Nokian Palloseura is a sports club from Nokia

Nokia, Finland

Nokia, Finland is a town and a municipality on the banks of the Nokianvirta River in the region of Pirkanmaa, some west of Tampere. As of it has a population of .-History:...

, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

. The men's football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 first team currently plays in the Kolmonen

Kolmonen

Kolmonen is the fourth highest football league in Finland. The most famous club competing at this level is Helsingin Palloseura who won the Finnish Championship on 9 occasions, the last time being in 1957. They also won the Finnish Cup in 1962...

 (Third Division) and their home ground is at the Nokian keskuskenttä. The floorball

Floorball

Floorball, a type of floor hockey, is an indoor team sport which was developed in the 1970s in Sweden. Floorball is most popular in areas where the sport has developed the longest, such as the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. The game is played...

 team plays in the Second Division.

Background

The club was formed in 1968 and has provided for a number of sports including football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

, floorball

Floorball

Floorball, a type of floor hockey, is an indoor team sport which was developed in the 1970s in Sweden. Floorball is most popular in areas where the sport has developed the longest, such as the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. The game is played...

, futsal

Futsal

Futsal is a variant of association football that is played on a smaller pitch and mainly played indoors. Its name is a portmanteau of the Portuguese futebol de salão and the Spanish fútbol de salón , which can be translated as "hall football" or "indoor football"...

, ice-hockey, table tennis

Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

, squash

Squash (sport)

Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball...

 and basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

. The most successful section has been basketball between 1976 and 1993 but operations were then transferred to BC Nokia who currently compete in Division 1.

Season to Season

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Season	Level	Division	Section	Administration	Position	Movements
2001	Tier 5	Nelonen (Fourth Division)	North Section	Tampere District (SPL Tampere)	1st	Promoted
2002	Tier 4	Kolmonen (Third Division)		Tampere District (SPL Tampere)	6th
2003	Tier 4	Kolmonen (Third Division)		Tampere District (SPL Tampere)	9th
2004	Tier 4	Kolmonen (Third Division)		Tampere District (SPL Tampere)	11th	Relegated
2005	Tier 5	Nelonen (Fourth Division)	North Section	Tampere District (SPL Tampere)	4th
2006	Tier 5	Nelonen (Fourth Division)	North Section	Tampere District (SPL Tampere)	1st	Promoted
2007	Tier 4	Kolmonen (Third Division)		Tampere District (SPL Tampere)	5th
2008	Tier 4	Kolmonen (Third Division)		Tampere District (SPL Tampere)	2nd
2009	Tier 4	Kolmonen (Third Division)		Tampere District (SPL Tampere)	5th
2010	Tier 4	Kolmonen (Third Division)		Tampere District (SPL Tampere)

• 7 seasons in Kolmonen
  Kolmonen
  Kolmonen is the fourth highest football league in Finland. The most famous club competing at this level is Helsingin Palloseura who won the Finnish Championship on 9 occasions, the last time being in 1957. They also won the Finnish Cup in 1962...
  
  
• 3 season in Nelonen
  Nelonen (soccer league)
  Nelonen is the fifth highest league in the Finnish Soccer League system. The section winners are promoted to the Kolmonen and the bottom teams to the Vitonen.-Administration:...
  
  

Club Structure

Nokian Palloseura run a number of teams including 2 men's teams, 1 men's veterans team and 12 boys teams. The club has 339 registered players and is the eighth largest football club in Tampere district. The club also run a soccer school.

2010 season

NoPS Men's Team are competing in the Kolmonen section administered by the Tampere SPL. This is the fourth highest tier in the Finnish football system

Finnish football league system

The Finnish football league system is a series of interconnected leagues for club football in Finland. The three highest levels are managed by the Finnish FA while the higher leagues are managed by the regional departments of the FA.-The system:...

. In 2009 NoPS finished in fifth place in the Kolmonen.

NoPS 2 are participating in Section 3 (Lohko 3) of the Kutonen administered by the Tampere SPL.

Players in 2010

1. Jesse Mattila 2. Risto Vihinen 3. Toni Rantala 4. Mikko Kärki 5. Vesa Moilanen (C) 6. Sakari Putkonen 8. Ville Uimonen 9. Jaakko Helenius 10. Jarno Venäläinen 11. Sami Hilden 12. Niko Pelvola

13. Jarno Kuusisto 14. Joni Ikäläinen 15. Janne Anttila 16. Tuomas Niskanen 17. Sami Lamminen 18. Tuomas Yli-Marttila 19. Valtteri Uimonen 20. Jarmo Kakkonen 21. Toni Vihervä 22. Jesse Arpula 23. Vahid Mohseni