2008 Veikkausliiga

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The 2008 season of Veikkausliiga was the 78th season of top-tier football in Finland. It started on 27 April 2008 and ended on 26 October 2008. The defending champions were Tampere United.

Promotion and relegation

AC Oulu finished at the bottom of the 2007 season and therefore were relegated to Ykkönen. Their place was taken by Ykkönen champions KuPS. 13th placed Veikkausliiga team FC Viikingit and Ykkönen runners-up RoPS competed in a two-legged relegation play-offs for one spot in 2008 Veikkausliiga. RoPS won 2–1 on aggregate and therefore were promoted to Veikkausliiga.

Overview

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Club Location Stadium Capacity Manager
FC Haka Valkeakoski Tehtaan kenttä 3,516 Template:Flagicon Olli Huttunen
HJK Helsinki Finnair Stadium 10,770 Template:Flagicon Antti Muurinen
FC Honka Espoo Tapiolan Urheilupuisto 6,000 Template:Flagicon Mika Lehkosuo
FC Inter Turku Veritas Stadion 10,000 Template:Flagicon Job Dragtsma
FF Jaro Jakobstad Jakobstads Centralplan 5,000 Template:Flagicon Mika Laurikainen
FC KooTeePee Kotka Arto Tolsa Areena 4,780 Template:Flagicon Tommi Kautonen
KuPS Kuopio Magnum Areena 3,500 Template:Flagicon Kai Nyyssönen
FC Lahti Lahti Lahden Stadion 15,000 Template:Flagicon Ilkka Mäkelä
IFK Mariehamn Mariehamn Wiklöf Holding Arena 1,600 Template:Flagicon Pekka Lyyski
MYPA Anjalankoski Saviniemi 4,067 Template:Flagicon Janne Lindberg
RoPS Rovaniemi Keskuskenttä 4,000 Template:Flagicon Valeri Bondarenko
Tampere United Tampere Ratina Stadion 17,000 Template:Flagicon Ari Hjelm
TPS Turku Veritas Stadion 10,000 Template:Flagicon John Allen
VPS Vaasa Hietalahti Stadium 4,600 Template:Flagicon Tomi Kärkkäinen

League table

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Relegation play-offs

KuPS and Ykkönen runners-up FC Viikingit competed in a two-legged play-offs for one spot in Veikkausliiga 2009. KuPS won 2–1 on aggregate and thereby retained their league spot for 2009.

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Results

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Top goalscorers

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Rank Player Club Goals
1 Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Kokko Honka 13
Template:Flagicon Henri Myntti Tampere United 13
3 Template:Flagicon Mikko Hyyrynen Jaro 11
Template:Flagicon Toni Lehtinen Haka 11
Template:Flagicon Mikko Paatelainen TPS 11
Template:Flagicon Rafael Lahti 11
8 Template:Flagicon Jarno Parikka HJK 9
Template:Flagicon Hermanni Vuorinen Honka 9
10 Template:Flagicon Tarmo Neemelo MYPA 8
Template:Flagicon Mika Ojala Inter Turku 8
Template:Flagicon Paulus Roiha HJK 8

Annual awards

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Players' Association's awards

Veikkausliiga's awards

External links

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