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.Ykkösliiga, Finnish FA
Promoted to2024 VeikkausliigaRelegated to2024 YkkönenPromoted from2023 KakkonenRelegated from2023 VeikkausliigaPromoted to2025 VeikkausliigaRelegated to2025 YkkönenEkenäs IFGnistanJJK JyväskyläKPVJIPPOPK-35KTPKTPJaroMP
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.
FC Honka were declared for bankruptcy after the 2023 Veikkausliiga season. Via supplemental process, 2023 Ykkönen runner-up Gnistan were promoted to 2024 Veikkausliiga, and 2024 Ykkösliiga promotion play-offs runner-up JIPPO were promoted to 2024 Ykkösliiga.
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 ClubLocationStadium CapacityManagerFF JaroJakobstad (Pietarsaari)Jakobstads Centralplan5,000 JIPPOJoensuuMehtimäki1,000 JäPS Järvenpää Järvenpään keskuskenttä 2,000 KTP Kotka Arto Tolsa Areena 4,780 KäPaHelsinkiBrahenkenttä1,200 MP Mikkeli Mikkelin Urheilupuisto 7,000 PK-35 Helsinki Algeco Areena 1,200Tekemisen meininkiä Pihlajamäessä: PK-35:llä uusittu stadion, lahitieto.fi, 5 July 2021 Tiago Santos SalPa Salo Salon Urheilupuisto 2,500 SJK Akatemia Seinäjoki OmaSP Stadion 5,817 TPS Turku Veritas Stadion 9,372
Season League table
Results
Third round results
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
Second leg
Statistics Top scorers
RankPlayerClubGoals1 Aleksi TarvonenKTP152 Olli JakonenSalPa11 Luca WeckströmKTP Yoshiaki KikuchiJIPPO5 Albijon MuzaciTPS106 Anttoni HuttunenKTP9 Oskar PihlajaJIPPO8 Irfan SadikJäPS8 Terrence SmithJIPPO Umar Bala MohammedTPS Severi KähkönenJaro12 Miro TurunenKäpylän Pallo7 Edvin CronaJaro
Hat-tricks Player For Against Result Date Keir FosterSalPaMP5–028 April 2024 Anttoni HuttunenKTPKäPa5–127 July 2024 Aapo HyppönenMPJIPPO4–210 August 2024 Sami SipolaJaroJäPS5–011 August 2024
Awards Annual awards AwardCaptain’s Ball 2024 Timo Nummelinille – Katso kaikki palkitut, Football Association of Finland, 5 December 2024WinnerClubPlayer of the Year Anttoni HuttunenKTPGoalkeeper of the Year Pyry PiirainenJIPPODefender of the Year Tabi MangaKTPMidfielder of the Year Sergei EremenkoJaroStriker of the Year Aleksi TarvonenKTP
Monthly awards MonthPlayer of the MonthAprilHuhtikuun joukkue valittu - KTP:n Enoch Banza Ykkösliigan huhtikuun pelaaja Enoch Banza (KTP)MayJIPPO:n Yoshiaki Kikuchi Ykkösliigan toukokuun pelaaja Yoshiaki Kikuchi (JIPPO)JuneAleksi Tarvonen Ykkösliigan Veikkauksen kuukauden pelaaja, jpy.fi, 5 July 2024 Aleksi Tarvonen (KTP)JulyAnttoni Huttunen Ykkösliigan Veikkauksen kuukauden pelaaja, jpy.fi, 5 August 2024 Anttoni Huttunen (KTP)AugustMatias Paavola Ykkösliigan Veikkauksen kuukauden pelaaja, jpy.fi, 5 September 2024 Matias Paavola (KTP)SeptemberJean-Claude Mabinda valittu Ykkösliigan syyskuun pelaajaksi, Finnish FA, 5 October 2024 Jean-Claude Mabinda (JäPS)
Attendances
# Club Average 1 KTP 1,794 2 TPS 1,552 3 Jaro 1,395 4 MP 658 5 JäPS 633 6 JIPPO 494 7 SalPa 441 8 PK-35 421 9 KäPa 240 10 SJK Akatemia 214
Source:https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/fin/avefin24.htm
References