# 1988 Mestaruussarja

Statistics of Mestaruussarja in the 1988 season.

## Overview

It was contested by 12 teams, and HJK Helsinki won the championship.

## Preliminary stage
### Table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | HJK Helsinki | 22 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 44 | 22 | +22 | 34 |
| 2 | Kuusysi Lahti | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 48 | 25 | +23 | 29 |
| 3 | Reipas Lahti | 22 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 39 | 29 | +10 | 27 |
| 4 | RoPS Rovaniemi | 22 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 31 | 22 | +9 | 26 |
| 5 | TPS Turku | 22 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 25 | 19 | +6 | 26 |
| 6 | Haka Valkeakoski | 22 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 32 | 26 | +6 | 23 |
| 7 | KePS Kemi | 22 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 24 | 32 | −8 | 23 |
| 8 | Ilves Tampere | 22 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 31 | 38 | −7 | 20 |
| 9 | MP Mikkeli | 22 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 19 | 29 | −10 | 20 |
| 10 | OTP Oulu | 22 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 24 | 31 | −7 | 16 |
| 11 | KuPS Kuopio | 22 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 18 | 30 | −12 | 14 |
| 12 | PPT Pori | 22 | 0 | 6 | 16 | 21 | 53 | −32 | 6 |

### Results

| Home \ Away | HAK | HJK | ILV | KEM | KPS | KUU | MP | OTP | PPT | REI | RPS | TPS |
| FC Haka | | 1–1 | 2–1 | 7–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–4 | 3–3 | 3–1 | 2–2 | 1–3 |
| HJK Helsinki | 1–0 | | 3–0 | 6–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 5–0 | 3–1 | 0–2 |
| Ilves | 0–2 | 3–1 | | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 0–6 | 0–0 | 0–1 |
| KePS | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | | 1–0 | 1–5 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 |
| KuPS | 1–2 | 0–2 | 2–4 | 1–2 | | 3–1 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Kuusysi | 0–2 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | | 1–1 | 3–0 | 4–1 | 5–3 | 1–5 | 2–2 |
| MP | 3–2 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–3 | | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 0–2 |
| OTP | 0–0 | 0–2 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | | 3–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 |
| PPT | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–4 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 0–6 | 0–2 | 2–3 | | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 |
| Reipas | 0–0 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–5 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | | 1–0 | 4–1 |
| RoPS | 2–0 | 1–2 | 4–3 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 4–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | | 1–0 |
| TPS | 0–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | |

## Championship group
### Table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | HJK Helsinki (C) | 27 | 20 | 3 | 4 | 55 | 28 | +27 | 43 |
| 2 | Kuusysi Lahti | 27 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 57 | 30 | +27 | 34 |
| 3 | RoPS Rovaniemi | 27 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 37 | 29 | +8 | 31 |
| 4 | Reipas Lahti | 27 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 47 | 39 | +8 | 30 |
| 5 | TPS Turku | 27 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 29 | 27 | +2 | 30 |
| 6 | Haka Valkeakoski | 27 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 41 | 37 | +4 | 27 |

### Results

| Home \ Away | HAK | HJK | KUU | REI | RPS | TPS |
| FC Haka | | 1–3 | | | 3–1 | |
| HJK Helsinki | | | 3–2 | | 1–1 | 2–1 |
| Kuusysi | 3–0 | | | 1–1 | | 3–0 |
| Reipas | 2–4 | 1–2 | | | | 2–0 |
| RoPS | | | 1–0 | 3–2 | | |
| TPS | 2–1 | | | | 1–0 | |

## Relegation group
### Table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | KePS Kemi | 27 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 29 | 38 | −9 | 28 |
| 2 | MP Mikkeli | 27 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 24 | 33 | −9 | 26 |
| 3 | Ilves Tampere | 27 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 40 | 47 | −7 | 25 |
| 4 | OTP Oulu | 27 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 32 | 36 | −4 | 23 |
| 5 | KuPS Kuopio (O) | 27 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 24 | 34 | −10 | 20 |
| 6 | PPT Pori (R) | 27 | 0 | 7 | 20 | 26 | 63 | −37 | 7 |

### Results

| Home \ Away | ILV | KEM | KPS | MP | OTP | PPT |
| Ilves | | 1–1 | 2–2 | | | 4–3 |
| KePS | | | 2–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | |
| KuPS | | | | | 0–0 | 2–0 |
| MP | 0–0 | | 0–0 | | | 2–1 |
| OTP | 3–2 | | | 3–1 | | |
| PPT | | 0–1 | | | 1–1 | |