2016 Ykkönen

Ykkönen

Season	2016
Champions	JJK
Promoted	JJK
Relegated	KTP FC Jazz
Matches played	135
Goals scored	439 (3.25 per match)
Top goalscorer	Aristote Mboma (18 goals)
Biggest home win	TPS 6–0 FC Jazz (1 October)
Biggest away win	FC Jazz 0–4 TPS (29 July)
Highest scoring	AC Oulu 5–3 EIF (29 May) KTP 5–3 KPV (7 August)
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The winning team will qualify directly for promotion to the 2017 Veikkausliiga, the second has to play a play-off against the eleventh team from Veikkausliiga to decide who will play in that division. The bottom 2 teams will qualify directly for relegation to Kakkonen.^[1]

Overview

AC Oulu

EIF

FC Jazz

Haka

Jaro

GrIFK

JJK

KPV

KTP

TPS

Location of teams in Ykkönen 2015

A total of ten teams contested in the league, including six sides from the 2015 season, FF Jaro and KTP who was relegated from Veikkausliiga and GrIFK and KPV who promoted from Kakkonen after winning the promotion play-offs.

MP and VIFK were relegated from 2015 Ykkönen.

PS Kemi, the champion of 2015 Ykkönen and PK-35 Vantaa, the runner-up of 2015 Ykkönen were promoted to the 2016 Veikkausliiga.

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Manager
AC Oulu	Oulu	Raatin Stadion	6,996	Ojanen, RaunoRauno Ojanen
EIF	Raseborg	Ekenäs Centrumplan	2,500	Marttila, IlkkaIlkka Marttila
FC Jazz	Pori	Porin Stadion	12,000	Uotinen, JaniJani Uotinen
FF Jaro	Jakobstad	Jakobstads Centralplan	5,000	Heames, KristainKristain Heames
GrIFK	Kauniainen	Kauniaisten Keskuskenttä	700	Luomanpää, RamiRami Luomanpää
Haka	Valkeakoski	Tehtaan kenttä	3,516	Martonen, KariKari Martonen
JJK	Jyväskylä	Harjun stadion	3,000	Pasoja, JuhaJuha Pasoja
KPV	Kokkola	Kokkolan Keskuskenttä	2,000	Ylimäki, AnttiAntti Ylimäki
KTP	Kotka	Arto Tolsa Areena	4,780	Virta, OssiOssi Virta
TPS	Turku	Paavo Nurmi Stadium[2]	13,000	Laurikainen, MikaMika Laurikainen

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Incoming manager	Date of appointment	Table
EIF	Jens Mattfolk	End of contract	n/a	Stefan Strömborg	27 November 2015[3]	Pre-season
FF Jaro	Eremenko Sr., AlexeiAlexei Eremenko Sr.	Sacked	10 June 2016	Niklas Vidjeskog (as caretaker)	10 June 2016[4]	9th
KTP	Sami Ristilä	Sacked	30 June 2016	Ossi Virta	30 June 2016[5]	8th
FC Jazz	John Allen	Mutual termination	20 July 2016[6]	Jani Uotinen	21 July 2016[7]	12th
FF Jaro	Niklas Vidjeskog	Caretaker	28 July 2016	Kristian Heames	28 July 2016[8]	9th
EIF	Stefan Strömborg	Mutual termination	21 September 2016[9]	Ilkka Marttila	22 September 2016[10]	7th

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	JJK (C, P)	27	16	4	7	49	38	+11	52	Promotion to Veikkausliiga
2	TPS (Q)	27	16	3	8	60	38	+22	51	Qualification to Promotion playoffs
3	FF Jaro	27	12	8	7	47	33	+14	44
4	AC Oulu	27	12	7	8	50	31	+19	43
5	KPV	27	11	6	10	40	43	−3	39
6	GrIFK	27	11	3	13	33	43	−10	36
7	Haka	27	8	8	11	43	46	−3	32
8	EIF	27	10	1	16	36	53	−17	31
9	KTP (R)	27	6	10	11	47	50	−3	28	Relegation to Kakkonen
10	FC Jazz (R)	27	4	8	15	35	64	−29	20

Updated to match(es) played on 22 October 2016. Source: Suomen Palloliitto
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(C) Champion; (P) Promoted; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated; (R) Relegated.

Results

Matches 1–18

Home ╲ Away	ACO	EIF	JAZ	JAR	GRI	HAK	JJK	KPV	KTP	TPS
AC Oulu		5–3	4–1	0–1	3–1	3–1	0–1	3–0	1–0	0–1
EIF	0–2		3–2	1–0	3–0	1–1	1–2	0–2	3–2	0–2
FC Jazz	2–2	1–3		1–1	3–2	1–2	2–2	2–3	3–4	0–4
FF Jaro	1–1	5–0	3–4		2–2	0–0	0–2	0–1	0–1	1–1
GrIFK	1–0	3–2	1–1	2–3		2–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–0
Haka	2–2	2–0	2–0	1–1	3–0		3–2	0–3	2–2	2–1
JJK	0–3	3–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	3–2		3–0	3–0	2–0
KPV	2–2	2–0	3–3	0–3	3–0	1–4	2–1		1–0	2–3
KTP	1–1	1–2	1–0	1–2	1–2	3–3	1–1	5–3		3–3
TPS	3–1	2–1	5–1	1–4	2–0	2–0	5–1	2–1	2–5

Updated to games played on 25 September 2016.
Source: Suomen Palloliitto
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 19–27

Home ╲ Away	ACO	EIF	JAZ	JAR	GRI	HAK	JJK	KPV	KTP	TPS
AC Oulu		4–1	2–2	0–3	3–0					0–1
EIF			1–2	1–2	2–0	2–1
FC Jazz						1–0	1–2	1–1	1–1
FF Jaro			2–0		2–4	3–0		0–0	3–1	3–2
GrIFK			2–0			1–0			2–0	1–2
Haka	1–1						2–4	3–2		1–2
JJK	2–1	1–3		3–1	4–2			0–1
KPV	0–0	3–2			0–2				1–1
KTP	1–4	0–1		1–1		3–3	5–0
TPS		3–0	6–0				2–2	2–3	1–3

Updated to games played on 22 October 2016.
Source: Suomen Palloliitto
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics

Top scorers Source: palloliitto.fi (Finnish) As of 15 October 2016. Rank Player Club Goals 1 Aristote Mboma AC Oulu 17 2 Jussi Aalto KTP 14 Mikko Hyyrynen TPS 14 Irakli Sirbiladze KPV 14 5 Ilari Mettälä TPS 12 6 Elias Ahde FC Jazz / Haka 11 7 Saša Jovović EIF 10 Alvarado Morín FF Jaro 10 9 Daniel Sánchez FC Jazz 9 10 7 players 8 17 3 players 7 20 5 players 6 25 7 players 5 32 8 players 4 40 13 players 3 53 26 players 2 79 34 players 1 See also 2016 Veikkausliiga References Ykkönen 2016 | Suomen Palloliitto TPS:n kotiavaus siirtyy perjantaille 20.5. "Vi sparkar igång säsongen 2016". EIF (in Swedish). 27 November 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015. "EREMENKO SR. JÄTTÄÄ JARON PÄÄVALMENTAJAN TEHTÄVÄT". FF Jaro (in Finnish). 10 June 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2016. "Sami Ristilä on vapautettu FC KTP:n päävalmentajan tehtävistä". KTP (in Finnish). 30 June 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016. "JOHN ALLEN SIIRTYY FC INTERIIN". FC Jazz (in Finnish). 20 July 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016. "JANI UOTINEN ON FC JAZZIN UUSI PÄÄVALMENTAJA". FC Jazz (in Finnish). 21 July 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016. "KRISTIAN HEAMES NOSTAMAAN JAROA". FF Jaro (in Finnish). 28 July 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2016. "STEFAN STRÖMBORG HAR BEGÄRT OM AVSKED". EIF (in Swedish). 21 September 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016. "ILKKA MARTTILA NY TRÄNARE FÖR EIF:S HERRAR". EIF (in Swedish). 22 September 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016. External links Official site (Finnish)