2024 Ykkösliiga

Ykkösliiga
Season2024
ChampionsKTP
PromotedJaro
KTP
RelegatedMP
Top goalscorerAleksi Tarvonen (15 goals)
2025 →

The 2024 Ykkösliiga was the inaugural season of Ykkösliiga, the new second highest football league in Finland. The season began on 13 April 2024 and ended on 19 October 2024.

Teams

Team changes

The league was contested with 10 clubs, unlike former second-tier Ykkönen which included 12 clubs.[1]

Promoted to
2024 Veikkausliiga 		Relegated to
2024 Ykkönen 		Promoted from
2023 Kakkonen 		Relegated from
2023 Veikkausliiga 		Promoted to
2025 Veikkausliiga 		Relegated to
2025 Ykkönen
Ekenäs IF
Gnistan 		JJK Jyväskylä
KPV 		JIPPO
PK-35 		KTP KTP
Jaro 		MP
  • PK-35 qualified for the 2024 Ykkösliiga promotion play-offs as a 2023 Kakkonen Group A runner-up, and were promoted to Ykkösliiga as a play-offs winner.
  • HIFK were declared for bankruptcy after the 2023 Ykkönen season, and Käpylän Pallo (KäPa) earned a spot in 2024 Ykkösliiga via supplemental process, by which KäPa avoided the relegation after finishing 10th of 12 teams in 2023 Ykkönen.

Participants

Club Location Stadium Capacity Manager
FF Jaro Jakobstad (Pietarsaari) Jakobstads Centralplan 5,000 Finland Niklas Vidjeskog
JIPPO Joensuu Mehtimäki 1,000 Finland Mikko Hallikainen
JäPS Järvenpää Järvenpään keskuskenttä 2,000 Finland Teemu Kankkunen
KTP Kotka Arto Tolsa Areena 4,780 Finland Jonas Nyholm
KäPa Helsinki Brahenkenttä 1,200 Finland Lari Lummepuro
MP Mikkeli Mikkelin Urheilupuisto 7,000 Finland Juha Pasoja
PK-35 Helsinki Algeco Areena 1,200[2] Portugal Tiago Santos
SalPa Salo Salon Urheilupuisto 2,500 Spain Jordi Aluja
SJK Akatemia Seinäjoki OmaSP Stadion 5,817 England Ash Civil
TPS Turku Veritas Stadion 9,372 Finland Miika Nuutinen

Season

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion, qualification or relegation
1 KTP (C, P) 27 18 4 5 75 32 +43 58 Promotion to Veikkausliiga
2 Jaro (O, P) 27 17 3 7 51 30 +21 54 Qualification for the Veikkausliiga play-off
3 JIPPO 27 16 4 7 49 25 +24 52
4 TPS 27 12 7 8 40 29 +11 43
5 JäPS 27 9 8 10 44 53 −9 35
6 PK-35 27 8 9 10 29 34 −5 33
7 SJK Akatemia 27 6 11 10 35 41 −6 29
8 SalPa 27 7 8 12 31 48 −17 29
9 KäPa (O) 27 5 7 15 44 67 −23 22 Qualification for the Ykkösliiga play-off
10 MP (R) 27 3 7 17 22 61 −39 16 Relegation to Ykkönen
Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Play-off
(Note: Play-off is only played if need to decide teams for promotion or relegation).
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated


Results

Home \ Away JAR JIP JÄP KTP KÄP MP PK SAL SJK TPS
Jaro — 1–0 0–0 5–2 4–2 2–0 2–1 2–1 1–1 0–1
JIPPO 2–0 — 3–2 1–0 2–0 0–0 1–0 1–1 0–0 2–0
JäPS 2–2 1–5 — 0–0 2–2 1–1 3–1 2–3 1–1 2–1
KTP 1–0 2–1 2–0 — 2–1 4–0 1–0 6–0 5–1 1–2
KäPa 0–3 1–4 3–3 1–5 — 4–0 0–1 1–1 1–1 0–0
MP 1–4 1–1 0–3 1–2 2–6 — 0–0 0–1 1–2 0–3
PK-35 2–1 0–2 4–1 1–5 3–0 1–2 — 1–1 1–1 1–1
SalPa 0–1 0–3 1–3 2–2 1–1 5–0 1–1 — 2–1 0–1
SJK Akatemia 0–1 1–2 2–1 0–3 4–0 0–0 3–0 2–0 — 0–3
TPS 0–2 2–0 4–0 1–4 2–1 1–0 2–2 2–3 1–0 —
Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Third round results

Home \ Away JAR JIP JÄP KTP KÄP MP PK SAL SJK TPS
Jaro — 2–1 5–0 1–2 3–2 — — 3–0 — —
JIPPO — — — 3–2 — 2–4 0–1 3–0 4–1 —
JäPS — 1–4 — — — 4–0 — 0–2 2–1 —
KTP — — 1–2 — 7–2 — 2–1 — 3–3 1–1
KäPa — 2–1 3–5 — — 3–2 1–1 — — —
MP 4–2 — — 0–5 — — — 1–2 — 0–0
PK-35 0–1 — 0–0 — — 1–0 — 1–0 — —
SalPa — — — 2–5 1–4 — — — 1–1 0–0
SJK Akatemia 2–3 — — — 2–0 2–2 2–2 — — 1–1
TPS 3–0 0–1 2–3 — 5–3 — 1–2 — — —
Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Ykkösliiga play-off

The ninth-placed team (KäPa) faced the second-placed team from the 2024 Ykkönen (KPV) in a two-legged play-off for the final place in the 2025 Ykkösliiga.

First leg

23 October 2024 KPV 1–1 KäPa Kokkola
13:00 BST Cardoso 26' (pen.) Kuningas 38' (pen.) Stadium: Kokkolan Keskuskenttä

Second leg

26 October 2024 KäPa 2–0
(3–1 agg.)		KPVHelsinki
16:00 BST Pulkkinen 24'
Lika 59'		 Stadium: Brahenkenttä

Statistics

Top scorers


Awards

Annual awards

Award[3] Winner Club
Player of the Year Finland Anttoni Huttunen KTP
Goalkeeper of the Year Finland Pyry Piirainen JIPPO
Defender of the Year Cameroon Tabi Manga KTP
Midfielder of the Year Finland Sergei Eremenko Jaro
Striker of the Year Finland Aleksi Tarvonen KTP

Monthly awards

Month Player of the Month
April[4] Finland Enoch Banza (KTP)
May[5] Japan Yoshiaki Kikuchi (JIPPO)
June[6] Finland Aleksi Tarvonen (KTP)
July[7] Finland Anttoni Huttunen (KTP)
August[8] Finland Matias Paavola (KTP)
September[9] Finland Jean-Claude Mabinda (JäPS)

References

  1. ^ Ykkösliiga, Finnish FA
  2. ^ Tekemisen meininkiä Pihlajamäessä: PK-35:llä uusittu stadion, lahitieto.fi, 5 July 2021
  3. ^ Captain’s Ball 2024 Timo Nummelinille – Katso kaikki palkitut, Football Association of Finland, 5 December 2024
  4. ^ Huhtikuun joukkue valittu - KTP:n Enoch Banza Ykkösliigan huhtikuun pelaaja (in Finnish)
  5. ^ JIPPO:n Yoshiaki Kikuchi Ykkösliigan toukokuun pelaaja (in Finnish)
  6. ^ Aleksi Tarvonen Ykkösliigan Veikkauksen kuukauden pelaaja, jpy.fi, 5 July 2024
  7. ^ Anttoni Huttunen Ykkösliigan Veikkauksen kuukauden pelaaja, jpy.fi, 5 August 2024
  8. ^ Matias Paavola Ykkösliigan Veikkauksen kuukauden pelaaja, jpy.fi, 5 September 2024
  9. ^ Jean-Claude Mabinda valittu Ykkösliigan syyskuun pelaajaksi, Finnish FA, 5 October 2024