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Myllykosken Pallo –47 (or MyPa) is a Finnish
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club, based in the industrial town of Myllykoski, part of the city of Kouvola
Kouvola
Kouvola is a town and municipality in southeastern Finland. It is located northeast of the capital, Helsinki.The city has a population of and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is ....

 since January 2009. They currently play in the Finnish Premier Division (Veikkausliiga
Veikkausliiga
Veikkausliiga is the premier division of Finnish football, comprising the top 12 clubs of the country. Veikkausliiga is currently ranked as the 28th best league in Europe. Its main sponsor is the Finnish national betting agency Veikkaus, hence the league's name...

). The club's manager
Coach (sport)
In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...

 is Toni Korkeakunnas
Toni Korkeakunnas
Toni Korkeakunnas is a Finnish football manager and former player, currently managing MYPA in Finnish Veikkausliiga.-References:...

, and they play their home matches at Saviniemi
Saviniemi
Saviniemi is a multi-use stadium in Anjalankoski, Finland. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of MyPa. The stadium holds 4,167 and was built in 1995....

.

History

MyPa was founded in December 1947 in the village of Myllykoski in the then municipality of Sippola, which in 1975 became part of the town of Anjalankoski
Anjalankoski
Anjalankoski is a former town and municipality of Finland. It had 17,301 inhabitants . About 4/5 of the people live in the vicinity of the Kymi River. The most densely populated communities are Myllykoski and Inkeroinen. In addition, there is plenty of countryside.The town's major industry is...

 and since 2009 is part of Kouvola
Kouvola
Kouvola is a town and municipality in southeastern Finland. It is located northeast of the capital, Helsinki.The city has a population of and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is ....

. Before that there had been some small-scale football culture in Myllykoski, so forming a football club was a natural step. The final move came from the local paper industry, which built a football pitch with spectator stands. MyPa was promoted to the highest tier in 1975, but the season ended in relegation.

Veikkausliiga

MyPa have played continuously in the Veikkausliiga
Veikkausliiga
Veikkausliiga is the premier division of Finnish football, comprising the top 12 clubs of the country. Veikkausliiga is currently ranked as the 28th best league in Europe. Its main sponsor is the Finnish national betting agency Veikkaus, hence the league's name...

 since 1992. Between 1993 and 1996 they were second four times in a row under the control of Harri Kampman
Harri Kampman
Harri Kampman is a Finnish football manager and former player who has managed Motherwell, MyPa and AC Oulu.-References:...

. They also won a first Finnish Cup
Finnish Cup
The Finnish Cup is Finland's main national cup competition in football.This yearly competition is open for member clubs of the FA of Finland. Finnish Cup has been played since 1955.Finnish Cup winner qualifies to UEFA Europa League...

 in 1992, and again in 1995. In 1997 Timo Liekoski
Timo Liekoski
Timo Liekoski is a Finnish soccer coach who managed teams in the North American Soccer League, Major Indoor Soccer League, American Indoor Soccer Association and Major League Soccer...

 was named as the manager of the club, but his employment lasted only one season. He was replaced by Juha Malinen
Juha Malinen
Juha Malinen is an experienced Finnish football manager, who manages AC Oulu.In February 2007 Malinen signed a contract with Kazakhstan's FC Shakhter of Karaganda and was also appointed as a manager of U-21 National Team of Kazakhstan. FC Shakhter and Malinen parted their ways after 7 months...

. Between 1999 and 2001, under the control of Malinen MyPa were third three times in a row, and second in 2002. After the 2003 season Malinen was replaced by Ilkka Mäkelä
Ilkka Mäkelä
Ilkka Mäkelä is a Finnish football manager and former player, who is the current headcoach of Finland's youth teams....

. In 2004 MyPa won a third Finnish Cup, and the next season it was time for the first Finnish championship of the club. Mäkelä resigned during the 2007 season and the former assistant coach Janne Hyppönen
Janne Hyppönen
Janne Hyppönen is a top Finnish football manager and former player.He has previously coached Veikkausliiga club Myllykosken Pallo and is currently the coach of FC KooTeePee.-External links:*...

 became the new manager. Hyppönen was sacked in September 2008 and assistant Janne Lindberg
Janne Lindberg
Janne Lindberg is a Finnish former professional footballer.Lindberg joined his local club Kumu as a six year old boy where he stayed for 18 years. In 1990, at the age of 24, he moved onto FC Haka and after two years at Haka he transferred to MyPa.At MyPa Lindberg established himself as a Finnish...

 took over in a caretaker capacity for the rest of the season.

International achievements

MyPa has participated in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a football club competition contested annually by the most recent winners of all European domestic cup competitions. The cup is one of the many inter-European club competitions that have been organised by UEFA. The first competition was held in the 1960–61 season—but...

, UEFA Cup
UEFA Cup
The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...

 and Intertoto Cup. It has faced many big clubs like Boavista
Boavista
Circuito da Boavista was a street circuit in Oporto , Portugal used twice for the Formula One Portuguese Grand Prix.The course began at the harbor-front "Esplanada do Rio de Janeiro", continued on "Avenida da Boavista" , and then twisted its way through small neighborhoods back to the start-finish...

, PSV Eindhoven, Dundee United, Politehnica Timişoara
FC Politehnica Timişoara
Fotbal Club Politehnica Timişoara is a Romanian football club which was established in 1921 and is currently playing in Romania's second league, Liga II...

 and Liverpool
Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...

. In 2005 they reached the first round of UEFA Cup but lost the decisive match against Swiss side Grasshoppers
Grasshopper-Club Zürich
Grasshopper Club Zürich commonly referred to as simply GC, GCZ, or Grasshopper is a Swiss multisports club based in Zürich. The oldest and best known section of Grasshopper Club Zürich is its football team...

 1-4 on aggregate.

Honours

  • Veikkausliiga
    Veikkausliiga
    Veikkausliiga is the premier division of Finnish football, comprising the top 12 clubs of the country. Veikkausliiga is currently ranked as the 28th best league in Europe. Its main sponsor is the Finnish national betting agency Veikkaus, hence the league's name...

    • Winners (1): 2005
  • Finnish Cup
    Finnish Cup
    The Finnish Cup is Finland's main national cup competition in football.This yearly competition is open for member clubs of the FA of Finland. Finnish Cup has been played since 1955.Finnish Cup winner qualifies to UEFA Europa League...

    • Winners (3): 1992, 1995, 2004

Season to season

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Season Level Division Section Administration Position Movements
1994 Tier 1 Veikkausliiga (Premier League) Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) 2nd
1995 Tier 1 Veikkausliiga (Premier League) Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) 2nd
1996 Tier 1 Veikkausliiga (Premier League) Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) 6th Upper Group - 2nd
1997 Tier 1 Veikkausliiga (Premier League) Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) 4th Third Round - 5th
1998 Tier 1 Veikkausliiga (Premier League) Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) 6th Third Round - 7th
1999 Tier 1 Veikkausliiga (Premier League) Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) 5th Upper Group - 3rd
2000 Tier 1 Veikkausliiga (Premier League) Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) 3rd
2001 Tier 1 Veikkausliiga (Premier League) Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) 3rd
2002 Tier 1 Veikkausliiga (Premier League) Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) 2nd Upper Group - 2nd
2003 Tier 1 Veikkausliiga (Premier League) Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) 4th
2004 Tier 1 Veikkausliiga (Premier League) Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) 8th
2005 Tier 1 Veikkausliiga (Premier League) Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) 1st Champions
2006 Tier 1 Veikkausliiga (Premier League) Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) 6th
2007 Tier 1 Veikkausliiga (Premier League) Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) 5th
2008 Tier 1 Veikkausliiga (Premier League) Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) 5th
2009 Tier 1 Veikkausliiga (Premier League) Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) 9th
2010 Tier 1 Veikkausliiga (Premier League) Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) 9th
2011 Tier 1 Veikkausliiga (Premier League) Finnish FA (Suomen Palloliitto) 8th
  • 18 seasons in Veikkausliiga
    Veikkausliiga
    Veikkausliiga is the premier division of Finnish football, comprising the top 12 clubs of the country. Veikkausliiga is currently ranked as the 28th best league in Europe. Its main sponsor is the Finnish national betting agency Veikkaus, hence the league's name...


Squad

As of 31 August 2011.

Notable players

Anes Zukic Adriano
Adriano Munoz
Adriano Afonso Thiel Munoz is a brazilian footballer who currently plays for PS Kemi Kings.-career:Cruzeiro is the club he signed for his first professional contract, in 1998. After playing 11 years in Scandinavia Adriano is back home. Cruzeiro takes part on the 1.div. Rio Grande do Sul Estate...

 Luiz Antônio Marco Manso Tosaint Ricketts
Tosaint Ricketts
Tosaint Antony Ricketts is a Canadian professional soccer player who currently plays for Politehnica Timişoara in Romanian Liga 2.-Early career:Ricketts began his youth career at University of Wisconsin Green Bay.- MYPA :...

 Gao Leilei
Gao Leilei
Gao Leilei is a former Chinese footballer.-China:Gao began his professional career with Wuhan in 1998, before moving to Beijing Guoan in 1999. It was with Beijing Guoan that Gao first gained the public notice of Chinese football community when he scored an equalizer against Liaoning in the last...

 Pat Corbett
Pat Corbett
Patrick Avalon 'Pat' Corbett is a former English professional footballer who played for Tottenham Hotspur, Leyton Orient and represented England at youth level.-Playing career:...

 Dean Wilkins
Dean Wilkins
Dean Mark Wilkins is an English former footballer and the ex manager of English football team Brighton & Hove Albion. Wilkins was temporarily in charge of Southampton, after the sacking of Alan Pardew, but was succeeded by Nigel Adkins after only 3 games.-Club career:Born in Hillingdon, Wilkins...

 Tuomas Haapala
Tuomas Haapala
Tuomas Haapala is a Finnish footballer who is currently playing for Tampere United in the Veikkausliiga as a defensive midfielder....

 Markus Heikkinen
Markus Heikkinen
Markus "Mako" Heikkinen is a Swedish born, Finnish footballer, who currently plays for SK Rapid Wien in the Austrian Bundesliga...

 Toni Huttunen
Toni Huttunen
Toni Huttunen is a Finnish footballer who plays for MyPa. He earned 11 caps for the Finnish national side between 1994 and 2002.-External links:**...

 Sami Hyypiä
Sami Hyypiä
Sami Tuomas Hyypiä is a retired European Cup winning Finnish footballer who played in the centre back position. He last played for German Bundesliga side Bayer 04 Leverkusen and was the captain of the Finland national football team. He joined Leverkusen in summer 2009, ending a ten year spell at...

 Tuomas Kansikas
Tuomas Kansikas
Tuomas Kansikas is a Finnish footballer, who represents HJK Helsinki in the Veikkausliiga, the premier division of football in Finland.-References:*-External links:* at * at...

 Joonas Kolkka
Joonas Kolkka
Joonas Einari Kolkka is a Finnish footballer who currently plays for Willem II in the Netherlands. He has played as a left winger most of his career, but can also play on the right wing.-Club career:...

 Tuomo Könönen
Tuomo Könönen
Tuomo Könönen is a Finnish football player currently playing for RoPS.-External links: * -References:...

 Toni Kuivasto
Toni Kuivasto
Toni Kuivasto is a retired Finnish footballer who last played for Veikkausliigaside FC Haka.-Club career:Kuivasto started his career at home-town club FC Ilves, making his Veikkausliiga debut in 1992. He also played for MyPa and HJK Helsinki in Finland, before moving abroad to play for Viking FK...


Janne Lindberg
Janne Lindberg
Janne Lindberg is a Finnish former professional footballer.Lindberg joined his local club Kumu as a six year old boy where he stayed for 18 years. In 1990, at the age of 24, he moved onto FC Haka and after two years at Haka he transferred to MyPa.At MyPa Lindberg established himself as a Finnish...

 Jari Litmanen
Jari Litmanen
Jari Olavi Litmanen is a Finnish footballer, currently playing for HJK. He is the current vice-captain of Finland national football team, where he served as a first choice captain between 1996–2008...

 Miikka Multaharju
Miikka Multaharju
Miikka Multaharju is a Finnish footballer.Multaharju is a right midfielder or winger who currently plays for HJK in the Finnish Veikkausliiga.He has previously played for Fredrikstad in the Norwegian Premier League,...

 Jussi Nuorela
Jussi Nuorela
Jussi Nuorela is a former Finnish professional footballer who last played for FC Inter Turku in the Veikkausliiga.-Club career:...

 Saku Puhakainen
Saku Puhakainen
Saku Puhakainen is a Finnish footballer, who plays as a striker.Since 2000 Puhakainen played for MyPa in the Finnish premier division, Veikkausliiga. His earlier clubs include FC Kuusysi and Turun Palloseura. He achieved the Veikkausliiga top scorer title in 2003. With MyPa he has won the Finnish...

 Sami Ristilä
Sami Ristilä
Sami Ristilä is a Finnish football manager and former player who has been managing FC Haka since September 2010 in the Veikkausliiga.- Career :...

 Niklas Tarvajärvi
Niklas Tarvajärvi
Niklas Henrikki Tarvajärvi is a Finnish footballer, is a striker who currently plays for the Dutch club Go Ahead Eagles.- Career :...

 István Mitring Denis Volodin
Denis Volodin
Denis Volodin is a Kazakhstani professional footballer. He plays as a defender for FC Atyrau. Before he played for FC Astana. He once was called up for Kazakhstan national football team, but never made an appearance officially....

 Vasile Marchiş
Vasile Marchiş
Vasile Marchiş is a Romanian football player who currently plays for Kakkonen's Pallo-Iirot as a central defender...

 Ryan Botha Neathan Gibson
Neathan Gibson
Neathan Gibson is a Zimbabwen soccer player currently Coaching for Des Moines Menace in the USL Premier Development League.-College:...

 Kuami Agboh
Kuami Agboh
Kuami Agboh is a Togolese football defender/midfielder who last played for MyPa.-International career:Coming from humble beginnings, born deep within a jungle, he is a member of the Togolese national team, and was called up to the 2006 World Cup...

 Brent Sancho
Brent Sancho
Brent Sancho is a Trinidadian soccer player who currently plays for Rochester Rhinos in the USL First Division.-College:Sancho spent his college years playing for St...



UEFA club ranking

This is the current UEFA club ranking, including season 2010-11.

Last update: July 9, 2010
Rank Team Points
276 FK Borac Banja Luka 2.149
277   FK Renova
FK Renova
FK Renova is a football club based in Džepčište, Republic of Macedonia. They currently play in the Macedonian First League.-History:FK Renova was founded in 2003 but was derived from the football school established in 2000. As a result of successful work in 2003, the people from Dzepciste began to...

2.141
278   Dundalk
Dundalk
Dundalk is the county town of County Louth in Ireland. It is situated where the Castletown River flows into Dundalk Bay. The town is close to the border with Northern Ireland and equi-distant from Dublin and Belfast. The town's name, which was historically written as Dundalgan, has associations...

2.116
  Sporting Fingal 2.116
  Shamrock Rovers 2.116
281   MYPA 2.093
  TPS Turku
TPS Turku
TPS Turku may refer to:*TPS , ice hockey team*Turun Palloseura, football team...

2.093
283   FK Tauras Tauragė
FK Tauras Tauragė
FK Tauras is a Lithuanian football team from the city of Tauragė. The team plays in the A Lyga, Lithuania's highest football division.- Name :During its history the club has changed its name several times:*1922 – Tauragės Sporto Sąjunga*19?? – Šauliai...

1.991
  FK Šiauliai
FK Šiauliai
FK Šiauliai is a Lithuanian football team from the city of Šiauliai. The team plays in the Lithuanian top division A Lyga.Before 2004 it was known as "Sakalas Šiauliai".- Participation in Lithuanian Championships :* 2003 – 8th* 2004 – 1st...

1.991
  FBK Kaunas
FBK Kaunas
Kauno futbolo beisbolo klubas is a Lithuanian football club from the city of Kaunas, that currently plays in the A Lyga, the top level of Lithuanian football.- History :...

1.991
286   Dinamo Tirana 1.949
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