FC Honka
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| Full name | Football Club Honka Espoo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1957 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ground | Tapiolan Urheilupuisto, Espoo |
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| Capacity | 5000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Jouko Harjunpää, Jouko Pakarinen |
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| Manager | Mika Lehkosuo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Veikkausliiga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | Veikkausliiga, 4th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FC Honka is a Finnish football club, based in Tapiola, Espoo. It was promoted into the Finnish premier division (Veikkausliiga), for the first time in its history, at the end of the 2005 season. The club's manager is Mika Lehkosuo, and it plays its home matches at Tapiolan urheilupuisto. Originally founded in 1953 as Tapion Honka it changed its name to FC Honka in 1975. FC Honka is largely renowned in Finland for its extensive youth scheme with over 1000 youth players playing in various age groups.
Until the year 2005 FC Honka was thought of as a "nearly, but not quite" team, always underachieving in the Finnish First Division (Ykkönen). In the late 1990s the objective was promotion but year after year they failed. In the beginning of the 21st century FC Honka almost went bankrupt but was saved at the last moment. In early 2005 the club was taken over by Jouko Pakarinen and Jouko Harjunpää, who had a plan to turn FC Honka from underachievers to a UEFA Champions League candidate.
In the first year of their take-over of FC Honka, the "Jokkes" managed to assemble a squad which won the First Division (Ykkönen) with ease and also made the semi-finals of the Finnish Cup where they eventually lost 1-0 to FC Haka.
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[edit] External link
- (Finnish) Official Website
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The Finnish Veikkausliiga clubs in 2007
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| Veikkausliiga 2006 Champion: Tampere United FC Haka | FC Honka | HJK | IFK Mariehamn | FC Inter | FF Jaro | FC KooTeePee | FC Lahti | |
