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.
Season | 2006 |
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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 → |
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 |
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 |