FC Vaajakoski is an active

sports club A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports. Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...

from

Jyväskylä Jyväskylä () is a city and municipality in Finland in the western part of the Finnish Lakeland. It is located about 150 km north-east from Tampere, the third largest city in Finland; and about 270 km north from Helsinki, the capital of ...

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

. The club was formed in 1993 and their home ground is at the Vaajakosken keskuskenttä. The men's first team currently plays in the

Kakkonen Kakkonen or II divisioona is the third level in the Finnish football league system, league system of Finnish football and comprises 36 Finland, Finnish football (soccer), football teams. The II divisioona was introduced in 1973 and in the mid-1 ...

(Second Division). The Chairman of FCV is Laasi Paavolainen.

Background

The club was established in 1993 and serves the Vaajakoski-Jyskä area of Jyväskylä. The club currently provides for football, floorball and

futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and indoor football. Futsal is played between two teams of five players each, one of whom is ...

and has over 300 registered players. In their short history FCV have already had three spells covering 5 seasons in the

(Second Division), the third tier of Finnish football in 2003, 2005–06 and 2009 to the present day.

Club Structure

FCV runs 3 men's teams and several boys teams.

Club teams

FCV Men's Team are participating in

administered by the Football Association of Finland '' (Suomen Palloliitto).'' It is the third highest tier in the Finnish football system. In 2009 FCV finished in sixth position in their

section. FCV Reds are participating in the

Vitonen Vitonen or V divisioona is the sixth level in the Finnish football league system and comprises 228 teams. The V divisioona was introduced in 1973 and in the mid-1990s became known as the Vitonen (''Number Five'' in English and ''Femman'' in Swed ...

(Fifth Division) section administered by the Keski-Suomi SPL.

2018 season

FCV got promoted to

for season 2018, as a result of OPS failing to meet license regulations in

Ykkönen ''Ykkönen'' ( Finnish for 'Number One'; sv, Ettan) is the second highest level of the Finnish football league system (after the Veikkausliiga), although it is the highest league managed by the Football Association of Finland. The teams also pla ...

and refusing to take part in Kakkonen. Current manager of the squad, Mika Järvinen has been in charge since 2013.

References and sources

Official Website Suomen Cup

Footnotes

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