Tarmo Neemelo

Tarmo Neemelo
Personal information
Full nameTarmo Neemelo
Date of birth10 February 1982
Place of birthPaide, Estonia
Height1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing positionCentre forward
Club information
Current team
JK Nõmme Kalju
Number99
Youth career
Lelle
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
2000–2003Kuressaare80(24)
2004–2006TVMK58(54)
2006–2007Helsingborgs5(0)
2006→ TVMK17(7)
2007→ Sundsvall24(8)
2008MYPA24(8)
2009Zulte Waregem11(0)
2009–2010Levadia49(29)
2011–Kalju69(47)
National team‡
Estonia U171(0)
Estonia U182(0)
Estonia U193(0)
Estonia U219(0)
2005–Estonia[1]22(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15 May 2013.

† Appearances (Goals).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 19 May 2013

Tarmo Neemelo (born 10 February 1982) is an Estonian professional footballer, who plays in Estonian Meistriliiga, for JK Nõmme Kalju. He plays the position of striker and is also a member of the Estonia national football team.

Club career

Tarmo Neemelo was born in Paide, Estonia. He began playing football in local club FC Lelle and was noticed by FC Flora Tallinn, one of the major clubs in Estonia. He did not manage to get into the first team and decided to move from Flora Tallinn to FC Kuressaare. He then moved to FC TVMK Tallinn in 2004.

In the 2005 season, for FC TVMK Tallinn, he scored 41 goals in 33 games, which put him in 12th place in the ESM Golden Shoe.

In 2006 he has moved to Sweden for the coming season, to potentially partner fellow striker Henrik Larsson at Helsingborgs IF. In the previous season, he scored 13 goals in 25 games for his club. He soon moved back to FC TVMK Tallinn though on a short loan spell to gain match practice. At the start of the 2007 Allsvenskan season, he was again loaned out to Superettan club GIF Sundsvall.

In February 2008, he signed a two-year contract with Finnish Veikkausliiga club MYPA. On 1 January 2009 joined to Belgian club S.V. Zulte Waregem, with teammate Eetu Muinonen, but he was often a substitute being a part of the starting eleven just twice. On 31 July 2009 S.V. Zulte Waregem officials released the Estonian forward by mutual consent, he returned to FC Levadia Tallinn.

When his contract ran out at Levadia after the 2010 season, he trained with JK Nõmme Kalju[2] and joined the club on 7 February 2011 on a two-year contract,[3] despite league rival FC Flora Tallinn's attempts to sign him as a replacement for Sander Post.[2] He finished the season as the club's top league goalscorer with 22 goals in 32 matches.[4]

Club career

This statistic includes domestic league only

Season Club Country Level Apps Goals
2013 Nõmme Kalju Estonia I 34 11
2012 Nõmme Kalju Estonia I 26 22
2011 Nõmme Kalju Estonia I 32 22
2010 FC Levadia Tallinn Estonia I 32 20
2009 FC Levadia Tallinn Estonia I 17 9
2009 Zulte Waregem Belgium I 11 0
2008 MYPA Finland I 24 8
2007 GIF Sundsvall Sweden II 24 8
2006 FC TVMK Tallinn Estonia I 17 7
2006 Helsingborgs IF Sweden I 5 0
2005 FC TVMK Tallinn Estonia I 33 41
2004 FC TVMK Tallinn Estonia I 25 13
2003 FC Kuressaare Estonia I 18 7
2002 FC Kuressaare Estonia I 25 14
2001 FC Kuressaare Estonia I 23 2
2000 FC Kuressaare Estonia I 14 1

Last update: 8 December 2013

International career

For Estonia, Neemelo is capped 22 times, scoring 1 goal. He debuted internationally in 20 April 2005 against Norway in a friendly match. He scored his first and only goal on 28 May 2006 against Turkey also in a friendly match. That goal won the Silverball.

International goals

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 2006-05-28 Millerntor-Stadion, Hamburg  Turkey 1–1 1–1 Friendly match

Honours

Club

Individual

References

  1. ↑ "Kõik Eesti internatsionaalid" [All Estonian internationals] (in Estonian). Eesti Jalgpalli Liit. Retrieved 11 November 2012.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Tarmo Neemelo Florasse!" (in Estonian). Õhtuleht. 3 February 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  3. ↑ "Kaua tehtud kaunikene – Tarmo Neemelo liitus Nõmme Kaljuga!" (7 FEBRUARY 2011) (in Estonian). Õhtuleht. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  4. ↑ "Meistriliiga 2011 statistika – Väravalööjad" (in Estonian). soccernet.ee. 5 November 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2012.

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