Article by Romeo Ene – published Wednesday, October 08, 2025, 08:26 / Updated Wednesday, October 08, 2025 08:26
Finland's championship proposes the most exciting fight in Europe! With six stages before the end, the first five teams are separated by only six points!
And the stake is huge: the champion goes to the preliminaries of the Champions League, while the occupants of places 2 and 3 qualify in the preliminaries Conference League. At this moment any scenario is possible in the play-off in Veikausliiga.
Title fight on the edge of the knife in Finland's championship
The first league in the Finland championship has the same competitive system as that of the Superliga Romania. After a regular season with 22 stages, the championship is divided into the play-off (10 stages) and the play-out.
After the first four rounds, Kups, the champion, is a leader at this time and is up to her to win the championship, with 53 points. It is followed by Ilves, with 52, and the podium is completed by Inter Turku, with 50.
On the 4th place is SJK, with 48 points, while position 5 is occupied by HJK Helsinki, with 47. Gistan, 6th, has 31 points and did not matter for qualifying in the European Cups.
Of these, only the Kups champion is involved in European competitions. It evolves in the main group of Conference League, where he drew in the first stage, 1-1 with Drita, the former opponent of the FCSB in the Europa League preliminaries.
The regular season was won by Inter Turku, a band that had accumulated 46 points. Ilves finished on 2 (45), Hjk Helsinki on 3 (44), Kups on 4 (44) and SJK on 5 (41).
The difference from the Romanian championship is that in Finland the points are not halved at the entrance to the play-off. The championship goalscorer is Kasper Paanan, Sjk's striker, who has 14 goals in 26 games.
Ranking in Finland championship
