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Ykkönen
Season	2015
Champions	PS Kemi
Promoted	PS Kemi; PK-35 Vantaa
Relegated	MP; VIFK
Matches played	135
Goals scored	396 (2.93 per match)
Top goalscorer	Kalle Multanen (19 goals)
Biggest home win	Haka 6–0 VIFK; (17 June)
Biggest away win	VIFK 0–4 JJK; (23 May); FC Jazz 1–5 MP; (22 June); VIFK 1–5 TPS; (2 August); FC Jazz 0–4 PS Kemi; (16 August); MP 0–4 PK-35 Vantaa; (24 September)
Highest scoring	Haka 4–4 EIF; (21 May); FC Haka 7–4 VIFK; (17 October)
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The 2015 Ykkönen began on 2 May 2015 and ended on 17 October 2015. The winning team qualified directly for promotion to the 2016 Veikkausliiga 2016, while the second-placed team had to play a play-off against the eleventh-placed team from Veikkausliiga to decide who would play in that division. The bottom two teams were relegated to Kakkonen.^[1]

Overview

Location of teams in Ykkönen 2015

A total of ten teams contested in the league, including five sides from the 2014 season, TPS who was relegated from Veikkausliiga, EIF and PS Kemi who promoted from Kakkonen after winning the promotion play-offs, VIFK, the winner of Kakkonen 2014 Western Group as a replacement for promoted Ilves^[2] and MP, the runner-up Kakkonen 2014 Eastern Group as a replacement for MYPA.^[3]^[4]

FC Viikingit and JIPPO were relegated from 2014 Ykkönen.

HIFK, the champion of 2014 Ykkönen, KTP, the runner-up of 2014 Ykkönen, and Ilves, which finished third in Ykkönen were promoted to the 2015 Veikkausliiga.

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Manager
AC Oulu	Oulu	Raatin Stadion	6,996	Rauno Ojanen
EIF	Raseborg	Ekenäs Centrumplan	2,500	Jens Mattfolk
FC Jazz	Pori	Porin Stadion	12,000	John Allen
Haka	Valkeakoski	Tehtaan kenttä	3,516	Kari Martonen
JJK	Jyväskylä	Harjun stadion	3,000	Juha Pasoja
MP	Mikkeli	Mikkelin Urheilupuisto	7,000	Ilkka Mäkelä
PK-35 Vantaa	Vantaa	ISS Stadion	4,500	Shefki Kuqi
PS Kemi	Kemi	Sauvosaari	2,500	Jari Åhman
TPS	Turku	Urheilupuiston Yläkenttä	2,675	Mika Laurikainen
VIFK	Vaasa	Hietalahti Stadium	4,600	Tomi Kärkkäinen

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Incoming manager	Date of appointment	Table
FC Jazz	Jani Uotinen	End of contract	n/a	John Allen	30 October 2014^[5]	Pre-season
Haka	Juho Rantala	End of contract	n/a	Kari Martonen	17 November 2014^[6]	Pre-season
EIF	Jari Rantanen	End of contract	n/a	Jens Mattfolk	19 November 2014^[7]	Pre-season
PS Kemi	Tommy Taylor	Personal reasons	5 January 2015	Jari Åhman	9 January 2015^[8]	Pre-season
PK-35 Vantaa	Jari Europaeus			Shefki Kuqi	4 February 2015^[9]	Pre-season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	PS Kemi (P)	27	16	5	6	50	30	+20	53	Promotion to Veikkausliiga
2	PK-35 Vantaa (O, P)	27	15	4	8	53	25	+28	49	Qualification to Promotion playoffs
3	TPS	27	14	7	6	40	18	+22	49
4	JJK	27	13	7	7	43	27	+16	46
5	AC Oulu	27	12	8	7	31	28	+3	44
6	Haka	27	11	8	8	48	41	+7	41
7	FC Jazz	27	9	5	13	37	48	−11	32
8	EIF	27	8	7	12	36	49	−13	31
9	MP (R)	27	5	2	20	31	56	−25	17	Relegation to Kakkonen
10	VIFK (R)	27	3	5	19	27	74	−47	14	Relegation to Kakkonen

Source: Suomen Palloliitto
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

Matches 1–18

Home \ Away	ACO	EIF	JAZ	HAK	JJK	MP	PKV	PSK	TPS	VIFK
AC Oulu		2–1	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–3	2–0	0–0	3–2
EIF	0–2		1–1	3–1	1–1	1–0	0–3	1–0	0–1	1–1
FC Jazz	3–1	2–3		0–0	2–2	1–5	2–0	0–4	0–1	5–1
Haka	1–0	4–4	2–1		1–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	6–0
JJK	0–0	2–1	1–2	2–2		3–0	2–1	3–1	0–0	5–0
MP	3–3	0–1	3–2	3–4	1–0		0–2	0–1	0–2	1–1
PK-35 Vantaa	4–1	5–1	4–0	2–1	0–2	2–1		0–1	0–0	2–0
PS Kemi	0–0	4–1	4–1	3–2	0–1	2–1	0–0		1–0	2–1
TPS	1–0	1–0	0–2	3–0	0–1	5–0	2–0	0–3		5–0
VIFK	0–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	0–4	1–2	0–2	1–1	1–5

Source: Suomen Palloliitto
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 19–27

Home \ Away	ACO	EIF	JAZ	HAK	JJK	MP	PKV	PSK	TPS	VIFK
AC Oulu					1–1		3–2	3–1	1–1	1–0
EIF	0–1		0–0						4–1	3–4
FC Jazz	0–0			3–2	0–1	4–2
Haka	1–1	0–1				2–0	1–0			7–4
JJK		5–1		2–2		3–2	0–2		0–3
MP	2–0	2–4					0–4	2–3
PK-35 Vantaa		2–2	3–1					5–2	0–0	4–0
PS Kemi		3–0	4–1	2–1	2–0
TPS			0–1	2–0		2–1		1–1		3–1
VIFK			1–2		1–2	1–0		2–4

Source: Suomen Palloliitto
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics

Top scorers

Source: palloliitto.fi (in Finnish)

As of 17 October 2015.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Kalle Multanen	Haka	19
2	Pablo Couñago	PK-35 Vantaa	17
2	Billy Ions	PS Kemi	17
4	Jussi Aalto	TPS	11
5	Elias Ahde	FC Jazz	9
	Antto Hilska	JJK	9
	Saša Jovović	PS Kemi	9
8	Samu-Petteri Mäkelä	FC Jazz	8
9	Christian Eissele	PS Kemi	7
	Aleksis Lehtonen	JJK	7
	Lasse Linjala	VIFK	7
	Mateo	PK-35 Vantaa	7
	Masar Ömer	PK-35 Vantaa	7
	Ilkka Santahuhta	FC Jazz	7
	Robert Taylor	JJK	7
	Jasse Tuominen	MP	7
17	6 players		6
23	7 players		5
30	10 players		4
40	19 players		3
59	15 players		2
74	39 players		1

Monthly awards

Month	Player of the Month
May^[10]	Pablo Couñago (PK-35 Vantaa)
June^[11]	Oskari Forsman (TPS)
July^[12]	Mikko Manninen (JJK)
August^[13]	Samu-Petteri Mäkelä (FC Jazz)
September^[14]	Ymer Xhaferi (PK-35 Vantaa)