2010 Veikkausliiga

Veikkausliiga
Season 2010
Champions HJK
23rd title
Relegated Lahti
Champions League HJK
Europa League KuPS
TPS (via dom. cup)
Honka
Matches played 182
Goals scored 513 (2.82 per match)
Top goalscorer Juho Mäkelä
(16 goals)
Biggest home win JJK 6–1 Oulu
(5 July)
Jaro 5-0 Haka
(2 August)
TPS 5-0 Oulu
(22 September)
Biggest away win KuPS 0–5 HJK
(16 April)
Highest scoring KuPS 6–2 TamU
(30 June)
Longest winning run TPS (5 games)
(1 August28 August)
Longest unbeaten run 8 games by 2 teams
HJK
(24 May10 July)
Tampere United
(3 May20 June)
Longest winless run FC Lahti (11 games)
(10 May16 July)
Longest losing run AC Oulu (6 games)
(19 June30 July)
2009
2011

The 2010 Veikkausliiga was the eightieth season of top-tier football in Finland. It began on 16 April 2010 and ended on 23 October 2010.

Teams

RoPS finished at the bottom of the 2009 season and were relegated to Ykkönen. Their place was taken by Ykkönen champions AC Oulu. 13th-placed Veikkausliiga team JJK and Ykkönen runners-up KPV competed in a two-legged relegation play-offs for one spot in this season. JJK won 5–3 on aggregate and thereby retained their league position.

Team summaries

Location of teams in 2010 Veikkausliiga
Club Location Stadium Capacity Manager Kitmaker
AC Oulu Oulu Castrén 4,000 Finland Juha Malinen Umbro
FC Honka Espoo Tapiolan Urheilupuisto 6,000 Finland Mika Lehkosuo Kappa
FC Inter Turku Veritas Stadion 9,372 Netherlands Job Dragtsma Nike
FC Lahti Lahti Lahden Stadion 15,000 Finland Ilkka Mäkelä Umbro
FF Jaro Jakobstad Jakobstads Centralplan 5,000 Finland/Russia Alexei Eremenko Sr. Errea
Haka Valkeakoski Tehtaan kenttä 3,516 Finland Sami Ristilä Umbro
HJK Helsinki Sonera Stadium 10,770 Finland Antti Muurinen Adidas
IFK Mariehamn Mariehamn Wiklöf Holding Arena 4,000 Finland Pekka Lyyski Puma
JJK Jyväskylä Harjun stadion 3,000 Finland Kari Martonen Legea
KuPS Kuopio Kuopion keskuskenttä 5,000 Finland Esa Pekonen Puma
MYPA Anjalankoski Saviniemi 4,167 Finland Janne Lindberg Puma
Tampere United Tampere Ratina Stadion 17,000 Finland Ari Hjelm Puma
TPS Turku Veritas Stadion 9,372 Finland Marko Rajamäki Puma
VPS Vaasa Hietalahti Stadium 4,600 Finland Tommi Pikkarainen Umbro

League table

Finnish football
2010

Veikkausliiga (Tier 1)
Ykkönen (Tier 2)
Kakkonen (Tier 3)
Kolmonen (Tier 4)
Nelonen (Tier 5)
Vitonen (Tier 6)
Suomen Cup 2010

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 HJK (C) 26 15 7 4 43 19+24 52 2011–12 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2 KuPS 26 15 3 8 45 36+9 48 2011–12 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round
3 TPS 26 13 6 7 46 30+16 45 2011–12 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round 1
4 FC Honka 26 12 5 9 42 34+8 41 2011–12 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round
5 FF Jaro 26 11 5 10 42 34+8 38
6 FC Inter 26 10 7 9 34 32+2 37
7 Tampere United 26 10 4 12 37 469 34
8 Haka 26 9 6 11 30 388 33
9 MYPA 26 7 11 8 36 393 32
10 VPS 26 8 7 11 29 4011 31
11 AC Oulu 26 8 6 12 31 4413 30
12 IFK Mariehamn 26 7 7 12 38 435 28
13 JJK (O) 26 8 3 15 34 417 27 Veikkausliiga relegation play-offs
14 FC Lahti (R) 26 5 11 10 26 3711 26 Relegation to Ykkönen

Source: soccerway.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1TPS were the winners of the 2010 Finnish Cup competition and qualified 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

The 13th placed team of 2010 Veikkausliiga and the runners-up of the 2010 Ykkönen will compete in a two-legged play-offs for one spot in the 2011 Veikkausliiga.[1] JJK won the playoffs by 3-1 and remained again in Veikkausliiga.

27 October 2010
18:30 EEST
FC Viikingit 1 – 1 JJK
Sesay  87' Hyyrynen  62'

30 October 2010
14:00 EEST
JJK 2 – 0 FC Viikingit
Tuomanen  9'
Linjala  31'
Harjun Stadion, Jyväskylä
Attendance: 3232

Results

Home ╲ Away HAK HJK HONINTJARJJKKPSLAHMARMYPACOTAMTPSVPS
Haka 03 20 13 43 12 21 00 21 01 20 10 00 11
HJK 11 01 22 21 10 12 00 31 20 20 31 20 30
FC Honka 42 31 11 31 23 21 12 30 31 34 02 10 00
FC Inter 10 00 20 20 32 13 13 11 11 02 02 12 10
FF Jaro 50 11 00 01 13 01 20 20 32 12 22 13 32
JJK 12 12 01 03 12 13 22 02 11 61 01 02 01
KuPS 10 05 02 21 21 20 11 00 21 31 62 21 12
FC Lahti 01 01 24 11 13 00 21 11 02 03 01 13 21
IFK Mariehamn 23 12 22 30 00 32 12 22 12 02 23 21 03
MYPA 21 11 22 32 01 24 11 11 21 11 30 22 22
AC Oulu 11 11 20 10 01 12 25 12 00 11 30 02 11
Tampere United 21 20 21 01 14 02 13 00 34 11 31 11 30
TPS 11 01 10 22 03 20 30 32 14 30 50 43 11
VPS 21 03 13 03 11 01 20 11 14 21 20 31 03

Source: Soccerway
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)

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Finland Juho Mäkelä HJK 16
2 Finland Roope Riski TPS 12
3 Finland Henri Lehtonen FC Inter 11
4 Finland Tamás Gruborovics IFK Mariehamn 10
Finland Jonatan Johansson TPS 10
6 Finland Tommi Kari JJK 9
Finland Jami Puustinen Honka 9
Russia Maxim Votinov MYPA 9
9 Nigeria Dudu KuPS 8
Canada Frank Jonke Oulu 8
Senegal Papa Niang FF Jaro 8
Finland Mikko Paatelainen IFK Mariehamn 8

Top assistants

Source: veikkausliiga.com (Finnish)

Rank Player Club Assists
1 Finland Alexei Eremenko Jr. FF Jaro 8
2 Finland Miikka Ilo KuPS 7
Finland Tomi Petrescu Tampere United 7
4 Finland Sasha Anttilainen IFK Mariehamn 6
Finland Jonne Hjelm Tampere United 6
Finland Antti Hynynen Haka/KuPS 6
Finland Tommi Kari JJK 6
Finland Mika Lahtinen JJK 6
Finland Mikko Manninen TPS 6
Russia Maxim Votinov MYPA 6
11 Brazil Dema Tampere United/HJK 5
Senegal Papa Niang FF Jaro 5
Finland Mika Nurmela Oulu 5
Finland Sebastian Strandvall IFK Mariehamn 5

Monthly awards

Month Coach of the Month Player of the Month
April[2] Finland Kari Martonen (JJK) Finland Janne Korhonen (Haka)
May Finland Esa Pekonen (KuPS) Finland Miikka Ilo (KuPS)
June[3] Netherlands Job Dragtsma (FC Inter) Finland Henri Lehtonen (FC Inter)
July[4] Finland Pekka Lyyski (IFK Mariehamn) Finland Tamás Gruborovics (IFK Mariehamn)
August[5] Finland Marko Rajamäki (TPS) Finland Roope Riski (TPS)
September[6] Finland/Russia Alexei Eremenko Sr. (FF Jaro) Finland Toni Kolehmainen (TPS)
October[7] Finland Sami Ristilä (Haka) Nigeria Dudu (KuPS)

Players of the year

Source: veikkausliiga.com (Finnish)

Position Player
Goalkeeper Finland Jukka Lehtovaara (TPS)
Defender Finland Juhani Ojala (HJK)
Midfielder Finland Miikka Ilo (KuPS)
Striker Finland Juho Mäkelä (HJK)
Player Finland Medo (HJK)

External links

References

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