Jari Pyykölä (born 29 February 1956) is a Finnish

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. He is currently the Coaching Director of Finnish third-tier club Tervarit. Pyykölä has managed

FC Jazz Football Club Jazz, commonly known as just Jazz, is a Finnish Association football, football club based in Pori, which plays in the Finnish third tier, Ykkönen. The club was founded in 1934 as Porin Pallo-Toverit. PPT changed its name to FC Jazz ...

FC Lahti FC Lahti is a Finnish professional football club based in the city of Lahti. It currently plays in the Finnish second tier Ykkösliiga, after relegating from Veikkausliiga after the 2024 season. The homeground of Lahti is Toolpoint Arena. La ...

KuPS Kuopion Palloseura, commonly referred to as KuPS, is a Finnish professional football club based in Kuopio. KuPS competes in Veikkausliiga, the top flight of Finnish football. The team plays its home matches at Kuopio Football Stadium. KuPS ha ...

and VPS in the Finnish premier division

Veikkausliiga Veikkausliiga () is a professional association football league in Finland and the highest level of the Finnish football league system. The league comprises the top 12 clubs of the country. Its main sponsor is the Finnish national betting agenc ...

. He was the head coach of Swedish club

IF Brommapojkarna Idrottsföreningen Brommapojkarna, more commonly known as Brommapojkarna (meaning ''the Bromma boys'') or simply BP, is a Swedish association football, football club based in the borough of Bromma, in the western parts of Stockholm municipality ...

from 1998 to 1999. In 1998 the club was promoted to

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. Pyykölä won the 1996 Finnish Championship title with FC Jazz. Ten months later he was replaced by Jukka Vakkila, just couple of days before the first leg of 1997–98 UEFA Champions League second qualifying round against

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.Veikkausliiga
(in Finnish). Retrieved 24 June 2013. In 2008 Pyykölä was named as the head coach of OPS Oulu but he resigned before the season started.

Honors

*Finnish Championship:

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

References

1956 births Finnish football managers Expatriate football managers in Sweden FC Jazz managers IF Brommapojkarna managers Kuopion Palloseura managers FC Lahti managers Vaasan Palloseura managers Living people Veikkausliiga managers Finnish expatriate football managers IFK Mariehamn managers {{Finland-footy-bio-stub