2019 Veikkausliiga

The 2019 Veikkausliiga is the eighty-ninth season of top-tier football in Finland. Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi are the defending champions.

New league format
Veikkausliiga has adopted a new league format for the 2019 season. Each team will play against each other twice in the regular season. After the regular season the top six teams will advance to the Championship Series which will determine the champion and European tournament qualification places. The bottom six teams will advance to the Challenger Series. The best team from the Challenger Series will play in a tournament against the Championship Series' 4th, 5th, and 6th place teams. The winner from that will play in a final series against the 3rd best team from the Championship Series. The last UEFA Europa League qualification place will go 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
Palloseura Kemi Kings were relegated to Ykkönen after finishing at the bottom of the 2018 season. Their place was taken by Ykkönen champions HIFK Fotboll.

Turun Palloseura as 11th-placed team lost their Veikkausliiga spot after losing to second-placed Ykkönen team Kokkolan Palloveikot in a relegation/promotion playoff.