2006 Veikkausliiga

Veikkausliiga

Season	2006
Champions	Tampere United 2nd Finnish title
Relegated	KuPS
Champions League	Tampere United
UEFA Cup	HJK, MyPa, FC Haka
Matches played	156
Goals scored	410 (2.63 per match)
Top goalscorer	Hermanni Vuorinen (16)
Biggest home win	TPS 7 - 0 FC KooTeePee
Biggest away win	KuPS 0 - 5 TPS
Highest scoring	TPS 7 - 0 FC KooTeePee FF Jaro 2 - 5 FC Honka
← 2005 2007 →

The 2006 season of the Veikkausliiga the 17th season in the league's history, which began on April 19 and ended on October 29.
The league was originally supposed to have 14 teams, but AC Allianssi was refused a license, so the league was subsequently played with only 13 teams.

KuPS

MyPa

Honka

Viikingit
HJK

Jaro

Tampere United

KooTeePee

Mariehamn

Lahti

Inter
TPS

VPS

Haka

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Location of teams in 2006 Veikkausliiga

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Tampere United (C)	24	16	3	5	39	18	+21	51	Qualification to Champions League first qualifying round
2	HJK	24	13	6	5	45	18	+27	45	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round[a]
3	FC Haka	24	13	5	6	37	24	+13	44
4	FC Honka	24	13	3	8	50	32	+18	42	Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
5	IFK Mariehamn	24	10	7	7	31	22	+9	37
6	MyPa	24	10	4	10	25	26	−1	34	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round[b]
7	TPS	24	9	4	11	35	38	−3	31
8	FC Lahti	24	9	4	11	26	34	−8	31
9	VPS	24	8	5	11	26	36	−10	29
10	FC Inter	24	7	7	10	25	35	−10	28
11	FC KooTeePee	24	8	3	13	26	44	−18	27
12	FF Jaro	24	4	7	13	27	42	−15	19
13	KuPS (R)	24	5	4	15	18	41	−23	19	Relegation to Ykkönen

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. FC Haka gained HJK's UEFA Cup place as HJK won the Finnish Cup. The Intertoto Cup place was given to FC Honka.
2. MyPa were awarded a place in the UEFA Cup as Fair Play Award winners.

Results

Home \ Away	HAK	HJK	HON	INT	JAR	KTP	KUP	LAH	IFK	MYP	TAM	TPS	VPS
FC Haka		2–2	2–0	0–0	3–1	3–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–2	0–3	0–1	4–1
HJK	1–2		3–0	5–0	4–0	5–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	4–1	0–3	3–2	3–0
FC Honka	0–2	0–0		6–0	3–2	4–1	4–0	5–0	2–1	2–2	1–3	0–1	2–1
FC Inter	1–3	0–1	2–1		2–2	0–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	2–0
FF Jaro	0–0	2–0	2–5	1–5		0–0	1–0	1–2	1–3	1–3	1–2	5–0	1–1
FC KooTeePee	0–2	2–1	1–2	3–1	2–1		3–1	2–1	1–2	0–1	1–0	0–3	2–0
KuPS	1–2	0–2	2–2	2–1	2–1	1–1		0–0	1–2	1–0	0–2	0–5	1–2
FC Lahti	2–2	0–2	1–3	1–2	3–1	0–4	2–0		3–0	0–2	0–2	3–1	1–0
IFK Mariehamn	2–1	0–0	1–2	0–1	0–0	4–1	2–0	1–1		1–0	1–0	0–1	0–1
MyPa	0–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–0	0–2		0–2	1–3	1–2
Tampere United	1–0	0–2	2–1	3–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	3–1	2–2	1–1		4–2	2–3
TPS	1–2	1–4	0–2	2–2	0–3	7–0	1–2	1–0	0–4	0–0	0–1		2–1
VPS	2–1	2–2	1–2	0–2	0–0	2–1	0–2	0–2	2–2	3–0	1–0	1–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

European results

Champions League:

• MyPa prevailed in the first round against The New Saints, but was knocked out by FC Copenhagen in the second round

UEFA Cup:

• HJK lost the first round to Drogheda United
• FC Haka lost the first round to FC Levadia Tallinn

Intertoto Cup:

• Tampere United won the first round against Carmarthen Town F.C., but was knocked out by Kalmar FF in the second round

Promotions and relegations

• The 2007 season is once again being contested by 14 teams. Only one team, KuPS, was relegated, while two teams from Division 1 were promoted, being FC Viikingit and AC Oulu.

Top goal scorers

Position	Player	Country	Team	Goals
1	Hermanni Vuorinen		FC Honka	16
2	Rafael		FC Lahti	13
3	Farid Ghazi		HJK	12
4	Ville Lehtinen		Tampere Utd	11
-	Mikko Paatelainen		FF Jaro	11
-	Antti Pohja		HJK	11
7	Ady	/	TPS	10
-	Valtter Laaksonen		FC Inter	10

External links

• Results from RSSSF