2019 Veikkausliiga

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Veikkausliiga
Season2019
Champions KuPS
6th title
Relegated KPV
VPS
Champions League KuPS
Europa League Inter Turku
Ilves
Matches played162
Goals scored396 (2.44 per match)
Top goalscorer Filip Valenčič (16)
Highest scoring IFK Mariehamn 3–4 KuPS
(1 May 2019)
2018
2020

The 2019 Veikkausliiga was the 89th season of top-tier football in Finland. Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi were the defending champions. [1] KuPS won the title.

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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 League qualification place goes to the winner of that final series. [2]

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 Honka Espoo Tapiolan Urheilupuisto Natural 6,000
Inter Turku 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

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification or relegation [lower-alpha 1]
1 KuPS (C)2715844624+2253Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round.
2 Inter Turku 2715394229+1348Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round.
3 FC Honka (O)2714584129+1247Qualification for the national Europa League qualification final.
4 Ilves 2713863425+947Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round. [lower-alpha 2]
5 HJK 2791083329+437Qualification for the national Europa League qualification tournament.
6 IFK Mariehamn 2795133134332
7 HIFK 2710983734+339Qualification for the national Europa League qualification tournament.
8 FC Lahti 279992936736
9 SJK 27791118291130
10 RoPS 27861323351230
11 KPV (R)27741632471525Qualification for the relegation play-offs
12 VPS (R)273101430451519Relegation to the Ykkönen
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).
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. Teams played against each other twice (22 matches) after which the league split in two (top 6 and bottom 6 teams).
  2. Ilves qualified for the Europa League first qualifying round by winning the 2019 Finnish Cup

Results

Home \ Away HFK HJK HON MAR ILV INT KPV KPS LAH RPS SJK VPS
HIFK 0–22–01–12–21–13–21–10–11–01–02–1
HJK 1–10–12–10–02–13–11–14–02–22–21–1
FC Honka 3–00–11–31–23–20–11–22–01–00–01–1
IFK Mariehamn 1–30–22–20–11–23–03–40–12–01–01–0
Ilves 3–11–11–10–00–14–20–21–02–23–00–0
FC Inter 3–24–13–11–02–32–11–02–03–01–21–1
KPV 1–12–10–10–40–21–32–10–00–11–22–1
KuPS 1–10–00–30–01–02–03–15–12–20–15–0
FC Lahti 0–03–03–20–11–01–11–03–31–21–11–1
RoPS 1–00–11–21–20–10–20–00–13–01–12–1
SJK 1–00–01–20–20–12–11–01–30–20–01–0
VPS 3–21–12–32–11–21–22–21–21–10–11–1
Source: Veikkausliiga
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

European competition

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

HJK 2–2 (a.e.t.) FC Lahti
Report
Penalties
4–2
Telia 5G -areena , Helsinki
Referee: Mattias Gestranius
IFK Mariehamn 0–0 (a.e.t.) HIFK
Report
Penalties
4–2
Wiklöf Holding Arena , Mariehamn
Referee: Mohammed Al-Emara
HJK 1–2 (a.e.t.) IFK Mariehamn
Report
Telia 5G -areena , Helsinki
Referee: Antti Munukka

Bracket

 
QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
 
                
 
23 October 2019 (2019-10-23)
 
 
HJK 2(4)
 
27 October 2019 (2019-10-27)
 
FC Lahti 2(2)
 
HJK 1
 
23 October 2019 (2019-10-23)
 
IFK Mariehamn 2
 
IFK Mariehamn 0(4)
 
 
 
HIFK 0(2)
 
IFK Mariehamn 101
 
 
FC Honka 213
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Final stage

Team 1 Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
IFK Mariehamn 1–3 FC Honka 1–20–1
IFK Mariehamn 2-3 FC Honka
Report
Referee: Joni Hyytiä
FC Honka 2-1 IFK Mariehamn
Report
Referee: Petri Viljanen

Relegation play-offs

TPS 0–0 KPV
Report
Veritas Stadion , Turku
Attendance: 3,376
Referee: Kalle Mäkinen
KPV 0–3 TPS
Report Ääritalo Soccerball shade.svg44'
Jakonen Soccerball shade.svg67'
Duah Soccerball shade.svg90+2'
Kokkolan keskuskenttä , Kokkola
Attendance: 1,200
Referee: Ville Nevalainen

Season statistics

Top scorers

Final standings [3]

RankPlayerClubGoals
1 Flag of Slovenia.svg Filip Valenčič Inter Turku 16
2 Flag of Finland.svg Lauri Ala-Myllymäki Ilves 12
Flag of Spain.svg Borjas Martín Honka
4 Flag of Finland.svg Timo Furuholm Inter Turku 10
Flag of Brazil.svg Tiquinho HIFK
6 Flag of Brazil.svg Luís Henrique HIFK 8
Flag of Ukraine.svg Denys Oliynyk SJK
Flag of Brazil.svg Lucas Rangel KuPS

Awards

Annual awards

Award [4] WinnerClub
Player of the Year Flag of Slovenia.svg Filip Valenčič Inter Turku
Goalkeeper of the Year Flag of Finland.svg Mika Hilander Ilves
Defender of the Year Flag of Colombia.svg Luis Carlos Murillo KuPS
Midfielder of the Year Flag of Finland.svg Petteri Pennanen KuPS
Striker of the Year Flag of Slovenia.svg Filip Valenčič Inter Turku
Breakthrough of the Year Flag of Brazil.svg Jair Ilves
Coach of the Year Flag of Finland.svg Jonas Rantanen HJK

Team of the Year

Team of the Year [5]
Goalkeeper Flag of Finland.svg Mika Hilander (Ilves)
Defence Flag of Finland.svg

Felipe Aspegren (Ilves)

Flag of Senegal.svg

Babacar Diallo (KuPS)

Flag of Ghana.svg

Baba Mensah (Ilves)

Flag of Colombia.svg

Luis Carlos Murillo (HJK)

Midfield Flag of Finland.svg

Niko Markkula (Inter Turku)

Flag of Finland.svg Ville Saxman

(KuPS)

Flag of Finland.svg Lauri Ala-Myllymäki (Ilves) Flag of Finland.svg

Petteri Pennanen (KuPs)

Attack Flag of Slovenia.svg Filip Valenčič (Inter Turku) Flag of Spain.svg Borjas Martín (Honka)

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