2010 Veikkausliiga

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KuPS 6–2 TamU
(30 June)
Longest winning runTPS (5 games)
(1 August–28 August)
Longest unbeaten run8 games by 2 teams
HJK
(24 May–10 July)
Tampere United
(3 May–20 June)
Longest winless runFC Lahti (11 games)
(10 May–16 July)
Longest losing runAC Oulu (6 games)
(19 June–30 July)
2009

The 2010 Veikkausliiga was the 80th season of top-tier football in Finland. It began on 16 April 2010 and ended on 23 October 2010.

Teams

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
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

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 HJK (C) 26 15 7 4 43 19 +24 52 Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2
KuPS
26 15 3 8 45 36 +9 48 Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round
3 TPS 26 13 6 7 46 30 +16 45 Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round[a]
4 FC Honka 26 12 5 9 42 34 +8 41 Qualification to 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 46 −9 34
8 Haka 26 9 6 11 30 38 −8 33
9
MYPA
26 7 11 8 36 39 −3 32
10 VPS 26 8 7 11 29 40 −11 31
11 AC Oulu 26 8 6 12 31 44 −13 30
12 IFK Mariehamn 26 7 7 12 38 43 −5 28
13
JJK
(O)
26 8 3 15 34 41 −7 27 Qualification to relegation play-offs
14 FC Lahti (R) 26 5 11 10 26 37 −11 26 Relegation to Ykkönen
Source: soccerway.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ TPS were the winners of the 2010 Finnish Cup competition and qualified for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League.

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.

FC Viikingit1 – 1JJK
Sesay 87' Hyyrynen 62'
Vuosaaren Urheilukenttä, Helsinki

Results

Statistics

Monthly awards

Month Coach of the Month Player of the Month
April[2]
JJK
)
Janne Korhonen (Haka
)
May
KuPS
)
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]
Alexei Eremenko Sr. (FF Jaro
)
Finland Toni Kolehmainen (TPS)
October[7] Finland Sami Ristilä (Haka)
KuPS
)

Players of the year

Source: veikkausliiga.com (in Finnish)

Position Player
Best Goalkeeper Finland Jukka Lehtovaara (TPS)
Best Defender
HJK
)
Best Midfielder Finland Miikka Ilo (KuPS)
Best Striker
HJK
)
Best Player
HJK
)

References

External links