The 2011 Finnish League Cup is the 15th season of the

Finnish League Cup The Finnish League Cup was a knock-out association football, football competition contested annually during the pre-season in winter by teams from Veikkausliiga. The league cup was abolished after the 2016 tournament and replaced with the Finnish C ...

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's second-most prestigious cup

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tournament.

FC Honka FC Honka is a Finnish football club based in Espoo. It was founded in 1957 as Tapion Honka, and changed its name to FC Honka in 1975. The club currently play in the Finnish premier division (''Veikkausliiga''), having been promoted for the fir ...

are the defending champions, having won their first league cup last year. The cup consists of two stages. First there will be a group stage that involves the 14

Veikkausliiga Veikkausliiga (; sv, Tipsligan) is the premier division of Finnish football, the highest tier of the Finnish football league structure, comprising the top 12 clubs of the country. Its main sponsor is the Finnish national betting agency Veikkau ...

teams divided into two groups. The top four teams from each group will enter the one-legged elimination rounds – quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final.

Group stage

Every team will play every other team of its group once, either home or away. The matches will be played from 18 January to 15 March 2011.

Group 1

Group 2

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

External links

Veikkausliiga Liigacup 2011

Finnish League Cup on goalzz.com
{{2011–12 in European Football (UEFA)

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Finnish League Cup