Sillamae Kalev

Estonian Meistriliiga
22 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process
3 Edition

The Sillamae Kalev Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

10 saves: Hendrik Sorga was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match

Sillamae Kalev out of the cup

Tulevik ended it 0‑5. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Market

Narva Trans come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Sillamae Kalev did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Martin Sorga agrees terms with Tulevik

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Sillamae Kalev people have started saying his name in the past tense.

The terraces

A cup embarrassment at Tulevik follows Sillamae Kalev home

0-5. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.

Squad

Words exchanged at Sillamae Kalev

Karol Ojamaa and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market

Sillamae Kalev sell Martin Liivak for $300.0K

Martin Liivak has left for Flora in a $300.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Martin Kallaste

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

Vlasi Sorga was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Sillamae Kalev Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Sillamae Kalev turn down Narva Trans for Karol Ojamaa

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Sander Vassiljev says no to Narva Trans

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Sander Vassiljev had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Squad

Martin Kallaste signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Martin Kallaste and Sillamae Kalev agree another 3 years.

Squad

Martin Kallaste in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sillamae Kalev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Sillamae Kalev training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Karol Antonov is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market

Sillamae Kalev promote Artur Dmitrijev from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Artur Dmitrijev has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief

1 Edition

The Sillamae Kalev Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Hendrik Sorga signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Hendrik Sorga and Sillamae Kalev agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Sillamae Kalev

Martin Kallaste was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Karol Antonov falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market

Eyes on Karl Kait again

The phone has started ringing about Karl Kait again, and this time the name on the line is Levadia. Sillamae Kalev are listening politely and promising nothing.

Market

Nobody at Sillamae Kalev has picked up the phone to Hendrik Sorga

24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

The dugout

Martin Kallaste knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Sillamae Kalev, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief