football club
Kuopion Palloseura ( or KuPS ) is a finnish football club, based in the one-ninth most populate city of Finland, Kuopio. KuPS plays in Finland ‘s Premier League, Veikkausliiga.
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KuPS has won the finnish backing six times, the finnish Cup 2 times and the Finnish League Cup once. KuPS besides holds the finnish club record of the most back-to-back seasons in the top flight, from 1949 to 1992. The team is placed one-fourth in the all-time Finnish Premier League honor table. [ 1 ] The team plays its home matches at Savon Sanomat Areena. Until June 2005, KuPS used to play at an senesce track and field stadium in Väinölänniemi, which is said to be one of the most beautiful sporting places in Finland. Väinölänniemi is a cape surrounded by a local lake, Kallavesi .
history [edit ]
1923–1949 early on history [edit ]
First team in 1923 One of the first sports clubs in Kuopio to adopt football was Kuopion Reipas who made the sport an official separate of their program in 1915. Reipas was a general athletic club which competed in a wide variety of sports like track and playing field, gymnastics, skiing american samoa well as team sports like bandy. After the finnish Civil War of 1918 the differing interests of the disciplines began to cause clash within the club which resulted in the club gradually breaking apart during the 1920s. Among the clubs that emerged from Reipas was KuPS, officially founded on March 16, 1923, at Kuopion Seurahuone. Ali Rautakorpi was elected as the club ‘s foremost president. other sports participated in by the club during its early years were pesäpallo, tennis and bandy. The 1920s KuPS spent by and large by playing friendly games against early local clubs. First major breakthrough came in 1930 when KuPS won the Savo zone backing thereby earning promotion to B-sarja, the second gear tier of finnish football at the time, where they remained until 1947 when they were promoted to Mestaruussarja for the first base time. KuPS ‘s first scrimp in the Finnish top division lasted only a single temper, but they were promoted again in 1949 and this meter remained in the top division for 44 seasons .
season 2005 [edit ]
Savon Sanomat Areena ( besides called Kuopion keskuskenttä ), 2010. KuPS returned to the crown flight for the 2005 season after a year in the First Division ( Ykkönen ). They finished the 2005 season in 10th place, well avoiding the relegation play-off ( 13th place ) and send delegating ( fourteenth place ) .
season 2006 [edit ]
On 1 April 2006 KuPS beat reigning Veikkausliiga champions, MyPa 1–0 in the semi-final of the Finnish League Cup and secured a position in the Finnish League Cup Final. On 12 April 2006 in Finnair Stadium, Helsinki KuPS beat FC KooTeePee 2–1 in the League Cup Final and ended their 17-year run without titles. however, the club ended the 2006 season in last seat, and was once again demoted to Ykkönen for the 2007 season. This resulted in coach Juha Malinen being replaced by his erstwhile player/assistant coach Kai Nyyssönen. Reserve team, KuPS Akatemia ( tr : KuPS Academy ) played in the Second Division Group A ( Kakkonen lohko A ), but the team was terminated in December 2006 to cut costs and as a refilling, an agreement with Kings Kuopio, which plays besides in the Second Division was signed. In December 2006, it was revealed that the team was heavily in debt and about to go bankrupt. KuPS fans held their hint, until a Helsinki-based CEO of an Investment trust ICECAPITAL, besides a former president of the Board of the Veikkausliiga, Ari Lahti increased his stake at the baseball club to ca. 95 % and saved the club .
season 2007 [edit ]
After escaping at hand end, season 2007 began with sanely gloomy expectations. A aim to achieve promotion back to top flight in two years was set. Manager Kai Nyyssönen lured his erstwhile team-mate Harri Ylönen back to strengthen the team and to serve as an assistant director. The couple lured in Roope Reinikainen, Ilja Venäläinen and Miikka Turunen, who besides returned to their former home club. Jussi Hakasalo from JJK Jyväskylä and Tero Mäkäläinen from MyPa were newly names. Because of delegating KuPS lost its prize assets, Sierraleonese players, Patrick Bantamoi to FC Inter Turku and Medo to HJK. KuPS and Ghanaian midfielder Seth Ablade parted their ways earlier, with Ablade terminating his contract. season 2007 started well with largely local players. The team suffered a ladder of draw in the mid-season, but by winning their last six games with their main opposition RoPS of Rovaniemi at the same prison term losing its conduct, KuPS won the league Ykkönen and went straightaway back. RoPS besides achieved a promotion, by winning a promotion play-off against 13th-place finisher of Veikkausliiga, FC Viikingit .
KuPS qualified for the UEFA Europa League after finishing irregular in the Veikkausliiga. They were drawn against romanian side Gaz Metan Medias in the second stipulate round. Ilja Venäläinen gave KuPS a 1–0 lead going into the second gear leg in Romania, but the finnish slope fell 2–0 in Mediaș, ending their first european play in 21 years. In the 2012-13 temper, KuPS once again qualified for the Europa League. They beat welsh side Llanelli in the first passing round, before pulling off a shock absorber win against Maccabi Netanya. They fell in the adjacent beat to Turkish side Bursaspor, in what was the club ‘s most successful european campaign ever. KuPS solidified themselves as a mid-table Ykkonen side during the mid 2010s, and began to push for european places again towards the conclusion of the decade, returning to the Europa League in the 2017 season, although their campaign ended about immediately, with a loss to Copenhagen in the first round.
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In the 2019 season KuPS won their first finnish top-flight title since 1976. They played in the Champions League for the first gear fourth dimension in their history next season .
european campaigns [edit ]
UEFA club contest record [edit ]
As of July 11, 2019.
| Competition | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA |
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| ECCC | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 21 |
| ECWC | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| UCUP / UEL | 16 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 19 | 35 |
| Total | 26 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 25 | 63 |
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current police squad [edit ]
As of 17 September 2021. [ 4 ] note : Flags indicate home team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
Out on loanword [edit ]
- As of 21 January 2021
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
management [edit ]
As of 1 October 2021 [ 5 ] [ 6 ]
boardroom [edit ]
As of 28 September 2019
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Honours [edit ]
Mestaruussarja/Veikkausliiga
- Champions (6): 1956, 1958, 1966, 1974, 1976, 2019
- Runners-up (10): 1950, 1954, 1964, 1967, 1969, 1975, 1977, 1979, 2010, 2017
Finnish Cup
Finnish League Cup
- Champions: 2006
Ykkönen (second tier)
Kakkonen (third tier)
- Champions: 1998
Managers [edit ]
References [edit ]
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