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
ClubLocationStadiumTurfCapacityFC HonkaEspooTapiolan UrheilupuistoNatural6,000Inter TurkuTurkuVeritas StadionNatural10,000FC LahtiLahtiLahden StadionNatural15,000HIFKHelsinkiTelia 5G -areenaArtificial10,770HJKHelsinkiTelia 5G -areenaArtificial10,770IFK MariehamnMariehamnWiklöf Holding ArenaNatural4,000IlvesTampereTammelan StadionNatural5,040KPVKokkolaKokkolan KeskuskenttäNatural2,000KuPSKuopioSavon Sanomat AreenaArtificial5,000RoPSRovaniemiRovaniemen keskuskenttäArtificial4,000SJKSeinäjokiOmaSP StadionArtificial6,000VPSVaasaElisa StadionArtificial6,000
League table Regular season
Results
European competition Five teams will play for a spot in the 2020–21 UEFA Europa League first qualifying round.
Bracket
Final stage
Relegation play-offs
Season statistics Top scorers Final standings RankPlayerClubGoals1 Filip ValenčičInter Turku162 Lauri Ala-MyllymäkiIlves12 Borjas MartínHonka4 Timo FuruholmInter Turku10 TiquinhoHIFK6 Luís HenriqueHIFK8 Denys OliynykSJK Lucas RangelKuPS
Awards Annual awards AwardWinnerClubPlayer of the Year Filip ValenčičInter Turku Goalkeeper of the Year Mika HilanderIlves Defender of the Year Luis Carlos MurilloKuPS Midfielder of the Year Petteri PennanenKuPS Striker of the Year Filip ValenčičInter Turku Breakthrough of the Year JairIlves Coach of the Year Jonas RantanenHJK
Team of the Year
Team of the YearGoalkeeper Mika Hilander (Ilves)Defence Felipe Aspegren (Ilves)Babacar Diallo (KuPS) Baba Mensah (Ilves)Luis Carlos Murillo (HJK)MidfieldNiko Markkula (Inter Turku)Ville Saxman
(KuPS) Lauri Ala-Myllymäki (Ilves)Petteri Pennanen (KuPs)Attack Filip Valenčič (Inter Turku) Borjas Martín (Honka)
Attendances
No. Club Average Highest 1 HJK 5,007 10,251 2 Ilves 4,237 5,135 3 Inter Turku 3,243 9,125 4 SJK 2,827 4,059 5 KuPS 2,814 7,114 6 HIFK 2,298 10,256 7 Lahti 2,238 3,454 8 VPS 2,093 3,432 9 Honka 2,083 4,219 10 KPV 1,733 3,018 11 RoPS 1,569 3,112 12 Mariehamn 1,148 1,405Source:
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