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| Founded | 1994 |
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| Region |  Finland |
| Current champions | FC Inter Turku (2nd title) |
| Most successful club(s) | HJK (6 titles) |
The Finnish League Cup (in Finnish: Liigacup), is a knock-out football competition contested annually during the pre-season in winter by teams from Veikkausliiga. [1] The competition is notably the only football competition in Europe which is mostly played indoors. It is also administrated by Veikkausliiga
The competition was founded in 1994. After 18 editions it was abolished in 2016. It was replaced with the Finnish Cup group stage starting from the 2017 season [2]
League cup will be played again starting in the spring of 2022, [3] as it returned in its original format. The competing teams are allowed to have up to three non-contract test players in their roster, with seven possible substitutions. [4] The most successful club is Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi (HJK) with 6 wins.
| Club | Winners | Runners-up | Winning Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| HJK | 6 | 3 | 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2015, 2023 |
| FC Lahti | 3 | 2 | 2007, 2013, 2016 |
| FC Honka | 3 | – | 2010, 2011, 2022 |
| VPS | 2 | 2 | 1999, 2000 |
| AC Allianssi | 2 | – | 2004, 2005 |
| FC Inter Turku | 2 | 2 | 2008, 2024 |
| Tampere United | 1 | 1 | 2009 |
| TPS | 1 | 1 | 2012 |
| SJK | 1 | 1 | 2014 |
| KuPS | 1 | 1 | 2006 |
| FC Haka | 1 | – | 1995 |
| JJK | – | 2 | – |
| RoPS | – | 2 | – |
| FC Jazz | – | 1 | – |
| FF Jaro | – | 1 | – |
| Kotkan TP | – | 1 | |
| AC Oulu | – | 1 | – |
| FC Jokerit | – | 1 | – |
| FC KooTeePee | – | 1 | – |
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Veikkausliiga is the premier division of Finnish football, the highest tier of the Finnish football league structure, comprising the top 12 clubs of the country. Its main sponsor is the Finnish national betting agency Veikkaus, hence the league's name. Veikkausliiga was founded in 1990; before that the top division was called Mestaruussarja since 1930 which was an amateur or semi-professional league. Between 1908 and 1930 the championship was decided as a knock-out cup competition.
Football Club International Turku, commonly referred to as Inter Turku and colloquially known as Inter, is a Finnish football club based in Turku that competes in the Veikkausliiga, the top flight of Finnish Football. Founded in 1990 by Stefan Håkans, the club has a rivalry with Turun Palloseura.
FC Lahti is a Finnish football club based in the city of Lahti. It currently plays in the Finnish Premier League (Veikkausliiga) after placing first in the Finnish First Division (Ykkönen) during season 2011. The homeground of Lahti is Lahden Stadion. Lahti is famous of being the local team of the most successful Finnish player, Jari Litmanen, who played for the club in two stints in 2004 and 2009–10. In his youth years and the start of his career, he played in Reipas Lahti.
FC Honka is a Finnish football club based in Espoo. It was founded in 1957 as Tapion Honka, and changed its name to FC Honka in 1975. The club will play in Kakkonen in the 2024 season, after Esport Honka filed for bankruptcy in November 2023. The club previously played in the Finnish premier division (Veikkausliiga), having been promoted for the first time in their history at the end of the 2005 season. It plays its home matches at the Tapiolan Urheilupuisto.
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