Ykkönen 2016

The Ykkönen 2016 was the 23rd season of the second highest Finnish soccer league under this name and the 84th season in total since the official introduction of such in 1930. It started on April 24th, 2016 with the first day of play and ended on October 22nd, 2016 with the last game day. Relegated from the Veikkausliiga 2015 took FF Jaro from Pietarsaari and losers Relegation FC KTP Kotka in Kotka part. The newcomers from Kakkonen 2015 were Grankulla IFK from Kauniainen and Kokkolan Palloveikot from Kokkola .

Participants and their venues

Venues of the Ykkönen 2016

society	city	Stadion	capacity
AC Oulu	Oulu	Raatin Stadium	6,996
Ekenäs IF	Raseborg	Ekenäs center map	2,500
FC Jazz Pori	Pori	Pori Stadium	12,000
FF Jaro	Jakobstad	Jakobstad's Central Plan	5,000
Grankulla IFK	Kauniainen	Kauniaisten Keskuskenttä	700
Haka Valkeakoski	Valkeakoski	Tehtaan kenttä	3,516
JJK Jyväskylä	Jyväskylä	Harjun stadium	3,000
Kokkolan Palloveikot	Kokkola	Kokkolan Keskuskenttä	2,000
FC KTP Kotka	Kotka	Arto Tolsa Areena	4,780
Turku PS	Turku	Paavo Nurmi Stadium	13,000

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	JJK Jyväskylä	27	16	4th	7th	049:380	+11	52
2.	Turku PS	27	16	3	8th	060:380	+22	51
3.	FF Jaro (A)	27	12	8th	7th	047:330	+14	44
4th	AC Oulu	27	12	7th	8th	050:310	+19	43
5.	Kokkolan Palloveikot (N)	27	11	6th	10	040:430	−3	39
6th	Grankulla IFK (N)	27	11	3	13	033:430	−10	36
7th	Haka Valkeakoski	27	8th	8th	11	042:460	−4	32
8th.	Ekenäs IF	27	10	1	16	036:530	−17	31
9.	FC KTP Kotka (R)	27	6th	10	11	047:500	−3	28
10.	FC Jazz Pori	27	4th	8th	15th	035:640	−29	20th
Stand: Final stand

At the end of the 2016 season:

	Promoted to the Veikkausliiga 2017
	Participation in the relegation
	Relegated to the Kakkonen 2017

At the end of the 2015 season:
(A)	Relegated from the Veikkausliiga 2015 : FF Jaro
(R)	Loser of the relegation games : FC KTP Kotka
(N)	Newcomers from Kakkonen 2015 : Grankulla IFK, Kokkolan Palloveikot