2024 Ykkösliiga

Football league season

Ykkösliiga
Season	2024
← 2023 Ykkönen 2025 →

The 2024 Ykkösliiga is the inaugural season of Ykkösliiga, the new second highest football league in Finland. The season began on 13 April 2024.

It is contested with 10 clubs, unlike former second-tier Ykkönen which included 12 clubs.^[1]

Teams

FF Jaro

SalPa

JäPS

JIPPO

KäPa, PK-35

TPS

SJK II

KTP

Team changes

Promoted from 2023 Kakkonen	Promoted to 2024 Veikkausliiga	Relegated from 2023 Veikkausliiga	Relegated to 2024 Ykkönen
JIPPO PK-35	Ekenäs IF Gnistan	KTP	JJK Jyväskylä KPV

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

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

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	KTP	12	10	1	1	32	9	+23	31	Promotion to Veikkausliiga
2	Jaro	12	7	2	3	19	10	+9	23	Qualification for the Veikkausliiga play-off
3	TPS	12	7	2	3	18	12	+6	23
4	JIPPO	12	6	4	2	17	7	+10	22
5	JäPS	12	4	3	5	20	23	−3	15
6	PK-35	12	3	5	4	16	17	−1	14
7	SJK Akatemia	12	2	6	4	9	17	−8	12
8	SalPa	12	2	5	5	16	19	−3	11
9	KäPa	12	1	4	7	14	23	−9	7	Qualification for the Ykkösliiga play-off
10	MP	12	0	4	8	3	27	−24	4	Relegation to Ykkönen

Updated to match(es) played on 20 June 2024. 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).

Results

Home \ Away	JAR	JIP	JÄP	KTP	KÄP	MP	PK	SAL	SJK	TPS
Jaro	—		0–0		4–2		2–1	2–1	1–1	0–1
JIPPO	2–0	—		1–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	0–0
JäPS		1–5	—				3–1	2–3	1–1	2–1
KTP	1–0	2–1	2–0	—	2–1	4–0			5–1
KäPa	0–3		3–3		—	4–0	0–1	1–1	1–1
MP	1–4	1–1	0–3	1–2		—	0–0			0–3
PK-35			4–1	1–5	3–0		—	1–1	1–1	1–1
SalPa		0–3	1–3	2–2	1–1	5–0		—		0–1
SJK Akatemia	0–1		2–1	0–3		0–0		2–0	—	0–3
TPS	0–2	2–0		1–4	2–1	1–0	2–2			—

Updated to match(es) played on 20 June 2024. Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Olli Jakonen	SalPa	7
	Aleksi Tarvonen	KTP
	Albijon Muzaci	TPS
4	Irfan Sadik	JäPS	6
5	Enoch Banza	KTP	5
5	Yoshiaki Kikuchi	JIPPO	5
7	Aleksi Wahlman	KäPa	4
	Eero Markkanen	PK-35
	Justus Holopainen	JäPS
	Alen Harbas	KTP
	Umar Bala Mohammed	TPS

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Keir Foster	SalPa	MP	5–0	28 April 2024

Awards

Month	Player of the Month
April^[3]	Enoch Banza (KTP)
May^[4]	Yoshiaki Kikuchi (JIPPO)

References

^ Ykkösliiga, Finnish FA
^ Tekemisen meininkiä Pihlajamäessä: PK-35:llä uusittu stadion, lahitieto.fi, 5 July 2021
^ Huhtikuun joukkue valittu - KTP:n Enoch Banza Ykkösliigan huhtikuun pelaaja (in Finnish)
^ JIPPO:n Yoshiaki Kikuchi Ykkösliigan toukokuun pelaaja (in Finnish)