2013 Veikkausliiga

Veikkausliiga
Season	2013
Champions	HJK; 10th Veikkausliiga title; 26th Finnish title
Relegated	JJK
Champions League	HJK Helsinki
Europa League	FC Honka ; VPS; MYPA; RoPS
Matches played	198
Goals scored	525 (2.65 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)
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The 2013 Veikkausliiga was the 83rd season of top-tier football in Finland. The season began on 13 April 2013 and ended 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

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Manager	Captain
FC Honka	Espoo	Tapiolan Urheilupuisto	6,000	Mika Lehkosuo	Jussi Vasara
FC Inter	Turku	Veritas Stadion	10,000	Job Dragtsma	Henri Lehtonen
FC Lahti	Lahti	Lahden Stadion	15,000	Juha Malinen	Mikko Hauhia
FF Jaro	Jakobstad	Jakobstads Centralplan	5,000	Alexei Eremenko Sr.	Jonas Emet
HJK	Helsinki	Sonera Stadium	10,770	Sixten Boström	Ville Wallén
IFK Mariehamn	Mariehamn	Wiklöf Holding Arena	4,000	Pekka Lyyski	Jani Lyyski
JJK	Jyväskylä	Harjun stadion	3,000	Juha Pasoja	Janne Korhonen
KuPS	Kuopio	Savon Sanomat Areena	5,000	Esa Pekonen	Rami Hakanpää
MYPA	Kouvola	Kymenlaakson Sähkö Stadion	4,167	Toni Korkeakunnas	Tuomas Aho
RoPS	Rovaniemi	Rovaniemen keskuskenttä	4,000	Kari Virtanen	Antti Okkonen
TPS	Turku	Veritas Stadion	10,000	Marko Rajamäki	Jarkko Hurme
VPS	Vaasa	Hietalahti Stadium	4,600	Olli Huttunen	Sebastian 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	Pre-season
FC Lahti	Tommi Kautonen	Sacked	4 June 2013	Juha Malinen	5 June 2013	12th
JJK	Kari Martonen	Sacked	30 June 2013	Juha Pasoja (as caretaker)	30 June 2013	12th

League table

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

Source: veikkausliiga.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

MYPA qualified for the first qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League by Fair-Play ranking.
RoPS qualified for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League by winning the 2013 Finnish Cup.

Results

Matches 1–22

Home \ Away	HON	INT	LAH	JAR	HJK	MAR	JJK	KPS	MYP	RPS	TPS	VPS
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	0–1		2–0	1–0	2–2	0–2	3–1	2–2	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–0
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	2–2	0–0	7–1		2–3	1–2	3–0	2–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	2–1
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	1–4	1–2	2–2	1–0	0–5		2–2	4–2	0–4	1–0	2–0	0–1
JJK	1–0	2–0	0–0	0–0	1–3	3–2		0–0	0–3	1–1	1–1	0–1
KuPS	1–2	1–1	0–1	3–0	0–0	0–1	2–1		1–1	1–0	4–1	1–0
MYPA	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–2	2–4	3–1	0–1	2–0		0–1	2–1	3–0
RoPS	0–1	1–0	3–0	0–0	0–0	1–3	4–0	1–0	2–1		1–0	0–0
TPS	2–0	2–1	1–2	2–2	0–3	2–4	1–0	0–0	1–2	2–1		0–1
VPS	0–0	1–2	0–3	2–1	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–2	4–1	3–1	0–0

Source: veikkausliiga.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

The match originally finished 1–1, but FC Lahti fielded an ineligible player.

Matches 23–33

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

Source: veikkausliiga.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics

Top scorers

Source: veikkausliiga.com (in 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

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