2019 SJK season

The 2019 season is Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho's 12th competitive season, and sixth in the Veikkausliiga.

SJK

2019 season
Chairman	Raimo Sarajärvi
Manager	Aleksei Yeryomenko (until 16 August) Brian Page (from 16 August)
Stadium	OmaSP Stadion
Veikkausliiga	9th
Finnish Cup	Sixth Round
Top goalscorer	League: Denys Oliynyk (8) All: Denys Oliynyk (10)
Home colours Away colours
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Season Events

On 16 August, Aleksei Yeryomenko left his role as manager by mutual consent, with Brian Page being appointed in his place.^[1]

Squad

As of 26 September 2019^[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  FIN Jesse Öst 2 DF  FIN Joel Mero 3 DF  SEN Seynabou Benga 5 DF  FIN Dani Hatakka 6 MF  GHA Jude Arthur (on loan from Liberty Professionals) 9 FW  BRA Matheus Batista (on loan from Atlético Tubarão) 10 FW  ENG Billy Ions 11 FW  UKR Denys Oliynyk 14 MF  FIN Maximo Tolonen 15 DF  EST Trevor Elhi 16 DF  FIN Joonas Sundman 17 DF  FIN Ville Tikkanen 18 DF  FIN Jarkko Hurme (3rd captain)

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 MF  FIN Obed Malolo 21 FW  FIN Oskar Pihlaja 22 GK  FIN Severi Ikäheimo 23 DF  CIV Boris Kadio 25 MF  FIN Daniel Håkans 26 MF  FIN Jesse Sarajärvi 27 MF  FIN Joona Lautamaja 29 FW  FIN Jeremiah Streng 30 DF  BRA Nadson 33 GK  EST Mihkel Aksalu (Vice-captain) 49 MF  GEO Zakaria Beglarishvili (on loan from Flora) 58 MF  FIN Mehmet Hetemaj (Captain) 77 FW  USA Dion Acoff

Transfers

In

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	From	Fee	Ref.
31 January 2019	MF		Moshtagh Yaghoubi	HJK	Free	[3]
15 February 2019	FW		Dion Acoff	Valur	Undisclosed	[4]
3 March 2019	DF		Nadson	Krylia Sovetov	Free	[5]
10 March 2019	MF		Daniel Håkans	SJK Akatemia	Promoted	[6]
10 March 2019	FW		Jeremiah Streng	SJK Akatemia	Promoted	[6]
3 April 2019	DF		Trevor Elhi	Botev Vratsa	Undisclosed	[7]
6 July 2019	DF		Seynabou Benga	Ekenäs IF	Undisclosed	[8]

Loans in

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	From	End date	Ref.
11 January 2019	MF		Jude Arthur	Liberty Professionals	End of Season	[9]
25 January 2019	MF		Sergei Eremenko	Spartaks Jūrmala	18 July 2019	[10][11]
4 April 2019	FW		Serge Atakayi	Rangers	11 June 2019	[12]
14 April 2019	FW		Matheus Batista	Atlético Tubarão	End of Season	[13]
8 August 2019	MF		Zakaria Beglarishvili	Flora	End of Season	[14][15]

Released

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	Joined	Date
26 September 2019[16]	MF		Moshtagh Yaghoubi	HIFK	29 November 2019[17]
21 October 2019[15]	GK		Mihkel Aksalu
21 October 2019[15]	DF		Trevor Elhi	FCI Levadia
21 October 2019[15]	DF		Jarkko Hurme	KPV
21 October 2019[15]	DF		Dani Hatakka	Honka
21 October 2019[15]	DF		Joel Mero	HIFK
21 October 2019[15]	MF		Obed Malolo	RoPS	19 November 2019[18]
21 October 2019[15]	FW		Dion Acoff	Þróttur	1 June 2020[19]

Friendlies

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Competitions

Veikkausliiga

Main article: 2019 Veikkausliiga

The 2019 Veikkausliiga season begins on 3 April 2019 and ends on 3 November 2019.^[20]

Regular season

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation[a]
7	HIFK	27	10	9	8	37	34	+3	39	Qualification for the national Europa League qualification tournament.
8	FC Lahti	27	9	9	9	29	36	−7	36
9	SJK	27	7	9	11	18	29	−11	30
10	RoPS	27	8	6	13	23	35	−12	30
11	KPV (R)	27	7	4	16	32	47	−15	25	Qualification for the relegation play-offs

Source: Veikkausliiga, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Play-off
(Note: Play-off is only played if need to decide champion, teams for relegation or UEFA competition and will be played on a neutral ground).
(R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Teams played against each other twice (22 matches) after which the league split in two (top 6 and bottom 6 teams).

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
27	7	9	11	18	29	−11	30	4	4	6	8	14	−6	3	5	5	10	15	−5

Last updated: 19 October 2019.
Source: See Results

Results by matchday

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27
Ground	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H
Result	W	W	D	L	D	W	D	D	L	D	W	L	W	L	W	W	L	D	L	D	L	L	D	L	L	L	D

Updated to match(es) played on 19 October 2019. Source: See Results
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Results

SJK v HIFK

6 April 2019 1	SJK	1 – 0	HIFK	Seinäjoki
15:00 EET (UTC+3)	Hetemaj  41' Yaghoubi  45' Elhi  48' Oliynyk 85'	Report	Halme  44' Sesay  71'	Stadium: OmaSP Stadion Attendance: 2,269 Referee: Atte Jussila

Inter Turku v SJK

13 April 2019 2	Inter Turku	1 – 2	SJK	Turku
15:00 EET (UTC+3)	Valenčič 86' Tenho  90+6'	Report	Nadson 21'  90+4' Hetemaj  39' Oliynyk 44' Streng  90+1'	Stadium: Veritas Stadion Attendance: 2,280 Referee: Jari Järvinen

SJK v HJK

18 April 2019 3	SJK	0 – 0	HJK	Seinäjoki
18:30 EET (UTC+3)	Oliynyk  9' Yaghoubi  61' Atakayi  71' Hatakka  88'	Report	Singh  88' Tarasov  88'	Stadium: OmaSP Stadion Attendance: 3,671 Referee: Jani Laaksonen

SJK v Ilves

22 April 2019 4	SJK	0 – 1	Ilves	Seinäjoki
18:30 EET (UTC+3)	Yaghoubi  17' Elhi  22' Hetemaj  43' Kadio  63'  86' Arthur  66' Hatakka  81'  90+1' Oliynyk  87'	Report	Fofana  26' Moussa  29' Siira  50' Lauri Ala-Myllymäki 64'	Stadium: OmaSP Stadion Attendance: 3,104 Referee: Oskari Hämäläinen

VPS v SJK

26 April 2019 5	VPS	1 – 1	SJK	Vaasa
18:30 EET (UTC+3)	Arthur 42' (o.g) Kompalla  69' Strandvall  89' Auvinen  90+2'	Report	Yaghoubi 72' Hetemaj  82' Oliynyk  89'	Stadium: Hietalahti Stadium Attendance: 3,432 Referee: Antti Munukka

SJK v KPV

30 April 2019 6	SJK	1 – 0	KPV	Seinäjoki
19:00 EET (UTC+3)	Hurme  75' Batista 82' Yaghoubi  90'	Report	Mannström  45' Pikkarainen  53' Kinnunen  86'	Stadium: OmaSP Stadion Attendance: 3,098 Referee: Ville Nevalainen

Lahti v SJK

5 May 2019 7	Lahti	1 – 1	SJK	Lahti
18:30 EET (UTC+3)	Coubronne  70' Penninkangas 90+3'	Report	Sarajärvi  29' Elhi  37' Kadio  45+1' Oliynyk 72'	Stadium: Lahti Stadium Attendance: 1,452 Referee: Toni Pohjoismäki

HJK v SJK

11 May 2019 8	HJK	2 – 2	SJK	Helsinki
15:00 EET (UTC+3)	Singh  34' Nadson 44' (o.g.) Alho  80' Lappalainen 90+1'	Report	Yaghoubi  37' Hetemaj 60' Lautamaja  67' Atakayi 82'	Stadium: Telia 5G -areena Attendance: 3,392 Referee: Mattias Gestranius

SJK v Honka

18 May 2019 9	SJK	1 – 2	Honka	Seinäjoki
16:00 EET (UTC+3)	Hatakka 20' Yaghoubi  57' Arthur  80'	Report	Sumusalo  49' 87' Martín 60'	Stadium: OmaSP Stadion Attendance: 2,888 Referee: Petri Viljanen

RoPS v SJK

25 May 2019 10	RoPS	1 – 1	SJK	Rovaniemi
17:00 EET (UTC+3)	Katz  43' Muinonen  59' 63'	Report	Oliynyk 45+1' Arthur  61' Elhi  71'	Stadium: Rovaniemen keskuskenttä Attendance: 767 Referee: Mohammad Al Emara

KuPS v SJK

2 June 2019 11	KuPS	0 – 1	SJK	Kuopio
18:30 EET (UTC+3)	Diallo  65'	Report	Oliynyk 40' Atakayi  62' Nadson  90'	Stadium: Savon Sanomat Areena Attendance: 1,890 Referee: Ville Nevalainen

HIFK v SJK

18 June 2019 13	HIFK	1 – 0	SJK	Helsinki
18:30 EET (UTC+3)	Dunsby 8' Mäntylä  32' Patronen  34' Toró  89'	Report	Sundman  29' Arthur  36' Yaghoubi  83'	Stadium: Telia 5G -areena Attendance: 1,879 Referee: Petri Viljanen

SJK v Inter Turku

1 July 2019 14	SJK	2 – 1	Inter Turku	Seinäjoki
18:30 EET (UTC+3)	Hetemaj 64' Sundman  66' Oliynyk 87' (pen.) Eremenko  90'	Report	Hämäläinen  42' Valenčič 57'	Stadium: OmaSP Stadion Attendance: 3,944 Referee: Dennis Antamo

Ilves v SJK

7 July 2019 15	Ilves	3 – 0	SJK	Tampere
18:30 EET (UTC+3)	Ala-Myllymäki 9' (pen.), 43' Tendeng 54' Aspegren  77'	Report	Sundman  21' Hetemaj  59' Hatakka  80'	Stadium: Tammelan Stadion Attendance: 5,011 Referee: Mohammad Al Emara

SJK v VPS

13 July 2019 16	SJK	1 – 0	VPS	Seinäjoki
17:00 EET (UTC+3)	Sundman  62' Nadson  72' Oliynyk 90+5'  90+5'	Report		Stadium: OmaSP Stadion Attendance: 4,059 Referee: Marko Grönholm

KPV v SJK

20 July 2019 17	KPV	1 – 2	SJK	Kokkola
17:00 EET (UTC+3)	Roiha 59' Pikkarainen  83'	Report	Arthur 45+1'  90' Elhi  56' Batista 78'	Stadium: Kokkolan Keskuskenttä Attendance: 2,852 Referee: Joni Hyytiä

SJK v Lahti

26 July 2019 18	SJK	0 – 2	Lahti	Seinäjoki
18:30 EET (UTC+3)	Hetemaj  55' Arthur  68' Benga  72'	Report	Nadson 51' (o.g.) Josu 72' (pen.) Lampinen  74'	Stadium: OmaSP Stadion Attendance: 3,083 Referee: Mohammad Al Emara

Honka v SJK

10 August 2019 19	Honka	0 – 0	SJK	Espoo
17:00 EET (UTC+3)	Aalto  39' Hakola  69' Baah  84'	Report	Arthur  45' Mero  73'	Stadium: Tapiolan Urheilupuisto Attendance: 2,109 Referee: Oskari Hämäläinen

SJK v IFK Mariehamn

15 August 2019 12	SJK	0 – 2	IFK Mariehamn	Seinäjoki
19:00 EET (UTC+3)	Yaghoubi  43'	Report	M'Boma 75' Silverholt 83'	Stadium: OmaSP Stadion Attendance: 2,401 Referee: Petri Viljanen
Note: Match initially scheduled to be played 14 June 2019.

SJK v RoPS

19 August 2019 20	SJK	0 – 0	RoPS	Seinäjoki
18:30 EET (UTC+3)	Hatakka  65' Hetemaj  85' Yaghoubi  89'	Report	Beobide  19'	Stadium: OmaSP Stadion Attendance: 2,591 Referee: Toni Pohjoismaki

IFK Mariehamn v SJK

25 August 2019 21	IFK Mariehamn	1 – 0	SJK	Mariehamn
18:30 EET (UTC+3)	Mäenpää  38' Sid 57'  65' Sjölund  69' Järvenpää  85'	Report	Malolo  35'  76'	Stadium: Wiklöf Holding Arena Attendance: 1,208 Referee: Kalle Mäkinen

SJK v KuPS

31 August 2019 22	SJK	1 – 3	KuPS	Seinäjoki
16:00 EET (UTC+3)	Hetemaj  23' Hatakka  39' Tolonen 54' Arthur  68'	Report	Saxman  43' Purje 64', 74' Niskanen 86'	Stadium: OmaSP Stadion Attendance: 2,589 Referee: Petri Viljanen

SJK v VPS

13 September 2019 23	SJK	1 – 1	VPS	Seinäjoki
18:30 EET (UTC+3)	Hetemaj  40' Oliynyk 88'	Report	Lahti 14' Voutilainen  64' Lehtonen  70' Lähde  90+6' Sarr  90+6'	Stadium: OmaSP Stadion Attendance: 2,346 Referee: Mohammad Al Emara

HIFK v SJK

21 September 2019 24	HIFK	2 – 0	SJK	Helsinki
18:00 EET (UTC+3)	Henrique 16', 29' Kakeeto  53'	Report		Stadium: Telia 5G -areena Attendance: 753 Referee: Joni Hyytiä

SJK v KPV

27 September 2019 25	SJK	0 – 2	KPV	Seinäjoki
18:30 EET (UTC+3)	Hurme  40' Oliynyk  59' Sundman  76'	Report	Banza 24' Memolla 33' Vidjeskog  86'	Stadium: OmaSP Stadion Attendance: 2,015 Referee: Antti Munukka

RoPS v SJK

6 October 2019 26	RoPS	1 – 0	SJK	Rovaniemi
16:00 EET (UTC+3)	Hyvärinen 20'	Report	Arthur  25' Oliynyk  77'  78'	Stadium: Rovaniemen keskuskenttä Attendance: 1,254 Referee: Atte Jussila

SJK v Lahti

19 October 2019 27	SJK	0 – 0	Lahti	Seinäjoki
15:00 EET (UTC+3)	Hetemaj  22' Malolo  82'	Report	Viitikko  36'	Stadium: OmaSP Stadion Attendance: 1,516 Referee: Ville Nevalainen

Finnish Cup

Main article: 2019 Finnish Cup

Sixth Round

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
FC Ilves	5	4	1	0	12	4	+8	13
VPS	5	3	0	2	5	6	−1	9
KPV	5	2	2	1	6	4	+2	8
RoPS	5	2	1	2	8	9	−1	7
SJK	5	0	2	3	7	10	−3	2
KuPS	5	0	2	3	6	11	−5	2

Source: Finnish Football Association

SJK v VPS

25 January 2019 1	SJK	1 – 2	VPS	Seinäjoki
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Malolo  10' Mero  40' Arthur  50' Streng 79' 87'	Report	Ojamaa  12' Morrissey 45', 67' Kompalla  45+1'	Stadium: Wallsport Areena Attendance: 350 Referee: Jari Järvinen

Ilves v SJK

2 February 2019 2	Ilves	2 – 1	SJK	Tampere
14:30 EET (UTC+2)	Mettälä 2', 53' Addy  34' Aspegren  55' E.Raittinen  90' Siira  90+1'	Report	Oliynyk  34' Arthur  41' Streng 73' Yaghoubi  85'  90+1'	Stadium: Pirkkahalli C Attendance: 750 Referee: Daniel Enkvist

KuPS v SJK

9 February 2019 3	KuPS	2 – 2	SJK	Seinäjoki
14:00 EET (UTC+2)	Felek  43' Karjalainen 61' (pen.) Rangel 68' (pen.) Nissinen  86'	Report	Oliynyk 15' 74' Mero  43' Arthur  59' Hatakka  68' Streng 88'	Stadium: Wallsport Areena Attendance: 350 Referee: Jani Laaksonen

RoPS v SJK

16 February 2019 4	RoPS	3 – 2	SJK	Seinäjoki
14:00 EET (UTC+2)	Olabisi  3' Sihvonen 11' 89' Sergio Llamas 44' 57' Jokelainen 67' Shishkovski  74'	Report	Kadio 38' Malolo  63'  81' Lautamaja 88'	Stadium: Wallsport Areena Attendance: 350 Referee: Atte Jussila

SJK v KPV

22 February 2019 5	SJK	1 – 1	KPV	Seinäjoki
19:00 EET (UTC+2)	Sundman  49' Oliynyk 68' 78'	Report	Helmke 37' 59' Koskimaa  67' Shaze  81'	Stadium: Wallsport Areena Attendance: 350 Referee: Oskari Hämäläinen

Squad statistics

As of Match played 19 October 2019

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Veikkausliiga		Finnish Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	FIN	Jesse Öst	15	0	12	0	3	0
2	DF	FIN	Joel Mero	16	0	9+3	0	4	0
3	DF	SEN	Seynabou Benga	2	0	2	0	0	0
5	DF	FIN	Dani Hatakka	26	1	19+2	1	5	0
6	MF	GHA	Jude Arthur	24	1	14+6	1	4	0
9	FW	BRA	Matheus Batista	18	2	8+10	2	0	0
10	FW	ENG	Billy Ions	8	0	6+2	0	0	0
11	FW	UKR	Denys Oliynyk	30	10	24+1	8	4+1	2
14	MF	FIN	Maximo Tolonen	21	1	4+12	1	1+4	0
15	DF	EST	Trevor Elhi	16	0	14+2	0	0	0
16	DF	FIN	Joonas Sundman	20	0	14+2	0	4	0
17	DF	FIN	Ville Tikkanen	10	0	6+1	0	1+2	0
18	DF	FIN	Jarkko Hurme	8	0	7+1	0	0	0
19	MF	FIN	Obed Malolo	18	0	11+4	0	2+1	0
20	FW	FIN	Joonas Lepistö	2	0	2	0	0	0
23	DF	CIV	Didier Kadio	21	1	16	0	5	1
24	FW	FIN	Jyri Kiuru	5	0	4+1	0	0	0
25	MF	FIN	Daniel Håkans	6	0	0+2	0	3+1	0
26	MF	FIN	Jesse Sarajärvi	23	0	11+7	0	4+1	0
27	MF	FIN	Joona Lautamaja	9	1	2+3	0	1+3	1
29	FW	FIN	Jeremiah Streng	22	3	10+7	0	4+1	3
30	DF	BRA	Nadson	18	1	18	1	0	0
33	GK	EST	Mihkel Aksalu	17	0	15	0	2	0
49	MF	GEO	Zakaria Beglarishvili	5	0	2+3	0	0	0
58	MF	FIN	Mehmet Hetemaj	26	2	21+1	2	4	0
77	FW	USA	Dion Acoff	17	0	11+4	0	1+1	0
U23 Players:
21	FW	FIN	Oskar Pihlaja	3	0	0	0	0+3	0
	MF	FIN	Robbie Malolo	1	0	0	0	0+1	0
Players away from the club on loan:
Players who left SJK during the season:
7	MF	FIN	Moshtagh Yaghoubi	18	1	15	1	1+2	0
8	MF	FIN	Sergei Eremenko	18	0	12+2	0	2+2	0
28	FW	FIN	Serge Atakayi	10	1	8+2	1	0	0

Goal scorers

Place	Position	Nation	Number	Name	Veikkausliiga	Finnish Cup	Total
1	FW		11	Denys Oliynyk	8	2	10
2	FW		9	Jeremiah Streng	0	3	3
3	MF		58	Mehmet Hetemaj	2	0	2
	FW		9	Matheus Batista	2	0	2
5	DF		30	Nadson	1	0	1
	MF		7	Moshtagh Yaghoubi	1	0	1
	FW		28	Serge Atakayi	1	0	1
	DF		5	Dani Hatakka	1	0	1
	MF		6	Jude Arthur	1	0	1
	MF		14	Maximo Tolonen	1	0	1
	DF		23	Didier Kadio	0	1	1
	MF		27	Joona Lautamaja	0	1	1
TOTALS					18	7	25

Clean sheets

Place	Position	Nation	Number	Name	Veikkausliiga	Finnish Cup	Total
1	GK		33	Mihkel Aksalu	4	0	4
	GK		1	Jesse Öst	4	0	4
TOTALS					8	0	8

Disciplinary record

Number	Nation	Position	Name	Veikkausliiga		Finnish Cup		Total
2		DF	Joel Mero	1	0	2	0	3	0
3		DF	Seynabou Benga	1	0	0	0	1	0
5		DF	Dani Hatakka	6	1	1	0	7	1
6		MF	Jude Arthur	9	0	3	0	12	0
11		FW	Denys Oliynyk	7	1	3	0	10	1
15		DF	Trevor Elhi	5	0	0	0	5	0
16		DF	Joonas Sundman	5	0	1	0	6	0
18		DF	Jarkko Hurme	2	0	0	0	2	0
19		MF	Obed Malolo	3	1	3	1	6	2
23		DF	Didier Kadio	3	1	0	0	3	1
26		MF	Jesse Sarajärvi	1	0	0	0	1	0
27		MF	Joona Lautamaja	1	0	0	0	1	0
29		FW	Jeremiah Streng	1	0	1	0	2	0
30		DF	Nadson	3	0	0	0	3	0
58		MF	Mehmet Hetemaj	10	0	0	0	10	0
Players who left SJK during the season:
7		MF	Moshtagh Yaghoubi	9	0	2	1	11	1
8		MF	Sergei Eremenko	1	0	0	0	1	0
28		FW	Serge Atakayi	2	0	0	0	2	0
TOTALS				70	4	16	2	86	6

Notes