2018 Ykkönen

Ykkönen
Season 2018
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The 2018 Ykkönen is the 47th season of Ykkönen, the second highest football league in Finland. The season started on 28 April 2018 and will end on 27 October 2018.[1] The winning team will qualify directly for promotion to the 2019 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.

Overview

A total of ten teams will contest in the league, including five sides from the 2017 season, HIFK and JJK who was relegated from Veikkausliiga and Klubi 04 and AC Kajaani who were promoted from Kakkonen after winning the promotion play-offs.

OPS, who was refused a license for Ykkönen, was replaced by FC KTP.[2]

GrIFK and Gnistan were relegated from 2017 Ykkönen.

TPS, the champion of 2017 Ykkönen and FC Honka, the runner-up of 2017 Ykkönen were promoted to the 2018 Veikkausliiga.

Club Location Stadium Capacity Manager
AC Kajaani Kajaani Kajaanin Liikuntapuisto 1,000 Finland Mika Lumijärvi
AC Oulu Oulu Raatin Stadion 6,996 Finland Mika Lähderinne
EIF Raseborg Ekenäs Centrumplan 2,500 Spain Gabri Garcia Xatart
FC Haka Valkeakoski Tehtaan kenttä 3,516 EnglandFinland Keith Armstrong
FC KTP Kotka Arto Tolsa Areena 4,780 Finland Jari-Pekka Gummerus
FF Jaro Jakobstad Jakobstads Centralplan 5,000 Finland Tomi Kärkkäinen
HIFK Helsinki Telia 5G -areena 10,770 Finland Teemu Kankkunen
JJK Jyväskylä Harjun stadion 3,000 Finland Juha Pasoja
Klubi 04 Helsinki Telia 5G -areena 10,770 Finland Mikko Mannila
KPV Kokkola Kokkolan Keskuskenttä 2,000 Finland Jarmo Korhonen

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 EIF 21 10 9 2 31 18 +13 39 Promotion to Veikkausliiga
2 KPV 21 11 4 6 27 21 +6 37 Qualification to Promotion playoffs
3 HIFK 21 10 6 5 35 21 +14 36
4 AC Oulu 22 10 5 7 29 23 +6 35
5 FC Haka 21 8 6 7 28 24 +4 30
6 FF Jaro 21 9 3 9 29 26 +3 30
7 FC KTP 22 7 5 10 27 34 −7 26
8 AC Kajaani 21 5 6 10 33 42 −9 21
9 JJK 21 4 7 10 29 37 −8 19 Relegation to Kakkonen
10 Klubi 04 21 3 7 11 21 43 −22 16
Updated to match(es) played on 28 July 2018. Source: Suomen Palloliitto
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored

References

  1. ↑ Suomen Palloliitto
  2. ↑ Miesten Ykkösen lisenssipäätökset kaudelle 2018
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