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from the latest newsletter:

We have some great news to present in this newsletter, for the main ones we are giving more details below. - We are lowering the minimum stake when using Sportmarket Pro to €25. - The "specials" with Betfair and Matchbook when using Sportmarket Pro continues and from April we are also running a promotion with Betdaq taking down the commission to 1,2%. - We have added Cricket as a new sport. - The new Baseball season has started and we now offer matches in live betting without listed pitchers meaning you can now find Pinnacle's live offers under "live". Also we expect to start offering 1st Half for MLB within a few days. - The minimum deposit for getting direct accounts with most of our bookmakers have been lowered to €500. - We have extended our support and are now able to reply to your requests between 9-24 CET. - We have updated some information on our website and for more frequent updates of news we ask you to check our news section here. FYI Pinnacle is doing planned maintenance on their site today with a longer disruption in their services. They were expected to be back online around 6.30pm CET but it seems that the service is already working on Sportmarket Pro. However, as you never know with major updates there may be some issues so if we have problems the next few hours with Pinnacle it is most likely not on our side... Good Luck! Team Sportmarket

Minimum stake lowered!  Over the years we have had many requests for lowering the minimum stake. While our service can never cater for the smallest punters we are happy to announce that as of today we have lowered the minimum bet when using Sportmarket Pro to: EUR, GBP, USD and AUD = 25 HKD, SEK and NOK = 250 IMPORTANT - PLEASE NOTE: Due to technical reasons on Pinnacle's side we are not able to lower the limit for bets placed with Pinnacle. In order to get a bet placed with Pinnacle you still need to bet minimum €50 if the odds is 2,00 or above and to win €50 in case the odds is below 2,00. This means that in case Pinnacle is offering the best odds your bet will not be placed if you request a smaller amount than their minimum, unless some other bookmaker offer the same odds or if you have chosen a lower odds as your minimum odds.

Betdaq promotion - 1,2% commission! From April we run a "special" with Betdaq taking down their commission to an industry-low 1,2%! We also continue to run the promotions with Betfair (2,3%) and Matchbook (1,8%). These commission rates are only charged on winning bets and as always the commission is already "calculated" in the odds you see at the bet-slip. All these promotions will continue until we give you notice on our website and/or through another newsletter. We are working hard to always give you the best possible deal and we are very pleased to work closely with our valued exchange partners in order to do just that.

Updated website + extended support  We are currently working on a larger rewamp of our website and in the meanwhile we have updated some info on the website including adding news to the news-section as they come. We still only do email-support but we have extended the hours that you can get responses from our valued support team to 9-24 CET.

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Veikkausliiga 2016 final table

The final table reflects rather well the expG and other data-related creations, but so much has again happened during the long off-season that basically we need to start from the scratch, again.



I am hoping for a more goal-rich season this time, but the time will tell.

Veikkausliiga 2017 hc odds

Veikkausliiga transfers 2017

Not a complete list as they never are but it is used as a base for this quick guide. Source Veikkausliiga.com. Transfer window still open.

IFK Mariehamn

+ Rezgar Amani (FC Åland)
+ Aapo Mäenpää (Haka)
+ Lucky Mkosana (New York Cosmos, USA)
+ Robbin Sellin (GIF Sundsvall, Ruotsi)
+ Andreas Vaikla (IFK Norrköping, Ruotsi)
- Dever Orgill (Wolfsberger AC, Itävalta)
- Josef Ibrahim (Syrianska FC, Ruotsi)
- Walter Viitala (Viborg FF, Tanska)
- Diego Assis (Thai Honda Ladkrabang FC, Thaimaa)

3 very important players left, none of the replacements so far even close to fill the void.

HJK

+ Juha Pirinen (RoPS)
+ Faith Friday Obilor (FC Inter)
+ Hannu Patronen (Sogndal, Norja)
+ Moshtagh Yaghoubi (Spartak Jurmala, Latvia)
+ Jusif Ali (Klubi04)
+ Valtteri Vesiaho (Klubi04)
+ Enoch Banza (Klubi04)
+ Demba Savage (BK Häcken, Ruotsi)
- Nikolai Alho (Halmstads BK, Ruotsi)
- Leo Väisänen (RoPS)
- Sebastian Sorsa (KuPS)
- Toni Kolehmainen (Wisla Pulawy)
- Lum Rexhepi (Go Ahead Eagles, Hollanti)
- Taye Taiwo (FC Lausanne-Sport)
- Ivan Tatomirović (RoPS)

Winning at transfer markets but more importantly the preseason gone well and coaching improved significantly.

SJK

+ Aristote Mboma (AC Oulu)
+ Tomas Hradecky (Bohemians 1905, Tsekki)
+ Ville Tikkanen (OLS)
+ Dani Hatakka (SK Brann, Norja, laina)
+ Diego Bardanca (Real Jaén, Espanja)
+ Facundo Guichón (Deportivo Alaves, Espanja)
- Aleksis Lehtonen (Ilves)
- Tuco (Ilves)
- Jere Koponen (FC Inter)
- Jussi Vasara (lopettanut)
- Teemu Penninkangas (Ilves)
- Henri Aalto (VfB Oldenburg, Saksa)
- Youness Rahimi (Ilves)
- Juhani Ojala (BK Häcken, Ruotsi)

+ 2 more late foreign signings. Also the head coach changed. Still strong, but a questionmark and failing a possibility.

VPS

+ Juha Hakola (KuPS)
+ Marko Meerits (Rakvere JK Tarvas, Viro)
+ Samu Volotinen (PK-35 Vantaa)
- Juuso Kevari (AC Kajaani)
- Evgeni Kobozev (Jönköpings Södra)
- Nikko Boxall (KuPS)
- Loorents Hertsi (FC Lahti)
- Eero Tamminen (Ilves)
- Kevin Peth (FF Jaro)

No high profile players come or gone, except winger Soiri (to BLR) who is missing from this Veikkausliiga list.

Ilves

+ Iiro Järvinen (JJK)
+ Tuco (SJK)
+ Jani Tanska (FC Lahti)
+ Eero Tamminen (VPS)
+ Johannes Luukkanen
+ Teemu Penninkangas (SJK)
+ Youness Rahimi (SJK)
+ Aleksis Lehtonen (SJK)
- Otto Huuhtanen (Newcastle United, Englanti)
- Mika Lahtinen (lopettanut)
- Heikki Aho (lopettanut)
- Pavle Milosavljevic
- Yoro Ly
- Mikael Soisalo (Middlesbrough FC, Englanti)

Soisalo was great, but in a big picture Ilves did win at the markets big time and there are now useful strikers too.

RoPS

+ Leo Väisänen (HJK)
+ Sani Kaita (JS Hercules)
+ Timo Stavitski (Klubi 04)
+ Lassi Järvenpää (Klubi04)
+ Sakari Tukiainen (FC Flora, Viro)
+ Cem Felek (Fatih Karagümrük, Turkki)
+ Anselmi Nurmela (AC Oulu)
? Ivan Tatomirović (HJK)
- Jarkko Lahdenmäki (Fredrikstad, Norja)
- Mika Mäkitalo (FC Inter)
- Juha Pirinen (HJK)
- Janne Saksela (Sparta Rotterdam, Hollanti)
- Ville Saxman (KuPS)

+ late signing cb Tatomirovic from HJK who will be hugely important in this young and cheap squad. Important players gone, kids in to replace.

KuPS

+ Otso Virtanen (Hibernian, Skotlanti)
+ Johannes Kytilä (Klubi04)
+ Solomon Duah (FC Inter)
+ Nikko Boxall (VPS)
+ Sebastian Sorsa (HJK)
+ Saku Leppänen (JJK)
+ Ville Saxman (RoPS)
+ Ats Purje (JK Nõmme Kalju, Viro)
- Juha Hakola (VPS)
- Petteri Pennanen (Miedz Legnica, Puola)
- Mika Ääritalo (TPS)
- Joonas Pöntinen
- Tina Jaiteh (Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv, Isreal)
- Babacar Diallo (SKN St. Pölten, Itävalta)

Most importantly also head coach changed. Diallo biggest miss, not too keen on new players as individuals but perhaps new coach Honkavaara does have a clue what he is doing. Or not.

FC Lahti

+ Igor Jovanović (Bnei Sakhnin FC, Israel)
+ Oskari Kekkonen (FC KTP)
+ Joona Tapani (FC Lahti Akatemia)
+ Irfan Sadik (FC Lahti Akatemia)
+ Loorents Hertsi (VPS)
+ Pavel Nazimov (Zenit, Venäjä)
+ Kalle Taimi (PS Kemi)
+ Hendrik Helmke (Al-Ahli, Egypti)
+ Marko Simonovski (FK Sahtjor Karaganda)
- Tomi Maanoja (HIFK)
- Duarte Tammilehto (FC Honka)
- Kalle Multanen (Haka)
- Boris Tatar
- Jani Tanska (Ilves)
- Rafael (MiPK)
- Jussi Länsitalo (lopettanut)
- Jasse Tuominen (BATE)

Tuominen a big miss as he was a big goal scoring threat. New BRA striker Stenio missing from this list.

PS Kemi

+ Omar Jama (Klubi 04)
+ Lassi Nurmos (AC Oulu)
+ Niko-Petteri Kuukasjärvi (FC Kemi)
+ Jussi Aalto (FC KTP)
+ Oskari Forsman (TPS)
+ Abdulkadir Said Ahmed (PK-35 Vantaa)
+ Juuso Laitinen (FC Jazz)
+ Justus Lehto (FC Jazz)
+ Marek Kaljumäe (Levadia, Viro)
+ Edwin Salazar (Orsomarso SC, Kolumbia)
- Joona Veteli (Fredrikstad, Norja)
- Kalle Taimi (FC Lahti)
- Erik Törnros (Dalkurd FF, Ruotsi)

Veteli and Törnroos tough to replace and the new players in general weakish.

HIFK

+ Kim Raimi (PK-35 Vantaa)
+ Tomi Maanoja (FC Lahti)
+ Nosh A Lody (PK-35 Vantaa)
+ Kristian Heinolainen (Gnistan)
+ Tommi Jyry (Klubi 04)
+ Eero Hyökyvirta (Klubi 04)
+ Nikolas Saira (FC Espoo)
+ Abaas Ismail (PK-35 Vantaa)
+ Antti Ulmanen (Klubi 04)
+ Joonas Salmi (HIFK A-jun.)
- Ville Salmikivi (PFC Beroe Stara Zagora, Bulgaria)
- Juho Pirttijoki (GIF Sundsvall)
- Joni Korhonen (FC Honka)
- Tuomas Mustonen (AC Oulu)
- Jukka Sinisalo (lopettanut)
- Tuomas Aho (lopettanut)

A lot of experience gone, the new young players in will not get any minutes. Good job HIFK!

FC Inter

+ Kevin Mombilo (PK-35 Vantaa)
+ Timo Furuholm (Hallescher FC, Saksa)
+ Jere Koponen (SJK)
+ Mika Mäkitalo (RoPS)
+ Niko Markkula (JJK)
+ Julien Faubert (Kilmarnock, Skotlanti)
- Alan Henrique (CD Nacional, Portugali)
- Solomon Duah (KuPS)
- Faith Friday Obilor (HJK)
- Jukka Lehtovaara (lopettanut)

New coaching staff as well. Inter looks strong on paper, the preseason less than impressing.

JJK

+ Felix Gustavsson (KPV)
+ Jere Pyhäranta (FC KTP)
+ Verneri Välimaa (Tampa Bay Rowdies, USA)
+ Patrick Poutiainen (KuPS)
+ Ville Kirvesoja (JJK A-jun.)
+ Aatu Manninen (JJK A-jun.)
+ Tuomas Koppelomäki (JJK A-jun.)
- Iiro Järvinen (Ilves)
- Saku Leppänen (KuPS)
- Niko Markkula (FC Inter)
- Ville Viljala

Division 1 players in and out. Sad.