2012 Veikkausliiga

Veikkausliiga

Season	2012
Champions	HJK 9th Veikkausliiga title 25th Finnish title
Relegated	Haka
Champions League	HJK
Europa League	FC Honka Inter Turku TPS
Matches played	198
Goals scored	535 (2.7 per match)
Top goalscorer	Irakli Sirbiladze (17 goals)
Biggest home win	TPS 9–2 Haka (22 August)
Biggest away win	KuPS 0–6 FC Inter (22 July)
Highest scoring	TPS 9–2 Haka (22 August)
← 2011 2013 →

The 2012 Veikkausliiga is the 82nd season of top-tier football in Finland. It began on 15 April 2012 and ended on 27 October 2012. ^[1] HJK Helsinki were the defending champions and successfully defended their title.

Teams

RoPS were relegated to Ykkönen after finishing at the bottom of the 2011 season. Their place was taken by Ykkönen champions FC Lahti.

Team summaries

MYPA

Honka

HJK

Jaro

JJK

KuPS

Mariehamn

Lahti

Inter
TPS

VPS

Haka

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Location of teams in 2012 Veikkausliiga

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Manager	Captain
FC Honka	Espoo	Tapiolan Urheilupuisto	6,000	Mika Lehkosuo	Tapio Heikkilä
FC Inter	Turku	Veritas Stadion 1	10,000	Job Dragtsma	Henri Lehtonen
FC Lahti	Lahti	Lahden Stadion	15,000	Tommi Kautonen	Mikko Hauhia
FF Jaro	Jakobstad	Jakobstads Centralplan	5,000	Alexei Eremenko Sr.	Heikki Aho
Haka	Valkeakoski	Tehtaan kenttä	3,516	Juha Malinen	Shane Robinson
HJK	Helsinki	Sonera Stadium	10,770	Antti Muurinen	Ville Wallén
JJK	Jyväskylä	Harjun stadion	3,000	Kari Martonen	Janne Korhonen
KuPS	Kuopio	Savon Sanomat Areena	5,000	Esa Pekonen	Pyry Kärkkäinen
IFK Mariehamn	Mariehamn	Wiklöf Holding Arena	4,000	Pekka Lyyski	Jani Lyyski
MYPA	Kouvola	Saviniemi	4,167	Toni Korkeakunnas	Tuomas Aho
TPS	Turku	Veritas Stadion 1	10,000	Marko Rajamäki	Toni Kolehmainen
VPS	Vaasa	Hietalahti Stadium	4,600	Olli Huttunen	Sebastian Strandvall

¹ Paavo Nurmi Stadion until June 2012. ^{[2] [3]}

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Incoming manager	Date of appointment	Table
VPS	Petri Vuorinen	End of contract	n/a	Olli Huttunen	1 December 2011 [4]	Pre-season
Haka	Sami Ristilä	Sacked	23 August 2012 [5]	Asko Jussila	23 August 2012	11th
Haka	Asko Jussila	Resigned	10 September 2012 [6]	Juha Malinen	10 September 2012	11th

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	HJK (C)	33	19	7	7	63	33	+30	64	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	FC Inter	33	17	7	9	57	42	+15	58	Qualification to Europa League first qualifying round
3	TPS	33	16	6	11	55	33	+22	54
4	IFK Mariehamn	33	13	12	8	50	43	+7	51
5	FC Lahti	33	16	2	15	45	49	−4	50
6	MYPA	33	13	10	10	39	33	+6	49
7	FC Honka	33	12	7	14	37	38	−1	43	Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round [lower-alpha 1]
8	VPS	33	12	7	14	36	38	−2	43
9	JJK	33	12	4	17	54	65	−11	40
10	KuPS	33	10	6	17	39	53	−14	36
11	FF Jaro	33	8	9	16	28	51	−23	33
12	Haka (R)	33	9	5	19	32	57	−25	32	Relegation to Ykkönen

Source: veikkausliiga.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. FC Honka qualified for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League by winning the 2012 Finnish Cup.

Results

Matches 1–22 Home \ Away HON INT LAH JAR HAK HJK JJK KPS MAR MYP TPS VPS FC Honka 2–1 3–2 2–0 2–2 1–0 0–2 1–0 2–2 2–1 0–2 1–1 FC Inter 2–1 2–0 1–1 4–1 2–0 2–1 2–1 0–3 2–0 3–3 1–1 FC Lahti 2–1 0–5 0–2 1–0 3–0 2–1 2–1 2–0 0–0 2–0 1–0 FF Jaro 0–1 0–1 0–2 1–0 2–2 0–3 1–0 0–3 1–0 0–1 0–0 Haka 2–1 0–2 0–3 4–1 0–1 3–1 0–2 0–2 3–1 1–0 0–1 HJK 3–0 2–1 2–0 4–1 1–0 2–0 2–0 3–1 1–1 0–0 3–3 JJK 0–1 0–0 2–1 1–1 1–4 0–3 1–5 5–2 0–3 2–1 0–2 KuPS 0–2 0–6 1–2 1–0 3–0 0–3 2–2 2–0 1–2 1–1 0–3 IFK Mariehamn 0–0 2–1 2–0 2–0 1–0 2–0 3–3 1–1 0–0 2–1 0–0 MYPA 0–0 4–0 3–1 2–0 3–1 1–0 0–1 1–1 2–1 1–1 1–0 TPS 2–1 4–1 4–0 2–3 2–0 3–1 2–3 3–0 1–1 0–1 1–0 VPS 2–0 0–2 2–1 1–1 2–1 1–0 2–0 0–1 1–2 2–0 1–3 Source: veikkausliiga.com Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 23–33 Home \ Away HON INT LAH JAR HAK HJK JJK KPS MAR MYP TPS VPS FC Honka 3–0 3–0 2–1 1–1 0–1 1–2 FC Inter 3–1 3–2 1–4 1–0 0–0 2–0 FC Lahti 3–2 4–3 0–1 3–1 1–0 FF Jaro 1–0 2–1 1–1 3–3 0–3 Haka 1–0 1–2 0–0 2–2 1–1 HJK 1–0 1–1 2–0 0–0 4–1 5–1 JJK 3–1 4–2 5–0 3–6 3–2 1–2 KuPS 1–0 1–1 2–3 2–0 1–3 2–1 IFK Mariehamn 1–1 2–2 2–0 2–2 1–0 MYPA 0–0 1–0 1–4 2–1 1–1 TPS 1–2 9–2 1–2 1–0 1–0 1–0 VPS 1–3 2–1 0–1 1–3 1–3 Source: veikkausliiga.com Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics

Updated to games played on 27 October 2012.

Top scorers Source: veikkausliiga.com (in Finnish) Rank Player Club Goals 1 Irakli Sirbiladze FC Inter 17 2 Aleksei Kangaskolkka IFK Mariehamn 16 3 Steven Morrissey VPS 15 4 Pekka Sihvola MYPA 14 5 Tamás Gruborovics JJK 12 Mika Ojala FC Inter 12 Demba Savage HJK 12 8 Joel Pohjanpalo HJK 11 Aleksi Ristola TPS 11 10 Mikko Innanen JJK 10 Juho Mäkelä HJK 10 Tim Väyrynen FC Honka 10 Babatunde Wusu JJK 10 14 Petteri Forsell IFK Mariehamn 9 15 Dennis Okaru TPS 8 Jarno Parikka VPS 8 Akseli Pelvas HJK 8 Shane Robinson Haka 8 Jussi Vasara FC Honka 8 Mika Ääritalo TPS 8 21 5 players 7 26 4 players 6 30 8 players 5 38 14 players 4 52 11 players 3 63 27 players 2 90 65 players 1

Top assists Source: veikkausliiga.com (in Finnish) Rank Player Club Assists 1 Mika Ojala FC Inter 18 2 Petteri Forsell IFK Mariehamn 8 3 Aleksei Kangaskolkka IFK Mariehamn 7 Toni Kolehmainen TPS 7 Erfan Zeneli HJK 7 6 Jarkko Hurme TPS 6 Matti Klinga FC Lahti 6 Mika Mäkitalo FC Lahti 6 Ats Purje KuPS 6 Irakli Sirbiladze FC Inter 6 Babatunde Wusu JJK 6 12 Tamás Gruborovics JJK 5 Miikka Ilo KuPS 5 Mikko Innanen JJK 5 Petteri Pennanen TPS 5 16 12 players 4 28 20 players 3 48 34 players 2 82 64 players 1

Monthly awards

Month	Coach of the Month	Player of the Month
April [7]	Toni Korkeakunnas (MYPA)	Magnus Bahne (FC Inter)
May [8]	Pekka Lyyski (IFK Mariehamn)	Tamás Gruborovics (JJK)
June [9]	Alexei Eremenko Sr. (FF Jaro)	Sampo Koskinen (FC Honka)
July [10]	Marko Rajamäki (TPS)	Petteri Forsell (IFK Mariehamn)
August [11]	Toni Korkeakunnas (MYPA)	Pekka Sihvola (MYPA)
September [12]	Tommi Kautonen (FC Lahti)	Irakli Sirbiladze (FC Inter)
October [13]	Antti Muurinen (HJK)	Rasmus Schüller (HJK)

Annual awards

Source: Pelipaikkojen parhaat 2012 nimetty (in Finnish)

Position	Player
Best Goalkeeper	Henrik Moisander (TPS)
Best Defender	Jarkko Hurme (TPS)
Best Midfielder	Mika Ojala (FC Inter)
Best Striker	Irakli Sirbiladze (FC Inter)
Best Manager	Toni Korkeakunnas (MYPA)

See also

• 2012 Finnish Cup
• 2012 Finnish League Cup
• 2012 Ykkönen
• 2012 Kakkonen

References

1. "Veikkausliigan otteluohjelma 2012". Archived from the original on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
2. "FC Inter". Archived from the original on 29 March 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
3. "Miesten Ykkönen - FC TPS".
4. "Vepsussa alkaa Okan aika" (in Finnish). VPS. 11 October 2011. Archived from the original on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
5. "FC Haka vaihtaa päävalmentajaa" (in Finnish). FC Haka. 23 August 2012. Archived from the original on 16 October 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
6. "Juha Malinen Hakan valmentajaksi, Attakora toppariksi" (in Finnish). FC Haka. 10 September 2012. Archived from the original on 13 February 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
7. Magnus Bahnesta Veikkausliigan huhtikuun pelaaja Archived 15 September 2012 at archive.today (in Finnish)
8. Toukokuun joukkue nimetty (in Finnish)
9. Sampo Koskinen Veikkausliigan kesäkuun pelaaja Archived 5 February 2013 at archive.today (in Finnish)
10. Petteri Forsell Veikkausliigan heinäkuun pelaaja Archived 30 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine (in Finnish)
11. Pekka Sihvola elokuun kuukauden pelaaja Archived 5 February 2013 at archive.today (in Finnish)
12. Sirbiladze syyskuun kuukauden pelaaja (in Finnish)
13. HJK miehitti lokakuun joukkueen Archived 5 February 2013 at archive.today (in Finnish)

External links

• Official site (in Finnish)
• uefa.com