Veikkausliiga
Season2010
ChampionsHJK
7th Veikkausliiga title
23rd Finnish title
RelegatedLahti
Champions LeagueHJK
Europa LeagueKuPS
TPS (via dom. cup)
Honka
Matches played182
Goals scored513 (2.82 per match)
Top goalscorerJuho Mäkelä
(16 goals)
Biggest home winJJK 6–1 Oulu
(5 July)
Jaro 5-0 Haka
(2 August)
TPS 5-0 Oulu
(22 September)
Biggest away winKuPS 0–5 HJK
(16 April)
Highest scoringKuPS 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
2011 →

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

RoPS finished at the bottom of the 2009 season and were relegated to Ykkönen. Their place was taken by Ykkönen champions AC Oulu. 13th-placed Veikkausliiga team 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

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 Finland/Russia 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[lower-alpha 1]
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'
Attendance: 3172
JJK2 – 0FC Viikingit
Tuomanen 9'
Linjala 31'
Attendance: 3232

Results

Home \ Away HAK HJK HON INT JAR JJK KPS LAH MAR MYP ACO TAM TPS VPS
Haka 0–3 2–0 1–3 4–3 1–2 2–1 0–0 2–1 0–1 2–0 1–0 0–0 1–1
HJK 1–1 0–1 2–2 2–1 1–0 1–2 0–0 3–1 2–0 2–0 3–1 2–0 3–0
FC Honka 4–2 3–1 1–1 3–1 2–3 2–1 1–2 3–0 3–1 3–4 0–2 1–0 0–0
FC Inter 1–0 0–0 2–0 2–0 3–2 1–3 1–3 1–1 1–1 0–2 0–2 1–2 1–0
FF Jaro 5–0 1–1 0–0 0–1 1–3 0–1 2–0 2–0 3–2 1–2 2–2 1–3 3–2
JJK 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–3 1–2 1–3 2–2 0–2 1–1 6–1 0–1 0–2 0–1
KuPS 1–0 0–5 0–2 2–1 2–1 2–0 1–1 0–0 2–1 3–1 6–2 2–1 1–2
FC Lahti 0–1 0–1 2–4 1–1 1–3 0–0 2–1 1–1 0–2 0–3 0–1 1–3 2–1
IFK Mariehamn 2–3 1–2 2–2 3–0 0–0 3–2 1–2 2–2 1–2 0–2 2–3 2–1 0–3
MYPA 2–1 1–1 2–2 3–2 0–1 2–4 1–1 1–1 2–1 1–1 3–0 2–2 2–2
AC Oulu 1–1 1–1 2–0 1–0 0–1 1–2 2–5 1–2 0–0 1–1 3–0 0–2 1–1
Tampere United 2–1 2–0 2–1 0–1 1–4 0–2 1–3 0–0 3–4 1–1 3–1 1–1 3–0
TPS 1–1 0–1 1–0 2–2 0–3 2–0 3–0 3–2 1–4 3–0 5–0 4–3 1–1
VPS 2–1 0–3 1–3 0–3 1–1 0–1 2–0 1–1 1–4 2–1 2–0 3–1 0–3
Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics

Monthly awards

Month Coach of the Month Player of the Month
April[2] Finland Kari Martonen (JJK) Finland Janne Korhonen (Haka)
May Finland Esa Pekonen (KuPS) Finland Miikka Ilo (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] Finland/Russia Alexei Eremenko Sr. (FF Jaro) Finland Toni Kolehmainen (TPS)
October[7] Finland Sami Ristilä (Haka) Nigeria Dudu (KuPS)

Players of the year

Source: veikkausliiga.com (in Finnish)

Position Player
Best Goalkeeper Finland Jukka Lehtovaara (TPS)
Best Defender Finland Juhani Ojala (HJK)
Best Midfielder Finland Miikka Ilo (KuPS)
Best Striker Finland Juho Mäkelä (HJK)
Best Player Finland Medo (HJK)

References

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