2001 Veikkausliiga

The 2001 season was the 71st completed season of Finnish Football League Championship, known as the Veikkausliiga. At the same time it was the 12th season of the Veikkausliiga.

Veikkausliiga

Season	2001
Champions	Tampere United
Top goalscorer	Paulus Roiha, HJK Helsinki (22)
← 2000 2002 →

Overview

The Veikkausliiga is administered by the Finnish Football Association and the competition's 2001 season was contested by 12 teams. Tampere United won the championship and qualified for the 2002–03 UEFA Champions League qualification round, while the second and third placed teams qualified for the first qualification round of the 2002–03 UEFA Cup. The fourth placed team qualified for the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2002, while the two lowest placed teams of the competition, FC Jokerit and RoPS Rovaniemi were relegated to the Ykkönen.

Participating clubs

HJK
Atlantis
Jokerit

Jazz

Lahti

Haka

Inter

KuPS

MyPa

RoPS

Tampere United

VPS

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Location of teams in 2001 Veikkausliiga

In 2001 there were 12 participants in the Veikkausliiga:

• Atlantis Helsinki - Promoted from Ykkönen
• FC Jazz Pori
• FC Lahti
• Haka Valkeakoski
• HJK Helsinki
• Inter Turku
• Jokerit Helsinki
• KuPS Kuopio - Promoted from Ykkönen
• MyPa 47 Anjalankoski
• RoPS Rovaniemi
• Tampere United
• VPS Vaasa

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Tampere United (C)	33	21	5	7	47	31	16	68	Qualification to Champions League first qualifying round
2	HJK Helsinki	33	19	10	4	64	19	45	67	Qualification to UEFA 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 to Intertoto 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 to relegation play-offs
12	RoPS Rovaniemi (R)	33	5	9	19	25	56	−31	24	Relegation to Ykkönen

Source:
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Promotion/relegation playoff

• Jaro Pietarsaari - Jokerit Helsinki 1-1
• Jokerit Helsinki - Jaro Pietarsaari 3-4

Jaro Pietarsaari promoted, Jokerit Helsinki relegated.

Results

Each team plays three times against every other team, either twice at home and once away or once at home and twice away, for a total of 33 matches played each.

Matches 1–22

Home \ Away	ATL	HAK	HJK	INT	JAZ	JOK	KUP	LAH	MYP	RPS	TAM	VPS
Atlantis		1–1	1–0	1–1	3–1	3–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–3	1–2
FC Haka	2–0		1–1	2–2	1–2	4–1	2–0	0–1	0–0	2–0	0–1	1–0
HJK Helsinki	1–2	0–0		2–1	0–0	4–1	5–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	2–2	2–0
Inter Turku	1–2	1–0	0–2		3–1	3–1	2–2	1–0	1–1	4–0	2–4	1–2
Jazz	1–3	2–3	0–3	0–1		1–3	0–1	2–2	0–1	0–0	0–1	2–2
Jokerit	0–3	0–1	1–1	1–0	3–0		0–0	2–4	0–2	0–0	0–1	1–1
KuPS	3–1	0–3	0–0	1–2	4–0	0–0		0–1	1–1	1–0	3–0	2–1
Lahti	1–1	1–2	2–2	0–2	2–2	1–3	2–1		2–2	3–2	0–1	2–1
MyPa	5–2	3–2	0–0	2–1	0–0	3–1	4–0	1–0		1–1	1–0	3–1
RoPS	4–2	0–4	0–3	0–1	1–2	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–0		1–1	0–2
Tampere United	0–0	0–2	3–2	3–1	0–0	3–0	0–0	4–3	3–2	2–1		2–1
VPS	2–0	2–0	0–4	2–1	0–3	2–3	1–5	0–1	2–1	2–1	2–0

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

Matches 23–33

Home \ Away	ATL	HAK	HJK	INT	JAZ	JOK	KUP	LAH	MYP	RPS	TAM	VPS
Atlantis		2–0		2–1			1–1		0–1	4–0
FC Haka				1–2	1–1	2–1	2–2		0–0			1–1
HJK Helsinki	4–1	1–1		4–0				3–0		1–1	2–0
Inter Turku					1–0	1–0	2–3		0–2			3–2
Jazz	1–1		0–2				2–2		1–0	4–2		4–2
Jokerit	3–1		1–2		2–2			0–1			0–3	0–2
KuPS			0–4			0–1		3–1		0–0		2–4
Lahti	2–2	0–2		1–2	1–2						0–1
MyPa			1–0			0–0	2–0	0–0		2–0		1–0
RoPS		0–1		1–2		3–1		1–1			0–2
Tampere United	1–0	1–0		2–0	1–0		1–0		1–2
VPS	4–1		0–2					0–2		4–0	3–0

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

Leading scorers

Rank	Player		Club	Goals
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

References

• Finland - List of final tables (RSSSF)