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The Veikkausliiga Courier

1 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Nobody scored more than Felipe Barrientos

The month closes with Felipe Barrientos out in front — 2 goals in 1 games, and FC Lahti have the division's most feared finisher.

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Miroslav Routek hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ilves can pretend not to have heard.

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Sebastián Medina leads the division for assists — 8.48

The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 1 of them made by a IFK Mariehamn player marked 8.48, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.

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Ville Tikkanen has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around HJK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

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Still scoring: Alberto Benítez Villalba

1 in 1 for RoPS. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

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Lauri Ala-Myllymäki keeps the pressure on

1 goals in 1 appearances for Ilves leave him among the month's leading marksmen.

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Still scoring: Diogo Tomás

1 in 1 for FF Jaro. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

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Still scoring: Alie Conteh

1 in 1 for Inter Turku. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

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Mats Pedersen keeps making them — 1 this month

7.77 for a FF Jaro player whose contribution is measured entirely in other people's celebrations. The providers' chart is the one nobody frames and everybody in a dressing room reads.

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Eino Ehrnrooth: 1 assists this month — 7.82

Next on a chart nobody frames. 7.82 for a VPS U20 player whose month is measured in other people's goals.

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Talks stall between Inter Turku and Cəlal Hüseynov

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

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The Jaime Moreno question follows KuPS around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jaime Moreno’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

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The Veikkausliiga Courier

1 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Nobody scored more than Jaime Moreno

The month closes with Jaime Moreno out in front — 4 goals in 5 games, and KuPS have the division's most feared finisher.

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The month belonged to Stanislav Baranov

Marked 8.12 across it, 2 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Ilves have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.

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The division's brightest kid this month plays for Ilves

Stanislav Baranov was marked 8.12 and had a hand in 2 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.

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Aleksi Piispa asks to leave VPS

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

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Koper come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and FF Jaro did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

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Luciano Sokolic leads the division for assists — 6.24

The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 4 of them made by a HIFK player marked 6.24, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.

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Only the photograph left for Joel Lehtonen

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Joel Lehtonen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FC Lahti the goodbyes have quietly begun.

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Highest marks in the league belong to a Ilves man

Maksim Stjopin averaged 8.24 over 5 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.

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Still scoring: Severi Kähkönen

3 in 4 for FF Jaro. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

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Maksim Stjopin keeps the pressure on

2 goals in 5 appearances for Ilves leave him among the month's leading marksmen.

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Albin Björkskog makes the list

4 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

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Anteo Fetahu up among the month's scorers

A productive month at HIFK — 3 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

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The Veikkausliiga Courier

1 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Lassi Lappalainen raises the bar for HJK

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at HJK heard it as anything else.

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No place for Alexander Ring in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Alexander Ring has his answer from HJK; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

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The clock runs on Jaime Moreno's contract

5 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.