2013 Naisten Liiga

Naisten Liiga
Season	2013
Champions	Åland United
Relegated	GBK Kokkola
Top goalscorer	Cynthia Uwak (18 goals)
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The 2013 Naisten Liiga, part of the 2013 Finnish football season, was the 7th season of the Finnish women's premier division Naisten Liiga since its establishment in 2007. The season started on 23 March 2013 and ended on 19 October 2013.^[1] Åland United were the defending champions, having won their first Finnish championship in 2012.

The season featured 10 teams. After 18 matches played, the league was divided to Championship Group of six and Relegation Group of four. The Champion, Åland United, qualified for the first qualifying round of the 2014–15 UEFA Women's Champions League and GBK Kokkola was relegated to the Naisten Ykkönen for the 2014 season.^[1] Merilappi United was promoted.

Teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Manager
FC Honka	Espoo	Tapiolan Urheilupuisto	Timo Lounio
GBK Kokkola	Kokkola	Kokkolan keskuskenttä	Håkan Nyman
HJK	Helsinki	Töölön Pallokenttä	Maria Virolainen
Kokkola Futis 10	Kokkola	Kokkolan keskuskenttä	Michael Käld
NiceFutis	Pori	Pori Stadium	Sami Rintanen Boguslaw Plich (since 3 June)
ONS	Oulu	Castrén Stadium	Mauri Holappa
Pallokissat	Kuopio	Savon Sanomat Areena	Pasi Tuutti
PK-35	Vantaa	ISS Stadion	Pauliina Miettinen
TPS	Turku	Turun yläkenttä	Jouni Alen
Åland United	Lemland	Bengtsböle IP	Gary Williams

Preliminary stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Åland United	18	15	2	1	66	13	+53	47	Championship group
2	PK-35	18	12	3	3	42	20	+22	39
3	FC Honka	18	12	2	4	39	16	+23	38
4	HJK	18	8	5	5	33	31	+2	29
5	Pallokissat	18	6	4	8	28	32	−4	22
6	Kokkola Futis 10	18	7	1	10	27	32	−5	22
7	TPS	18	5	4	9	22	24	−2	19	Relegation group
8	ONS	18	5	4	9	25	49	−24	19
9	GBK	18	2	4	12	17	47	−30	10
10	NiceFutis	18	2	3	13	13	48	−35	9

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Championship group

Note: Matches and points of Preliminary stage are counted

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Åland United	23	19	3	1	85	16	+69	60	2015–16 UEFA Women's Champions League Qualifying round
2	PK-35	23	16	4	3	58	24	+34	52
3	FC Honka	23	15	2	6	51	23	+28	47
4	HJK	23	8	6	9	38	46	−8	30
5	Pallokissat	23	8	4	11	37	44	−7	28
6	Kokkola Futis 10	23	7	2	14	30	55	−25	23

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Relegation group

Note: Matches and points of Preliminary stage are counted

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
1	ONS	24	7	5	12	36	57	−21	26
2	TPS	24	6	5	13	29	45	−16	23
3	NiceFutis	24	6	4	14	23	52	−29	22
4	GBK (R)	24	5	5	14	29	54	−25	20	Relegation to Naisten Ykkönen

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(R) Relegated

Top scorers

Pos.	Player	Club	Goals
1.	Cynthia Uwak	Åland United	18
2.	Vera Saastamoinen	HJK	17
3.	Monica Dolinsky	Åland United	15
4.	Tiina Saario	Åland United	14
4.	Sanna Ylianttila	ONS	14
6.	Henni-Marika Malinen	FC Honka	13
6.	Hanne Ojanperä	PK-35	13
8.	Heidi Kivelä	PK-35	12
8.	Juliette Kemppi	Åland United	12
10.	Theresa Gomina	GBK	11
	Jaana Lyytikäinen	Åland United
	Marianna Tolvanen	FC Honka

Sources

2013 Naisten Liiga Finnish Football Association

References

^ ^a ^b "Naisten Liiga 2013" (in Finnish). Finnish Football Association. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 October 2015.

External links

Naisten Liiga Official Homepage Archived 2014-12-22 at the Wayback Machine (in Finnish)

[spl-1] "Naisten Liiga 2013" (in Finnish). Finnish Football Association. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 October 2015.

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