2020 Ykkönen

The 2020 Ykkönen will be the 49th season of Ykkönen, the second highest football league in Finland. The season will start on 18 April 2020.[1]

Ykkönen
Season2020
← 2019
2021 →

New league format

Ykkönen adopted a new league format for the 2020 season. The amount of teams was raised from ten to twelve, and Promotion Series and Relegation Series will be played after the regular season. Each team will play against each other twice in the regular season. After the regular season the top six teams advanced to the Promotion Series which determines the champion and Veikkausliiga promotion places. The bottom six teams advanced to the Relegation Series.

The 1st team from the Promotion Series will promote to the Veikkausliiga. The 3rd placed team from the Promotion Series plays against 4th placed team, and the winner of that match plays against 2nd placed team for place in the Veikkausliiga promotion play-offs against 11th placed team from Veikkausliiga.

The bottom 3 teams from the Relegation Series will relegate to the Kakkonen.[2]

Overview
Location of teams in Ykkönen 2020

A total of twelve teams will contest in the league, including seven sides from the 2019 season, VPS and KPV were relegated from Veikkausliiga and Gnistan, MP and SJK Akatemia who were promoted from Kakkonen after winning the promotion play-offs.

Club Location Stadium Capacity Manager
AC Kajaani Kajaani Kajaanin Liikuntapuisto 1,200 Mika Lumijärvi
AC Oulu Oulu Raatin Stadion 6,996 Jyrki Ahola
EIF Raseborg Ekenäs Centrumplan 2,500 Guillem Santesmase
FF Jaro Jakobstad Jakobstads Centralplan 4,600 Niklas Käcko
Gnistan Helsinki Mustapekka Areena 1,100 Roberto Nuccio
KPV Kokkola Kokkolan Keskuskenttä 2,000 Jani Uotinen
KTP Kotka Arto Tolsa Areena 4,780 Argo Arbeiter
MP Mikkeli Mikkelin Urheilupuisto 7,000 Juha Pasoja
MuSa Pori Porin Stadion 12,300 Ville Ulanen
MYPA Kouvola Kymenlaakson Sähkö Stadion 4,167 Ilkka Mäkelä
SJK Akatemia Seinäjoki OmaSP Stadion 6,000 Tommy Dunne
VPS Vaasa Elisa Stadion 6,000 Christian Sund

References
  1. "YKKÖNEN: OTTELUT" (in Finnish). palloliitto.fi. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  2. "Miesten Ykkönen info" (in Finnish). palloliitto.fi. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
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