2016 Ykkönen

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]

Ykkönen
Season2016
ChampionsJJK
PromotedJJK
RelegatedKTP
FC Jazz
Matches played135
Goals scored439 (3.25 per match)
Top goalscorerAristote Mboma (18 goals)
Biggest home winTPS 6–0 FC Jazz (1 October)
Biggest away winFC Jazz 0–4 TPS (29 July)
Highest scoringAC Oulu 5–3 EIF (29 May)
KTP 5–3 KPV (7 August)
← 2015
2017 →

Overview
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) Champion; (P) Promoted; (Q) Qualified to the phase indicated; (R) Relegated.

Results

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

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.
  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.
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