2009 Veikkausliiga

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.

Veikkausliiga
Season2009
ChampionsHJK
22nd league title
RelegatedRoPS
Champions LeagueHJK
Europa LeagueHonka
TPS
Inter Turku (via dom. cup)
Matches played182
Goals scored498 (2.74 per match)
Top goalscorerHermanni Vuorinen (16)
Biggest home winHonka 9-0 RoPS
Biggest away winRoPS 1-5 TamU
KuPS 0-4 Honka
RoPS 0-4 TPS
Highest scoringHonka 9-0 RoPS
← 2008
2010 →

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
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 Russia 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[lower-alpha 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 Qualification to Europa League first qualifying round[lower-alpha 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 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. Finland 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]

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.

KPV2 – 3JJK
Itälä 24'
Linjala 61'		 Kari 40'
Lahtinen 49'
Nam 69'
Kokkolan Keskuskenttä, Kokkola
JJK2 – 1KPV
Lahtinen 61'
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. "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. 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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