2018 Ykkönen

The 2018 Ykkönen was the 47th season of Ykkönen, the second highest football league in Finland. The season began on 28 April 2018 and ended on 27 October 2018.^[1] The winning team was directly promoted to the 2019 Veikkausliiga, while the second-placed team played a play-off against the eleventh-placed team from Veikkausliiga to decide who would play in that division. The bottom two teams were relegated to Kakkonen.

Ykkönen

Season	2018
Champions	HIFK
Promoted	HIFK KPV
Relegated	JJK Klubi 04
Matches played	135
Goals scored	371 (2.75 per match)
Top goalscorer	Alberto Alvarado Morín (17 goals)
← 2017 2019 →

Overview

AC Kajaani

AC Oulu

EIF

FC Haka

FC KTP

FF Jaro

HIFK
Klubi 04

JJK

KPV

Location of teams in Ykkönen 2018

A total of ten teams contested in the league, including five sides from the 2017 season, HIFK and JJK who was relegated from Veikkausliiga and Klubi 04 and AC Kajaani who were promoted from Kakkonen after winning the promotion play-offs.

OPS, who was refused a license for Ykkönen, was replaced by FC KTP.^[2]

GrIFK and Gnistan were relegated from 2017 Ykkönen.

TPS, the champion of 2017 Ykkönen and FC Honka, the runner-up of 2017 Ykkönen were promoted to the 2018 Veikkausliiga.

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Manager
AC Kajaani	Kajaani	Kajaanin Liikuntapuisto	1,000	Mika Lumijärvi
AC Oulu	Oulu	Raatin Stadion	6,996	Mika Lähderinne
EIF	Raseborg	Ekenäs Centrumplan	2,500	Gabri Garcia Xatart
FC Haka	Valkeakoski	Tehtaan kenttä	3,516	Keith Armstrong
FC KTP	Kotka	Arto Tolsa Areena	4,780	Jari-Pekka Gummerus
FF Jaro	Jakobstad	Jakobstads Centralplan	5,000	Tomi Kärkkäinen
HIFK	Helsinki	Telia 5G -areena	10,770	Teemu Kankkunen
JJK	Jyväskylä	Harjun stadion	3,000	Juha Pasoja
Klubi 04	Helsinki	Telia 5G -areena	10,770	Mikko Mannila
KPV	Kokkola	Kokkolan Keskuskenttä	2,000	Jarmo Korhonen

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	HIFK (P)	27	16	6	5	47	22	+25	54	Promotion to Veikkausliiga
2	KPV (O, P)	27	16	4	7	44	26	+18	52	Qualification to Promotion play-offs
3	EIF	27	12	11	4	36	26	+10	47
4	AC Oulu	27	13	5	9	41	30	+11	44
5	FC Haka	27	12	7	8	41	28	+13	43
6	FF Jaro	27	11	5	11	34	30	+4	38
7	FC KTP	27	7	8	12	29	40	−11	29
8	AC Kajaani	27	6	7	14	40	53	−13	25
9	JJK (R)	27	4	8	15	32	52	−20	20	Relegation to Kakkonen
10	Klubi 04 (R)	27	4	7	16	27	64	−37	19

Source: Suomen Palloliitto
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated