The 2006 season of the Veikkausliiga the 17th season in the league's history, which began on April 19 and ended on October 29.
The league was originally supposed to have 14 teams, but AC Allianssi was refused a license, so the league was subsequently played with only 13 teams.

Veikkausliiga
Season2006
ChampionsTampere United
2nd Finnish title
RelegatedKuPS
Champions LeagueTampere United
UEFA CupHJK, MyPa, FC Haka
Matches played156
Goals scored410 (2.63 per match)
Top goalscorerFinlandHermanni Vuorinen (16)
Biggest home winTPS 7 - 0 FC KooTeePee
Biggest away winKuPS 0 - 5 TPS
Highest scoringTPS 7 - 0 FC KooTeePee
FF Jaro 2 - 5 FC Honka
2005
2007

Table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Tampere United (C) 24 16 3 5 39 18 +21 51 Qualification to Champions League first qualifying round
2 HJK 24 13 6 5 45 18 +27 45 Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round[a]
3 FC Haka 24 13 5 6 37 24 +13 44
4 FC Honka 24 13 3 8 50 32 +18 42 Qualification to Intertoto Cup first round
5 IFK Mariehamn 24 10 7 7 31 22 +9 37
6 MyPa 24 10 4 10 25 26 −1 34 Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round[b]
7 TPS 24 9 4 11 35 38 −3 31
8 FC Lahti 24 9 4 11 26 34 −8 31
9 VPS 24 8 5 11 26 36 −10 29
10 FC Inter 24 7 7 10 25 35 −10 28
11 FC KooTeePee 24 8 3 13 26 44 −18 27
12 FF Jaro 24 4 7 13 27 42 −15 19
13 KuPS (R) 24 5 4 15 18 41 −23 19 Relegation to Ykkönen
Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ FC Haka gained HJK's UEFA Cup place as HJK won the Finnish Cup. The Intertoto Cup place was given to FC Honka.
  2. ^ MyPa were awarded a place in the UEFA Cup as Fair Play Award winners.

Results

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Home \ Away HAK HJK HON INT JAR KTP KUP LAH IFK MYP TAM TPS VPS
FC Haka 2–2 2–0 0–0 3–1 3–1 2–1 1–1 1–0 1–2 0–3 0–1 4–1
HJK 1–2 3–0 5–0 4–0 5–0 1–0 0–1 0–0 4–1 0–3 3–2 3–0
FC Honka 0–2 0–0 6–0 3–2 4–1 4–0 5–0 2–1 2–2 1–3 0–1 2–1
FC Inter 1–3 0–1 2–1 2–2 0–0 1–1 0–1 1–1 1–0 0–1 0–0 2–0
FF Jaro 0–0 2–0 2–5 1–5 0–0 1–0 1–2 1–3 1–3 1–2 5–0 1–1
FC KooTeePee 0–2 2–1 1–2 3–1 2–1 3–1 2–1 1–2 0–1 1–0 0–3 2–0
KuPS 1–2 0–2 2–2 2–1 2–1 1–1 0–0 1–2 1–0 0–2 0–5 1–2
FC Lahti 2–2 0–2 1–3 1–2 3–1 0–4 2–0 3–0 0–2 0–2 3–1 1–0
IFK Mariehamn 2–1 0–0 1–2 0–1 0–0 4–1 2–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 0–1 0–1
MyPa 0–1 0–0 2–1 1–0 2–0 2–0 3–0 1–0 0–2 0–2 1–3 1–2
Tampere United 1–0 0–2 2–1 3–1 0–0 1–0 1–0 3–1 2–2 1–1 4–2 2–3
TPS 1–2 1–4 0–2 2–2 0–3 7–0 1–2 1–0 0–4 0–0 0–1 2–1
VPS 2–1 2–2 1–2 0–2 0–0 2–1 0–2 0–2 2–2 3–0 1–0 1–1
Source: [citation needed]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

European results

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Champions League:

UEFA Cup:

Intertoto Cup:

Promotions and relegations

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Top goal scorers

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Position Player Country Team Goals
1 Hermanni Vuorinen   FC Honka 16
2 Rafael   FC Lahti 13
3 Farid Ghazi   HJK 12
4 Ville Lehtinen   Tampere Utd 11
- Mikko Paatelainen   FF Jaro 11
- Antti Pohja   HJK 11
7 Ady  /  TPS 10
- Valtter Laaksonen   FC Inter 10
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