1996 Veikkausliiga

Statistics of Veikkausliiga in the 1996 season.

Veikkausliiga

Season	1996
← 1995 1997 →

Overview

It was contested by 12 teams, and FC Jazz Pori won the championship.

Preliminary stage

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	FF Jaro	22	11	4	7	29	17	+12	37	Qualification to Championship group
2	Jazz	22	10	7	5	40	29	+11	37
3	TPS	22	11	4	7	31	29	+2	37
4	FinnPa	22	9	8	5	27	20	+7	35
5	Inter Turku	22	10	5	7	24	20	+4	35
6	MyPa	22	10	3	9	39	32	+7	33
7	VPS	22	8	5	9	22	20	+2	29	Qualification to Relegation group
8	HJK	22	8	4	10	26	30	−4	28
9	RoPS	22	7	6	9	22	23	−1	27
10	Ilves	22	7	6	9	22	30	−8	27
11	Haka	22	6	6	10	28	34	−6	24
12	MP	22	4	4	14	12	38	−26	16

Source: rsssf.com

Results

Home \ Away	FPA	HAK	HJK	ILV	INT	JAR	JAZ	MP	MYP	RPS	TPS	VPS
FinnPa		2–1	0–2	2–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	4–2	0–0	4–1	0–0
FC Haka	2–1		2–1	2–0	1–1	0–1	2–3	1–1	2–6	2–1	5–1	1–2
HJK	2–3	2–1		1–1	1–0	1–0	2–5	1–0	1–2	0–0	3–4	1–0
Ilves	0–0	2–2	0–0		2–1	1–0	0–0	3–0	1–0	0–1	2–4	1–2
Inter Turku	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–2		1–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	2–0
FF Jaro	1–1	3–1	0–0	0–1	0–1		4–0	4–0	0–1	2–0	2–0	2–2
Jazz	2–1	0–2	4–1	3–3	4–1	4–1		0–0	2–2	3–1	4–2	1–0
MP	0–3	2–0	0–4	1–2	0–1	1–3	1–3		1–4	1–0	1–2	1–0
MyPa	2–3	1–1	3–1	1–0	2–4	1–2	3–1	3–0		2–0	2–1	0–1
RoPS	3–0	0–0	0–2	3–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	3–1	2–1		0–2	3–0
TPS	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	3–0	1–1		2–0
VPS	0–0	3–0	2–0	5–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–2	1–2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Championship group

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Jazz (C)	27	13	8	6	47	33	+14	47	Qualification to Champions League first qualifying round
2	MyPa	27	14	3	10	48	38	+10	45	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3	TPS	27	13	5	9	40	35	+5	44	Qualification to Intertoto Cup group stage
4	FinnPa	27	11	9	7	32	25	+7	42
5	FF Jaro	27	11	6	10	34	25	+9	39
6	Inter Turku	27	11	6	10	28	30	−2	39

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	FPA	INT	JAR	JAZ	MYP	TPS
FinnPa		3–0			0–1
Inter Turku			2–2			2–1
FF Jaro	1–2			0–1	1–2
Jazz	0–0	1–0				3–1
MyPa		3–0		3–2
TPS	3–0		1–1		3–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation group

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	VPS	27	12	5	10	33	25	+8	41
2	RoPS	27	11	6	10	35	29	+6	39
3	HJK (O)	27	11	5	11	36	37	−1	38	Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round and relegation play-offs[a]
4	Ilves (R)	27	8	6	13	26	43	−17	30	Relegation to Ykkönen
5	Haka (R)	27	7	6	14	35	42	−7	27
6	MP (R)	27	5	5	17	18	50	−32	20

Source: rsssf.com
(O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. HJK Helsinki as winners of the 1996 Finnish Cup qualified for the qualifying round of the 1997–98 Cup Winners' Cup.

Results

Home \ Away	HAK	HJK	ILV	MP	RPS	VPS
Haka				5–2		0–1
HJK	2–1		1–0			4–2
Ilves	2–1			1–2
MP		1–1			1–2
RoPS	1–0	3–2	6–1
VPS			3–0	3–0	2–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

See also

• Ykkönen (Tier 2)
• Suomen Cup 1996

References

• Finland - List of final tables (RSSSF)