# 2016 Ykkönen

The 2016 Ykkönen was the 45th season of Ykkönen, the second highest football league in Finland. The winning team qualified directly for promotion to the 2017 Veikkausliiga, while the second-placed team had to play a play-off against the eleventh-placed team from Veikkausliiga to decide who wod play in that division. The bottom two teams were relegated to Kakkonen.

## Overview

A total of ten teams contested in the league, including six sides from the 2015 season, FF Jaro and KTP who was relegated from Veikkausliiga and GrIFK and KPV who promoted from Kakkonen after winning the promotion play-offs.
MP and VIFK were relegated from 2015 Ykkönen.
PS Kemi, the champion of 2015 Ykkönen and PK-35 Vantaa, the runner-up of 2015 Ykkönen were promoted to the 2016 Veikkausliiga.
| Club | Location | Stadium | Capacity | Manager |
| AC Oulu | Oulu | Raatin Stadion | 6,996 | Rauno Ojanen |
| EIF | Raseborg | Ekenäs Centrumplan | 2,500 | Ilkka Marttila |
| FC Jazz | Pori | Porin Stadion | 12,000 | Jani Uotinen |
| FF Jaro | Jakobstad | Jakobstads Centralplan | 5,000 | Kristain Heames |
| GrIFK | Kauniainen | Kauniaisten Keskuskenttä | 700 | Rami Luomanpää |
| Haka | Valkeakoski | Tehtaan kenttä | 3,516 | Kari Martonen |
| JJK | Jyväskylä | Harjun stadion | 3,000 | Juha Pasoja |
| KPV | Kokkola | Kokkolan Keskuskenttä | 2,000 | Jarmo Korhonen |
| KTP | Kotka | Arto Tolsa Areena | 4,780 | Ossi Virta |
| TPS | Turku | Paavo Nurmi Stadium | 13,000 | Mika Laurikainen |

### Managerial changes

| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Incoming manager | Date of appointment | Table |
| EIF | Jens Mattfolk | End of contract | n/a | Stefan Strömborg | 27 November 2015 | Pre-season |
| FF Jaro | Alexei Eremenko Sr. | Sacked | 10 June 2016 | Niklas Vidjeskog (as caretaker) | 10 June 2016 | 9th |
| KTP | Sami Ristilä | Sacked | 30 June 2016 | Ossi Virta | 30 June 2016 | 8th |
| FC Jazz | John Allen | Mutual termination | 20 July 2016 | Jani Uotinen | 21 July 2016 | 12th |
| FF Jaro | Niklas Vidjeskog | Caretaker | 28 July 2016 | Kristian Heames | 28 July 2016 | 9th |
| KPV | Antti Ylimäki | Sacked | 30 August 2016 | Jarmo Korhonen | 30 August 2016 | 4th |
| EIF | Stefan Strömborg | Mutual termination | 21 September 2016 | Ilkka Marttila | 22 September 2016 | 7th |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | JJK (C, P) | 27 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 49 | 38 | +11 | 52 | Promotion to Veikkausliiga |
| 2 | TPS (Q) | 27 | 16 | 3 | 8 | 60 | 38 | +22 | 51 | Qualification to Promotion playoffs |
| 3 | FF Jaro | 27 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 47 | 33 | +14 | 44 | |
| 4 | AC Oulu | 27 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 50 | 31 | +19 | 43 | |
| 5 | KPV | 27 | 11 | 6 | 10 | 40 | 43 | −3 | 39 | |
| 6 | GrIFK | 27 | 11 | 3 | 13 | 33 | 43 | −10 | 36 | |
| 7 | Haka | 27 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 43 | 46 | −3 | 32 | |
| 8 | EIF | 27 | 10 | 1 | 16 | 36 | 53 | −17 | 31 | |
| 9 | KTP (R) | 27 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 47 | 50 | −3 | 28 | Relegation to Kakkonen |
| 10 | FC Jazz (R) | 27 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 35 | 64 | −29 | 20 | Relegation to Kakkonen |

## Statistics
### Top scorers

Source: palloliitto.fi (in Finnish)
    As of 15 October 2016.
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Aristote Mboma | AC Oulu | 17 |
| 2 | Jussi Aalto | KTP | 14 |
| 2 | Mikko Hyyrynen | TPS | 14 |
| 2 | Irakli Sirbiladze | KPV | 14 |
| 5 | Ilari Mettälä | TPS | 12 |
| 6 | Elias Ahde | FC Jazz / Haka | 11 |
| 7 | Saša Jovović | EIF | 10 |
| 7 | Alberto Alvarado Morín | FF Jaro | 10 |
| 9 | Daniel Sánchez | FC Jazz | 9 |
| 10 | 7 players | 7 players | 8 |
| 17 | 3 players | 3 players | 7 |
| 20 | 5 players | 5 players | 6 |
| 25 | 7 players | 7 players | 5 |
| 32 | 8 players | 8 players | 4 |
| 40 | 13 players | 13 players | 3 |
| 53 | 26 players | 26 players | 2 |
| 79 | 34 players | 34 players | 1 |