The 2020 Veikkausliiga was the 90th season of top-tier football in Finland with KuPS being the defending champions. HJK won the league.
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 Conference 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 VPS were relegated to Ykkönen after finishing at the bottom of the 2019 season. Their place was taken by Ykkönen champions FC Haka.
KPV as 11th-placed team lost their Veikkausliiga spot after losing to second-placed Ykkönen team TPS in a relegation/promotion playoff.
Stadiums and locations
ClubLocationStadiumTurfCapacityFC HakaValkeakoskiTehtaan kenttäArtificial3,516FC HonkaEspooTapiolan UrheilupuistoNatural6,000FC InterTurkuVeritas StadionNatural9,372 FC LahtiLahtiLahden StadionNatural15,000HIFKHelsinkiBolt ArenaArtificial10,770HJKHelsinkiBolt ArenaArtificial10,770IFK MariehamnMariehamnWiklöf Holding ArenaArtificialWiklöf Holding Arenan uuden kentän rakennus etenee aikataulussa4,000IlvesTampereTammelan StadionNatural5,040KuPSKuopioSavon Sanomat AreenaArtificial5,000RoPSRovaniemiRovaniemen keskuskenttäArtificial4,000SJKSeinäjokiOmaSP StadionArtificial6,000TPSTurkuVeritas StadionNatural9,372
League table On 28 October 2020, it was decided to cancel the championship and relegation round due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland, and the regular season standings after 22 rounds would be considered final.
Results
European competition Five teams would originally play for a spot in the 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League first qualifying round, but this was cancelled and the spot would be awarded based on regular season position.
Relegation play-offs
1–1 on aggregate. KTP won on away goals.
Season statistics Top scorers As of 4 November 2020 RankPlayerClubGoals1 Roope RiskiHJK162 Albion AdemiIFK Mariehamn143 Timo FuruholmInter Turku104 Jasin-Amin AssehnounFC Lahti9 Tim VäyrynenHJK6 Lauri Ala-MyllymäkiIlves7 Jean Marie DongouFC Honka Naatan SkyttäIlves Aniekpeno UdoKuPS10 Dimitry ImbongoFC Lahti6 Ilmari NiskanenKuPS Salomo OjalaFC Haka Awards Annual awards AwardWinnerClubPlayer of the Year Roope RiskiHJK Goalkeeper of the Year Tim MurrayHonka Defender of the Year Daniel O'ShaughnessyHJKMidfielder of the Year Nana BoatengKuPS Striker of the Year Roope RiskiHJKBreakthrough of the Year Usman SaleKuPS Coach of the Year Samuel FagerholmKuPS Team of the Year
Team of the YearGoalkeeper Tim Murray (Honka)Defence Nikolai Alho
(HJK)Rick Ketting (Inter Turku) Daniel O'Shaughnessy (HJK)Luis Carlos Murillo (HJK)MidfieldRiku Riski (HJK)Nana Boateng (KuPS) Naatan Skyttä (Ilves)Albion Ademi (Mariehamn)Attack Timo Furuholm (Inter Turku) Roope Riski (HJK)
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