2009 Veikkausliiga

Veikkausliiga 2009 HJK22nd league title RoPS Champions League HJK Europa League HonkaTPSInter Turku (via dom. cup) Hermanni Vuorinen (16) Honka 9-0 RoPS RoPS 1-5 TamUKuPS 0-4 HonkaRoPS 0-4 TPS Honka 9-0 RoPS 182 498 2008 2010 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 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 Finland 275 Location of teams in Veikkausliiga 2009 Finland 60.75 26.823611 MYPA Finland 60.175556 24.8025 Honka bottom Finland 60.170833 24.9375 HJK Finland 63.675 22.704167 Jaro Finland 62.240278 25.744444 JJK Finland 62.8925 27.678333 KuPS Finland 60.983333 25.655556 Lahti Finland 60.093056 19.939167 Mariehamn bottom Finland 66.501389 25.734722 RoPS Finland 61.498056 23.760833 Tampere United left Finland 60.27 22.16 InterTPS Finland 63.085278 21.627778 VPS Finland 61.266667 24.030556 Haka ClubLocationStadium CapacityManagerFC HakaValkeakoskiTehtaan kenttä3,516Finland Olli HuttunenHJKHelsinkiFinnair Stadium10,770Finland Antti MuurinenFC HonkaEspooTapiolan Urheilupuisto6,000Finland Mika LehkosuoFC InterTurkuVeritas Stadion9,372Netherlands Job DragtsmaFF JaroJakobstadJakobstads Centralplan5,000Finland Mika LaurikainenJJKJyväskyläHarjun stadion3,000Finland Ville PrihaKuPSKuopioMagnum Areena3,500Finland Kai NyyssönenFC LahtiLahtiLahden Stadion14,465Finland Ilkka MäkeläIFK MariehamnMariehamnWiklöf Holding Arena1,600Finland Pekka LyyskiMYPAMyllykoski, KouvolaSaviniemi4,167Finland Janne LindbergRoPSRovaniemiKeskuskenttä3,400Finland Mika LumijärviTampere UnitedTampereRatina Stadion17,000Finland Ari HjelmTPSTurkuVeritas Stadion9,372Finland Pasi RautiainenVPSVaasaHietalahti Stadium4,600Finland 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 http://www.keskipohjanmaa.com/gen/560121.asp Petri Vuorisesta VPS:n uusi valmentaja 15 May 2009 keskipohjanmaa.com fi 12 July 2009 April 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes Finland Petri Vuorinen 15 May 2009 14th RoPS Russia Valeri Bondarenko Sacked 27 May 2009 http://yle.fi/urheilu/lajit/jalkapallo/kotimaa/2009/05/rops_antoi_kenkaa_valeri_bondarenkolle_148459.html https://archive.today/20130106184834/http://yle.fi/urheilu/lajit/jalkapallo/kotimaa/2009/05/rops_antoi_kenkaa_valeri_bondarenkolle_148459.html dead January 6, 2013 RoPS antoi kenkää Valeri Bondarenkolle 27 May 2009 yle.fi fi 12 July 2009 Finland Mika LumijärviZambia Zeddy Saileti 27 May 2009 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 SailetiFinland Jorma Turpeenniemi 7 October 2009 14th League table January 2010 main WDL 5 QR HJK HJK HON FC Honka TPS TPS MAR IFK Mariehamn INT FC Inter HAK Haka TAM Tampere United VPS VPS MYP MYPA JAR FF Jaro LAH FC Lahti KPS KuPS JJK JJK RPS RoPS 14 10 2 45 21 C 13 10 3 65 29 13 10 3 46 20 10 13 3 30 21 11 7 8 38 30 10 7 9 40 35 11 4 11 31 31 10 5 11 30 36 9 7 10 32 30 8 8 10 33 34 8 7 11 33 40 6 5 15 29 53 3 7 16 25 52 O 4 4 18 21 66 R green1 Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round CL2 blue2 Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round EL2 blue3 Qualification to Europa League first qualifying round EL1 blue1 Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round Inter Turku qualified for the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League by winning the 2009 Finnish Cup. EL3 blue3 Qualification to Europa League first qualifying round 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.https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/0257-0deea287e064-919d528a4166-1000--sweden-top-fair-play-rankings/ Uefa.com 2010-05-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20100512213153/http://en.uefa.com/uefa/socialresponsibility/respect/news/newsid=1486635.html 2010-05-12 live EL1b red2 Qualification to relegation play-offs RP red1 Relegation to Ykkönen R 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. complete veikkausliiga.com fi 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. 21 October 2009 15:30 EEST KPV 2 – 3 JJK Itälä 24Linjala 61 Kari 40Lahtinen 49Nam 69 Kokkolan Keskuskenttä, Kokkola 25 October 2009 14:00 EET JJK 2 – 1 KPV Lahtinen 61Nam 68 Kalliokoski 87 Harjun stadion, Jyväskylä Results main FBR grey 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 complete veikkausliiga.com fi Statistics Top goalscorers Source: veikkausliiga.com fi RankPlayerClubGoals1Finland Hermanni VuorinenHonka162Finland Jami PuustinenHonka123Finland Timo FuruholmInter Turku114England Wayne BrownTPS9Finland Mikko PaatelainenTPS9Nigeria Babatunde WusuTPS98Finland Tamas GruborovicsIFK Mariehamn8Finland Juho MäkeläHJK8Finland Drilon ShalaLahti8Gambia Dawda BahHJK8Russia Maxim VotinovMYPA8South Korea Nam Ik-KyungJJK8 Top assistants Source: veikkausliiga.com fi RankPlayerClubAssists1Finland Sebastian SorsaHJK112Finland Nicholas OtaruHonka93England Wayne BrownTPS8Finland Sebastian StrandvallHaka8Finland Mikko InnanenHaka86Gambia Dawda BahHJK7Finland Mika OjalaInter Turku7Nigeria Babatunde WusuTPS79Finland Mikko HyyrynenJaro6Finland Mikko ManninenTPS6Finland Severi PaajanenInter Turku6Gambia Demba SavageHonka6 Monthly awards MonthCoach of the MonthPlayer of the MonthAprilVuorisesta Veikkausliigan huhtikuun pelaaja https://web.archive.org/web/20090509065829/http://www.veikkausliiga.com/News.aspx?type=2&ID=34134 2009-05-09 fiFinland Pekka Lyyski (IFK Mariehamn)Finland Hermanni Vuorinen (Honka)MayToukokuun Kuukauden joukkue nimetty https://web.archive.org/web/20090612014902/http://www.veikkausliiga.com/News.aspx?type=1&ID=34635 2009-06-12 fiFinland Olli Huttunen (Haka)Finland Sebastian Strandvall (Haka)JuneJens Nygårdista kesäkuun Kuukauden pelaaja https://web.archive.org/web/20090708063955/http://www.veikkausliiga.com/News.aspx?type=2&ID=35084 2009-07-08 fiFinland Mika Laurikainen (Jaro)Finland Jens Nygård (VPS)July TPS:n Lehtovaarasta Kuukauden pelaaja heinäkuussa https://web.archive.org/web/20120609205945/http://www.veikkausliiga.com/News.aspx?type=2&ID=35694 2012-06-09 fiFinland Pasi Rautiainen (TPS)Finland Jukka Lehtovaara (TPS) Attendances No. Club Average 1 TPS 4,904 2 HJK 3,661 3 JJK 3,238 4 VPS 2,415 5 Inter Turku 2,395 6 Tampere 2,257 7 Honka 2,233 8 Lahti 2,082 9 Haka 2,001 10 KuPS 1,837 11 Mariehamn 1,824 12 Jaro 1,650 13 RoPS 1,587 14 MyPa 1,360Source:https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/fin/avefin09.htm Historical attendances European-football-statistics.co.uk August 11, 2026 References External links Official site fi uefa.com Category:Veikkausliiga seasons Fin 1