Pallo-Iirot

Pallo-Iirot
Full name Pallo-Iirot
Nickname(s) P-Iirot
Founded 1930
Ground Äijänsuon stadion,
Rauma
Finland
(Capacity: 2,000)
Chairman Tarmo Salvi
Head Coach Pasi Lehtonen
Coach Saku Peltonen
League Kakkonen
2009 5th - Kakkonen (Group B)
Home colours
Away colours

Pallo-Iirot (abbreviated Pallo-Iirot) is a football club from Rauma in Finland. The club was formed in 1930 and their home ground is at the Äijänsuon stadion. The men's first team currently plays in the Kakkonen (Second Division). The Chairman of Pallo-Iirot is Tarmo Salvi.

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Background

The club was known as Iirot when it was established in 1930 and it has since taken a number of forms:

At the beginning of the 1990s the leading football clubs in Rauma, namely Rauman Pallo and Pallo-Iirot, merged to form Rauman Pallo-Iiroiksi. A few years later the name reverted back to Pallo-Iirot. The other club based in the town is FC Rauma.

Since 1982 Pallo-Iirot has played 14 seasons in the Ykkönen (First Division), the second tier of Finnish football, in the periods 1984-85, 1991, 1993–2001 and 2004-05.[2]

They also have had six spells in the third tier, the Kakkonen (Second Division), covering 12 seasons from 1983, 1986–87, 1990, 1992, 2002–03 and 2006 to the present day.[3]

The club has approximately 1,000 members comprising both boys and girls and offers the whole family the possibility to engage in football.

Season to season

Season Level Division Section Administration Position Movements
2000 Tier 2 Ykkönen (First Division) North Group Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) 7th Relegation Group - 7th
2001 Tier 2 Ykkönen (First Division) North Group Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) 9th Relegated
2002 Tier 3 Kakkonen (Second Division) West Group Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) 8th
2003 Tier 3 Kakkonen (Second Division) West Group Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) 1st Play-Offs - Promoted
2004 Tier 2 Ykkönen (First Division) Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) 10th
2005 Tier 2 Ykkönen (First Division) Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) 14th Relegated
2006 Tier 3 Kakkonen (Second Division) Group B Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) 6th
2007 Tier 3 Kakkonen (Second Division) Group B Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) 9th
2008 Tier 3 Kakkonen (Second Division) Group B Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) 6th
2009 Tier 3 Kakkonen (Second Division) Group B Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) 5th
2010 Tier 3 Kakkonen (Second Division) Group B Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto)

Junior Section

Pallo-Iirot has the Seal of approval for football which is an acknowledgement for quality of its youth activities in Finland. The club's youth team's programme is based on the active participation of the parents. P-Iirot welcomes the parents together with their children to join the club activities by becoming the youth teams' coaches, and managers or to otherwise support their children's team's activities.

The Nappulaliiga (Little league) offers sports and games, emphasising football, twice a week for the ages of 3 to 11 years. The programme runs from April until September.

Club Structure

Pallo-Iirot currently has 2 men's teams, 1 ladies team, 9 boys teams and 4 girls teams. In the winter the club practices at Äijänsuo indoor hall and on the heated astro-turf.

2010 season

P-Iirot Men's Team are competing in Group B (Lohko B) of the Kakkonen administered by the Football Association of Finland (Suomen Palloliitto) . This is the third highest tier in the Finnish football system. In 2009 Pallo-Iirot finished in fifth position in their Kakkonen section.

P-Iirot 2 are participating in the Kolmonen section administered by the Satakunta SPL.

P-Iirot Ladies Team are competing in Group B (Lohko B) of the Kakkonen (Second Division) administered by the Football Association of Finland (Suomen Palloliitto) .

Current Squads for the 2010 Season

First team

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 GK Jani Tuomala
2 DF Iiro Aalto
3 DF Eetu Setänen
4 DF Antti Horjanheimo
5 MF Ville Kukkanen
6 MF Peetu Peltonen
7 FW Kimmo Hörkkö (C)
8 MF Joona-Matti Vainiola
9 MF Oskar Nyholm
10 MF Sami Vahanto
11 MF Juho Torkkeli (VC)
12 GK Mikko Laaksonen
13 FW Janne Tahvanainen
No. Position Player
14 MF Niklas Kuusio
15 MF Juho Lehtovaara
16 DF Saku Peltonen
17 DF Verneri Salminen
18 MF Kasper Nyholm
19 MF Juho Hyysalo
20 MF Patrick Urmson
21 FW Nico Rinne
22 DF Vasile Marchiş
23 GK Jere Narkko
26 MF Roope Raunio
27 MF Jussi-Pekka Savolainen
28 FW Juho Patola (VC)

Reserve Team

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
3 Hannu Reinvall
6 Harri Määttä (captain)
8 Kari Ketola
11 Tommi Hyötylä
16 Jaakko Myllymaa
18 Esa Kariaho
19 Veli-Pekka Varho
22 Sami Koivunen
No. Position Player
24 Niko Yrjälä
25 Erkki Korri
27 Juho Kauppi
29 Jussi Railio
31 Hannu Lehtinen
32 Timo Vuento
37 Mikko Koivuviita

Ladies Team

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
Sanna Aro-Heinilä
Jessica Arvo
Sonja-Maria Heino
Johanna Hätilä
Sanni Kämäräinen
Emmi Lehtonen
Laura Laitonen
Minna Lyyra
Maria Merimaa
Viivi-Veronica Mäkinen
Krista Pihala
Helmi Sipilä
Katri Suistio
No. Position Player
Noora Tallila
Kati Vastamäki
Miia Viljanen
Tytti Virtanen
Tatja Hussa
Janiina Jalonen
Enni Mäkitalo
Maria Nordlund
Katri Rajala
Pauliina Vahander
Katja Vastiala
Katri Juhola
Heidi Moilanen

Notable former players

References and sources

Footnotes