2011 Veikkausliiga
| Season | 2011 |
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| Champions |
HJK 24th title |
| Relegated | RoPS |
| Champions League | HJK |
| Europa League |
Inter Turku JJK KuPS MYPA |
| Matches played | 198 |
| Goals scored | 599 (3.03 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Timo Furuholm (22 goals) |
| Biggest home win |
HJK 6–0 TPS (22 June) FF Jaro 8–2 RoPS (29 June) HJK 6–0 FF Jaro (28 September) |
| Biggest away win |
Haka 0–5 HJK (18 June) |
| Highest scoring |
FF Jaro 8–2 RoPS (29 June) |
| Longest winning run |
HJK (10 games) |
| Longest unbeaten run |
FC Honka (14 games) |
| Longest winless run |
RoPS (21 games) |
| Longest losing run |
RoPS (6 games) |
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Veikkausliiga (Tier 1) |
The 2011 Veikkausliiga was the eighty-first season of top-tier football in Finland. It began on 2 May 2011 and ended on 29 October 2011.HJK were the defending champions and successfully defended their title.
The pre-season was severely affected by license revocations to two teams, which eventually resulted in a later than originally scheduled begin date and an increase of scheduled matches from 26 to 33 per team.
The league was originally supposed to have 14 teams, but AC Oulu was refused a license due to club's bad economic situation and Tampere United was excluded from every official competition of Football Association of Finland due to breaking the rules of the association, and the league will therefore be played with only 12 teams. AC Oulu was, however, obtained a license for Ykkönen, where it will play this season.
FC Lahti were relegated to Ykkönen after finishing at the bottom of the 2010 season. Their place was taken by Ykkönen champions RoPS. 13th-placed Veikkausliiga team JJK and Ykkönen runners-up FC Viikingit competed in a two-legged relegation play-offs for one spot in this season. JJK won 3-1 on aggregate and thereby retained their league position once again.
Updated to games played on 29 October 2011.
Source: soccerway.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1HJK won the 2011 Finnish Cup competition. Because they won the league, they will enter the second qualifying round of UEFA Champions League and their cup winner spot in UEFA Europa League will be given to the league runners-up. KuPS qualify for the first qualifying round of UEFA Europa League as cup runners-up.
2MYPA qualify for the first qualifying round of UEFA Europa League via Fair Play ranking.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
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