The SPL Kaakkois-Suomen piiri ''(South Eastern Finland Football Association)'' is one of the 12
district organisations of the
Football Association of Finland
The Football Association of Finland ( fi, Suomen Palloliitto, abbr. SPL; sv, Finlands Bollförbund) is the governing body of football in Finland. It was founded in Helsinki on 19 May 1907.
The SPL organises the men's and women's national footb ...
. It administers lower tier
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly ...
in South Eastern Finland.
Background
Suomen Palloliitto Kaakkois-Suomen piiri, commonly referred to as SPL Kaakkois-Suomen piiri or SPL Kaakkois-Suomi, is the governing body for football in South Eastern Finland. The organisation was established on 24 November 1994 and had 84 different clubs with 370 teams and 8,433 registered players in February 2010. Based in
Lappeenranta
Lappeenranta (; sv, Villmanstrand) is a city and municipality in the region of South Karelia, about from the Russian border and from the town of Vyborg (''Viipuri''). It is situated on the shore of the Lake Saimaa in southeastern Finland, and ...
, the Association's Director is Veijo Vainikka.
Member clubs
League Competitions
SPL Kaakkois-Suomen piiri run the following league competitions:
Men's Football
* Division 3 -
Kolmonen
Kolmonen or III divisioona is the fourth level in the league system of Finnish football and comprises 104 Finnish football teams. The III divisioona was introduced in 1973 and in the mid-1990s became known as the Kolmonen (''Number Three'' in E ...
- one section
* Division 4 -
Nelonen
Nelonen () is a Finnish commercial television channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV in 1990 on the HTV cable network (now part of DNA Welho), and changed its name first to PTV4. On June 1, 1997, the channel expand ...
- one section
* Division 5 -
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 ...
- two sections
* Division 6 -
Kutonen - three sections
Ladies Football
* Division 3 - Kolmonen - one section
Footnotes
References
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External links
SPL Kaakkois-Suomen piiri Official Website
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Sports organizations established in 1994