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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

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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

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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 Myllykoski, Kouvola 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

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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

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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. ^ 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

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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'
JJK2 – 1KPV
Lahtinen   61'
Nam   68'		 Kalliokoski   87'

Results

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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

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Monthly awards

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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)

References

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  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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