Competition: | Veikkausliiga |
Season: | 2008 |
Winners: | Inter Turku 1st Finnish title |
Relegated: | KooTeePee |
Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Inter Turku |
Continentalcup2: | Europa League |
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | Honka Lahti HJK (via domestic cup) |
League Topscorer: | Aleksandr Kokko Henri Myntti (13 goals both) |
Biggest Home Win: | Honka 7–0 Haka Lahti 8–1 KuPS |
Biggest Away Win: | Jaro 0–4 Haka Haka 0–4 Inter Turku TPS 0–4 Inter Turku VPS 0–4 Inter Turku KooTeePee 0–4 MYPA |
Highest Scoring: | Lahti 8–1 KuPS |
Total Goals: | 482 |
Average Goals: | 2.65 |
Prevseason: | 2007 |
Nextseason: | 2009 |
The 2008 season of Veikkausliiga was the 78th season of top-tier football in Finland. It started on 27 April 2008 and ended on 26 October 2008. The defending champions were Tampere United.
AC Oulu finished at the bottom of the 2007 season and therefore were relegated to Ykkönen. Their place was taken by Ykkönen champions KuPS. 13th placed Veikkausliiga team FC Viikingit and Ykkönen runners-up RoPS competed in a two-legged relegation play-offs for one spot in 2008 Veikkausliiga. RoPS won 2–1 on aggregate and therefore were promoted to Veikkausliiga.
Club | Location | Stadium | Capacity | Manager | |
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FC Haka | Valkeakoski | Tehtaan kenttä | 3,516 | Olli Huttunen | |
HJK | Helsinki | Finnair Stadium | 10,770 | Antti Muurinen | |
FC Honka | Espoo | Tapiolan Urheilupuisto | 6,000 | Mika Lehkosuo | |
FC Inter | Turku | Veritas Stadion | 10,000 | Job Dragtsma | |
FF Jaro | Jakobstad | Jakobstads Centralplan | 5,000 | Mika Laurikainen | |
FC KooTeePee | Kotka | Arto Tolsa Areena | 4,780 | Tommi Kautonen | |
KuPS | Kuopio | Magnum Areena | 3,500 | Kai Nyyssönen | |
FC Lahti | Lahti | Lahden Stadion | 15,000 | Ilkka Mäkelä | |
IFK Mariehamn | Mariehamn | Wiklöf Holding Arena | 1,600 | Pekka Lyyski | |
MYPA | Anjalankoski | Saviniemi | 4,067 | Janne Lindberg | |
RoPS | Rovaniemi | Keskuskenttä | 4,000 | Valeri Bondarenko | |
Tampere United | Tampere | Ratina Stadion | 17,000 | Ari Hjelm | |
TPS | Turku | Veritas Stadion | 10,000 | John Allen | |
VPS | Vaasa | Hietalahti Stadium | 4,600 | Tomi Kärkkäinen |
KuPS and Ykkönen runners-up FC Viikingit competed in a two-legged play-offs for one spot in Veikkausliiga 2009. KuPS won 2–1 on aggregate and thereby retained their league spot for 2009.
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Source: veikkausliiga.com
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
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1 | Aleksandr Kokko | Honka | 13 |
Henri Myntti | Tampere United | 13 | |
3 | Mikko Hyyrynen | Jaro | 11 |
Toni Lehtinen | Haka | 11 | |
Mikko Paatelainen | TPS | 11 | |
Rafael | Lahti | 11 | |
8 | Jarno Parikka | HJK | 9 |
Hermanni Vuorinen | Honka | 9 | |
10 | Tarmo Neemelo | MYPA | 8 |
Mika Ojala | Inter Turku | 8 | |
Paulus Roiha | HJK | 8 |
Source: Veikkausliigan parhaat kaudella 2008 nimetty