FC Jazz

FC Jazz Pori

Full name	Football Club Jazz Pori
Founded	22 September 1934 (22 September 1934)
Ground	Pori Stadium, Pori
Ground Capacity	12,600
Chairman	Kari Kaivo-oja
Manager	John Allen
League	Ykkönen
2014	8th
Home colours Away colours

FC Jazz is a football club from Pori, Finland, currently playing in the Finnish second tier Ykkönen having been promoted from Kakkonen in 2013.^[1]

History

2013 promotion playoffs FC Jazz vs. Ekenäs IF at Pori Stadium.

PPT 1934–1991

FC Jazz was established in 1934 as Porin Pallo-Toverit (PPT for short) by 18 young men who had previously played football in the local sports club Pyrintö. The founders had strong labour movement background and PPT immediately joined the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation (TUL). PPT had also a section for bandy.^[2]

PPT played its first years in TUL regional series and after the second world war in TUL national divisions. The club made its debut in Finnish Football Association's national divisions in 1948 Suomensarja which was the second tier of Finnish football. After six more seasons in TUL series PPT joined the FA's divisions permanently in 1955 playing third or fourth tiers up to the 1980s. In 1982 PPT was promoted to 1. division and year later to the premier division Mestaruussarja.^[2]

FC Jazz

In 1992 PPT changed its name for FC Jazz. The name was inspired by Pori Jazz festival, which is one of the most popular jazz festivals in Europe. FC Jazz won two Finnish championship titles in 1993 and 1996. The club was relegated to second tier in 2004, but the first team was dissolved 2005 as a result of financial problems.

FC Jazz youth section had been separated from the league organisation in 2002 and was known as FC Jazz-juniorit (FC Jazz Juniors). In 2006 club started in FA Satakunta district 5. division. Two years later FC Jazz-juniorit was promoted to third tier Kakkonen, which is the lowest national level in Finnish football. Since 2010 FC Jazz-juniorit has been again known as FC Jazz. In 2013 FC Jazz was promoted to Ykkönen after beating Ekenäs IF 4–2 on aggregate in the promotion playoffs.^[1]

Name changes

• Porin Pallo-Toverit (PPT, 1934–1992)
• FC Jazz (1992–2004)
• FC Jazz-juniorit (FC Jazz-j, 2005–2009)
• FC Jazz (2010–present)

Honours

PPT 1940 squad.

• Finnish Championship:
  • Winners (2): 1993, 1996

• Finnish Cup:
  • Runners-up (1): 1995

• Finnish League Cup:
  • Runners-up (1): 1994

• TUL Cup:
  • Winners (8): 1982, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2002

Season to season 1980–2013

Season	Level	Division	Section	Position	Manager	Top scorer	Movements
1980	Tier 4	III Divisioona (Third Division)	Satakunta/Tampere	8th	Pertti Lundell	Jari Peltonen, 14
1981	Tier 4	III Divisioona (Third Division)	Satakunta/Turku	1st	Pertti Lundell	Risto Puustinen, 31	Promoted
1982	Tier 3	II Divisioona (Second Division)	Group West	1st	Pertti Lundell	Risto Puustinen, 18	Promoted
1983	Tier 2	I Divisioona (First Division)		2nd	Pertti Lundell	Richard Wilson, 19	Promoted
1984	Tier 1	Mestaruussarja (Premier League)		9th	Pertti Lundell	Richard Wilson, 9
1985	Tier 1	Mestaruussarja (Premier League)		9th	Pertti Lundell	Mika Sankala, 7
1986	Tier 1	Mestaruussarja (Premier League)		8th	Pertti Lundell	Petri Järvinen, 8
1987	Tier 1	Mestaruussarja (Premier League)		6th	Pauno Kymäläinen	Jarmo Alatensiö, 10
1988	Tier 1	Mestaruussarja (Premier League)		12th	Pauno Kymäläinen	Seppo Sulonen, 7	Relegated
1989	Tier 2	I Divisioona (First Division)		4th	Pauno Kymäläinen	Yuri Gavrilov, 9 Saku Laaksonen
1990	Tier 2	I Divisioona (First Division)		1st	Pauno Kymäläinen, Seppo Sairanen (9 August)	Petri Toivonen, 12	Promoted
1991	Tier 1	Futisliiga (Premier League)		8th	Markku Wacklin	Rami Nieminen, 15
1992	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		3rd	Seppo Sairanen	Luiz Antônio, 21
1993	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		1st	Jussi Ristimäki	Antti Sumiala, 20
1994	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		4th	Jussi Ristimäki	Jukka Ruhanen, 12
1995	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		4th	Pertti Lundell	Luiz Antônio, 12
1996	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		1st	Jari Pyykölä	Luiz Antônio, 17
1997	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		8th	Jari Pyykölä, Jukka Vakkila (11 August)	Marco, 9
1998	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		5th	Tapio Raatikainen, Pertti Lundell (7 June)	Marco, 6 Ricky Rodrigo
1999	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		6th	Pertti Lundell	Hasan Cetinkaya, 6 Marco
2000	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		5th	Pertti Lundell	Matti Santahuhta, 6 Hector Takayama
2001	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		10th	Jouni Joensuu, Jussi Ristimäki (13 July)	Rodrigo, 8 Antti Sumiala
2002	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		12th	Risto Virtanen, Jussi Ristimäki (2 September)	Rodrigo, 8
2003	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		12th	Seppo Sairanen	Piracaia, 15
2004	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		13th	Seppo Sairanen, Sami Rintanen (11 October)	Mikael Muurimäki, 6 Matti Santahuhta	Relegated
2005
2006	Tier 6	Vitonen (Fifth Division)	Satakunta	1st	Mikko Mannila	Juuso Ollonqvist, 6 Juho Wahlroos	Promoted
2007	Tier 5	Nelonen (Fourth Division)	Satakunta	1st	Mikko Mannila	Ville Kuusinen, 11	Promoted
2008	Tier 4	Kolmonen (Third Division)	Satakunta	1st	Mikko Mannila	João Gaetti, 11	Promoted
2009	Tier 3	Kakkonen (Second Division)	Group B	10th	Mikko Mannila	Ari Qvist, 7
2010	Tier 3	Kakkonen (Second Division)	Group B	10th	Mikko Mannila	Mamadou Konate, 9
2011	Tier 3	Kakkonen (Second Division)	Group B	7th	Risto Virtanen, Jouni Joensuu (1 August)	Jesse Junnila, 15
2012	Tier 3	Kakkonen (Second Division)	Western Group	2nd	Matti Santahuhta	Sekou Konate, 14
2013	Tier 3	Kakkonen (Second Division)	Western Group	1st	Matti Santahuhta	Samu-Petteri Mäkelä, 14	Promoted
2014	Tier 2	Ykkönen (First Division)		8th	Jouni Joensuu, Jani Uotinen (5 August)	Alekos Alekou, 14
2015	Tier 2	Ykkönen (First Division)		7th	John Allen	Samu-Petteri Mäkelä, 8

European competitions

UEFA Champions League:

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1997–1998	1st qualifying round	FC Lantana	2–0	1–0	3–0
	2nd qualifying round	Feyenoord	1–2	2–6	3–8

UEFA Cup:

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1994–95	Preliminary round	FC Copenhagen	0–4	1–0	1–4
1996–97	Preliminary round	GÍ Gøta	3–1	1–0	4–1
	Qualifying round	FC Dynamo Moscow	1–3	1–1	2–4
1997–98	1st round	1860 München	0–1	1–6	1–7

UEFA Intertoto Cup:

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2001	1st round	Gloria Bistrița	1–0	1–2	2–2
	2nd round	Paris Saint-Germain	1–4	0–3	1–7

Current squad

As of 2 September 2016

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Lauri Pirhonen 2 DF Tommi Lehto 3 MF Tuure Mäntynen 5 MF Jussi Välilä 6 DF Jens Harju 7 FW Samu-Petteri Mäkelä 9 MF Toni Junnila 10 FW Berat Grabovci 11 MF Théo Raymond 12 GK Rasmus Östling 13 MF Benjamin Tuovinen 15 FW Waltteri Riihimäki

No. Position Player 16 DF Samuli Virtanen 17 MF Sami Villanen 20 FW Akil DeFreitas 23 DF Ville-Valtteri Starck 24 MF Eetu Räisänen 25 MF Juho Kemppinen 27 DF Ronald Karlsson 32 MF Aleksi Nurminen 63 FW Kevin Mombilo TBA GK Rasmus Östling TBA MF Toni Kuusela

Former players

Two-time Veikkausliiga top scorer Luiz Antônio in 1996.

All following FC Jazz players have been capped at least once by their respective national team's first squad.

References

1. 1 2 "Europa League football for Vaasa in 2014". Yle News. 20 October 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2013. 
2. 1 2 PPT 1934–1984 50th Anniversary book.

External links

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