Season trivia for Veikkausliiga 2025
It's not all about becoming the top scorer or winning matches - there's also a wealth of fascinating information related to goalscorers and other remarkable records. Below, you'll find trivia and interesting facts from the 2025 Veikkausliiga season in Finland.
Best scoring couple
The top goal-scoring pair, in other words two players where one scored the goal and the other player assisted to it, were Alexander Ring and Teemu Pukki. Together they were behind 7 goals for HJK in the 2025 season.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2025 season:
Fastest hat-trick
Agon Sadiku, playing for KuPS, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 14 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between KuPS-Gnistan.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
In August 2025, Kasper Paananen (SJK Seinäjoki) and Alexander Ring (HJK) scored 5 goals, which was the most goals in a calendar month of the 2025 season.
Most braces by player
Most braces (at least two goals in a match) were scored three times during this season, and the players who managed that were these:
Mohamed Touré (KuPS)
Roope Riski (Ilves)
Most first goals in a match
The player who scored the first goal in a match the most times during the 2025 season was Roope Riski in Ilves, in total he did it six times.
Most last goals in a match
The last goal of the match was scored the most times by Dimitri Legbo in Inter Turku during the 2025 season, in total he did this five times.
Most penalty goals by player
The title of the league's best penalty taker in 2025 was shared between two players, all of whom scored four penalties each, and these were Teemu Pukki (HJK) and Roope Riski (Ilves).
Most own goals by player
two players share the less-than-honourable title of "most own goals" during the 2025 season in Veikkausliiga. These players each scored two own goals and they were Anton Popovitch (Ilves) and Oliver Pettersson (Gnistan).
Most own goals by team
SJK Seinäjoki scored four own goals in all their matches, making them the "best" at it in the entire league during the 2025 season.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
There were three players who scored in 6 consecutive matches during the 2025 season, and the players who achieved this were:
Players with most goals in the first half
The players with the most goals in the first half of the match scored 8 goals, and the players who did this were:
Players with most goals in the second half
Kasper Paananen in SJK Seinäjoki scored a total of 9 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in Veikkausliiga during the 2025 season.
Most consecutive wins
KuPS was the team with the most consecutive wins during the 2025 season, with a total of 7 wins in a row.
Most matches in a row without losing
Inter Turku were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2025 season, playing 19 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
KTP had a streak of 7 consecutive losses, something no other team surpassed in Veikkausliiga during the 2025 season.
Most matches in a row without a win
VPS managed the feat of not winning a single match in 10 consecutive matches during the 2025 season, something they did best among all the teams in the league.
Most comebacks from behind to win
The art of turning a deficit in a match into a win is something KuPS were best at during the 2025 season, they came back to win five matches in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Taking the lead in matches only to lose is no admirable feat, but Oulu have managed this in six matches during the 2025 season, more than any other team in Veikkausliiga.