2008 Veikkausliiga

Veikkausliiga
Season 2008
Champions Inter Turku
1st Finnish title
Relegated KooTeePee
Champions League Inter Turku
Europa League Honka
Lahti
HJK (via domestic cup)
Goals scored 482
Average goals/game 2.65
Top goalscorer Finland Aleksandr Kokko
Finland Henri Myntti
(13 goals both)
Biggest home win Honka 7–0 Haka
Lahti 8–1 KuPS
Biggest away win Jaro 0–4 Haka
Haka 0–4 Inter Turku
TPS 0–4 Inter Turku
VPS 0–4 Inter Turku
KooTeePee 0–4 MYPA
Highest scoring Lahti 8–1 KuPS
2007
2009

The 2008 season of Veikkausliiga was the seventy-eighth season of top-tier football in Finland. It started on 27 April 2008 and ended on 26 October 2008. The defending champions were Tampere United.

Promotion and relegation

AC Oulu finished at the bottom of the 2007 season and therefore were relegated to Ykkönen. Their place was taken by Ykkönen champions KuPS. 13th placed Veikkausliiga team FC Viikingit and Ykkönen runners-up RoPS competed in a two-legged relegation play-offs for one spot in 2008 Veikkausliiga. RoPS won 2–1 on aggregate and therefore were promoted to Veikkausliiga.

Overview

Location of teams in Veikkausliiga 2008
Club Location Stadium Capacity Manager
FC Haka Valkeakoski Tehtaan kenttä 3,516 Finland Olli Huttunen
HJK Helsinki Finnair Stadium 10,770 Finland Antti Muurinen
FC Honka Espoo Tapiolan Urheilupuisto 6,000 Finland Mika Lehkosuo
FC Inter Turku Veritas Stadion 10,000 Netherlands Job Dragtsma
FF Jaro Jakobstad Jakobstads Centralplan 5,000 Finland Mika Laurikainen
FC KooTeePee Kotka Arto Tolsa Areena 4,780 Finland Tommi Kautonen
KuPS Kuopio Magnum Areena 3,500 Finland Kai Nyyssönen
FC Lahti Lahti Lahden Stadion 15,000 Finland Ilkka Mäkelä
IFK Mariehamn Mariehamn Wiklöf Holding Arena 1,600 Finland Pekka Lyyski
MYPA Anjalankoski Saviniemi 4,067 Finland Janne Lindberg
RoPS Rovaniemi Keskuskenttä 4,000 Russia Valeri Bondarenko
Tampere United Tampere Ratina Stadion 17,000 Finland Ari Hjelm
TPS Turku Veritas Stadion 10,000 Wales John Allen
VPS Vaasa Hietalahti Stadium 4,600 Finland Tomi Kärkkäinen

League table

Finnish football
2008

Veikkausliiga (Tier 1)
Ykkönen (Tier 2)
Kakkonen (Tier 3)
Kolmonen (Tier 4)
Nelonen (Tier 5)
Suomen Cup 2008

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 FC Inter (C) 26 15 9 2 46 12+34 54 2009–10 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2 FC Honka 26 15 5 6 46 23+23 50 2009–10 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round
3 FC Lahti 26 15 3 8 44 24+20 48 2009–10 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round
4 HJK 26 14 5 7 47 29+18 47 2009–10 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round 1
5 MYPA 26 11 9 6 33 21+12 42
6 TPS 26 12 6 8 45 36+9 42
7 Tampere United 26 9 9 8 41 34+7 36
8 Haka 26 10 5 11 31 376 35
9 FF Jaro 26 10 5 11 36 4711 35
10 RoPS 26 8 6 12 31 376 30
11 VPS 26 6 11 9 18 2911 29
12 IFK Mariehamn 26 7 5 14 24 4016 26
13 KuPS (O) 26 4 7 15 26 5630 19 Qualification to Relegation play-offs
14 FC KooTeePee (R) 26 1 5 20 14 5743 8 Relegation to Ykkönen 2009

Source: veikkausliiga.com (Finnish)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1HJK won the Finnish Cup 2008, thereby qualifying for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Relegation play-offs

KuPS and Ykkönen runners-up FC Viikingit competed in a two-legged play-offs for one spot in Veikkausliiga 2009. KuPS won 2–1 on aggregate and thereby retained their league spot for 2009.

29 October 2008
18:30 GMT+2
FC Viikingit 1 – 2 KuPS
Jäntti  12' Report
(Finnish)
Koljonen  28'
Venäläinen  32'

1 November 2008
13:00 GMT+2
KuPS 0 – 0 FC Viikingit
Report
(Finnish)

Results

Home ╲ Away HAK HJK HONINTJARKTPKPSLAHMARMYPRPSTAMTPSVPS
Haka 23 12 04 12 11 30 21 10 03 31 11 12 10
HJK 12 02 32 23 61 00 01 40 11 32 51 10 10
FC Honka 70 10 11 31 21 21 10 20 20 00 34 22 12
FC Inter 10 11 00 20 30 40 10 20 11 31 22 30 20
FF Jaro 04 11 10 01 21 32 22 12 21 11 14 23 22
FC KooTeePee 02 01 00 02 14 11 01 10 04 02 13 02 00
KuPS 01 32 12 11 20 20 23 31 14 01 11 03 00
FC Lahti 10 12 10 01 12 10 81 21 40 30 22 41 10
IFK Mariehamn 21 02 32 11 12 42 11 01 00 21 14 21 02
MYPA 11 13 02 00 30 20 41 20 02 10 10 10 00
RoPS 12 20 02 00 13 30 40 22 31 11 21 10 01
Tampere United 11 12 12 10 00 42 20 02 10 02 50 11 11
TPS 20 13 21 04 40 41 33 21 00 00 22 10 61
VPS 00 00 14 04 21 11 20 01 00 00 10 00 23

Source: veikkausliiga.com (Finnish)
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Source: veikkausliiga.com (Finnish)

13 goals
11 goals
9 goals
8 goals

Annual awards

Source: Veikkausliigan parhaat kaudella 2008 nimetty (Finnish)

Players' Association's awards

Veikkausliiga's awards

External links

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