2025 Kuopion Palloseura season

Kuopion Palloseura

2025 season
Veikkausliiga	Pre-season
Finnish Cup	Pre-season
Finnish League Cup	Group stage
←  2024

The 2025 season is the 102nd overall and 18th consecutive in the Veikkausliiga for KuPS. The club will also compete in the Finnish Cup, Finnish League Cup, and UEFA Champions League qualifiers.

Squad

Transfers Out

Pos.	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Date	Source
DF	Taneli Hämäläinen	ADO Den Haag	Free	1 January 2025	[1]
FW	Rangel		Released	1 January 2025

Competitions

Overall record

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Record
				Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Veikkausliiga			Matchday 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	!—
Finnish Cup				0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	!—
Finnish League Cup	18 January 2025		Group stage	1	0	0	1	3	4	−1	000.00
Total				1	0	0	1	3	4	−1	000.00

Last updated: 18 January 2025
Source: Competitions

Veikkausliiga

Main article: 2025 Veikkausliiga

Table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ilves	17	11	2	4	37	19	+18	35	Qualification for the Championship Round
2	Inter Turku	16	9	7	0	32	12	+20	34
3	KuPS	17	9	4	4	28	18	+10	31
4	HJK	16	9	2	5	35	18	+17	29
5	SJK	16	8	4	4	31	23	+8	28

Updated to match(es) played on 26 July 2025. Source: Flashscore
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).

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Results by round

Round	1
Ground
Result
Position

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

Inter Turku v KuPS

5 April 20251	Inter Turku	1-1	KuPS	Turku
16:00 CET	Yli-Kokko  62' Vasara  72' Kouame 76'	Report	Oksanen  24' Miettinen 53' 71'	Stadium: Kupittaa Football Stadium Attendance: 3,837 Referee: Peiman Simani

KuPS v Oulu

12 April 20252	KuPS	1-0	Oulu	Kuopio
18:30 CET	Sadiku 23' Savolainen  82' Voutilainen  90'	Report	Dumbuya  45'	Stadium: Väre Areena Attendance: 1,784 Referee: Kalle Mäkinen

KuPS v Jaro

19 April 20253	KuPS	1-0	Jaro	Kuopio
18:00 CET	Oksanen  24' Voutilainen  57' Cissé  79' Tikkanen 84' Sadiku  86'	Report	Gunnarsson  23' Miguel Santos  86'	Stadium: Väre Areena Attendance: 2,124 Referee: Petri Viljanen

KuPS v IFK Mariehamn

23 April 202515	KuPS	4-1	IFK Mariehamn	Kuopio
17:00 CET	Ruoppi 37'83' Pennanen 43' Sadiku  71' Luyeye-Lutumba 80'	Report	Olawale 71'	Stadium: Väre Areena Attendance: 1,573 Referee: Joona Kontinen

Gnistan v KuPS

27 April 20254	Gnistan	1-2	KuPS	Helsinki
15:00 CET	Europaeus 28' Ojala  71' Kabashi  90+1'	Report	Oksanen 47' Cissé  50' Bashkirov 77' (o.g.) Heinonen  90+3'	Stadium: Mustapekka Areena Attendance: 2,253 Referee: Matti Roth

KuPS v SJK

2 May 20255	KuPS	1-0	SJK	Kuopio
19:00 CET	Sadiku 45+1' Cissé  79' Kreidl  82'	Report	Bojang  60' Padera  87' Väistö  90+3'	Stadium: Väre Areena Attendance: 1,612 Referee: Oliver Reitala

KuPS v KTP

10 May 20256	KuPS	3-0	KTP	Kuopio
14:00 CET	Toure 25'44' Ruoppi 57' Savolainen  90'	Report	Huhtamäki  54'  68' Paavola  62'	Stadium: Väre Areena Attendance: 2,230 Referee: Amir Hajizadeh

Finnish Cup

Main article: 2025 Finnish Cup

Finnish League Cup

Main article: 2025 Finnish League Cup

Results by round

Round	1
Ground
Result	L
Position

Updated to match(es) played on 18 January 2025. Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

KuPS v Ilves

18 January 20251	KuPS	3–4	Ilves
15:00  UTC+2

UEFA Champions League

Main article: 2025–26 UEFA Champions League

Kups 1-0 Milsami 8th July 2025

Milsami vs Kups (0-1)

References

1. Juurtela, Martti (December 14, 2024). "Taneli Hämäläinen siirtyy Hollantiin".