2019 Veikkausliiga


The 2019 Veikkausliiga was the 89th season of top-tier football in Finland. Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi were the defending champions. KuPS won the title.

New league format

Veikkausliiga adopted a new league format for the 2019 season. Each team played against each other twice in the regular season. After the regular season the top six teams advanced to the Championship Series which determines the champion and European tournament qualification places. The bottom six teams advanced to the Challenger Series. The best team from the Challenger Series plays in a tournament against the Championship Series' 4th, 5th, and 6th place teams. The winner from that plays in a final series against the 3rd best team from the Championship Series. The last UEFA Europa League qualification place goes to the winner of that final series.
The bottom team from the Challenger Series will relegate to the Ykkönen, and second to last team will play in a relegation play-off series against the 2nd best team from Ykkönen.

Teams

Palloseura Kemi Kings were relegated to Ykkönen after finishing at the bottom of the 2018 season. Their place was taken by Ykkönen champions HIFK Fotboll.
Turun Palloseura as 11th-placed team lost their Veikkausliiga spot after losing to second-placed Ykkönen team Kokkolan Palloveikot in a relegation/promotion playoff.

Stadia and locations

ClubLocationStadiumTurfCapacity
FC HonkaEspooTapiolan UrheilupuistoNatural6,000
Inter TurkuTurkuVeritas StadionNatural10,000
FC LahtiLahtiLahden StadionNatural15,000
HIFKHelsinkiTelia 5G -areenaArtificial10,770
HJKHelsinkiTelia 5G -areenaArtificial10,770
IFK MariehamnMariehamnWiklöf Holding ArenaNatural4,000
IlvesTampereTammelan StadionNatural5,040
KPVKokkolaKokkolan KeskuskenttäNatural2,000
KuPSKuopioSavon Sanomat AreenaArtificial5,000
RoPSRovaniemiRovaniemen keskuskenttäArtificial4,000
SJKSeinäjokiOmaSP StadionArtificial6,000
VPSVaasaElisa StadionArtificial6,000

League table

Regular season



European competition

Five teams will play for a spot in the 2020–21 UEFA Europa League first qualifying round.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Final standings

Attendances

No.ClubAverageHighest
1HJK5,00710,251
2Ilves4,2375,135
3Inter Turku3,2439,125
4SJK2,8274,059
5KuPS2,8147,114
6HIFK2,29810,256
7Lahti2,2383,454
8VPS2,0933,432
9Honka2,0834,219
10KPV1,7333,018
11RoPS1,5693,112
12Mariehamn1,1481,405

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