1997 Veikkausliiga

Veikkausliiga

Season	1997
← 1996 1998 →

Statistics of Veikkausliiga in the 1997 season.

Overview

It was contested by 10 teams, and HJK Helsinki won the championship.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	HJK (C)	27	18	4	5	53	18	+35	58	Qualification to Champions League first qualifying round
2	VPS	27	13	9	5	40	20	+20	48	Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round
3	FinnPa	27	10	9	8	27	36	−9	39
4	TPS	27	10	8	9	43	41	+2	38	Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
5	MyPa	27	8	13	6	31	23	+8	37
6	RoPS	27	9	6	12	31	30	+1	33
7	Jazz	27	8	7	12	31	42	−11	31
8	FF Jaro	27	8	4	15	33	48	−15	28
9	TP-Seinäjoki (R)	27	5	12	10	22	34	−12	27	Qualification to relegation play-offs
10	Inter Turku (R)	27	6	8	13	23	42	−19	26	Relegation to Ykkönen

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Haka Valkeakoski as winners of the 1997 Finnish Cup from the lower division qualified for the qualifying round of the 1998–99 Cup Winners' Cup.

Results

Matches 1–18

Home \ Away	FPA	HJK	INT	JAR	JAZ	MYP	RPS	TSE	TPS	VPS
FinnPa		0–2	1–1	3–1	2–1	0–1	1–3	1–0	3–3	0–4
HJK Helsinki	3–0		1–0	3–2	3–2	2–1	3–1	6–1	1–2	1–1
Inter Turku	0–1	0–1		2–0	1–1	1–1	3–2	2–2	0–3	1–3
Jaro	1–1	2–1	1–1		2–3	1–5	0–3	2–1	3–1	3–0
Jazz	1–1	1–0	5–2	2–1		0–0	1–1	1–0	4–2	1–1
MyPa	1–2	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–1		0–1	3–0	2–2	1–1
RoPS	0–0	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–0		1–2	4–2	2–2
TP-Seinäjoki	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–1		0–1	0–0
TPS	7–0	0–2	0–1	1–3	2–1	0–0	2–0	1–1		0–3
VPS	0–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	3–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	2–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 19–27

Home \ Away	FPA	HJK	INT	JAR	JAZ	MYP	RPS	TSE	TPS	VPS
FinnPa		1–0	2–2		3–0	2–0		1–0
HJK Helsinki				4–1		3–0	0–0		5–0	3–1
Inter Turku		0–4			0–1			0–2	0–2
Jaro	3–0		0–2				0–2			0–2
Jazz		0–2		0–2		1–1		0–2	1–3
MyPa			3–0	3–1			3–1		0–0	0–1
RoPS	1–0		1–0		5–1			0–1
TP-Seinäjoki		0–1		1–1		2–2			2–2
TPS	1–1			3–0			1–1			2–1
VPS	0–0		4–1		1–0		3–1	4–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Attendances

No.	Club	Average
1	VPS	3,893
2	HJK	3,112
3	Jazz	2,226
4	FinnPa	1,856
5	Seinäjoki	1,852
6	MyPa	1,762
7	TPS	1,646
8	Inter Turku	1,560
9	Jaro	1,387
10	RoPS	1,156

Source:

See also

• Suomen Cup 1997

External links

• Finland - List of final tables (RSSSF)