Turun Palloseura

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This article is about the football club. For the ice hockey club, see TPS (ice hockey).

TPS
Full name	Turun Palloseura
Founded	1922
Ground	Veritas Stadion
Capacity	10,000
Chairman	Jouko Narvanmaa
Manager	Mixu Paatelainen
League	Veikkausliiga
2006	Veikkausliiga, 7th
Home colours 　 Away colours

Turun Palloseura (or TPS) is a Finnish football club, based in the town of Turku. It was founded in 1922.

TPS currently plays in the Finnish Premier Division (Veikkausliiga). The club's manager is Mika-Matti "Mixu" Paatelainen, and it plays its home matches at the Veritas Stadion (Kupittaan).

Contents 1 Honours 2 2006 squad 3 Notable players 4 External links

[edit] Honours

• Finnish Championship: 8
  • In cup-format: 1 (1928), in league competition: 7 (1939, 1941, 1949, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1975)
• Finnish Cup: 2
  • 1991, 1994

[edit] 2006 squad

1. Ville Iiskola 2. Jussi Nuorela 3. Janne Vellamo 4. Ville Lehtonen 5. Petri Leino 6. Jukka-Pekka Tuomanen 7. Sami Rähmönen 8. Jarno Heinikangas 9. Antti Hakala 10. Ady Pereira Dos Santos 11. Mika Ääritalo 12. Jukka Lehtovaara

13. Walter Surraco 14. Heikki Villa 15. Joonas Tursas 16. Siim Ots 17. Riku Riski 18. Mikko Hyyrynen 20. Jani Virtanen 21. Jussi Haijanen 22. Sami Nyholm 23. Kasper Hämäläinen 30. Lucas Hradescy

[edit] Notable players

• Mika Aaltonen
• Peter Enckelman
• Markus Heikkinen
• Jonatan Johansson
• Mika Nurmela
• Marco Casagrande
• Jussi Nuorela
• Mika Ääritalo

[edit] External links

• Official website

Veikkausliiga 2006
FC Haka | FC Honka | HJK | IFK Mariehamn | FC Inter | FF Jaro | FC KooTeePee KuPS | FC Lahti | MyPa | Tampere United | Turun Palloseura | VPS