1956 Mestaruussarja

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Mestaruussarja
Season1956
Champions KuPS Kuopio
Relegated VIFK Vaasa
Pyrkivä Turku
1955
1957

The 1956 season was the 26th completed season of Finnish Football League Championship, known as the Mestaruussarja.

Contents

Overview

The Mestaruussarja was administered by the Finnish Football Association and the competition's 1956 season was contested by 10 teams. KuPS Kuopio won the championship and the two lowest placed teams of the competition, VIFK Vaasa and Pyrkivä Turku, were relegated to the Suomensarja. [1]

League standings

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
1 KuPS Kuopio (C)1811523112+1927
2 HJK Helsinki 189363928+1121
3 KIF Helsinki 187653218+1420
4 IKissat Tampere 189273336320
5 Haka Valkeakoski 186571818017
6 VPS Vaasa 187382930117
7 KTP Kotka 187382829117
8 HPS Helsinki 187292834616
9 VIFK Vaasa (R)1861112532713
10 Pyrkivä Turku (R)18601220462612
Source: [1]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away HAK HJK HPS IK KIF KTP KPS PYR VIF VPS
FC Haka 0–20–13–12–11–20–04–10–13–1
HJK 0–00–22–34–12–20–23–11–02–1
HPS 1–12–41–03–20–40–20–12–12–3
IKissat 1–24–35–30–02–01–03–13–21–1
KIF 0–00–03–16–31–10–04–03–07–1
KTP 0–01–21–23–11–01–23–01–01–3
KuPS 3–02–31–14–00–03–02–12–13–2
Pyrkivä 2–10–61–60–10–24–31–21–31–0
VIFK 1–04–34–10–41–22–30–22–31–1
VPS 1–03–21–05–01–04–11–11–20–2
Source: [ citation needed ]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

See also

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 "Finland - List of League First Level Tables - rsssf.org". Heikki Pietarinen - RSSSF. Retrieved 2012-01-10.

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