2015 Naisten Liiga

Naisten Liiga
Season	2015
Champions	PK-35; (5th title)
Relegated	Merilappi United
Champions League	PK-35
Matches played	117
Goals scored	475 (4.06 per match)
Top goalscorer	Heidi Kollanen (24 goals)
Biggest home win	Pallokissat 8–0 VIFK
Biggest away win	NiceFutis 1–8 Ilves ; HJK 0–7 PK-35
Highest scoring	Merilappi United 2–8 TPS
	← 2014 2016 → All statistics correct as of 19 October 2015.

The 2015 Naisten Liiga, part of the 2015 Finnish football season, was the 9th season of Naisten Liiga since its establishment in 2007. The season started on 18 April 2015 and ended on 10 October 2015. Tikkurilan Palloseura was promoted.

The season featured 10 teams. After 18 matches played, the league was divided to Championship Group of six and Relegation Group of four. PK-35 Vantaa were the 2014 season champions and successfully defended their title and qualified for the first qualifying round of the 2016–17 UEFA Women's Champions League. Merilappi United was relegated to the Naisten Ykkönen for the 2016 season.

Teams edit

Team	Location	Stadium	Manager
FC Honka	Espoo	Tapiolan Urheilupuisto	Luciano Posillipo
HJK	Helsinki	Töölön Pallokenttä	Pasi Pihamaa
Ilves	Tampere	Tammela Stadion	Rami Rosenberg
Merilappi United	Kemi	City Sport Areena	Jukka-Pekka Poutiainen
NiceFutis	Pori	Pori Stadium	Heimo Piira
Pallokissat	Kuopio	Savon Sanomat Areena	Ollipekka Ojala
PK-35	Vantaa	ISS Stadion	Jari Väisänen
TPS	Turku	Turun yläkenttä	Sami Haltia
VIFK	Vaasa	Hietalahti Stadium	Keijo Karvonen
Åland United	Lemland	Bengtsböle IP	Gary Williams

Format edit

Teams played each other twice, after that the top six teams formed a championship group and the bottom four a relegation group. At the championship group teams played each other once more while at the relegation group, teams played each other twice.

Regular season edit

The regular season had a total of 18 matches per club.

League table edit

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	PK-35	18	15	3	0	63	11	+52	48	Championship group
2	Ilves	18	10	4	4	56	28	+28	34
3	Pallokissat	18	10	2	6	44	26	+18	32
4	Åland United	18	9	5	4	37	26	+11	32
5	FC Honka	18	10	1	7	47	29	+18	31
6	HJK	18	10	1	7	24	27	−3	31
7	TPS	18	7	2	9	30	30	0	23	Relegation group
8	Merilappi United	18	3	3	12	27	51	−24	12
9	VIFK	18	2	2	14	26	77	−51	8
10	NiceFutis	18	2	1	15	20	69	−49	7

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results edit

Home \ Away	ÅLA	HJK	HON	ILV	MER	NIC	PAL	PK3	TPS	VFK
Åland United		0–1	2–1	2–2	3–3	3–2	2–4	0–3	2–0	5–4
HJK	0–1		2–1	2–2	2–1	2–1	0–3	0–7	3–0	2–0
FC Honka	0–3	2–0		3–2	3–0	7–1	5–2	1–1	2–4	8–1
Ilves	1–1	2–1	0–2		3–1	5–2	2–1	0–3	1–1	8–1
Merilappi United	1–4	1–2	3–4	0–5		2–2	0–4	1–4	1–0	1–1
NiceFutis	0–3	0–1	0–5	1–8	0–3		1–0	0–5	1–4	6–3
Pallokissat	2–2	0–2	3–0	1–3	2–1	3–0		1–1	2–1	8–0
PK-35	0–0	4–0	3–1	3–2	6–1	5–2	2–1		3–0	7–0
TPS	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–3	3–5	4–0	1–3	1–2		2–2
VIFK	0–4	0–4	1–2	1–7	3–2	6–1	3–4	0–4	0–2

Updated to match(es) played on 29 August 2015. Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final stage edit

Points and goals of the final stage are just added to the regular season.

Championship Group edit

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	PK3	ILV	ÅLA	PAL	HON	HJK
1	PK-35 (C)	23	17	5	1	72	19	+53	56	Qualification to Champions League		2–2			2–3	2–1
2	Ilves	23	13	5	5	67	35	+32	44				1–2	3–2	1–0
3	Åland United	23	12	6	5	46	33	+13	42		1–2					2–1
4	Pallokissat	23	12	4	7	54	34	+20	40		1–1		3–3		2–1
5	FC Honka	23	11	1	11	51	36	+15	34				0–1			0–1
6	HJK	23	11	1	11	28	37	−9	34			1–4		0–2

Updated to match(es) played on 10 October 2015. Source: Soccerway / Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(C) Champions

Relegation Group edit

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	TPS	NIC	VFK	MER
1	TPS	24	10	3	11	47	44	+3	33			1–1	1–4	3–1
2	NiceFutis	24	5	3	16	33	74	−41	18		4–0		4–1	3–0
3	VIFK	24	5	3	16	42	90	−48	18		2–4	1–1		5–3
4	Merilappi United (R)	24	4	3	17	35	73	−38	15	Relegation to Naisten Ykkönen	2–8	2–0	0–3

Updated to match(es) played on 10 October 2015. Source: Soccerway / Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored
(R) Relegated

Top scorers edit

As of matches played on 10 October 2015.^[1]

Pos.	Player	Club	Goals
1	Heidi Kollanen	Ilves	24
2	Cynthia Uwak	Åland United	23
3	Ria Öling	TPS	18
4	Signy Aarna	Pallokissat	17
5	Riikka Hannula	FC Honka	14
5	Emma Heikkilä	Merilappi United	14
7	Iina Salmi	PK-35	13
8	Sanna Saarinen	PK-35	11
9	Kaisa Collin	HJK	10
	Eva-Susanna Dahlmars	VIFK
	Krystyna Freda	Merilappi United
	Ella-Rosa Huusko	Pallokissat
	Heidi Pihlaja	PK-35

References edit

^ "2015 season" (in Finnish). SPL. Retrieved 19 October 2015.

External links edit

2015 Naisten Liiga Finnish Football Association
Season at soccerway.com

[1] "2015 season" (in Finnish). SPL. Retrieved 19 October 2015.

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