Tampereen Pallo-Veikot
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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...
football club, based in Tampere
Tampere
Tampere is a city in southern Finland. It is the most populous inland city in any of the Nordic countries. The city has a population of , growing to approximately 300,000 people in the conurbation and over 340,000 in the metropolitan area. Tampere is the third most-populous municipality in...
. The club plays in the Kakkonen
Kakkonen
Kakkonen is the third tier of the Finnish football league system.-League structure:Kakkonen is divided to three groups of 14 clubs. A club plays each of the others in the same group twice, once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents. Clubs gain three points for a win, one for a...
, the third highest level of football in Finland. It is the second largest football club in the Pirkanmaa
Pirkanmaa
Pirkanmaa , or the Tampere Region , is a region of Finland. It borders on the regions of Satakunta, Tavastia Proper, Päijänne Tavastia, Southern Ostrobothnia and Central Finland....
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 workersWorking class
Working class is a term used in the social sciences and in ordinary conversation to describe those employed in lower tier jobs , often extending to those in unemployment or otherwise possessing below-average incomes...
. In the past there were also bandy
Bandy
Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has 11 players,...
, boxing
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
and ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
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
Finnish Workers' Sports Federation
The Finnish Workers' Sports Federation is a Finnish amateur sports organisation, with a strong labour union background. It is affiliated with the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions as well as the Social Democratic Party of Finland. It is also a member of the International Labour Sports...
played in their own leagues that were not connected to the Football Association of Finland
Football Association of Finland
The Football Association of Finland is the governing body of football in Finland. It was founded in 1907, and was also the governing body of bandy in Finland until the bandy association, Suomen Jääpalloliitto, was founded in 1972....
. 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
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:...
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 unfortunately relegated to the Ykkönen
Ykkönen
Ykkönen is the second highest level of the Finnish football league system , although it is the highest league managed by the Football Association of Finland.-Competition:...
. In 1999 the club regained its Veikkausliiga
Veikkausliiga
Veikkausliiga is the premier division of Finnish football, comprising the top 12 clubs of the country. Veikkausliiga is currently ranked as the 28th best league in Europe. Its main sponsor is the Finnish national betting agency Veikkaus, hence the league's name...
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
Ilves
Ilves is a Finnish sports club nowadays mostly known for their youth work. The ice hockey team plays in the SM-liiga at the Tampereen jäähalli in Hakametsä...
. The new club Tampere United
Tampere United
Tampere United is a Finnish football club, which played in the Veikkausliiga, the premier football league in Finland, until the 2010 season, but is currently excluded from participating in Finnish football. The club comes from the city of Tampere. The current head coach of the club is Jarkko Wiss,...
inherited TPV's place in the Ykkönen
Ykkönen
Ykkönen is the second highest level of the Finnish football league system , although it is the highest league managed by the Football Association of Finland.-Competition:...
and soon gained promotion to the Veikkausliiga
Veikkausliiga
Veikkausliiga is the premier division of Finnish football, comprising the top 12 clubs of the country. Veikkausliiga is currently ranked as the 28th best league in Europe. Its main sponsor is the Finnish national betting agency Veikkaus, hence the league's name...
. However both the existing clubs have continued as independent entities although Ilves now participates in the lower divisions.
Season to season
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| Season | Level | Division | Section | Administration | Position | Movements |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Tier 2 | Ykkönen (First Division) | Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) | 1st | Promoted | |
| 1993 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) | 5th | Championship Group - 6th | |
| 1994 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) | 1st | Champions | |
| 1995 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) | 12th | Relegated | |
| 1996 | Tier 2 | Ykkönen (First Division) | North Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) | 2nd | |
| 1997 | Tier 2 | Ykkönen (First Division) | North Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) | 2nd | Promotion Group - 5th |
| 1998 | Tier 2 | Ykkönen (First Division) | North Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) | 5th | Promotion Group - 4th - Promoted |
| 1999 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) | 12th | Relegation Group - 12th - Relegated | |
| 2000 | Tier 2 | Ykkönen (First Division) | North Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) | 3rd | Promotion Group - 10th |
| 2001 | Tier 2 | Ykkönen (First Division) | North Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) | 5th | Withdrew from Ykkönen for 2002 |
| 2002 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen (Second Division) | West Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) | 1st | Play-Offs |
| 2003 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen (Second Division) | West Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) | 2nd | |
| 2004 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen (Second Division) | West Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) | 2nd | |
| 2005 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen (Second Division) | East Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) | 2nd | |
| 2006 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen (Second Division) | Group B | Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) | 1st | Promoted |
| 2007 | Tier 2 | Ykkönen (First Division) | Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) | 11th | ||
| 2008 | Tier 2 | Ykkönen (First Division) | Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) | 9th | ||
| 2009 | Tier 2 | Ykkönen (First Division) | Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) | 11th | ||
| 2010 | Tier 2 | Ykkönen (First Division) | Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) | 12th | Relegated | |
| 2011 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen (Second Division) | Group B | Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) | 9th |
- 4 season in VeikkausliigaVeikkausliigaVeikkausliiga is the premier division of Finnish football, comprising the top 12 clubs of the country. Veikkausliiga is currently ranked as the 28th best league in Europe. Its main sponsor is the Finnish national betting agency Veikkaus, hence the league's name...
- 10 seasons in YkkönenYkkönenYkkönen is the second highest level of the Finnish football league system , although it is the highest league managed by the Football Association of Finland.-Competition:...
- 6 seasons in KakkonenKakkonenKakkonen is the third tier of the Finnish football league system.-League structure:Kakkonen is divided to three groups of 14 clubs. A club plays each of the others in the same group twice, once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents. Clubs gain three points for a win, one for a...