2022 Ykkönen

Ykkönen

Season	2022
Champions	KPT
Promoted	KPT
Relegated	PK35 PEPO PIF
← 2021 2023 →

The 2022 Ykkönen was the 51st season of Ykkönen in its current format as the second tier of Finnish football since its inception in 1973. The season began on 18 April 2022 and ended on 8 October 2022.

Teams

Twelve teams compete in the league. Following the 2021 season, VPS (champions) were promoted to the Veikkausliiga. They were replaced by KPT, who were relegated from the first tier. Klubi 04, MuSa and JIPPO were relegated to Kakkonen and replaced by the 2021 Kakkonen champions, JaPs, Pargas IF and SJK Akatemia.

Stadiums and locations

Ekenäs IF

FF Jaro

Gnistan

JaPS

KPT Koparit

KPV

MP

Pargas IF

PEPO

PK35

SJK Akatemia

TPS

Location of teams in 2022 Ykkönen

The following teams are participating in the 2022 Ykkönen season.

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Manager
Ekenäs IF	Ekenäs	Ekenäs Sparbank Arena	2,500	Johan Esteves
FF Jaro	Jakobstad	Jakobstads Centralplan	5,000	Niklas Vidjeskog
Gnistan	Helsinki	Mustapekka Areena	1,000	Jussi Leppälahti
JaPS	Järvenpää	Järvenpään keskuskenttä	1,000	Jani Sarajärvi
KPV	Kokkola	Kokkolan keskuskenttä	3,000	Janne Hyppönen
KPT Koparit	Kotka	Arto Tolsa Areena	4,780	Argo Arumäe
MP	Mikkeli	Mikkelin Urheilupuisto	7,000	Juha Pasoja
PEPO	Lappeenranta	Kimpinen Sports Center	5,000	Mika Lahtinen
Pargas IF	Pargas	Pajbacka Idrottsplan	1,000	Sami Ristilä
PK-35	Vantaa	Myyrmäen jalkapallostadion	4,700	Jari Pyykölä
SJK Akatemia	Seinäjoki	OmaSP Stadion	6,000	Stevie Grieve
TPS	Turku	Veritas Stadion	9,372	Jonatan Johansson

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	KTP	22	14	4	4	44	20	+24	46	Qualification for the Promotion Round
2	TPS	22	13	6	3	39	16	+23	45
3	FF Jaro	22	10	5	7	43	25	+18	35
4	EIF	22	8	8	6	39	34	+5	32
5	KPV	22	8	8	6	24	32	−8	32
6	JaPS	22	9	4	9	31	39	−8	31
7	Gnistan	22	8	6	8	35	31	+4	30	Qualification for the Relegation Round
8	MP	22	7	6	9	35	33	+2	27
9	SJK Akatemia	22	6	7	9	31	32	−1	25
10	PEPO	22	6	6	10	25	38	−13	24
11	PK-35	22	5	7	10	28	44	−16	22
12	Pargas IF	22	4	1	17	21	51	−30	13

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 champion, teams for relegation or UEFA competition and will be played on a neutral ground).

Results

Home \ Away	EIF	GNS	JAR	JPS	KPV	KTP	MIP	PEP	PKK	PIF	SJK	TPS
EIF	—	0–2	2–1	0–3	0–3	2–0	2–2	2–1	2–1	4–0	5–0	1–3
Gnistan	1–1	—	2–2	10–1	1–2	2–1	0–2	5–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–1
FF Jaro	3–3	0–2	—	3–1	3–0	2–2	2–0	3–0	4–0	4–0	1–1	1–2
JaPS	1–0	2–1	0–0	—	0–0	2–1	1–4	0–1	3–0	4–1	1–1	0–1
KPV	1–1	0–2	1–0	1–0	—	1–3	3–2	2–1	1–1	2–1	0–3	1–1
KTP	1–1	4–0	2–1	3–1	3–0	—	4–1	1–0	4–0	3–1	1–0	0–0
MP	2–2	1–1	3–0	2–0	1–1	3–0	—	2–1	1–2	2–3	1–1	1–1
PEPO	2–2	1–2	0–3	2–4	1–1	0–2	2–1	—	3–3	2–1	1–0	1–1
PK-35	3–1	2–2	0–4	2–2	1–1	0–1	2–0	1–2	—	2–2	2–0	2–1
Pargas IF	2–3	1–0	0–2	0–1	1–2	1–4	2–3	0–2	3–2	—	0–2	0–2
SJK Akatemia	0–3	4–0	1–3	3–4	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–2	4–1	4–0	—	0–2
TPS	2–2	5–0	3–1	3–0	5–0	1–3	1–0	0–0	2–0	0–2	2–1	—

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

Promotion Round

The top six from the regular season enter the Promotion Round and play each other for the third time. The winner qualifies directly for promotion to Veikkausliiga, whilst 2nd, 3rd and 4th which are runners-up enter a playoff against the second to last team in the 2022 Veikkausliiga for promotion.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	KTP (C, P)	27	17	4	6	60	28	+32	55	Promotion to the Veikkausliiga
2	TPS	27	15	7	5	47	23	+24	52	Qualification for the Veikkausliiga play-off
3	FF Jaro	27	15	5	7	55	29	+26	50
4	EIF	27	10	8	9	46	41	+5	38
5	KPV	27	9	9	9	32	45	−13	36
6	JaPS	27	10	4	13	37	57	−20	34

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 champion, teams for relegation or UEFA competition and will be played on a neutral ground).
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted

Results

Home \ Away	KTP	TPS	JAR	EIF	KPV	JPS
KTP	—	0–1	—	—	6–2	6–0
TPS	—	—	0–1	2–0	2–2	—
FF Jaro	4–2	—	—	2–0	2–1	—
EIF	1–2	—	—	—	—	4–0
KPV	—	—	—	1–2	—	2–1
JaPS	—	4–3	1–3	—	—	—

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

Relegation Round

The bottom six from the regular season enter the Relegation Round and play each other for the third time. The bottom three sides are relegated to the Kakkonen.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
1	Gnistan	27	11	7	9	45	38	+7	40
2	MP	27	10	6	11	48	42	+6	36
3	SJK Akatemia	27	9	8	10	43	40	+3	35
4	PK-35 (R)	27	8	7	12	36	52	−16	31	Relegation to the Kakkonen
5	PEPO (R)	27	7	6	14	43	40	+3	27
6	Pargas IF (R)	27	5	1	21	29	61	−32	16

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 champion, teams for relegation or UEFA competition and will be played on a neutral ground).
(R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	GNS	MIP	PEP	PKK	PIF	SJK
Gnistan	—	2–1	4–2	—	2–1	—
MP	—	—	6–2	1–0	—	1–2
PEPO	—	—	—	4–2	1–3	—
PK-35	1–0	—	—	—	1–0	—
Pargas IF	—	3–4	—	—	—	1–2
SJK Akatemia	2–2	—	3–0	3–4	—	—

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