2009 Veikkausliiga

Veikkausliiga

Season	2009
Champions	HJK 22nd league title
Relegated	RoPS
Champions League	HJK
Europa League	Honka TPS Inter Turku (via dom. cup)
Matches played	182
Goals scored	498 (2.74 per match)
Top goalscorer	Hermanni Vuorinen (16)
Biggest home win	Honka 9-0 RoPS
Biggest away win	RoPS 1-5 TamU KuPS 0-4 Honka RoPS 0-4 TPS
Highest scoring	Honka 9-0 RoPS
← 2008 2010 →

The 2009 Veikkausliiga was the seventy-ninth season of top-tier football in Finland. It began on 18 April 2009 and ended on 17 October 2009. Inter Turku were the defending champions.

The championship was won by HJK Helsinki, who came out on top of a three-team race which also involved Honka Espoo and TPS Turku. On the bottom end of the table, RoPS were relegated to the Ykkönen while JJK will have to compete in a two-legged relegation play-off.

Promotion and relegation

KooTeePee finished at the bottom of the 2008 season and were relegated to Ykkönen. Their place was taken by Ykkönen champions JJK. 13th placed Veikkausliiga team KuPS and Ykkönen runners-up competed in a two-legged relegation play-offs for one spot in 2009 Veikkausliiga. KuPS won 2–1 on aggregate and thereby retained their league position.

Overview

MYPA

Honka

HJK

Jaro

JJK

KuPS

Lahti

Mariehamn

RoPS

Tampere United

Inter
TPS

VPS

Haka

Location of teams in Veikkausliiga 2009

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Manager
FC Haka	Valkeakoski	Tehtaan kenttä	3,516	Olli Huttunen
HJK	Helsinki	Finnair Stadium	10,770	Antti Muurinen
FC Honka	Espoo	Tapiolan Urheilupuisto	6,000	Mika Lehkosuo
FC Inter	Turku	Veritas Stadion	9,372	Job Dragtsma
FF Jaro	Jakobstad	Jakobstads Centralplan	5,000	Mika Laurikainen
JJK	Jyväskylä	Harjun stadion	3,000	Ville Priha
KuPS	Kuopio	Magnum Areena	3,500	Kai Nyyssönen
FC Lahti	Lahti	Lahden Stadion	14,465	Ilkka Mäkelä
IFK Mariehamn	Mariehamn	Wiklöf Holding Arena	1,600	Pekka Lyyski
MYPA	Anjalankoski	Saviniemi	4,167	Janne Lindberg
RoPS	Rovaniemi	Keskuskenttä	3,400	Mika Lumijärvi
Tampere United	Tampere	Ratina Stadion	17,000	Ari Hjelm
TPS	Turku	Veritas Stadion	9,372	Pasi Rautiainen
VPS	Vaasa	Hietalahti Stadium	4,600	Petri Vuorinen

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
VPS	Tomi Kärkkäinen	Resigned	15 May 2009 [1]	Petri Vuorinen	15 May 2009 [1]	14th
RoPS	Valeri Bondarenko	Sacked	27 May 2009 [2]	Mika Lumijärvi Zeddy Saileti	27 May 2009 [2]	14th
FF Jaro	Mika Laurikainen	Sacked	18 August 2009	Alexei Eremenko Sr.	18 August 2009
Haka	Olli Huttunen	Sacked	7 September 2009	Sami Ristilä	7 September 2009	5th
RoPS	Mika Lumijärvi	Sacked	7 October 2009	Zeddy Saileti Jorma Turpeenniemi	7 October 2009	14th

League table

Finnish football 2009
Veikkausliiga (Tier 1) Ykkönen (Tier 2) Kakkonen (Tier 3) Kolmonen (Tier 4) Nelonen (Tier 5) Vitonen (Tier 6) Kutonen (Tier 7) Seiska (Tier 8) Suomen Cup 2009

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	HJK (C)	26	14	10	2	45	21	+24	52	2010–11 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2	FC Honka	26	13	10	3	65	29	+36	49	2010–11 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round
3	TPS	26	13	10	3	46	20	+26	49	2010–11 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round
4	IFK Mariehamn	26	10	13	3	30	21	+9	43
5	FC Inter	26	11	7	8	38	30	+8	40	2010–11 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round ^1
6	Haka	26	10	7	9	40	35	+5	37
7	Tampere United	26	11	4	11	31	31	0	37
8	VPS	26	10	5	11	30	36	−6	35
9	MYPA	26	9	7	10	32	30	+2	34	2010–11 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round ^2
10	FF Jaro	26	8	8	10	33	34	−1	32
11	FC Lahti	26	8	7	11	33	40	−7	31
12	KuPS	26	6	5	15	29	53	−24	23
13	JJK (O)	26	3	7	16	25	52	−27	16	Relegation play-offs
14	RoPS (R)	26	4	4	18	21	66	−45	16	Relegation to Ykkönen 2010

Source: veikkausliiga.com (Finnish)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹Inter Turku qualified for the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League by winning the 2009 Finnish Cup.
²Finland was among the best three associations in the UEFA Fair Play ranking and thus received an additional spot in the first qualifying round of the Europa League.^[3]
(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

JJK as 13th placed team of 2009 Veikkausliiga and KPV as runners-up of the 2009 Ykkönen competed in a two-legged play-offs for one spot in the 2010 Veikkausliiga. JJK won the play-offs by 5–3 and remained in Veikkausliiga.

KPV v JJK

21 October 2009 15:30 EEST

KPV	2 – 3	JJK
Itälä  24' Linjala  61'		Kari  40' Lahtinen  49' Nam  69'

Kokkolan Keskuskenttä, Kokkola

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JJK v KPV

25 October 2009 14:00 EET

JJK	2 – 1	KPV
Lahtinen  61' Nam  68'		Kalliokoski  87'

Harjun stadion, Jyväskylä

Results

Home ╲ Away

HAK

HJK

HON

INT

JAR

JJK

KPS

LAH

MAR

MYP

RPS

TAM

TPS

VPS

Haka

1–2

1–1

2–2

0–0

2–4

3–0

3–0

5–1

2–3

3–1

1–0

0–3

0–1

HJK

3–3

1–1

2–0

1–1

1–1

5–1

1–0

2–0

1–0

4–0

1–0

2–2

2–0

FC Honka

2–0

1–1

2–3

5–1

5–2

4–1

2–2

1–1

0–0

9–0

3–1

0–0

3–0

FC Inter

0–2

1–1

2–1

1–0

3–0

2–3

1–1

1–1

2–1

4–0

2–2

2–0

0–1

FF Jaro

1–0

0–2

3–5

0–1

5–1

1–1

0–1

0–0

3–0

2–0

0–0

1–0

1–3

JJK

0–0

1–1

2–3

1–0

0–2

1–2

2–1

0–2

0–1

1–1

2–2

1–1

1–2

KuPS

5–1

0–3

0–4

0–2

2–2

2–0

1–1

2–2

0–2

3–0

1–2

0–3

3–3

FC Lahti

2–4

1–2

1–1

1–3

2–1

3–1

1–0

1–1

0–1

4–1

2–1

2–4

0–0

IFK Mariehamn

2–1

0–0

2–2

2–0

2–1

3–1

3–0

2–0

0–0

2–1

1–0

1–1

0–0

MYPA

0–2

1–0

1–3

0–0

0–0

4–0

1–2

2–2

1–2

4–0

4–1

2–2

0–2

RoPS

0–0

1–0

1–2

0–2

5–3

2–1

1–0

0–1

0–0

1–1

1–5

0–4

2–3

Tampere United

1–1

1–2

1–0

3–2

0–2

1–0

2–0

0–2

1–0

2–0

3–1

0–2

1–0

TPS

1–2

1–1

0–0

2–0

1–1

0–0

3–0

5–2

0–0

3–1

3–2

1–0

2–0

VPS

0–1

3–4

2–5

2–2

1–2

3–2

1–0

1–0

0–0

0–2

2–0

0–1

0–2

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.

Statistics

Top goalscorers Source: veikkausliiga.com (Finnish) 16 goals Hermanni Vuorinen (Honka) 12 goals Jami Puustinen (Honka) 11 goals Timo Furuholm (Inter Turku) 9 goals Wayne Brown (TPS) Mikko Paatelainen (TPS) Babatunde Wusu (TPS) 8 goals Tamas Gruborovics (IFK Mariehamn) Juho Mäkelä (HJK) Drilon Shala (Lahti) Dawda Bah (HJK) Maxim Votinov (MYPA) Nam Ik-Kyung (JJK)

Top assistants Source: veikkausliiga.com (Finnish) 11 assists Sebastian Sorsa (HJK) 9 assists Nicholas Otaru (Honka) 8 assists Wayne Brown (TPS) Sebastian Strandvall (Haka) Mikko Innanen (Haka) 7 assists Dawda Bah (HJK) Mika Ojala (Inter Turku) Babatunde Wusu (TPS) 6 assists Mikko Hyyrynen (Jaro) Mikko Manninen (TPS) Severi Paajanen (Inter Turku) Demba Savage (FC Honka)

Monthly awards

Month	Coach of the Month	Player of the Month
April[4]	Pekka Lyyski (IFK Mariehamn)	Hermanni Vuorinen (Honka)
May[5]	Olli Huttunen (Haka)	Sebastian Strandvall (Haka)
June[6]	Mika Laurikainen (Jaro)	Jens Nygård (VPS)
July[7]	Pasi Rautiainen (TPS)	Jukka Lehtovaara (TPS)

External links

• Official site (Finnish)
• uefa.com

References

1. "Petri Vuorisesta VPS:n uusi valmentaja". keskipohjanmaa.com (in Finnish). 15 May 2009. Retrieved 12 July 2009.
2. "RoPS antoi kenkää Valeri Bondarenkolle". yle.fi (in Finnish). 27 May 2009. Retrieved 12 July 2009.
3. Uefa.com
4. Vuorisesta Veikkausliigan huhtikuun pelaaja (Finnish)
5. Toukokuun Kuukauden joukkue nimetty (Finnish)
6. Jens Nygårdista kesäkuun Kuukauden pelaaja (Finnish)
7. TPS:n Lehtovaarasta Kuukauden pelaaja heinäkuussa (Finnish)