2014 Veikkausliiga

The 2014 Veikkausliiga was the 84th season of top-tier football in Finland. The league started on 6 April 2014 and ended on 25 October 2014.^[1] HJK Helsinki are the defending champions.

Season2014

ChampionsHJK
11th Veikkausliiga title
27th Finnish title

RelegatedTPS
FC Honka
MYPA

Champions LeagueHJK

Quick facts Season, Champions ...

Veikkausliiga
Season	2014
Champions	HJK 11th Veikkausliiga title 27th Finnish title
Relegated	TPS FC Honka MYPA
Champions League	HJK
Europa League	SJK FC Lahti VPS
Matches	198
Goals	511 (2.58 per match)
Top goalscorer	Jonas Emet, Luis Solignac (14 goals)
Biggest home win	HJK 5–0 TPS (23 June)
Biggest away win	FC Honka 0–5 FF Jaro (20 July) TPS 1–6 FC Inter (17 September)
Highest scoring	MYPA 5–3 KuPS (27 July)
Average attendance	2,046
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Teams

JJK were relegated to Ykkönen after finishing at the bottom of the 2013 season. Their place was taken by Ykkönen champions SJK.

Team summaries

Location of teams in 2014 Veikkausliiga

More information Club, Location ...

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Manager	Captain
FC Honka	Espoo	Tapiolan Urheilupuisto	6,000	Shefki Kuqi	Jussi Vasara
FC Inter	Turku	Veritas Stadion	10,000	Job Dragtsma	Henri Lehtonen
FC Lahti	Lahti	Lahden Stadion	15,000	Toni Korkeakunnas	Mikko Hauhia
FF Jaro	Jakobstad	Jakobstads Centralplan	5,000	Alexei Eremenko Sr.	Jonas Emet
HJK	Helsinki	Sonera Stadium	10,770	Mika Lehkosuo	Teemu Tainio
IFK Mariehamn	Mariehamn	Wiklöf Holding Arena	4,000	Pekka Lyyski	Jani Lyyski
KuPS	Kuopio	Savon Sanomat Areena	5,000	Marko Rajamäki	Miikka Ilo
MYPA	Myllykoski, Kouvola	Kymenlaakson Sähkö Stadion	4,167	Antti Muurinen	Tuomas Aho
RoPS	Rovaniemi	Rovaniemen keskuskenttä	4,000	Juha Malinen	Antti Okkonen
SJK	Seinäjoki	Seinäjoen keskuskenttä	3,500	Simo Valakari	Pavle Milosavljević
TPS	Turku	Veritas Stadion	10,000	Mika Laurikainen	Jukka Lehtovaara
VPS	Vaasa	Hietalahti Stadium	4,600	Olli Huttunen	Sebastian Strandvall

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Managerial changes

More information Team, Outgoing manager ...

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Incoming manager	Date of appointment	Table
RoPS	Kari Virtanen	End of contract	n/a	Juha Malinen	^[2]	Pre-season
FC Lahti	Juha Malinen	End of contract	n/a	Toni Korkeakunnas	^[3]	Pre-season
MYPA	Toni Korkeakunnas	End of contract	n/a	Antti Muurinen	^[4]	Pre-season
FC Honka	Mika Lehkosuo	Sacked	7 February 2014^[5]	Shefki Kuqi	15 February 2014^[6]	Pre-season
TPS	Marko Rajamäki	Mutual termination	14 February 2014^[7]	Mika Laurikainen	17 February 2014^[8]	Pre-season
KuPS	Esa Pekonen	Mutual termination	24 April 2014^[9]	Marko Rajamäki	2 May 2014^[10]	12th
HJK	Sixten Boström	Sacked	29 April 2014	Mika Lehkosuo	29 April 2014^[11]	6th

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League table

More information Pos, Team ...

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	HJK (C)	33	21	9	3	65	22	+43	72	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	SJK	33	16	11	6	40	26	+14	59	Qualification to Europa League first qualifying round
3	FC Lahti	33	15	13	5	45	23	+22	58
4	VPS	33	13	9	11	39	34	+5	48
5	IFK Mariehamn	33	14	6	13	49	55	−6	48
6	FF Jaro	33	12	8	13	47	47	0	44
7	KuPS	33	11	11	11	44	44	0	44
8	MYPA^[a] (R)	33	10	9	14	41	54	−13	39	Relegation to Ykkönen
9	FC Inter	33	8	12	13	42	47	−5	36
10	RoPS	33	10	5	18	34	44	−10	35
11	FC Honka^[b] (R)	33	6	13	14	38	57	−19	31	Relegation to Kakkonen
12	TPS (R)	33	6	6	21	29	60	−31	24	Relegation to Ykkönen

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Source: veikkausliiga.com
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

[a]
MYPA were denied a licence for the 2015 season and were relegated to 2015 Ykkönen, however the team later decided to cease their operations
[b]
FC Honka were denied a licence and they continue in the 2015 Kakkonen with a reserve team

Results

More information Home \ Away, HON ...

Matches 1–22

Home \ Away	HON	INT	LAH	JAR	HJK	MAR	KPS	MYP	RPS	SJK	TPS	VPS
FC Honka		3–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	2–2	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–2
FC Inter	2–2		0–1	0–1	0–2	0–2	1–1	1–0	4–1	2–1	2–1	0–0
FC Lahti	2–0	0–0		1–0	3–1	1–1	0–1	3–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–1
FF Jaro	3–3	0–2	2–1		0–2	1–0	3–2	1–1	1–1	0–1	2–0	1–0
HJK	2–2	2–0	0–0	1–0		1–0	3–1	4–0	3–0^[a]	1–0	0–1	3–0
IFK Mariehamn	4–1	2–2	0–0	1–3	0–2		3–1	2–1	2–0	2–2	3–1	0–3^[b]
KuPS	2–0	4–2	0–2	1–4	2–2	4–0		1–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–1
MYPA	4–3	1–1	1–1	3–2	0–1	3–0	2–0		1–1	1–3	4–1	1–1
RoPS	2–1	1–0	0–1	2–1	0–1	1–3	3–1	0–1		1–1	3–0	0–2
SJK	0–0	2–2	1–1	0–1	2–0	3–0	2–0	1–0	1–0		2–1	0–3
TPS	0–1	1–6	0–1	2–2	1–4	0–1	0–3	3–0	0–2	2–0		0–0
VPS	3–0	1–0	1–3	3–3	0–2	1–2	1–1	4–0	2–0	0–1	1–0

Source: veikkausliiga.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

[a]
The match originally finished 0–3, but the result was changed to 3–0, as RoPS fielded an ineligible player.^[12]
[b]
The match originally finished 1–0, but the result was changed to 0–3, as IFK Mariehamn fielded ineligible players.^[13]

Matches 23–33

Home \ Away	HON	INT	LAH	JAR	HJK	MAR	KPS	MYP	RPS	SJK	TPS	VPS
FC Honka		2–1	1–1	0–5		1–1		2–0	0–2
FC Inter					3–3		0–0			1–1	3–2	3–0
FC Lahti		0–0			0–2				3–4	1–1	2–0	4–1
FF Jaro		2–0	0–4		1–4						1–1	1–2
HJK	1–1					5–1	2–2	2–0		2–0	5–0
IFK Mariehamn		3–1	0–1	4–2				3–1	2–4			1–0
KuPS	2–0		1–1	1–1		1–3			1–0
MYPA		2–2	2–2	2–1			5–3				2–1	0–0
RoPS		3–0		0–1	0–0			0–0		1–2
SJK	2–1			1–0		3–0	0–0	3–1
TPS	2–1					3–1	1–1		4–2	0–1
VPS	3–1				1–1		0–3		2–0	0–1	0–0

Source: veikkausliiga.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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Statistics

Top scorers

Source: veikkausliiga.com (in Finnish)

As of 26 October 2014.

More information Rank, Player ...

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Jonas Emet	FF Jaro	14
1	Luis Solignac	IFK Mariehamn	14
3	Rafael	FC Lahti	13
4	Diego Assis	IFK Mariehamn	11
	Petteri Forsell	IFK Mariehamn	11
	Akseli Pelvas	SJK	11
	Demba Savage	HJK	11
8	Aleksandr Kokko	RoPS	9
	Roni Porokara	FC Honka / HJK	9
	Ats Purje	KuPS	9
	Irakli Sirbiladze	FC Inter	9
	Shahdon Winchester	FF Jaro	9
13	Hendrik Helmke	FF Jaro	8
13	Toni Lehtinen	SJK	8
15	6 players		7
21	10 players		6
31	6 players		5
37	10 players		4
47	26 players		3
73	24 players		2
97	61 players		1

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Monthly awards

More information Month, Coach of the Month ...

Month	Coach of the Month	Player of the Month
April^[14]	Antti Muurinen (MYPA)	Hendrik Helmke (FF Jaro)
May^[15]	Mika Lehkosuo (HJK)	Rasmus Schüller (HJK)
June^[16]	Simo Valakari (SJK)	Admir Ćatović (KuPS)
July^[17]	Toni Korkeakunnas (FC Lahti)	Henrik Moisander (FC Lahti)
August^[18]	Pekka Lyyski (IFK Mariehamn)	Petteri Forsell (IFK Mariehamn)
September^[19]	Mika Lehkosuo (HJK)	Erfan Zeneli (HJK)
October^[20]	Olli Huttunen (VPS)	Sebastian Standvall (VPS)

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Annual awards

More information Position, Player ...

Position	Player
Best Player	Robin Lod (HJK)
Best Goalkeeper	Henrik Moisander (FC Lahti)
Best Defender	Cédric Gogoua (SJK)
Best Midfielder	Robin Lod (HJK)
Best Striker	Demba Savage (HJK)
Best Manager	Mika Lehkosuo (HJK)

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Attendances

More information No., Club ...

No.	Club	Average
1	HJK	4,017
2	Lahti	2,698
3	SJK	2,287
4	VPS	2,201
5	TPS	2,167
6	KuPS	2,107
7	Inter Turku	1,786
8	Jaro	1,565
9	Honka	1,503
10	RoPS	1,455
11	MyPa	1,407
12	Mariehamn	1,302

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Source:^[21]

2014 Veikkausliiga

Teams

Team summaries

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Matches 1–22

Matches 23–33

Statistics

Top scorers

Monthly awards

Annual awards

Attendances

See also

References

External links

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