# 1982 Mestaruussarja

Statistics of (Finnish football) Mestaruussarja in the 1982 season.

## Overview

Preliminary Stage was contested by 12 teams, and higher 8 teams go into Championship Group. Lower 4 teams fought in promotion/relegation group with higher 4 teams of Ykkönen.
Kuusysi Lahti won the championship.

## Preliminary stage
### Table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | TPS Turku | 22 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 48 | 20 | +28 | 29 |
| 2 | Koparit Kuopio | 22 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 41 | 22 | +19 | 29 |
| 3 | Haka Valkeakoski | 22 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 45 | 31 | +14 | 28 |
| 4 | Ilves Tampere | 22 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 46 | 38 | +8 | 26 |
| 5 | HJK Helsinki | 22 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 53 | 39 | +14 | 25 |
| 6 | Kuusysi Lahti | 22 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 36 | 26 | +10 | 25 |
| 7 | KPV Kokkola | 22 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 38 | 29 | +9 | 25 |
| 8 | KuPS Kuopio | 22 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 24 | 41 | −17 | 21 |
| 9 | OPS Oulu | 22 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 24 | 43 | −19 | 18 |
| 10 | Sepsi-78 | 22 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 33 | 44 | −11 | 17 |
| 11 | KTP Kotka | 22 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 29 | 55 | −26 | 11 |
| 12 | Elo Kuopio | 22 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 28 | 57 | −29 | 10 |

### Results

| Home \ Away | ELO | HAK | HJK | ILV | KPT | KPV | KTP | KPS | KUU | OPS | S78 | TPS |
| Elo | | 2–4 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 0–5 |
| FC Haka | 7–0 | | 6–5 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–4 | 4–1 | 1–6 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 1–1 |
| HJK Helsinki | 4–1 | 2–2 | | 4–2 | 1–1 | 6–2 | 6–1 | 4–1 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 6–2 | 2–3 |
| Ilves | 4–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | | 4–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 7–0 | 2–1 | 3–3 |
| Koparit | 2–0 | 3–3 | 2–0 | 2–1 | | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 3–0 |
| KPV | 4–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 6–0 | 1–0 | | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 0–2 | 3–1 |
| KTP | 2–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 6–2 | 1–6 | 2–1 | | 4–0 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 |
| KuPS | 2–2 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–2 |
| Kuusysi | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 3–4 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 6–1 | 2–0 | | 3–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 |
| OPS | 4–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | | 1–5 | 0–3 |
| Sepsi-78 | 4–3 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–4 | 2–4 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 | | 3–2 |
| TPS | 3–0 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 5–0 | 6–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | |

## Championship group
### Table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Kuusysi Lahti (C) | 29 | 16 | 4 | 9 | 49 | 30 | +19 | 24 |
| 2 | HJK Helsinki | 29 | 15 | 4 | 10 | 62 | 47 | +15 | 22 |
| 3 | Haka Valkeakoski | 29 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 54 | 40 | +14 | 22 |
| 4 | TPS Turku | 29 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 64 | 32 | +32 | 21 |
| 5 | Koparit Kuopio | 29 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 51 | 30 | +21 | 21 |
| 6 | KPV Kokkola | 29 | 14 | 3 | 12 | 49 | 44 | +5 | 19 |
| 7 | Ilves Tampere | 29 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 56 | 57 | −1 | 18 |
| 8 | KuPS Kuopio | 29 | 9 | 8 | 12 | 31 | 51 | −20 | 16 |
The points were halved (rounded upwards in uneven cases) after the preliminary stage.

### Results

| Home \ Away | HAK | HJK | ILV | KPT | KPV | KPS | KUU | TPS |
| FC Haka | | | 3–1 | 1–0 | | 0–0 | 1–3 | |
| HJK Helsinki | 1–1 | | | 2–5 | | 1–0 | | |
| Ilves | | 0–3 | | | 5–2 | | 0–5 | 2–1 |
| Koparit | | | 1–1 | | 2–0 | | 1–2 | 0–1 |
| KPV Kokkola | 2–0 | 2–0 | | | | 3–0 | | |
| KuPS | | | 4–1 | 1–1 | | | 0–0 | |
| Kuusysi | | 0–1 | | | 1–0 | | | 2–1 |
| TPS | 2–3 | 0–1 | | | 7–2 | 4–2 | | |

## Promotion and relegation group
### Table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | BP | Pts |
| 1 | RoPS Rovaniemi (P) | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 4 | +8 | 3 | 15 |
| 2 | Reipas Lahti (P) | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 11 | −1 | 4 | 14 |
| 3 | KTP Kotka | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 6 | +10 | 2 | 13 |
| 4 | OPS Oulu | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 5 | +8 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | MP Mikkeli | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 9 | +2 | 2 | 8 |
| 6 | Sepsi-78 (R) | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 14 | −4 | 3 | 7 |
| 7 | Elo Kuopio (R) | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 21 | −10 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | FinnPa Helsinki | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 16 | −13 | 1 | 2 |
The teams obtained bonus points on the basis of their preliminary stage position.

### Results

| Home \ Away | ELO | FPA | KTP | MP | OPS | REI | RPS | S78 |
| Elo | | 3–0 | | 3–3 | | | 0–3 | |
| FinnPa | | | 0–2 | | 0–1 | 0–2 | | |
| KTP | 7–2 | | | | | 2–1 | | 4–1 |
| MP | | 6–2 | 0–1 | | 1–1 | | | |
| OPS | 3–1 | | 0–0 | | | 6–0 | | 1–1 |
| Reipas | 1–0 | | | 1–0 | | | 2–1 | 3–2 |
| RoPS | | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | | | |
| Sepsi-78 | 4–2 | 1–1 | | 0–1 | | | 1–2 | |