2024 Ykkösliiga
Football league season
| Season | 2024 |
|---|---|
2025 → | |
The 2024 Ykkösliiga is the inaugural season of Ykkösliiga, the new second highest football league in Finland. The season began on 13 April 2024.
It is contested with 10 clubs, unlike former second-tier Ykkönen which included 12 clubs.[1]
Teams
Team changes
| Promoted from 2023 Kakkonen | Promoted to 2024 Veikkausliiga | Relegated from 2023 Veikkausliiga | Relegated to 2024 Ykkönen |
|---|---|---|---|
| JIPPO PK-35 | Ekenäs IF Gnistan | KTP | JJK Jyväskylä KPV |
- PK-35 qualified for the 2024 Ykkösliiga promotion play-offs as a 2023 Kakkonen Group A runner-up, and were promoted to Ykkösliiga as a play-offs winner.
- FC Honka were declared for bankruptcy after the 2023 Veikkausliiga season. Via supplemental process, 2023 Ykkönen runner-up Gnistan were promoted to 2024 Veikkausliiga, and 2024 Ykkösliiga promotion play-offs runner-up JIPPO were promoted to 2024 Ykkösliiga.
- HIFK were declared for bankruptcy after the 2023 Ykkönen season, and Käpylän Pallo (KäPa) earned a spot in 2024 Ykkösliiga via supplemental process, by which KäPa avoided the relegation after finishing 10th of 12 teams in 2023 Ykkönen.
Participants
| Club | Location | Stadium | Capacity | Manager |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FF Jaro | Jakobstad (Pietarsaari) | Jakobstads Centralplan | 5,000 |  Niklas Vidjeskog |
| JIPPO | Joensuu | Mehtimäki | 1,000 | Mikko Hallikainen |
| JäPS | Järvenpää | Järvenpään keskuskenttä | 2,000 |  / Erol Ates |
| KTP | Kotka | Arto Tolsa Areena | 4,780 | Jonas Nyholm |
| KäPa | Helsinki | Brahenkenttä | 1,200 | Sami Okkonen |
| MP | Mikkeli | Mikkelin Urheilupuisto | 7,000 | Juha Pasoja |
| PK-35 | Helsinki | Algeco Areena | 1,200[2] | Kim Raimi |
| SalPa | Salo | Salon Urheilupuisto | 2,500 |  Jordi Aluja |
| SJK Akatemia | Seinäjoki | OmaSP Stadion | 5,817 | Arttu Aromaa |
| TPS | Turku | Veritas Stadion | 9,372 | Miika Nuutinen |
Regular season
League table
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KTP | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 4 | +17 | 18 | Promotion to Veikkausliiga |
| 2 | JIPPO | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 2 | +12 | 17 | Qualification for the Veikkausliiga play-off |
| 3 | Jaro | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 15 | |
| 4 | TPS | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 13 | |
| 5 | SJK Akatemia | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | −5 | 8 | |
| 6 | SalPa | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 11 | −1 | 7 | |
| 7 | JäPS | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 16 | −3 | 7 | |
| 8 | PK-35 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 12 | −4 | 6 | |
| 9 | KäPa | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 15 | −4 | 5 | Qualification for the Ykkösliiga play-off |
| 10 | MP | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 18 | −17 | 2 | Relegation to Ykkönen |
Updated to match(es) played on 19 May 2024. Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Play-off
(Note: Play-off is only played if need to decide teams for promotion or relegation).
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Play-off
(Note: Play-off is only played if need to decide teams for promotion or relegation).
Results
| Home \ Away | JAR | JIP | JÄP | KTP | KÄP | MP | PK | SAL | SJK | TPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaro | — | 4–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | ||||||
| JIPPO | 2–0 | — | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | |||||
| JäPS | 1–5 | — | 3–1 | 2–3 | ||||||
| KTP | 1–0 | 2–0 | — | 4–0 | 5–1 | |||||
| KäPa | 3–3 | — | 4–0 | 1–1 | ||||||
| MP | 1–1 | 0–3 | — | 0–0 | ||||||
| PK-35 | 1–5 | 3–0 | — | 1–1 | 1–1 | |||||
| SalPa | 0–3 | 5–0 | — | 0–1 | ||||||
| SJK Akatemia | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | — | 0–3 | |||||
| TPS | 0–2 | 1–4 | 2–1 | 1–0 | — |
Updated to match(es) played on 19 May 2024. Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Top scorers
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Enoch Banza | KTP | 5 |
| Olli Jakonen | SalPa | ||
 Yoshiaki Kikuchi | JIPPO | ||
| 4 | Aleksi Wahlman | KäPa | 4 |
| 5 | Justus Holopainen | JäPS | 3 |
 Alen Harbas | KTP | ||
| Aleksi Tarvonen | KTP | ||
 Keir Foster | SalPa | ||
| Albijon Muzaci | TPS |
References
- ^ Ykkösliiga, Finnish FA
- ^ Tekemisen meininkiä Pihlajamäessä: PK-35:llä uusittu stadion, lahitieto.fi, 5 July 2021
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