Mestaruussarja
Season1956
ChampionsKuPS Kuopio
RelegatedVIFK Vaasa
Pyrkivä Turku
← 1955
1957 →

The 1956 season was the 26th completed season of Finnish Football League Championship, known as the Mestaruussarja.

Overview

The Mestaruussarja was administered by the Finnish Football Association and the competition's 1956 season was contested by 10 teams. KuPS Kuopio won the championship and the two lowest placed teams of the competition, VIFK Vaasa and Pyrkivä Turku, were relegated to the Suomensarja.[1]

League standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 KuPS Kuopio (C) 18 11 5 2 31 12 +19 27
2 HJK Helsinki 18 9 3 6 39 28 +11 21
3 KIF Helsinki 18 7 6 5 32 18 +14 20
4 IKissat Tampere 18 9 2 7 33 36 −3 20
5 Haka Valkeakoski 18 6 5 7 18 18 0 17
6 VPS Vaasa 18 7 3 8 29 30 −1 17
7 KTP Kotka 18 7 3 8 28 29 −1 17
8 HPS Helsinki 18 7 2 9 28 34 −6 16
9 VIFK Vaasa (R) 18 6 1 11 25 32 −7 13
10 Pyrkivä Turku (R) 18 6 0 12 20 46 −26 12
Source: [1]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away HAK HJK HPS IK KIF KTP KPS PYR VIF VPS
FC Haka 0–2 0–1 3–1 2–1 1–2 0–0 4–1 0–1 3–1
HJK 0–0 0–2 2–3 4–1 2–2 0–2 3–1 1–0 2–1
HPS 1–1 2–4 1–0 3–2 0–4 0–2 0–1 2–1 2–3
IKissat 1–2 4–3 5–3 0–0 2–0 1–0 3–1 3–2 1–1
KIF 0–0 0–0 3–1 6–3 1–1 0–0 4–0 3–0 7–1
KTP 0–0 1–2 1–2 3–1 1–0 1–2 3–0 1–0 1–3
KuPS 3–0 2–3 1–1 4–0 0–0 3–0 2–1 2–1 3–2
Pyrkivä 2–1 0–6 1–6 0–1 0–2 4–3 1–2 1–3 1–0
VIFK 1–0 4–3 4–1 0–4 1–2 2–3 0–2 2–3 1–1
VPS 1–0 3–2 1–0 5–0 1–0 4–1 1–1 1–2 0–2
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

See also

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 "Finland - List of League First Level Tables - rsssf.org". Heikki Pietarinen - RSSSF. Retrieved 2012-01-10.

References

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