2009 Veikkausliiga

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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

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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 9,372 Template:Flagicon Job Dragtsma
FF Jaro Jakobstad Jakobstads Centralplan 5,000 Template:Flagicon Mika Laurikainen
JJK Jyväskylä Harjun stadion 3,000 Template:Flagicon Ville Priha
KuPS Kuopio Magnum Areena 3,500 Template:Flagicon Kai Nyyssönen
FC Lahti Lahti Lahden Stadion 14,465 Template:Flagicon Ilkka Mäkelä
IFK Mariehamn Mariehamn Wiklöf Holding Arena 1,600 Template:Flagicon Pekka Lyyski
MYPA Myllykoski, Kouvola Saviniemi 4,167 Template:Flagicon Janne Lindberg
RoPS Rovaniemi Keskuskenttä 3,400 Template:Flagicon Mika Lumijärvi
Tampere United Tampere Ratina Stadion 17,000 Template:Flagicon Ari Hjelm
TPS Turku Veritas Stadion 9,372 Template:Flagicon Pasi Rautiainen
VPS Vaasa Hietalahti Stadium 4,600 Template:Flagicon Petri Vuorinen

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Replaced by Date of appointment Position in table
VPS Template:Flagicon Tomi Kärkkäinen Resigned 15 May 2009 [1] Template:Flagicon Petri Vuorinen 15 May 2009 [1] 14th
RoPS Template:Flagicon Valeri Bondarenko Sacked 27 May 2009 [2] Template:Flagicon Mika Lumijärvi
Template:Flagicon Zeddy Saileti
27 May 2009 [2] 14th
FF Jaro Template:Flagicon Mika Laurikainen Sacked 18 August 2009 Template:Flagicon Alexei Eremenko Sr.
18 August 2009
Haka Template:Flagicon Olli Huttunen Sacked 7 September 2009 Template:Flagicon Sami Ristilä
7 September 2009 5th
RoPS Template:Flagicon Mika Lumijärvi Sacked 7 October 2009 Template:Flagicon Zeddy Saileti
Template:Flagicon Jorma Turpeenniemi
7 October 2009 14th

League table

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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.

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Results

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Statistics

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Monthly awards

Month Coach of the Month Player of the Month
April[3] Template:Flagicon Pekka Lyyski (IFK Mariehamn) Template:Flagicon Hermanni Vuorinen (Honka)
May[4] Template:Flagicon Olli Huttunen (Haka) Template:Flagicon Sebastian Strandvall (Haka)
June[5] Template:Flagicon Mika Laurikainen (Jaro) Template:Flagicon Jens Nygård (VPS)
July[6] Template:Flagicon Pasi Rautiainen (TPS) Template:Flagicon Jukka Lehtovaara (TPS)

References

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External links

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