# 1981 Mestaruussarja

Statistics of Mestaruussarja in the 1981 season.

## Overview

Preliminary Stage is performed in 12 teams, and higher 8 teams go into Championship Group. Lower 4 teams fought in promotion/relegation group with higher 4 teams of Ykkönen.
HJK Helsinki won the championship.

## Preliminary stage
### Table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | KPT Kuopio | 22 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 45 | 22 | +23 | 31 |
| 2 | HJK Helsinki | 22 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 40 | 24 | +16 | 28 |
| 3 | TPS Turku | 22 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 36 | 22 | +14 | 28 |
| 4 | Haka Valkeakoski | 22 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 42 | 24 | +18 | 27 |
| 5 | KTP Kotka | 22 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 33 | 26 | +7 | 26 |
| 6 | OPS Oulu | 22 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 43 | 34 | +9 | 25 |
| 7 | Ilves Tampere | 22 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 44 | 28 | +16 | 24 |
| 8 | KuPS Kuopio | 22 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 34 | 37 | −3 | 23 |
| 9 | Sepsi-78 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 21 | 30 | −9 | 20 |
| 10 | RoPS Rovaniemi | 22 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 27 | 44 | −17 | 13 |
| 11 | MP Mikkeli | 22 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 17 | 50 | −33 | 11 |
| 12 | MiPK Mikkeli | 22 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 22 | 63 | −41 | 8 |

### Results

| Home \ Away | HAK | HJK | ILV | KPT | KTP | KPS | MPK | MPM | OPS | RPS | S78 | TPS |
| FC Haka | | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 5–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 |
| HJK Helsinki | 3–1 | | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 5–0 | 0–2 |
| Ilves | 5–2 | 0–2 | | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 3–0 | 5–0 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 1–2 |
| KPT | 2–2 | 3–1 | 0–0 | | 6–0 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 4–2 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 1–1 |
| KTP | 1–1 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 1–2 | | 4–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 3–1 |
| KuPS | 0–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | | 6–0 | 2–0 | 5–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 |
| MiPK | 0–3 | 2–4 | 1–5 | 1–1 | 0–3 | 0–2 | | 2–3 | 2–3 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 |
| MP | 0–3 | 2–0 | 0–7 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 2–2 | | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 |
| OPS | 0–4 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 4–2 | 6–0 | 6–0 | 2–2 | | 5–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 |
| RoPS | 2–3 | 0–2 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 7–1 | 2–0 | 0–2 | | 2–1 | 0–2 |
| Sepsi-78 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | | 0–1 |
| TPS | 2–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–4 | 0–2 | 5–1 | 3–1 | 5–0 | 1–1 | 4–2 | 0–1 | |

## Championship group
### Table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | HJK Helsinki (C) | 29 | 17 | 5 | 7 | 57 | 32 | +25 | 25 |
| 2 | KPT Kuopio | 29 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 56 | 28 | +28 | 23 |
| 3 | Haka Valkeakoski | 29 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 54 | 34 | +20 | 23 |
| 4 | TPS Turku | 29 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 46 | 27 | +19 | 22 |
| 5 | Ilves Tampere | 29 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 59 | 46 | +13 | 19 |
| 6 | KTP Kotka | 29 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 38 | 36 | +2 | 18 |
| 7 | KuPS Kuopio | 29 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 46 | 50 | −4 | 18 |
| 8 | OPS Oulu | 29 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 55 | 58 | −3 | 16 |
The points were halved (rounded upwards in uneven cases) after the preliminary stage.

### Results

| Home \ Away | HAK | HJK | ILV | KPT | KTP | KPS | OPS | TPS |
| FC Haka | | | 2–0 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 2–2 | | |
| HJK Helsinki | 1–3 | | 4–3 | 1–0 | | 6–0 | | |
| Ilves | | | | | 4–1 | | 5–4 | 0–5 |
| KPT | | | 1–1 | | 1–2 | | 5–0 | 0–0 |
| KTP | | 0–1 | | | | | 1–1 | 0–0 |
| KuPS | | | 1–2 | 2–2 | 1–1 | | | |
| OPS | 4–1 | 1–3 | | | | 0–6 | | |
| TPS | 1–2 | 1–1 | | | | 0–0 | 3–2 | |

## Promotion and relegation group
### Table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | BP | Pts |
| 1 | Kuusysi Lahti (P) | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 8 | +9 | 4 | 14 |
| 2 | Elo Kuopio (P) | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 4 | +8 | 2 | 13 |
| 3 | KPV Kokkola (P) | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 10 | +6 | 3 | 12 |
| 4 | Sepsi-78 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 11 | +5 | 4 | 12 |
| 5 | RoPS Rovaniemi (R) | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 13 | +3 | 3 | 12 |
| 6 | MP Mikkeli (R) | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 18 | −11 | 2 | 5 |
| 7 | Honka Espoo | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 16 | −9 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | MiPK Mikkeli (R) | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 19 | −11 | 1 | 4 |
The teams obtained bonus points on the basis of their preliminary stage position.

### Results

| Home \ Away | ELO | HON | KPV | KUU | MPM | MPK | RPS | S78 |
| Elo | | | 0–1 | | | | 3–1 | 2–1 |
| Honka | 0–1 | | 1–2 | | | | | 1–4 |
| KPV | | | | 0–1 | 3–2 | 7–1 | 1–1 | |
| Kuusysi Lahti | 1–1 | 2–0 | | | 5–0 | 5–1 | | |
| MP | 0–4 | 2–2 | | | | | | 1–1 |
| MiPK | 0–1 | 0–1 | | | 1–1 | | | |
| RoPS | | 5–2 | | 5–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | | |
| Sepsi-78 | | | 4–2 | 1–1 | | 2–4 | 3–0 | |