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Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho
Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho, commonly referred to as SJK, also internationally SJK Seinäjoki, is a Finland, Finnish professional association football, football club from the city of Seinäjoki. The club plays in the Veikkausliiga, the highest tier of the Finnish league system. Their home ground is OmaSP Stadion, which is located near the city center and next to SJK's training facility Wallsport. SJK was formed in 2007 after the merger of TP-Seinäjoki and Sepsi-78. After starting in the third-tier, the club won the promotion to Veikkausliiga in 2014, and the next year won its first 2015 Veikkausliiga, Finnish championship title. History The early years SJK was formed on 5 November 2007 as a merger between the first teams of TP-Seinäjoki and Sepsi-78. It was told to the public five days later. Sepsi-78 had a board meeting on 24 October and TP-Seinäjoki on the next day. Both clubs supported the merger. Sepsi-78 and TP both gave up their place in Kakkonen. The first signing of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OmaSP Stadion
OmaSP Stadion (also known as Seinäjoki Football Stadium) is a football stadium in Seinäjoki, Finland. It is the home stadium of Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho, SJK Seinäjoki of the Veikkausliiga. It is an all-seater stadium with a capacity of 6,000 spectators. Seinäjoki's American football team Seinäjoki Crocodiles played their home games at OmaSP Stadion during the 2017 season as a part of team's 30th anniversary season. OmaSP Stadion co-hosted the 2018 UEFA European Under-19 Championship in July 2018. References External links * Stadium information at StadiumDB.com Football venues in Finland Seinäjoki American football venues in Finland 2016 establishments in Finland Sports venues completed in 2016 Buildings and structures in South Ostrobothnia Sport in South Ostrobothnia {{Finland-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AC Kajaani
AC Kajaani was a association football, football club from Kajaani, Finland. The club was formed in 2006 after the merger of FC Tarmo and Kajaanin Palloilijat (KaPa). Their home ground was Kajaanin Liikuntapuisto. The men's football first team last played in the Ykkönen (the second highest level of football in Finland). The club dissolved in December 2020 following their relegation from the Ykkönen. History AC Kajaani was founded in 2006 by a merger of KaPa Kajaani, Kajaanin Palloilijat (KaPa -- "Kajaani Ballers") and FC Tarmo. The newly merged club took over FC Tarmo's place in the Kolmonen—the fourth tier of the Finnish soccer league system—in the Northern Finland group. Arvo Toivainen was the chairman of the club. Only KaPa's adult men's team joined the new club; KaPa continued to operate their own youth clubs, with an affiliation with the new club. However, KaPa would eventually cease its youth football operations, which would not restart until 2014. In the club' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roope Riski
Roope Vilhelmi Riski (born 16 August 1991) is a Finnish professional association football, footballer who plays as a forward (association football), forward for Veikkausliiga club Ilves (football), Ilves. He is known as a clinical, well-positioned forward who can get into the right place at the right time. In the middle of the 2010 season, Riski was selected to the opening squad for the first time of his career. Since then he has enjoyed a phenomenal season, starting 12 games and scoring 11 goals. He has the best game/goal ratio in the Veikkausliiga. Club career TPS Riski started football in the youth sector of Maskun Palloseura, and later joined Turun Palloseura. He made his senior debut with TPS in Veikkausliiga in the 2010 season. On 22 September 2010, Riski scored a hat-trick for TPS against AC Oulu. By doing this, he became the first ever player in Finland to score a hat-trick in all the highest three levels of Finnish football system during one season, as he had loan stint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rovaniemen Palloseura
Rovaniemen Palloseura (RoPS) is a football club founded in 1950 and based in Rovaniemi, Finland. RoPS played in the Finnish Premier Division, (''Veikkausliiga'') for 32 years, from 1981 to 2021. In 2021, RoPS withdrew from professional football and voluntarily relegated to the amateur ''Kakkonen'' division. The club plays home games at the Rovaniemen Keskuskenttä in the Arctic Circle of Lapland. History RoPS have won the Finnish Cup on two occasions, in 1986 and 2013, and were runners-up in 1962. They placed third in the Finnish Premier Division in 1988 and 1989, before finishing as runner-up in 2015, losing out on the title by 1 point to eventual champions SJK. The club's most notable international achievement was reaching the quarter-finals of the European Cup-Winners' Cup in 1987–88 against Marseille. Match fixing allegations and scandal Throughout the 2000s, RoPS became infamous for suspected involvement in match fixing. In spring 2011 the Finnish National Bureau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariel Ngueukam
Ariel Thierry Ngueukam (born 15 November 1988), nicknamed "Tuco", is a Cameroonian professional footballer who most recently played as a forward for Filipino club United City. Career Born in Yaoundé, Ngueukam began playing football as a striker with local sides FC Achille de Sa'a and FC Lotus-Terek. After unsuccessful trials with clubs in Hungary and Bulgaria, he signed with Finnish second division club JIPPO in 2011, where he scored 13 goals in his first 11 matches. In 2012, he moved to FC Lahti in the Finnish first division. Ngueukam scored two goals on his debut for FC Lahti on 31 August 2012. Ngueukam signed for Turkish club Denizlispor in January 2013, but returned FC Lahti, playing with them in the 2013 and 2014 seasons. He moved to SJK for the 2015 season, and Ilves for the 2017 season. On 6 November 2017, Ngueukam signed a two-year contract with HJK Helsinki for the 2018 and 2019 seasons. In January 2018 Ngueukam joined Al-Khor in Qatar, without having played for HJ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehmet Hetemaj
Mehmet Hetemaj (born 8 December 1987) is a Finnish football commentator and a former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. Born in Yugoslavia, he has represented both Finland national team and Kosovo national football team. He started his football career in HJK youth team. Club career HJK Helsinki Hetemaj started his career in Finland in HJK Helsinki where he made 17 appearances between 2006 and 2007. During 2007 season he was loaned to Viikingit for 9 matches. Panionios In 2008, he agreed a move to Greek club Panionios F.C. In June 2009 he was loaned out to Serie B outfit AlbinoLeffe, where he established himself as a regular. AlbinoLeffe In June 2010 AlbinoLeffe announced to have completed a bid to sign the player on a permanent basis from Panionios. He signed a four-year contract. In July 2012 he was loaned out to Serie B outfit Reggina Calcio. The loan contract with Reggina ended after the 2012–13 season and Hetemaj returned to AlbinoLeffe. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toni Lehtinen
Toni-Pekka Lehtinen (born 5 May 1984) is a Finnish football manager and former player. He is currently an assistant coach of Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho (SJK). Lehtinen was previously the manager of JJK Jyväskylä. Playing career Early career Lehtinen has previously played for TP-Seinäjoki and was a youth player at English club Peterborough United. He returned to TP-Seinäjoki in 2002. FC Haka Toni signed for FC Haka in 2003. He won the Veikkausliiga in 2004 and finished runners up in 2007. He finished as the second highest scorer in the Veikkausliiga in 2004, 2007 and 2008 with 11 league goals in each of those seasons. He won the Veikkausliiga Rookie of the Year award in 2004. He won the Finnish Cup in 2005. Levadiakos FC, FC Aarau He joined the Greek club Levadiakos FC in the Super League Greece in January 2009, and joined FC Aarau in the Swiss Super League later that year after the Greek season had ended. Return to Finland He returned to FC Haka after the 09/10 season wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Laaksonen
Vesa Johannes Laaksonen (born 15 December 1990) is a Finnish former professional footballer who last played for his hometown club KTP. He has also represented the Finland national football team. Currently Laaksonen works as a conditioning coach of KTP. Laaksonen announced his retirement after the 2024 season. He continued as a fitness coach of KTP. Career statistics Club International Honours SJK *Veikkausliiga: 2015 *Veikkausliiga runner-up: 2014 *Ykkönen: 2013 *Finnish Cup: 2016 *Finnish League Cup: 2014 KTP *Ykkönen: 2022 *Ykkösliiga: 2024 Yle
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Cedric Gogoua
Cedric () is a given name invented by Walter Scott in the 1819 novel ''Ivanhoe''. Etymology The invented name is based on ''Cerdic'', the name of a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon king (itself from Brittonic '' Coroticus''). Popularity The name was not popularly used until the children's book ''Little Lord Fauntleroy'' by Frances Hodgson Burnett was published in 1885 to 1886, the protagonist of which is called Cedric Errol. The book was highly successful, causing a fashion trend in children's formal dress in America and popularized the given name. People named Cedric born in the years following the novel's publication include British naval officer Cedric Holland (1889–1950), American war pilot Cedric Fauntleroy (1891–1973), Irish art director Austin Cedric Gibbons (1893–1960) and British actor Cedric Hardwicke (1893–1964). The name has ranked among the top 1,000 names for boys in the United States at different points since 1903. It ranked 958th on the popularity chart in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mika Lehkosuo
Mika Lehkosuo, nicknamed "Bana", (born 8 January 1970) is a Finnish football manager and former player who works as the head coach for the Finland U21 national team. Playing career A midfielder, Lehkosuo played most of his career at HJK Helsinki. He was not a very prominent youth player and made his top division debut in 1993 after spending three years with lower division club Vantaan Pallo. He did not make his breakthrough into the HJK senior squad until 1995, when he made 24 league appearances and scored one goal. In the previous season he had even played one league match for FF Jaro. In the following seasons Lehkosuo received more and more responsibilities and became one of the best midfielders in the Veikkausliiga. In the end of the 1990s he formed the successful midfield trio with Aki Riihilahti and Jarkko Wiss with whom he won the league title in 1997 and worked their way to the group stage of UEFA Champions League in the next season. A sponsorship deal with a local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi
Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi (), commonly known as HJK Helsinki (), or simply as HJK (), is a Finnish Association football, football club based in Helsinki. The club competes in Veikkausliiga, the top division of the Finnish football league system. Founded in 1907, the club has spent most of its history in the top tier of Finnish football. The club's home ground is the 10,770-seat Töölö Football Stadium, where they have played their home games since 2000. Generally considered as Finland's biggest club, HJK is the most successful Finnish club in terms of Veikkausliiga, championship titles with 33. The club has also won 14 Finnish Cups and 6 Finnish League Cups. Many of Finland's most successful players have played for HJK before moving abroad. The club has also similar success with Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi (women), women's Kansallinen Liiga. HJK is the only Finnish club that has participated in the UEFA Champions League group stage. In 1998, they beat FC Metz, Metz in the 1998� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaasan Palloseura
Vaasan Palloseura, commonly referred to as VPS, is a Finnish football club, based in Vaasa. It currently plays in the first tier of Finnish football (''Veikkausliiga''). The club's current manager is Jussi Nuorela. The club plays its home matches at Hietalahti. VPS played twice in the UEFA Cup in 1998–99 and in 1999–00, but were knocked out in the 2nd Qualifying Round by Grazer AK of Austria and in the 1st Qualifying Round by St Johnstone of Scotland. In spring of 2015 it was announced that the construction of VPS's new stadium would start soon. The construction of the new stadium began in the summer of 2015 and was completed in August 2016. Achievements *Mestaruussarja/Veikkausliiga **Winners (2): 1945, 1948 **Runners-up (5): 1932, 1940–41, 1949, 1997, 1998 **Third place (3): 1938, 2013, 2023 *Ykkönen: **Winners (1): 2021 *Finnish Cup: **Runners-up (1): 1972 * Finnish League Cup: **Winners (2): 1999, 2000 **Runners-up (2): 1997, 2014 European campaigns S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
