2025 Veikkausliiga

The 2025 Veikkausliiga is the current and 95th season of top-tier football in Finland, which takes place from April to November. Veikkaus is the league's sponsor.^[1]

Veikkausliiga

Season	2025
Dates	5 April – TBD 2025
Matches played	114
Goals scored	365 (3.2 per match)
Top goalscorer	Kerfala Cissoko (11)
Biggest home win	Inter Turku 5–0 KTP (19 June 2025)
Biggest away win	KTP 0–5 Ilves (19 April 2025)
Highest scoring	KuPS 6–2 Gnistan (1 July 2025)
Highest attendance	8,133 HJK 0–0 KuPS (31 May 2025)
← 2024 2026 → All statistics correct as of 11 August 2025.

Teams

The league consisted of twelve teams; ten teams remaining from the previous season, and two teams promoted from the Ykkösliiga. KuPS entered the season as defending champions.

Team changes

Promoted from 2024 Ykkösliiga	Relegated to 2025 Ykkösliiga
KTP FF Jaro	EIF Lahti

The promoted teams were the 2024 Ykkösliiga champions KTP (returning to the top flight after a single-season absence), and 2024 Veikkausliiga play-off winners Jaro (returning to the top flight after a nine-year absence). They replaced the 2024 Veikkausliiga bottom-placed team EIF (relegated after a single season), and Veikkausliiga play-off losers Lahti (relegated after a 13-year stint in the top flight).

Stadiums and locations

Oulu

FF Jaro

Haka

Inter

HJK, Gnistan

KTP

IFK M

Ilves

KuPS

SJK

VPS

Location of teams in 2025 Veikkausliiga

Club	Location	Stadium	Turf	Capacity
IF Gnistan	Oulunkylä, Helsinki	Mustapekka Areena	Artificial	2,700
FC Haka	Valkeakoski	Tehtaan kenttä	Artificial	3,516
HJK	Töölö, Helsinki	Bolt Arena	Artificial	10,770
Ilves	Tampere	Tammelan Stadion	Artificial	8,000
FC Inter Turku	Turku	Veritas Stadion	Artificial	9,372
FF Jaro	Jakobstad (Pietarsaari)	Jakobstads Centralplan	Natural	5,000
KTP	Kotka	Arto Tolsa Areena	Artificial	4,780
KuPS	Kuopio	Väre Areena	Artificial	4,778
IFK Mariehamn	Mariehamn	Wiklöf Holding Arena	Artificial	1,650
AC Oulu	Oulu	Raatti Stadium	Natural	5,000
SJK	Seinäjoki	OmaSP Stadion	Artificial	5,817
VPS	Vaasa	Hietalahti Stadium	Artificial	6,005

Personnel and kits

All teams are obligated to have the Veikkausliiga logo on the right sleeve of their shirt.

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer
IF Gnistan	Jussi Leppälahti	Jukka Raitala	Puma
FC Haka	Kari Martonen	Niklas Friberg	Puma
HJK	Miika Nuutinen (interim)	Daniel O'Shaughnessy	Adidas
Ilves	Joonas Rantanen	Otso Virtanen	Adidas
FC Inter Turku	Vesa Vasara	Juuso Hämäläinen	Nike
FF Jaro	Niklas Vidjeskog	Sergei Eremenko	Puma
KTP	Jonas Nyholm	Joona Toivio	Puma
KuPS	Jarkko Wiss	Petteri Pennanen	Puma
IFK Mariehaman	Gary Williams	Pontus Lindgren	Puma
AC Oulu	Mikko Isokangas	Niklas Jokelainen	Craft
SJK	Stevie Grieve	Rasmus Karjalainen	Adidas
VPS	Jussi Nuorela	Jesper Engström	Nike

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in the table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment	Ref
KuPS	Jani Honkavaara	Signed by Djurgårdens IF	31 December 2024	Pre-season	Jarkko Wiss	1 January 2025	[2]
HJK	Toni Korkeakunnas	Sacked	4 May 2025	10th	Miika Nuutinen (interim)	4 May 2025	[3]
FC Haka	Andy Smith	Sacked	28 July 2025	10th	Kari Martonen	28 July 2025	[4]

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Inter Turku (Q)	19	12	7	0	43	16	+27	43	Qualification for the Championship Round
2	KuPS (Q)	19	11	4	4	33	20	+13	37
3	Ilves (Q)	19	11	3	5	40	26	+14	36
4	HJK (Q)	19	11	2	6	45	25	+20	35
5	SJK (Q)	19	10	4	5	37	28	+9	34
6	Gnistan	20	6	7	7	30	35	−5	25
7	VPS	20	5	7	8	28	30	−2	22	Qualification for the Relegation Round
8	Jaro	19	6	4	9	22	28	−6	22
9	IFK Mariehamn	19	4	6	9	19	38	−19	18
10	Haka	19	4	4	11	22	35	−13	16
11	AC Oulu (Q)	19	4	3	12	25	39	−14	15
12	KTP (Q)	19	3	5	11	21	45	−24	14

Updated to match(es) played on 15 August 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).
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Results

Home \ Away	GNI	HAK	HJK	ILV	INT	JAR	KTP	KPS	MAR	OUL	SJK	VPS
Gnistan	—	2–0	2–4	0–2	2–2	31 AUG	2–1	1–2	2–0	23 AUG	2–2	0–0
Haka	3–2	—	17 AUG	0–4	0–2	0–1	2–3	1–3	0–1	2–1	25 AUG	2–1
HJK	0–1	3–1	—	5–1	1–4	2–3	4–1	0–0	24 AUG	3–1	4–2	3–1
Ilves	2–2	3–2	3–2	—	23 AUG	2–1	2–1	3–0	31 AUG	0–0	2–3	3–2
Inter Turku	3–0	1–1	1–1	3–1	—	3–1	5–0	1–1	0–0	3–2	4–1	31 AUG
Jaro	1–1	2–1	0–3	0–1	0–1	—	2–3	23 AUG	1–1	2–1	18 AUG	2–2
KTP	0–0	0–0	31 AUG	0–5	2–2	3–2	—	0–2	2–2	1–3	0–1	2–2
KuPS	6–2	3–2	3–0	0–3	17 AUG	1–0	3–0	—	4–1	1–0	1–0	0–2
IFK Mariehamn	2–5	1–1	0–4	3–2	2–2	0–2	16 AUG	1–0	—	0–1	1–2	1–5
AC Oulu	2–3	31 AUG	0–4	18 AUG	1–4	0–1	3–2	2–2	0–1	—	2–2	2–1
SJK	3–1	2–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	3–1	3–0	31 AUG	4–1	3–1	—	2–3
VPS	0–0	1–2	0–2	1–0	0–2	0–0	22 AUG	1–1	1–1	4–3	1–2	—

Updated to match(es) played on 15 August 2025. Source: Flashscore
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Results by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32
Gnistan	L	L	W	L	W	W	D	D	L	W	D	D	L	D	W	L	L	D	W
Haka	W	L	W	D	L	L	L	D	W	D	L	L	W	L	L	D	L	L	L
HJK	L	L	L	W	D	W	W	W	D	W	W	L	L	W	W	W	W	L	W
Ilves	W	W	W	L	L	W	L	D	W	W	L	W	W	D	W	W	W	D	L
Inter Turku	D	W	W	W	D	D	W	W	W	D	W	D	D	W	W	D	W	W	W
Jaro	W	L	L	L	W	L	D	D	L	L	W	L	W	D	L	L	D	W	W
KTP	L	D	L	W	L	L	L	D	D	L	L	W	L	D	L	D	W	L	L
KuPS	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	D	L	L	W	W	D	W	D	L	W	W
IFK Mariehamn	L	W	L	W	L	D	W	L	D	L	W	L	D	D	L	D	L	D	L
AC Oulu	L	L	L	L	W	L	L	D	D	L	L	W	L	D	W	L	W	L	L
SJK	W	W	W	D	L	L	D	L	D	W	W	W	W	D	L	W	L	W	W
VPS	W	D	L	L	W	W	D	W	L	W	D	L	L	L	L	D	D	D	L

Updated to match(es) played on 11 August 2025. Source: veikkausliiga.com (in Finnish)
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Lose

Season statistics

Top goalscorers As of 11 August 2025[5] Rank Player Club Goals 1 Kerfala Cissoko Jaro 11 2 Kasper Paananen SJK Seinäjoki 10 3 Alexander Ring HJK 9 Teemu Pukki HJK 5 Maissa Fall VPS 8 Mohamed Toure KuPS 7 Rasmus Karjalainen SJK Seinäjoki 7 Santeri Hostikka HJK Dimitri Legbo Inter Turku 10 Benji Michel HJK 6 Agon Sadiku KuPS Marius Söderbäck Ilves Joakim Latonen Gnistan Hat-tricks As of 1 July 2025 Player For Against Result Date Mads Borchers VPS AC Oulu 4–3 (H) 5 April 2025[6] Joslyn Luyeye-Lutumba KuPS HJK 3–0 (H) 27 June 2025[7] Agon Sadiku KuPS Gnistan 6–2 (H) 1 July 2025

Clean sheets As of 1 June 2025[8] Rank Player Club Clean sheets 1 Johannes Kreidl KuPS 5 2 Eetu Huuhtanen Inter Turku 4 Otso Virtanen Ilves 4 Miguel Santos Jaro 3 Thijmen Nijhuis HJK Helsinki 6 Roope Paunio SJK Seinäjoki 2 Álex Craninx Gnistan Teppo Marttinen VPS 9 Matias Riikonen Mariehamn 1 Johannes Viitala IFK Mariehamn William Eskelinen AC Oulu Rasmus Leislahti VPS Maksym Zhuk KTP Liam Hughes Haka

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	Player of the Month	Manager of the Month	Ref
April	Kasper Paananen (SJK Seinäjoki)	Stevie Grieve (SJK Seinäjoki)	[9]
May	Alexander Ring (HJK Helsinki)	Vesa Vasara (Inter Turku)	[10]
June	Antoin Essomba (Inter Turku)	Stevie Grieve (SJK Seinäjoki) (2)	[11]
July	Benji Michel (HJK Helsinki)	Vesa Vasara (Inter Turku) (2)	[12]

See also

• Association football portal
• Finland portal

Competitions 2025 Ykkösliiga 2025 Kakkonen 2025 Finnish Cup

Team seasons 2025 FC Haka season 2025 FC Inter Turku season 2025 FF Jaro season 2025 Kuopion Palloseura season 2025 SJK season 2025 Vaasan Palloseura season

Transfers List of Finnish football transfers winter 2024–25