1939 Mestaruussarja – Finnish League Championship

The 1939 season was the tenth completed season of Finnish Football League Championship, known as the Mestaruussarja.

Mestaruussarja
Season1939
ChampionsTPS Turku
RelegatedKPT Kuopio
Viipurin Reipas
Top goalscorerAatos Lehtonen, HJK Helsinki (15)
← 1938
1940 →

Overview

The 1939 Mestaruussarja was contested by 8 teams, with TPS Turku winning the championship. KPT Kuopio and Viipurin Reipas were relegated to the second tier which was known as the Suomensarja.[1]

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 TPS Turku (C) 12 9 2 1 38 17 +21 20
2 HJK Helsinki 13 7 4 2 40 18 +22 18
3 HT Helsinki 12 6 1 5 27 21 +6 13
4 HIFK Helsinki 13 5 3 5 31 32 −1 13
5 HPS Helsinki 13 5 3 5 20 22 −2 13
6 VPS Vaasa 12 3 4 5 20 21 −1 10
7 KPT Kuopio (R) 12 2 3 7 17 29 −12 7
8 Viipurin Reipas (R) 11 2 0 9 18 51 −33 4
Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

The league was abandoned due to the Winter War (14 rounds having been scheduled). The above table was declared final.[1]

Results
Home \ Away HFK HJK HPS HT KPT REI TPS VPS
HIFK 1–5 3–0 2–5 6–2 1–5 1–0
HJK 3–3 1–1 5–0 1–0 7–3 3–4 3–0
HPS 0–0 3–1 1–3 3–3 3–2 5–1
HT 2–3 0–1 0–1 8–0 1–1 2–1
KPT 2–1 2–2 0–1 5–1 0–3 1–1
Reipas 3–8 0–7 2–0 2–3 2–1
TPS 3–0 2–0 4–1 4–2 6–0 3–2
VPS 2–2 1–1 4–2 0–2 2–1 5–1 2–2
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Footnotes
  1. "Finland - List of League First Level Tables - rsssf.org". Heikki Pietarinen - RSSSF. Retrieved 2011-12-05.

References
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