2020 Veikkausliiga


The 2020 Veikkausliiga was the 90th season of top-tier football in Finland with KuPS being the defending champions. HJK won the league.
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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 Conference 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

VPS were relegated to Ykkönen after finishing at the bottom of the 2019 season. Their place was taken by Ykkönen champions FC Haka.
KPV as 11th-placed team lost their Veikkausliiga spot after losing to second-placed Ykkönen team TPS in a relegation/promotion playoff.

Stadiums and locations

ClubLocationStadiumTurfCapacity
FC HakaValkeakoskiTehtaan kenttäArtificial3,516
FC HonkaEspooTapiolan UrheilupuistoNatural6,000
FC InterTurkuVeritas StadionNatural9,372
FC LahtiLahtiLahden StadionNatural15,000
HIFKHelsinkiBolt ArenaArtificial10,770
HJKHelsinkiBolt ArenaArtificial10,770
IFK MariehamnMariehamnWiklöf Holding ArenaArtificial4,000
IlvesTampereTammelan StadionNatural5,040
KuPSKuopioSavon Sanomat AreenaArtificial5,000
RoPSRovaniemiRovaniemen keskuskenttäArtificial4,000
SJKSeinäjokiOmaSP StadionArtificial6,000
TPSTurkuVeritas StadionNatural9,372

League table

On 28 October 2020, it was decided to cancel the championship and relegation round due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland, and the regular season standings after 22 rounds would be considered final.

European competition

Five teams would originally play for a spot in the 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League first qualifying round, but this was cancelled and the spot would be awarded based on regular season position.

Relegation play-offs

''1–1 on aggregate. KTP won on away goals.''

Season statistics

Top scorers

''As of 4 November 2020''