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Learn more about the opportunities to join one of the largest companies in the world. This article is about the men’s team. For the women’s team, see Estonia women’s national football team. The team participated in the 1924 Olympic Games tournament, their only participation. Estonia have never qualified for the FIFA World Cup or UEFA European Championship. Estonia has also participated in the local sub-regional Baltic Cup championship, which takes place every two years between the countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The record for the most international caps by an international is held by Martin Reim with 157, who held the European record in 2009 until November of that year.
In September 2016, Reim was appointed team manager. The record for most goals is held by Andres Oper with 38. Estonians were introduced to the game of football by English sailors in the first years of the 20th century, when the land was still part of the Russian Empire. Estonia’s only participation in a major tournament took place in 1924 at the Olympic Games in Paris. The Estonian league season usually lasted from the end of May to September. In 1928 the first Baltic football contest was held involving all three nations, it was held nine times during this period. Estonia’s first FIFA World Cup qualifying match took place on 11 June 1933 in Stockholm, Sweden.
This match was also world’s first FIFA world cup qualifying match. Since later on Sweden also defeated Lithuania, match between Estonia and Lithuania was cancelled, because Sweden had already won the group. Estonia’s first points in the FIFA World Cup qualifying rounds were gained in 1938, playing the qualification matches in 1937, the third edition of the tournament. At the time teams would play each other once in each group.
Players were mostly in Tallinn clubs, such as TJK, Sport, Kalev and Tallinn Estonia. On 18 July 1940 the team played their last official game as an independent nation for more than half a century. After Soviet occupation in August 1940, the national team demised along with the country. The clubs were renamed in the second half of the 1940s and the traditions started to fade. According to Uno Piir, the first national team manager after Estonia’s re-independence, the reason for football’s downfall in society was the inability to create a competitive Union-level club, hence the decrease in audience and the favouring of other sports by the governing bodies of sports. Estonian football-life was relaunched in mid-70s by the attempts of Roman Ubakivi, who formed Estonian-language training groups. 1989, who were coached by Ubakivi and Olev Reim.
