2016 Ykkönen

The 2016 Ykkönen was the 45th season of Ykkönen, the second highest football league in Finland. The winning team qualified directly for promotion to the 2017 Veikkausliiga, while the second-placed team had to play a play-off against the eleventh-placed team from Veikkausliiga to decide who wod play in that division. The bottom two teams were relegated to Kakkonen.^[1]

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)
← 2015 2017 →

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	Rauno Ojanen
EIF	Raseborg	Ekenäs Centrumplan	2,500	Ilkka Marttila
FC Jazz	Pori	Porin Stadion	12,000	Jani Uotinen
FF Jaro	Jakobstad	Jakobstads Centralplan	5,000	Kristain Heames
GrIFK	Kauniainen	Kauniaisten Keskuskenttä	700	Rami Luomanpää
Haka	Valkeakoski	Tehtaan kenttä	3,516	Kari Martonen
JJK	Jyväskylä	Harjun stadion	3,000	Juha Pasoja
KPV	Kokkola	Kokkolan Keskuskenttä	2,000	Jarmo Korhonen
KTP	Kotka	Arto Tolsa Areena	4,780	Ossi Virta
TPS	Turku	Paavo Nurmi Stadium[2]	13,000	Mika 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	Alexei 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
KPV	Antti Ylimäki	Sacked	30 August 2016	Jarmo Korhonen	30 August 2016[9]	4th
EIF	Stefan Strömborg	Mutual termination	21 September 2016[10]	Ilkka Marttila	22 September 2016[11]	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

Source: Suomen Palloliitto
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (Q) Qualified for 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 Source: Suomen Palloliitto Legend: 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 Source: Suomen Palloliitto Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics

Top scorers

Source: palloliitto.fi (in 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
	Alberto 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

1. Ykkönen 2016 | Suomen Palloliitto
2. TPS:n kotiavaus siirtyy perjantaille 20.5.
3. "Vi sparkar igång säsongen 2016". EIF (in Swedish). 27 November 2015. Archived from the original on 23 December 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
4. "EREMENKO SR. JÄTTÄÄ JARON PÄÄVALMENTAJAN TEHTÄVÄT". FF Jaro (in Finnish). 10 June 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
5. "Sami Ristilä on vapautettu FC KTP:n päävalmentajan tehtävistä". KTP (in Finnish). 30 June 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
6. "JOHN ALLEN SIIRTYY FC INTERIIN". FC Jazz (in Finnish). 20 July 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
7. "JANI UOTINEN ON FC JAZZIN UUSI PÄÄVALMENTAJA". FC Jazz (in Finnish). 21 July 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
8. "KRISTIAN HEAMES NOSTAMAAN JAROA". FF Jaro (in Finnish). 28 July 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
9. "KPV vaihtaa valmentajaa". KPV (in Finnish). 30 August 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
10. "STEFAN STRÖMBORG HAR BEGÄRT OM AVSKED". EIF (in Swedish). 21 September 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
11. "ILKKA MARTTILA NY TRÄNARE FÖR EIF:S HERRAR". EIF (in Swedish). 22 September 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.

External links

• Official site (in Finnish)