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Football league season
Mestaruussarja
Season1979
← 1978 1980 →

Statistics of Mestaruussarja in the 1979 season.

Overview

Preliminary Stage was contested by 12 teams, and higher 8 teams go into Championship Group. Lower 4 teams fought in promotion/relegation group with higher 4 teams of Ykkönen.

OPS Oulu won the championship.

Preliminary stage

Table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 OPS Oulu 22 11 10 1 39 15 +24 32
2 KuPS Kuopio 22 12 5 5 38 25 +13 29
3 HJK Helsinki 22 10 7 5 34 24 +10 27
4 Reipas Lahti 22 10 5 7 33 36 −3 25
5 KPT Kuopio 22 10 4 8 31 23 +8 24
6 TPS Turku 22 9 5 8 36 27 +9 23
7 Haka Valkeakoski 22 9 4 9 48 42 +6 22
8 KTP Kotka 22 8 4 10 27 44 −17 20
9 KPV Kokkola 22 5 7 10 25 27 −2 17
10 Ilves Tampere 22 6 4 12 31 41 −10 16
11 Pyrkivä Turku 22 5 6 11 17 31 −14 16
12 MiPK Mikkeli 22 4 5 13 23 47 −24 13
Source: rsssf.com

Results

Home \ Away HAK HJK ILV KPT KPV KTP KPS MPK OPS PYR REI TPS
FC Haka 0–2 3–2 2–1 3–0 5–1 1–3 8–1 1–1 3–3 4–1 2–3
HJK Helsinki 4–1 2–0 2–1 1–1 4–1 2–1 2–1 0–1 0–1 2–3 2–0
Ilves 2–3 0–2 3–3 1–0 5–1 3–1 3–1 2–1 1–1 1–2 1–0
KPT 5–2 0–1 3–0 0–0 0–2 1–2 2–1 1–1 2–0 2–1 2–0
KPV 0–0 2–2 1–1 0–1 5–0 1–2 3–0 2–3 0–2 3–1 2–1
KTP 2–1 5–2 3–2 1–0 1–0 2–0 2–3 0–2 1–1 3–2 0–0
KuPS 1–1 1–1 2–0 3–0 2–1 3–0 3–1 0–0 2–0 2–1 3–1
MiPK 2–4 0–0 5–0 0–3 0–0 1–0 1–2 1–1 0–0 1–1 0–1
OPS 3–0 1–1 2–1 0–0 3–0 0–0 1–1 3–0 5–0 4–1 1–0
Pyrkivä 2–4 2–0 1–0 0–2 0–2 0–0 1–0 3–4 0–0 0–2 0–1
Reipas 1–0 2–2 2–1 2–0 1–1 2–1 3–1 1–0 2–2 1–0 1–1
TPS 2–0 0–0 2–2 0–2 2–1 6–1 3–3 5–0 2–4 1–0 5–0
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Championship group

Table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 OPS Oulu (C) 29 15 11 3 53 25 +28 41
2 KuPS Kuopio 29 17 6 6 58 33 +25 40
3 HJK Helsinki 29 14 7 8 48 36 +12 35
4 KPT Kuopio 29 13 7 9 47 33 +14 33
5 Reipas Lahti 29 12 8 9 46 49 −3 32
6 Haka Valkeakoski 29 11 7 11 58 52 +6 29
7 TPS Turku 29 9 8 12 46 43 +3 26
8 KTP Kotka 29 9 4 16 33 68 −35 22
Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away HAK HJK KPT KTP KPS OPS REI TPS
FC Haka 2–0 1–4 1–1
HJK Helsinki 2–1 2–5 0–2 0–1
KPT 1–1 2–0 1–1
KTP 2–6 0–1 2–1
KuPS 1–3 6–0 5–3 3–0
OPS 0–2 3–0 1–1 2–1
Reipas 1–1 0–4 6–2 1–2
TPS 1–2 3–3 3–3
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion/relegation group

Table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD BP Pts
1 Ilves Tampere 7 4 3 0 16 5 +11 3 14
2 OTP Oulu (P) 7 5 0 2 18 11 +7 3 13
3 KPV Kokkola 7 2 3 2 9 11 −2 4 11
4 Sepsi-78 (P) 7 2 4 1 8 5 +3 2 10
5 Pyrkivä Turku (R) 7 2 3 2 9 8 +1 2 9
6 MP Mikkeli 7 2 0 5 7 11 −4 4 8
7 MiPK Mikkeli (R) 7 2 2 3 7 14 −7 1 7
8 GrIFK Kauniainen 7 1 1 5 11 20 −9 1 4
Source: rsssf.com
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

The teams obtained bonus points on the basis of their preliminary stage position.

Results

Home \ Away GFK ILV KPV MPK MPM OTP PYR S78
GrIFK 2–0 0–3 2–1
Ilves 6–0 2–1 1–1 1–1
KPV 2–1 1–1 3–1 1–1
MiPK 2–2 4–5 1–2
MP 0–3 2–0 1–2 3–0
OTP 1–2 4–1 2–1 0–1
Pyrkivä 1–1 2–0 2–3
Sepsi-78 0–0 5–0 0–0
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

References

Top-division football seasons in Finland
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Veikkausliiga
Football in Finland
1978–79 in European football (UEFA)
« 1977–78 1979–80 »
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Domestic cups
League cups
UEFA competitions
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« 1978–79 1980–81 »
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