2020 Kansallinen Liiga

The 2020 Kansallinen Liiga was the 14th season of the Naisten Liiga, the top flight women's division of the Finnish football league system and the 1st season of the Kansallinen Liiga after its change of name. Åland United were the champions after 18 rounds of matches.

Kansallinen Liiga

Season	2020
Champions	Åland United
Promoted	PK-35 Vantaa PK-35 Helsinki
Relegated	TPS
Champions League	Åland United
Matches played	90
Goals scored	264 (2.93 per match)
Top goalscorer	Gentjana Rochi (16 goals)
Biggest home win	KuPS 6–0 TPS (13 June 2020)
Biggest away win	TPS 0–6 KuPS (22 August 2020)
Highest scoring	JyPK 4–4 PK-35 Vantaa (22 August 2020) JyPK 2–6 Åland United (27 June 2020)
← 2019 2021 → All statistics correct as of 8 November 2020.

Teams

The season featured 10 teams.PK-35 Vantaa were promoted from the 2019 Naisten Ykkönen as league winners while PK-35 (women) were promoted after defeating IK Myran at the 2019 playoff. IK Myran and ONS were relegated from the previous season.

Club	Location	Home ground	Head coach
FC Honka	Espoo	Tapiolan Urheilupuisto	Rosa Lappi-Seppälä
Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi (HJK)	Helsinki	Telia 5G Arena	Jonne Kunnas
Ilves	Tampere	Tammela Stadion	Mika Lahtinen
Jyväskylän Pallokerho (JyPK)	Jyväskylä	Harjun Stadion	Tuomas Jaakkola
Kuopion Palloseura (KuPS)	Kuopio	Savon Sanomat Areena	Ollipekka Ojala
PK-35 Helsinki (PK-35)	Helsinki	MagneCit Arena	Rami Rantanen
PK-35 Vantaa	Vantaa	Myyrmäen jalkapallostadion	Jari Väisänen
Tikkurilan Palloseura (TiPS)	Vantaa	Tikkurilan urheilupuisto	Pauliina Miettinen
Turun Palloseura (TPS)	Turku	Turun urheilupuisto	Sami Haltia
Åland United	Lemland	Wiklöf Holding Arena	Samuel Fagerholm

Source: Suomen Palloliitto (Finnish Football Association)

Format

The 10 teams played each other twice. At the end of the season, the ninth placed team played the Ykkönen second placed team in a Promotion/Relegation play-off. The winner of the league also earns the right to play in the 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League.

Regular season

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Åland United (C)	18	14	1	3	35	10	+25	43	Qualification for the Champions League first round
2	TiPS	18	12	5	1	31	13	+18	41
3	KuPS	18	10	3	5	44	21	+23	33
4	HJK	18	10	3	5	26	18	+8	33
5	FC Honka	18	9	3	6	35	26	+9	30
6	PK-35 Helsinki	18	6	3	9	16	24	−8	21
7	PK-35 Vantaa	18	5	3	10	21	36	−15	18
8	Ilves	18	5	1	12	23	29	−6	16
9	JyPK (O)	18	5	1	12	24	45	−21	16	Promotion/Relegation play-offs
10	TPS (R)	18	2	1	15	9	42	−33	7	Relegation to Ykkönen

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ÅLA	TiPS	KPS	HJK	PKH	HON	PK3	ILV	JyPK	TPS
Åland United		0–0	3–0	2–1	3–1	2–1	2–0	0–1	3–0	1–0
TiPS	0–3		2–1	3–0	1–1	3–1	6–1	2–1	1–0	1–0
Kuopion Palloseura	0–1	1–1		2–1	4–1	1–3	3–0	3–1	4–1	6–0
HJK	1–0	0–0	4–2		1–1	1–0	4–2	1–0	3–0	3–1
PK-35 Helsinki	0–2	0–1	0–0	0–2		0–4	1–2	0–1	1–3	4–0
FC Honka	1–3	2–2	2–2	2–0	0–1		2–1	1–1	2–1	0–1
PK-35 Vantaa	1–0	0–2	0–2	0–0	0–2	1–3		1–0	3–0	3–0
Ilves	1–3	0–1	1–3	1–2	0–1	2–3	4–1		3–1	2–4
JyPK	2–6	2–4	0–4	2–0	0–1	3–4	4–4	2–1		2–1
TPS	0–1	0–1	0–6	0–2	0–1	1–4	1–1	0–3	0–1

Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion/Relegation play-offs

The ninth placed team, JyPK engaged the Ykkönen runners-up, VIFK in a two-legged play-off to decide if they will remain in the league.

First leg

21 November 2020

14:00

VIFK	0–6	JyPK
	Report	Miettinen 15' (pen.) Lilja 30', 87' (pen.) Tiainen 37' (pen.) Voutilainen 73', 77'

Hietalahti Stadium, Vaasa

Referee: Lina Lehtovaara

Second leg

28 November 2020

14:00

JyPK	1–1	VIFK
Salminen 31'	Report	Forss 34'

Vehkahalli, Jyväskylä

Referee: Sini Hakala

JyPK won 7–1 on aggregate and remained in the league.

Top scorers

As of matches played on 8 November 2020.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Gentjana Rochi	KuPS	16
2	Aino Kröger	KuPS	12
3	Amanda Rantanen	PK-35 Helsinki	10
4	Henna Honkanen	JyPK	8
5	Wilma Forsblom	PK-35 Vantaa	7
	Ode Fulutudilu	Åland United
	Nora Lehto	TiPS
	Dana Leskinen	FC Honka
9	Roosa Ariyo	TiPS	6
	Lavdie Begolli	KuPS

External links

• 2020 season at Kansallinenliiga Liiga (in Finnish)
• Soccerway at Soccerway.com