2020 Kansallinen Liiga

The 2020 Kansallinen Liiga was the 14th season of the Naisten Liiga, the top flight women's division of the Finnish football league system and the 1st season of the Kansallinen Liiga after its change of name.[1] Åland United were the champions after 18 rounds of matches.

Kansallinen Liiga
Season2020
ChampionsÅland United
PromotedPK-35 Vantaa
PK-35 Helsinki
RelegatedTPS
Champions LeagueÅland United
Matches played90
Goals scored264 (2.93 per match)
Top goalscorerGentjana Rochi (16 goals)
Biggest home winKuPS 6–0 TPS (13 June 2020)
Biggest away winTPS 0–6 KuPS (22 August 2020)
Highest scoringJyPK 4–4 PK-35 Vantaa (22 August 2020)

JyPK 2–6 Åland United (27 June 2020)
← 2019
2021 →
All statistics correct as of 8 November 2020.

Teams

The season featured 10 teams.PK-35 Vantaa were promoted from the 2019 Naisten Ykkönen as league winners while PK-35 (women) were promoted after defeating IK Myran at the 2019 playoff. IK Myran and ONS were relegated from the previous season.

Club Location Home ground Head coach
FC Honka Espoo Tapiolan Urheilupuisto Rosa Lappi-Seppälä
Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi (HJK) Helsinki Telia 5G Arena Jonne Kunnas
Ilves Tampere Tammela Stadion Mika Lahtinen
Jyväskylän Pallokerho (JyPK) Jyväskylä Harjun Stadion Tuomas Jaakkola
Kuopion Palloseura (KuPS) Kuopio Savon Sanomat Areena Ollipekka Ojala
PK-35 Helsinki (PK-35) Helsinki MagneCit Arena Rami Rantanen
PK-35 Vantaa Vantaa Myyrmäen jalkapallostadion Jari Väisänen
Tikkurilan Palloseura (TiPS) Vantaa Tikkurilan urheilupuisto Pauliina Miettinen
Turun Palloseura (TPS) Turku Turun urheilupuisto Sami Haltia
Åland United Lemland Wiklöf Holding Arena Samuel Fagerholm

Source: Suomen Palloliitto (Finnish Football Association)

Format

The 10 teams played each other twice. At the end of the season, the ninth placed team played the Ykkönen second placed team in a Promotion/Relegation play-off. The winner of the league also earns the right to play in the 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League.

Regular season
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Åland United (C) 18 14 1 3 35 10 +25 43 Qualification to 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League
2 TiPS 18 12 5 1 31 13 +18 41
3 KuPS 18 10 3 5 44 21 +23 33
4 HJK 18 10 3 5 26 18 +8 33
5 FC Honka 18 9 3 6 35 26 +9 30
6 PK-35 Helsinki 18 6 3 9 16 24 −8 21
7 PK-35 Vantaa 18 5 3 10 21 36 −15 18
8 Ilves 18 5 1 12 23 29 −6 16
9 JyPK (O) 18 5 1 12 24 45 −21 16 Promotion/Relegation play-offs
10 TPS (R) 18 2 1 15 9 42 −33 7 Relegation to Ykkönen
Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored
(C) Champion; (O) Play-off winner; (R) Relegated.

Results
Home \ Away ÅLA TiPS KPS HJK PKH HON PK3 ILV JyPK TPS
Åland United 0–0 3–0 2–1 3–1 2–1 2–0 0–1 3–0 1–0
TiPS 0–3 2–1 3–0 1–1 3–1 6–1 2–1 1–0 1–0
Kuopion Palloseura 0–1 1–1 2–1 4–1 1–3 3–0 3–1 4–1 6–0
HJK 1–0 0–0 4–2 1–1 1–0 4–2 1–0 3–0 3–1
PK-35 Helsinki 0–2 0–1 0–0 0–2 0–4 1–2 0–1 1–3 4–0
FC Honka 1–3 2–2 2–2 2–0 0–1 2–1 1–1 2–1 0–1
PK-35 Vantaa 1–0 0–2 0–2 0–0 0–2 1–3 1–0 3–0 3–0
Ilves 1–3 0–1 1–3 1–2 0–1 2–3 4–1 3–1 2–4
JyPK 2–6 2–4 0–4 2–0 0–1 3–4 4–4 2–1 2–1
TPS 0–1 0–1 0–6 0–2 0–1 1–4 1–1 0–3 0–1
Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion/Relegation play-offs

The ninth placed team, JyPK engaged the Ykkönen runners-up, VIFK in a two-legged play-off to decide if they will remain in the league.

First leg
VIFK0–6JyPK
Report
  • Miettinen  15' (pen.)
  • Lilja  30', 87' (pen.)
  • Tiainen  37' (pen.)
  • Voutilainen  73', 77'
Referee: Lina Lehtovaara

Second leg
JyPK1–1VIFK
  • Salminen  31'
 Report
  • Forss  34'
Vehkahalli, Jyväskylä
Referee: Sini Hakala

JyPK won 7–1 on aggregate and remained in the league.

Top scorers
As of matches played on 8 November 2020.
Rank Player Club Goals
1 Gentjana Rochi KuPS 16
2 Aino Kröger KuPS 12
3 Amanda Rantanen PK-35 Helsinki 10
4 Henna Honkanen JyPK 8
5 Wilma Forsblom PK-35 Vantaa 7
Ode Fulutudilu Åland United
Nora Lehto TiPS
Dana Leskinen FC Honka
9 Roosa Ariyo TiPS 6
Lavdie Begolli KuPS

References
  1. "2020 Kansallinen liiga". Kansallinen Liiga. 16 June 2020.
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