2009 Veikkausliiga

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2008

The 2009 Veikkausliiga was the 79th 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

JJK
will have to compete in a two-legged relegation play-off.

Promotion and relegation

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

Location of teams in Veikkausliiga 2009
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 9,372 Netherlands Job Dragtsma
FF Jaro Jakobstad Jakobstads Centralplan 5,000 Finland Mika Laurikainen
JJK
Jyväskylä Harjun stadion 3,000 Finland Ville Priha
KuPS
Kuopio
Magnum Areena
3,500 Finland Kai Nyyssönen
FC Lahti Lahti
Lahden Stadion
14,465 Finland Ilkka Mäkelä
IFK Mariehamn Mariehamn Wiklöf Holding Arena 1,600 Finland Pekka Lyyski
MYPA
Anjalankoski
Saviniemi
4,167 Finland Janne Lindberg
RoPS
Rovaniemi Keskuskenttä 3,400 Finland Mika Lumijärvi
Tampere United Tampere
Ratina Stadion
17,000 Finland Ari Hjelm
TPS Turku Veritas Stadion 9,372 Finland Pasi Rautiainen
VPS Vaasa Hietalahti Stadium 4,600 Finland Petri Vuorinen

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Replaced by Date of appointment Position in table
VPS Finland Tomi Kärkkäinen Resigned 15 May 2009 [1] Finland Petri Vuorinen 15 May 2009 [1] 14th
RoPS
Russia Valeri Bondarenko Sacked 27 May 2009 [2] Finland Mika Lumijärvi
Zambia Zeddy Saileti
27 May 2009 [2] 14th
FF Jaro Finland Mika Laurikainen Sacked 18 August 2009
Alexei Eremenko Sr.

18 August 2009
Haka Finland Olli Huttunen Sacked 7 September 2009 Finland Sami Ristilä
7 September 2009 5th
RoPS
Finland Mika Lumijärvi Sacked 7 October 2009 Zambia Zeddy Saileti
Finland Jorma Turpeenniemi
7 October 2009 14th

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 HJK (C) 26 14 10 2 45 21 +24 52 Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2 FC Honka 26 13 10 3 65 29 +36 49 Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round
3 TPS 26 13 10 3 46 20 +26 49 Qualification to 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 Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round[a]
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 Qualification to Europa League first qualifying round[b]
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 Qualification to relegation play-offs
14
RoPS
(R)
26 4 4 18 21 66 −45 16 Relegation to Ykkönen
Source: veikkausliiga.com (in Finnish)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Inter Turku qualified for the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League by winning the 2009 Finnish Cup.
  2. UEFA Fair Play ranking and thus received an additional spot in the first qualifying round of the Europa League.[3]

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.


JJK
2 – 1KPV
Nam
68'
Kalliokoski 87'

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 (in Finnish)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics

Monthly awards

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

References

  1. ^ a b "Petri Vuorisesta VPS:n uusi valmentaja". keskipohjanmaa.com (in Finnish). 15 May 2009. Retrieved 12 July 2009.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ a b "RoPS antoi kenkää Valeri Bondarenkolle". yle.fi (in Finnish). 27 May 2009. Archived from the original on January 6, 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2009.
  3. ^ "Uefa.com". Archived from the original on 2010-05-12. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
  4. ^ Vuorisesta Veikkausliigan huhtikuun pelaaja Archived 2009-05-09 at the Wayback Machine (in Finnish)
  5. ^ Toukokuun Kuukauden joukkue nimetty Archived 2009-06-12 at the Wayback Machine (in Finnish)
  6. ^ Jens Nygårdista kesäkuun Kuukauden pelaaja Archived 2009-07-08 at the Wayback Machine (in Finnish)
  7. ^ TPS:n Lehtovaarasta Kuukauden pelaaja heinäkuussa Archived 2012-06-09 at the Wayback Machine (in Finnish)

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