Traditional teams!

The Veikkausliiga as it is today was grounded 1990 and teams in the 14 team League are below (table from wikipedia in Finnish);

While talking about tradition let´s check what were the first "original" 12 teams 1990 and how they are doing now.

Kuusysi was the champion then and for several years to come. Due to economical and other turmoils the club has no team anymore except with juniors under 20 years of age but a team called City Stars is following their footsteps and did get relegated to div III after season 2008. Unluckily and unfair but what can you do?

RoPS (2.), KuPS (3.) HJK (4.) TPS (6.) and Haka (8.) are still playing in Veikkausliiga but the rest of the teams of 1990 have either disappeared completely or been relegated to lower divisions. Reipas, Ilves, KPV, OTP, MP and Kumu, once they were warriors.

Veikkausliiga teams 2009:

Club	City	Home Stadium	Manager
FC Haka	Valkeakoski	Tehtaan kenttä	Olli Huttunen
HJK	Helsinki	Finnair Stadium	Antti Muurinen
FC Honka	Espoo	Tapiolan urheilupuisto	Mika Lehkosuo
FC Inter	Turku	Veritas Stadion	Job Dragtsma
FF Jaro	Pietarsaari	Pietarsaaren keskuskenttä	Mika Laurikainen
JJK	Jyväskylä	Harjun stadion	Ville Priha
KuPS	Kuopio	Magnum Areena	Kai Nyyssönen
FC Lahti	Lahti	Lahden Stadion	Ilkka Mäkelä
IFK Mariehamn	Maarianhamina	Wiklöf Holding Arena	Pekka Lyyski
MyPa	Kouvola	Anjalankosken jalkapallostadion	Janne Lindberg
RoPS	Rovaniemi	Rovaniemen keskuskenttä	Valeri Bondarenko
Tampere United	Tampere	Ratinan stadion	Ari Hjelm
TPS	Turku	Veritas Stadion	Pasi Rautiainen
VPS	Vaasa	Hietalahden jalkapallostadion	Tomi Kärkkäinen