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2020 Ykkönen

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Ykkönen
Season2020
ChampionsOulu
PromotedOulu
KPT
RelegatedKajaani
SJK Akatemia
MYPA
2019
2021

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

New league format

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Ykkönen adopted a new league format for the 2020 season. The number 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

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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 Finland Mika Lumijärvi
AC Oulu Oulu Raatin Stadion 6,996 Finland Jyrki Ahola
EIF Raseborg Ekenäs Centrumplan 2,500 Spain Guillem Santesmases
FF Jaro Jakobstad Jakobstads Centralplan 4,600 Finland Niklas Käcko
Gnistan Helsinki Mustapekka Areena 1,100 Portugal Ricardo Duarte
KPV Kokkola Kokkolan Keskuskenttä 2,000 Finland Jani Uotinen
KTP Kotka Arto Tolsa Areena 4,780 Estonia Argo Arbeiter
MP Mikkeli Mikkelin Urheilupuisto 7,000 Finland Juha Pasoja
MuSa Pori Porin Stadion 12,300 Finland Ville Ulanen
MYPA Kouvola Kymenlaakson Sähkö Stadion 4,167 Finland Ilkka Mäkelä
SJK Akatemia Seinäjoki OmaSP Stadion 6,000 Republic of Ireland Tommy Dunne
VPS Vaasa Elisa Stadion 6,000 Finland Christian Sund

League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or qualification
1 Oulu (P) 22 15 5 2 38 16 +22 50 Promotion to 2021 Veikkausliiga
2 KTP (O, P) 22 14 5 3 51 23 +28 47 Qualification to Veikkausliiga promotion play-offs
3 Jaro 22 12 5 5 50 31 +19 41
4 EIF 22 10 6 6 45 25 +20 36
5 MuSa 22 10 4 8 38 38 0 34
6 VPS 22 9 6 7 37 36 +1 33
7 MP 22 8 5 9 29 35 −6 29
8 KPV 22 8 4 10 38 34 +4 28
9 Gnistan 22 7 4 11 38 49 −11 25
10 Kajaani (R) 22 5 8 9 35 37 −2 23 Relegation to 2021 Kakkonen
11 SJK Akatemia (R) 22 4 3 15 22 49 −27 15
12 MYPA (R) 22 1 3 18 21 69 −48 6
Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored
(O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated


Results

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Home \ Away EIF GNI JAR KAJ KPV KTP MP MUS MYP OUL SJK VPS
EIF 5–1 0–0
Gnistan 1–2 0–3 0–1
Jaro 3–0 1–0 3–0 6–1
Kajaani 0–2 1–1 2–2 1–1
KPV 2–2 0–4 1–1 0–1 4–0
KTP 1–1 2–3 0–0 3–2
MP 2–1 1–2 1–2
MuSa 1–0 5–1 0–2
MYPA 0–0 1–2
Oulu 2–0 2–1 1–0 1–0
SJK Akatemia 0–3 2–2 0–3 0–2
VPS 4–1 1–1 1–0 3–1
Updated to match(es) played on 6 August 2020. Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

References

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  1. ^ "YKKÖNEN: OTTELUT" (in Finnish). palloliitto.fi. Archived from the original on 17 April 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  2. ^ "Miesten Ykkönen info" (in Finnish). palloliitto.fi. Archived from the original on 13 April 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2020.