2019 Veikkausliiga

Veikkausliiga

Season	2019
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The 2019 Veikkausliiga is the eighty-ninth season of top-tier football in Finland. Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi are the defending champions.

New league format

Veikkausliiga has adopted a new league format for the 2019 season. Each team will play against each other twice in the regular season. After the regular season the top six teams will advance to the Championship Series which will determine the champion and European tournament qualification places. The bottom six teams will advance to the Challenger Series. The best team from the Challenger Series will play in a tournament against the Championship Series' 4th, 5th, and 6th place teams. The winner from that will play in a final series against the 3rd best team from the Championship Series. The last UEFA Europa League qualification place will go 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 Ykkonen 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

HIFK
HJK

RoPS

KuPS

FC Honka

FC Lahti

IFK Mariehamn

Ilves

KPV

SJK

VPS

FC Inter

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Location of teams in 2019 Veikkausliiga

Club	Location	Stadium	Turf	Capacity
FC Honka	Espoo	Tapiolan Urheilupuisto	Natural	6,000
FC Inter	Turku	Veritas Stadion	Natural	10,000
FC Lahti	Lahti	Lahden Stadion	Natural	15,000
HIFK	Helsinki	Telia 5G -areena	Artificial	10,770
HJK	Helsinki	Telia 5G -areena	Artificial	10,770
IFK Mariehamn	Mariehamn	Wiklöf Holding Arena	Natural	4,000
Ilves	Tampere	Tammelan Stadion	Natural	5,040
KPV	Kokkola	Kokkolan Keskuskenttä	Natural	2,000
KuPS	Kuopio	Savon Sanomat Areena	Artificial	5,000
RoPS	Rovaniemi	Rovaniemen keskuskenttä	Artificial	4,000
SJK	Seinäjoki	OmaSP Stadion	Artificial	6,000
VPS	Vaasa	Elisa Stadion	Artificial	6,000

League table

Regular season

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	FC Inter	22	13	3	6	39	25	+14	42	Qualification for the Championship Series
2	KuPS	22	11	7	4	39	23	+16	40
3	Ilves	22	11	7	4	29	18	+11	40
4	HJK	22	8	10	4	28	22	+6	34
5	FC Honka	22	10	4	8	31	27	+4	34
6	IFK Mariehamn	22	9	4	9	29	23	+6	31
7	SJK	22	7	7	8	17	23	−6	28	Qualification for the Challenger Series
8	FC Lahti	22	7	7	8	21	29	−8	28
9	HIFK	22	6	8	8	25	29	−4	26
10	RoPS	22	6	6	10	19	25	−6	24
11	KPV	22	4	4	14	19	39	−20	16
12	VPS	22	2	9	11	22	35	−13	15

Updated to match(es) played on 1 September 2019. Source: Veikkausliiga, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Play-off
(Note: Play-off is only played if need to decide champion, teams for relegation or UEFA competition and will be played on a neutral ground).

Position by round

Team ╲ Round	1
FC Inter
KuPS
Ilves
HJK
FC Honka
IFK Mariehamn
SJK
FC Lahti
HIFK
RoPS
KPV
VPS

Source:

Results

	HIF	HJK	Hon	IFK	Ilv	Int	KPV	KuP	Lah	RoP	SJK	VPS
HIFK	––––	0-2	2-0	1-1	2-2	1-1	3-2	1-1	0-1	1-0	1-0	2-1
HJK	1-1	Template:Sfondo|––––	0-1	2-1	0-0	2-1	3-1	1-1	4-0	2-2	2-2	1-1
Honka	3-0	0-1	Template:Sfondo|––––	1-3	1-2	3-2	0-1	1-2	2-0	1-0	0-0	1-1
IFK Mariehamn	1-3	0-2	2-2	Template:Sfondo|––––	0-1	1-2	3-0	3-4	0-1	2-0	1-0	1-0
Ilves	3-1	1-1	1-1	0-0	Template:Sfondo|––––	0-1	4-2	0-2	1-0	2-2	3-0	0-0
Inter Turku	3-2	4-1	3-1	1-0	2-3	Template:Sfondo|––––	2-1	1-0	2-0	3-0	1-2	1-1
KPV	1-1	2-1	0-1	0-4	0-2	1-3	Template:Sfondo|––––	2-1	0-0	0-1	1-2	2-1
KuPS	1-1	0-0	0-3	0-0	1-0	2-0	3-1	Template:Sfondo|––––	5-1	2-2	0-1	5-0
Lahti	0-0	3-0	3-2	0-1	1-0	1-1	1-0	3-3	Template:Sfondo|––––	1-2	1-1	1-1
RoPS	1-0	0-1	1-2	1-2	0-1	0-2	0-0	0-1	3-0	Template:Sfondo|––––	1-1	2-1
SJK	1-0	0-0	1-2	0-2	0-1	2-1	1-0	1-3	0-2	0-0	Template:Sfondo|––––	1-0
VPS	3-2	1-1	2-3	2-1	1-2	1-2	2-2	1-2	1-1	0-1	1-1	Template:Sfondo|––––

Championship Series

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	FC Inter	22	13	3	6	39	25	+14	42	Qualification for the UEFA Champions League first qualifying round.
2	KuPS	22	11	7	4	39	23	+16	40	Qualification for the UEFA Europa League first qualifying round.
3	Ilves	22	11	7	4	29	18	+11	40	Qualification for the national UEFA Europa League qualification final.
4	HJK	22	8	10	4	28	22	+6	34	Qualification for the national UEFA Europa League qualification tournament.
5	FC Honka	22	10	4	8	31	27	+4	34
6	IFK Mariehamn	22	9	4	9	29	23	+6	31

First match(es) will be played: September 2019. Source: Veikkausliiga, Soccerway

Challenger Series

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
7	SJK	22	7	7	8	17	23	−6	28	Qualification for the national UEFA Europa League qualification tournament.
8	FC Lahti	22	7	7	8	21	29	−8	28
9	HIFK	22	6	8	8	25	29	−4	26
10	RoPS	22	6	6	10	19	25	−6	24
11	KPV	22	4	4	14	19	39	−20	16	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
12	VPS	22	2	9	11	22	35	−13	15	Relegation to the Ykkönen

First match(es) will be played: September 2019. Source: Veikkausliiga, Soccerway

Season statistics

Top scorers

As of match played 28 July 2019

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Filip Valenčič	Inter Turku	14
2	Lauri Ala-Myllymäki	Ilves	9
3	Lucas Rangel	KuPS	8
4	Borjas Martín	Honka	7
	Timo Furuholm	Inter Turku
	Denys Oliynyk	SJK
7	Keaton Isaksson	IFK Mariehamn	6
	Aristote M'Boma	IFK Mariehamn
9	Ville Saxman	KuPS	5
10	Tiquinho	HIFK	4
	Josu	Lahti
	Riku Riski	HJK
	Steven Morrissey	VPS
	Hendrik Helmke	KPV
	Juha Hakola	Honka