Le Coq Arena
Tallinn, Harju Country, Estonia
Le Coq Arena, Tallinn, Estonia — opened 2001, 4 rugby league games hosted, home of Football: FC Flora Tallinn and the Estonia national football team are the primary tenants. Rugby league: no dedicated home club -- used by the Estonia national rugby league team for a handful of international fixtures only (2006-2009), with no evidence of any return since..
Ground facts
| Opened | 2001 (Opened 2 June 2001 as "Lilleküla Stadium" (opening match Estonia vs Netherlands, a football World Cup qualifier); renamed "A. Le Coq Arena" in 2002 following a naming-rights sponsorship deal with an Estonian brewer. This is a general national-stadium opening date, not rugby-league-specific -- rugby league did not arrive until 2006. Confirmed as genuinely the same venue used for Estonia's rugby league internationals (not a data mismatch with the better-known Estonian football stadium of the same name) via Wikipedia's Estonia national rugby league team article, which explicitly names "Le Coq Arena" for the 2006 and 2008/2009 fixtures. One match's exact year could not be confirmed: Rugby League Project's results page lists a fixture on "21 Oct" (Estonia 38, Latvia 54) without a clearly displayed year -- independently re-checked via direct re-fetch of the results page, which still does not surface a year for this entry; given its position between the 2006 and 2008 matches, it is most likely 2006 or 2007, but this could not be confirmed and is disclosed as an open gap rather than guessed.) |
| Home club | Football: FC Flora Tallinn and the Estonia national football team are the primary tenants. Rugby league: no dedicated home club -- used by the Estonia national rugby league team for a handful of international fixtures only (2006-2009), with no evidence of any return since. |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 4 |
| Top recorded crowd | 528 |
| Capacity | 10,340 seats. |
| Floodlights installed | Not explicitly confirmed in sources checked, though near-certain given its role as Estonia's primary international football venue. |
| Surface | Not explicitly stated for the 2006-2009 period; grass is standard for a national football stadium of this era. |
| First rugby league match | 22 Jul 2006 -- Central European Development Tri-Nations 2006: Germany 38 def Estonia 24 (crowd 528, the venue's top recorded rugby league crowd, and Estonia's first-ever international rugby league match) |
| Last rugby league match | 8 Aug 2009 -- European Bowl 2009: Estonia 4 def by Latvia 74 |
| Years used | 2006–2009 |
| Location | Tallinn, Harju Country |
Name history
- Lilleküla Stadium — 2001-2002
- A. Le Coq Arena / Le Coq Arena — 2002-present
Rugby league history
Fundamentally Estonia's national football and athletics stadium, replacing Kadriorg Stadium (opened 1926) as the country's primary football venue -- rugby league's presence is a small footnote of 4 low-attendance international matches, all against Germany or Latvia, over 2006-2009. The 22 July 2006 fixture against Germany marked the birth of the Estonia national rugby league team.
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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