Tampereen Pallo-Veikot

TPV

Full name	Tampereen Pallo-Veikot
Nickname(s)	Paltsarit, Punakone (Red Machine)
Founded	1930
Ground	Tammela Stadion, Tampere
Ground Capacity	5,040
Chairman	Ville Salonen
Manager	Anssi Ylinen
League	Kakkonen
Home colours Away colours

Tammela Stadion

Tampereen Pallo-Veikot or TPV is a Finnish football club, based in Tampere. The club plays in the Kakkonen, the third highest level of football in Finland. It is the second largest football club in the Pirkanmaa region in terms of active members, with 1,600 members in 2005.

History

The club was founded in 1930 as a general sports club for workers. In the past there were also bandy, boxing and ice hockey sections, but nowadays TPV is purely a football club. In the 1960s TPV played three seasons at the highest level of Finnish ice hockey.

Before the 1950s the clubs of Finnish Workers' Sports Federation played in their own leagues that were not connected to the Football Association of Finland. Tampereen Pallo-Veikot won the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation championship six times.

TPV later joined the Finnish FA and competed at the highest level in the top tier of the Finnish football league system for five seasons in 1971, 1993–1995 and 1999. The most successful year was in 1994 when the club won the Finnish Championship, but the next season they were relegated to the Ykkönen. In 1999 the club regained its Veikkausliiga status, but this only lasted for one season.

In July 1998 plans were implemeted to merge TPV and the other local Tampere club FC Ilves. The new club Tampere United inherited TPV's place in the Ykkönen and soon gained promotion to the Veikkausliiga. However both the existing clubs have continued as independent entities.

Achievements

• Finnish champion: 1994

European record

Year	Competition	Round	Opponent	Results
1995/1996	UEFA Cup	1Q	Viking Stavanger	0–4, 1–3, Jarkko Wiss

Season to season

Current squad 2016

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Mikko Kruuti 2 DF Kimmo Lahti 3 DF Risto Vihinen 4 DF Eino-Veikko Ek 5 DF Tommi Smeets 6 DF Jari Nikkilä 7 MF Niko Kiiveri 8 FW Mohamed Koroma 9 FW Rudi Dieter 10 MF Sergei Korsunov 11 FW Paavo Näykki 13 FW Mika Ahonen 14 DF Valtteri Käpyaho 15 DF Aleksandr Starovoitov

No. Position Player 16 FW Oskari Kantanen 17 FW Jesse Oksanen 18 MF Ville Salonen 19 DF Teemu Syrjänen 20 FW Salomo Ojala 22 GK Jani-Petteri Soininen 24 MF Niko Hasa 25 DF Juho Mattila 27 FW Matti Jokinen 30 GK Tuomas Majuri 37 MF Teppo Syrjänen 40 MF Jussi Harju 90 MF Tomi Ylinen

External links

• Official website