Season | 2001 |
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Champions | Tampere United |
Top goalscorer | Paulus Roiha,HJK Helsinki (22) |
←2000 2002 → |
The 2001 season was the 71st completed season of Finnish Football League Championship, known as theVeikkausliiga. At the same time it was the 12th season of the Veikkausliiga.
The Veikkausliiga is administered by theFinnish Football Association and the competition's 2001 season was contested by 12 teams.Tampere United won the championship and qualified for the2002–03 UEFA Champions League qualification round, while the second and third placed teams qualified for the first qualification round of the2002–03 UEFA Cup. The fourth placed team qualified for theUEFA Intertoto Cup 2002, while the two lowest placed teams of the competition,FC Jokerit andRoPS Rovaniemi were relegated to theYkkönen.[1]
In 2001 there were 12 participants in the Veikkausliiga:
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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1 | Tampere United(C) | 33 | 21 | 5 | 7 | 47 | 31 | +16 | 68 | Qualification toChampions League first qualifying round |
2 | HJK Helsinki | 33 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 64 | 19 | +45 | 67 | Qualification toUEFA Cup qualifying round |
3 | MyPa Anjalankoski | 33 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 45 | 23 | +22 | 62 | |
4 | Haka Valkeakoski | 33 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 44 | 29 | +15 | 52 | Qualification toIntertoto Cup first round |
5 | FC Inter Turku | 33 | 15 | 4 | 14 | 46 | 47 | −1 | 49 | |
6 | VPS Vaasa | 33 | 14 | 3 | 16 | 50 | 52 | −2 | 45 | |
7 | Atlantis FC | 33 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 45 | 47 | −2 | 45 | |
8 | KuPS Kuopio | 33 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 37 | 48 | −11 | 37 | |
9 | FC Lahti | 33 | 9 | 9 | 15 | 38 | 48 | −10 | 36 | |
10 | FC Jazz Pori | 33 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 36 | 52 | −16 | 32 | |
11 | FC Jokerit(R) | 33 | 7 | 7 | 19 | 31 | 56 | −25 | 28 | Qualification torelegation play-offs |
12 | RoPS Rovaniemi(R) | 33 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 25 | 56 | −31 | 24 | Relegation toYkkönen |
Jaro Pietarsaari promoted, Jokerit Helsinki relegated.[2]
Each team plays three times against every other team, either twice at home and once awayor once at home and twice away, for a total of 33 matches played each.
Matches 1–22[edit]
Source:[citation needed] Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win. | Matches 23–33[edit]
Source:[citation needed] Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
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Rank | Player | Club | Goals | |
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1 | Paulus Roiha | ![]() | HJK Helsinki | 22 |
2 | Antti Pohja | ![]() | Tampere United | 19 |
3 | Richard Teberio | ![]() | Inter Turku | 13 |
4 | Peter Sampo | ![]() | KuPS Kuopio | 12 |
5 | Nikki Helenius | ![]() | FC Lahti | 11 |