2013 Veikkausliiga

Veikkausliiga
Season	2013
Champions	HJK
Relegated	JJK
Champions League	HJK Helsinki
Europa League	FC Honka VPS MYPA RoPS
Matches played	186
Goals scored	476 (2.56 per match)
Top goalscorer	Tim Väyrynen (17 goals)
Biggest home win	HJK 6–0 FC Inter (13 June) FF Jaro 7–1 FC Lahti (13 July)
Biggest away win	IFK Mariehamn 0–5 HJK (27 June)
Highest scoring	FF Jaro 7–1 FC Lahti (13 July)
← 2012 2014 →

The 2013 Veikkausliiga was the eighty-third season of top-tier football in Finland. The season began on 13 April 2013 and is scheduled to end on 26 October 2013. HJK Helsinki are the defending champions.

Teams

FC Haka were relegated to Ykkönen after finishing at the bottom of the 2012 season. Their place was taken by Ykkönen champions RoPS.

Team summaries

Location of teams in 2013 Veikkausliiga

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Manager	Captain
FC Honka	Espoo	Tapiolan Urheilupuisto	6,000	Lehkosuo, MikaMika Lehkosuo	Vasara, JussiJussi Vasara
FC Inter	Turku	Veritas Stadion	10,000	Dragtsma, JobJob Dragtsma	Lehtonen, HenriHenri Lehtonen
FC Lahti	Lahti	Lahden Stadion	15,000	Malinen, JuhaJuha Malinen	Hauhia, MikkoMikko Hauhia
FF Jaro	Jakobstad	Jakobstads Centralplan	5,000	Eremenko Sr., AlexeiAlexei Eremenko Sr.	Emet, JonasJonas Emet
HJK	Helsinki	Sonera Stadium	10,770	Boström, SixtenSixten Boström	Wallén, VilleVille Wallén
IFK Mariehamn	Mariehamn	Wiklöf Holding Arena	4,000	Lyyski, PekkaPekka Lyyski	Lyyski, JaniJani Lyyski
JJK	Jyväskylä	Harjun stadion	3,000	Pasoja, JuhaJuha Pasoja	Korhonen, JanneJanne Korhonen
KuPS	Kuopio	Savon Sanomat Areena	5,000	Pekonen, EsaEsa Pekonen	Hakanpää, RamiRami Hakanpää
MYPA	Kouvola	Kymenlaakson Sähkö Stadion	4,167	Korkeakunnas, ToniToni Korkeakunnas	Aho, TuomasTuomas Aho
RoPS	Rovaniemi	Rovaniemen keskuskenttä	4,000	Virtanen, KariKari Virtanen	Okkonen, AnttiAntti Okkonen
TPS	Turku	Veritas Stadion	10,000	Rajamäki, MarkoMarko Rajamäki	Hurme, JarkkoJarkko Hurme
VPS	Vaasa	Hietalahti Stadium	4,600	Huttunen, OlliOlli Huttunen	Strandvall, SebastianSebastian Strandvall

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Incoming manager	Date of appointment	Table
HJK	Antti Muurinen	End of contract	n/a	Sixten Boström	1 January 2013^[1]	Pre-season
FC Lahti	Tommi Kautonen	Sacked	4 June 2013^[2]	Juha Malinen	5 June 2013^[3]	12th
JJK	Kari Martonen	Sacked	30 June 2013	Juha Pasoja (as caretaker)	30 June 2013^[4]	12th

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	HJK !HJK (C)	33	22	7	4	78	25	+53	73	2014–15 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2	FC Honka !FC Honka	33	18	7	8	51	37	+14	61	2014–15 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round
3	VPS !VPS	33	14	9	10	41	39	+2	51	2014–15 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round
4	IFK Mariehamn !IFK Mariehamn	33	14	7	12	57	62	−5	49
5	FC Lahti !FC Lahti	33	15	3	15	47	49	−2	48
6	MYPA !MYPA	33	14	5	14	42	37	+5	47	2014–15 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round ²
7	KuPS !KuPS	33	11	8	14	43	42	+1	41
8	TPS !TPS	33	10	11	12	42	46	−4	41
9	FC Inter !FC Inter	33	9	13	11	31	38	−7	40
10	FF Jaro !FF Jaro	33	9	10	14	41	50	−9	37
11	RoPS !RoPS	33	8	10	15	25	36	−11	34	2014–15 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round ¹
12	JJK !JJK (R)	33	4	10	19	27	64	−37	22	Relegation to 2014 Ykkönen

Updated to games played on 26 October 2013.
Source: veikkausliiga.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹ RoPS qualified for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League by winning the 2013 Finnish Cup.
² MYPA qualified for the first qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League by Fair-Play ranking.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Matches 1–22

Home ╲ Away	FC Honka !HON	FC Inter !INT	FC Lahti !LAH	FF Jaro !JAR	HJK !HJK	IFK Mariehamn !MAR	JJK !JJK	KuPS !KPS	MYPA !MYP	RoPS !RPS	TPS !TPS	VPS !VPS
FC Honka !FC Honka		0–0	1–0	4–2	0–2	2–1	3–2	1–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	3–0
FC Inter !FC Inter	0–1		2–0	1–0	2–2	0–2	3–1	2–2	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–0
FC Lahti !FC Lahti	0–1	1–0		1–2	0–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	3–0	0–0	0–1	0–2
FF Jaro !FF Jaro	2–2	0–0	7–1		2–3	1–2	3–0	2–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	2–1
HJK !HJK	4–2	6–0	2–1	0–0		0–0	2–0	1–2	2–0	2–0	0–2	1–2
IFK Mariehamn !IFK Mariehamn	1–4	1–2	2–2	1–0	0–5		2–2	4–2	0–4	1–0	2–0	0–1
JJK !JJK	1–0	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–3	3–2		0–0	0–3	1–1	1–1	0–1
KuPS !KuPS	1–2	1–1	0–1	3–0	0–0	0–1	2–1		1–1	1–0	4–1	1–0
MYPA !MYPA	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–2	2–4	3–1	0–1	2–0		0–1	2–1	3–0
RoPS !RoPS	0–1	1–0	3–0¹	0–0	0–0	1–3	4–0	1–0	2–1		1–0	0–0
TPS !TPS	2–0	2–1	1–2	2–2	0–3	2–4	1–0	0–0	1–2	2–1		0–1
VPS !VPS	0–0	1–2	0–3	2–1	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–2	4–1	3–1	0–0

Updated to games played on 30 September 2013.
Source: veikkausliiga.com
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

1.^ The match originally finished 1–1, but FC Lahti fielded an ineligible player.^[5]

Matches 23–33

Home ╲ Away	FC Honka !HON	FC Inter !INT	FC Lahti !LAH	FF Jaro !JAR	HJK !HJK	IFK Mariehamn !MAR	JJK !JJK	KuPS !KPS	MYPA !MYP	RoPS !RPS	TPS !TPS	VPS !VPS
FC Honka !FC Honka			4–2		1–0		3–3	2–4		0–0
FC Inter !FC Inter	1–2		1–3	1–0	1–1		2–0					1–2
FC Lahti !FC Lahti				5–2	0–2	5–1		2–0		2–3	3–2
FF Jaro !FF Jaro	1–3				1–5			2–2		2–0	0–3
HJK !HJK						6–1		4–2	2–1	3–0	3–1	3–0
IFK Mariehamn !IFK Mariehamn	3–2	1–1		0–0			4–1		3–2			4–1
JJK !JJK			2–3	0–0	0–5			0–4				1–3
KuPS !KuPS		1–2				3–2			0–2	2–0	1–1
MYPA !MYPA	0–0	1–1	0–1	1–0			3–0					1–1
RoPS !RoPS		1–2				0–2	1–1		0–1		1–1
TPS !TPS	2–0	1–1				3–3	2–2		2–1			2–1
VPS !VPS	1–1		3–1	3–0				2–1		1–1

Updated to games played on 26 October 2013.
Source: veikkausliiga.com
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: veikkausliiga.com (Finnish)

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Tim Väyrynen	FC Honka	17
2	Rafael	FC Lahti	16
3	Mikael Forssell	HJK	14
4	Pekka Sihvola	MYPA	12
4	Ilja Venäläinen	KuPS	12
6	Demba Savage	HJK	11
6	Erfan Zeneli	HJK	11
8	Tomi Ameobi	VPS	9
	Kris Bright	IFK Mariehamn	9
	Jonas Emet	FF Jaro	9
	Irakli Sirbiladze	FC Inter	9
12	Sasha Anttilainen	MYPA	8
	Dever Orgill	IFK Mariehamn	8
	Shahdon Winchester	FF Jaro	8
15	8 players		7
23	4 players		6
27	12 players		5
39	13 players		4
52	25 players		3
77	29 players		2
106	36 players		1

Top assists

Source: veikkausliiga.com (Finnish)

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Erfan Zeneli	HJK	17
2	Demba Savage	HJK	10
3	Sebastian Strandvall	VPS	9
4	Diego Assis	IFK Mariehamn	8
5	Mika Mäkitalo	FC Lahti	7
5	Bernardo Ribeiro	IFK Mariehamn	7
7	Alanzo Adlam	IFK Mariehamn	6
	Hendrik Helmke	FF Jaro	6
	Robin Lod	HJK	6
	Jean Fridolin Nganbe Nganbe	FC Lahti	6
	Antti Okkonen	RoPS	6
	Pekka Sihvola	MYPA	5
13	4 players		4
17	12 players		3
29	16 players		3
45	34 players		2
79	63 players		1

Monthly awards

Month	Coach of the Month	Player of the Month
April^[6]	Pekka Lyyski (IFK Mariehamn)	Petteri Forsell (IFK Mariehamn)
May^[7]	Mika Lehkosuo (FC Honka)	Pekka Sihvola (MYPA)
June^[8]	Mika Lehkosuo (FC Honka)	Tim Väyrynen (FC Honka)
July^[9]	Alexei Eremenko Sr. (FF Jaro)	Tomi Maanoja (RoPS)
August^[10]	Toni Korkeakunnas (MYPA)	Abdoulaye Méïté (FC Honka)
September^[11]	Sixten Boström (HJK)	Erfan Zeneli (HJK)
October^[12]	Olli Huttunen (VPS)	Tim Väyrynen (FC Honka)

Annual awards

Source: Kauden 2013 pelipaikkojen parhaat nimetty (Finnish)

Position	Player
Goalkeeper	Henri Sillanpää (VPS)
Defender	Gideon Baah (FC Honka)
Midfielder	Erfan Zeneli (HJK)
Striker	Tim Väyrynen (FC Honka)
Manager	Olli Huttunen (VPS)

External links

Official site (Finnish)
uefa.com

References

↑ "Oma kasvatti aloittaa HJK:n päävalmentajana tammikuussa". HJK (in Finnish). HJK. 9 October 2012. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
↑ "Kautonen vapautettu päävalmentajan tehtävästä". FC Lahti (in Finnish). FC Lahti. 4 June 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
↑ "Juha Malinen FC Lahden päävalmentajaksi". FC Lahti (in Finnish). FC Lahti. 5 June 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
↑ "JJK-RoPS: Härkäviikko päättyi tasapeliin - ottelu jäi Martosen viimeiseksi". JJK Jyväskylä (in Finnish). JJK Jyväskylä. 30 June 2013. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
↑ http://www.veikkausliiga.com/News.aspx?type=&ID=51810 FC Lahden valitus hylättiin
↑ Lyyski Kuukauden valmentaja (Finnish)
↑ Toukokuun parhaat julkistettu (Finnish)
↑ Tim Väyrynen kesäkuun kuukauden pelaaja Archived October 29, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. (Finnish)
↑ Tomi Maanoja Veikkausliigan heinäkuun pelaaja (Finnish)
↑ Hongan Abdoulaye Méïté Veikkausliigan elokuun pelaaja (Finnish)
↑ Erfan Zenelistä syyskuun Kuukauden pelaaja (Finnish)
↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2013-10-26. Tim Väyrynen lokakuun kuukauden pelaaja] (Finnish)

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