers Tallinna Kalev.

Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Relegation play-offs
At season's end Pärnu, the ninth place club, participated in a two-legged play-off with Maardu Linnameeskond, the runners-up (of independent teams) of the 2016 Esiliiga, for the spot in 2017 Meistriliiga.


 * Pärnu Linnameeskond won 9–4 on aggregate and retained their Meistriliiga spot for the 2017 season.

Results
Each team plays every opponent four times, twice at home and twice away, for a total of 36 games.

Hat-tricks
4 Player scored 4 goals. 5 Player scored 5 goals.

Meistriliiga Player of the Year
Yevgeni Kabaev was named Meistriliiga Player of the Year.