Rovaniemen Palloseura
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Rovaniemen Palloseura (RoPS) is a football club founded in 1950 and based in Rovaniemi, Finland. RoPS played in the Finnish Premier Division, (Veikkausliiga) for 32 years, from 1981 to 2021. In 2021, RoPS withdrew from professional football and voluntarily relegated to the amateur Kakkonen division. The club plays home games at the Rovaniemen Keskuskenttä in the Arctic Circle of Lapland.
History
RoPS have won the Finnish Cup on two occasions, in 1986 and 2013, and were runners-up in 1962. They placed third in the Finnish Premier Division in 1988 and 1989, before finishing as runner-up in 2015, losing out on the title by 1 point to eventual champions SJK. The club's most notable international achievement was reaching the quarter-finals of the European Cup-Winners' Cup in 1987–88 against Marseille.
Match fixing allegations and scandal
Throughout the 2000s, RoPS became infamous for suspected involvement in match fixing.
In spring 2011 the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation started a large investigation into match fixing. On February 25 Singaporean businessman Wilson Raj Perumal, a convicted match fixer, was arrested after entering Finland with a fake passport. The National Bureau of Investigation suspected that over 30 games between 2008 and 2011, mostly from the Finnish premier league, had been fixed or manipulated.[1]
On July 19, 2011, the Rovaniemi Court of Appeal convicted Perumal and nine RoPS players of match-fixing. Altogether 24 games had been manipulated, and the intended score had been achieved in 11 of them. Perumal was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to return 150,000 euros deemed to be match-fixing profits. The bribes ranged from 500 euros offered to one player to a total of 80,000 euros offered to eight players. The highest total of bribes for one individual was slightly over 40,000 euros. The players received suspended sentences. The sentenced players were six Zambian and two Georgian players: Godfrey Chibanga, Chileshe Chibwe, Francis Kombe, Stephen Kunda, Christopher Musonda, Chanda Mwaba, Nchimunya Mweetwa, Pavle Khorguashvili, and Valter Khorguashvili.[2]
Domestic history
| Season | Level | Division | Section | Administration | Position | Movements | Finnish Cup | League Cup |
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| 1955 | Tier 4 | Piirinsarja (District League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | Qualifiers for 3rd Tier | ||||
| 1956 | Tier 4 | Aluesarja (Area Division) | Group 12 Lapland | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 1st | Promoted | ||
| 1957 | Tier 3 | Maakuntasarja (Regional League) | North Group II | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 5th | |||
| 1958 | Tier 3 | Maakuntasarja (Regional League) | Group 9 Northern Finland | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 3rd | |||
| 1959 | Tier 3 | Maakuntasarja (Regional League) | Group 9 Northern Finland | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 1st | Promoted | ||
| 1960 | Tier 2 | Suomensarja (Finland Series) | North Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 11th | Relegated | ||
| 1961 | Tier 3 | Maakuntasarja (Regional League) | Group 9 Northern Finland | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 2nd | |||
| 1962 | Tier 3 | Maakuntasarja (Regional League) | Group 9 Northern Finland | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 1st | Promoted | ||
| 1963 | Tier 2 | Suomensarja (Finland Series) | North Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 8th | |||
| 1964 | Tier 2 | Suomensarja (Finland Series) | North Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 10th | Relegated | ||
| 1965 | Tier 3 | Maakuntasarja (Regional League) | Group 9 Northern Finland | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 5th | |||
| 1966 | Tier 3 | Maakuntasarja (Regional League) | Group 9 Northern Finland | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 3rd | |||
| 1967 | Tier 3 | Maakuntasarja (Regional League) | Group 10 Northern Finland | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 2nd | |||
| 1968 | Tier 3 | Maakuntasarja (Regional League) | Group 8 Northern Finland | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 1st | Promoted | ||
| 1969 | Tier 2 | Suomensarja (Finland Series) | North Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 10th | Relegated | ||
| 1970 | Tier 3 | 3. Divisioona (Third Division) | Group 8 Northern Finland | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 1st | Promoted | ||
| 1971 | Tier 2 | 2. Divisioona (Second Division) | North Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 9th | |||
| 1972 | Tier 2 | 2. Divisioona (Second Division) | North Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 11th | Relegated | ||
| 1973 | Tier 4 | 3. Divisioona (Third Division) | Group 9 Northern Finland | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 1st | Promoted | ||
| 1974 | Tier 3 | 2. Divisioona (Second Division) | North Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 3rd | |||
| 1975 | Tier 3 | 2. Divisioona (Second Division) | North Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 2nd | |||
| 1976 | Tier 3 | 2. Divisioona (Second Division) | North Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 2nd | |||
| 1977 | Tier 3 | 2. Divisioona (Second Division) | North Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 9th | |||
| 1978 | Tier 3 | 2. Divisioona (Second Division) | North Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 1st | Promoted | ||
| 1979 | Tier 2 | 1. Divisioona (First Division) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 6th | ||||
| 1980 | Tier 2 | 1. Divisioona (First Division) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 2nd | Promotion/Relagtion Group 2nd - Promoted | |||
| 1981 | Tier 1 | SM-Sarja (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 10th | Promotion/Relagtion Group 5th - Relegated | |||
| 1982 | Tier 2 | 1. Divisioona (First Division) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 2nd | Promotion/Relagtion Group 1st - Promoted | |||
| 1983 | Tier 1 | SM-Sarja (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 8th | ||||
| 1984 | Tier 1 | SM-Sarja (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 6th | ||||
| 1985 | Tier 1 | SM-Sarja (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 7th | ||||
| 1986 | Tier 1 | SM-Sarja (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 4th | ||||
| 1987 | Tier 1 | SM-Sarja (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 5th | ||||
| 1988 | Tier 1 | SM-Sarja (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 3rd | ||||
| 1989 | Tier 1 | SM-Sarja (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 3rd | ||||
| 1990 | Tier 1 | Futisliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 2nd Championship Playoff - Quarter-finals | ||||
| 1991 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 7th | ||||
| 1992 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 7th | ||||
| 1993 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 7th | Runners-up | |||
| 1994 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 5th | ||||
| 1995 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 9th | 9th Round | |||
| 1996 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 9th - Relegation Group 2nd | 7th Round | |||
| 1997 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 6th | Semi-finals | |||
| 1998 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 8th | ||||
| 1999 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 8th | 7th Round | |||
| 2000 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 9th | ||||
| 2001 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 12th | Relegated | 6th Round | ||
| 2002 | Tier 2 | Ykkönen (First Division) | Northern Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 5th | Quarter-finals | ||
| 2003 | Tier 2 | Ykkönen (First Division) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 2nd | Promotion Playoff - Promoted | 6th Round | ||
| 2004 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 12th | Quarter-finals | |||
| 2005 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 13th | Relegation Playoff - Relegated | |||
| 2006 | Tier 2 | Ykkönen (First Division) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 7th | ||||
| 2007 | Tier 2 | Ykkönen (First Division) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 2nd | Promotion Playoff - Promoted | |||
| 2008 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 10th | 6th Round | |||
| 2009 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 14th | Relegated | 6th Round | ||
| 2010 | Tier 2 | Ykkönen (First Division) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 1st | Promoted | 4th Round | ||
| 2011 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 12th | Relegated | 5th Round | ||
| 2012 | Tier 2 | Ykkönen (First Division) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 1st | Promoted | 5th Round | ||
| 2013 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 11th | Winners | |||
| 2014 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 9th | 6th Round | |||
| 2015 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 2nd | 6th Round | |||
| 2016 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 6th | 6th Round | |||
| 2017 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 7th | Group Stage - 2nd - Quarter-final Qualifiers | |||
| 2018 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 2nd | Group Stage - 3rd | |||
| 2019 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 10th | Group Stage - 4th - Quarter-finals | |||
| 2020 | Tier 1 | Veikkausliiga (Premier League) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 12th | Relegated | Group Stage - 6th | ||
| 2021 | Tier 2 | Ykkönen (First Division) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 2nd | Promotion Playoff. Gave up league spot due to financial difficulties | Group Stage - 2nd | ||
| 2022 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen (Second Division) | Group C | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 6th | 4th Round | ||
| 2023 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen (Second Division) | Group C | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 3rd | Qualifiers for Ykkönen - Qualified | 4th Round | |
| 2024 | Tier 3 | Ykkönen (First Division) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 5th | 3rd Round | |||
| 2025 | Tier 3 | Ykkönen (First Division) | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) |
- 32 seasons in Veikkausliiga
- 16 seasons in Ykkösliiga
- 19 seasons in Ykkönen
- 3 seasons in 4th Tier
European history
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate | |
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| 1987–88 | Cup Winners' Cup | 1R | Template:Flagicon Glentoran | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1(a) | File:Symbol keep vote.svg |
| 2R | Template:Flagicon Vllaznia | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | File:Symbol keep vote.svg | ||
| QF | Template:Flagicon Marseille | 0–1 | 0–3 | 0–4 | File:Symbol delete vote.svg | ||
| 1989–90 | UEFA Cup | 1R | Template:Flagicon GKS Katowice | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | File:Symbol keep vote.svg |
| 2R | Template:Flagicon Auxerre | 0–5 | 0–3 | 0–8 | File:Symbol delete vote.svg | ||
| 1990–91 | UEFA Cup | 1R | Template:Flagicon 1. FC Magdeburg | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | File:Symbol delete vote.svg |
| 2014–15 | UEFA Europa League | 2Q | Template:Flagicon Asteras Tripoli | 1–1 | 2–4 | 3–5 | File:Symbol delete vote.svg |
| 2016–17 | UEFA Europa League | 1Q | Template:Flagicon Shamrock Rovers | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | File:Symbol keep vote.svg |
| 2Q | Template:Flagicon Lokomotiva | 1–1 | 0–3 | 1–4 | File:Symbol delete vote.svg | ||
| 2019–20 | UEFA Europa League | 1Q | Template:Flagicon Aberdeen | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–4 | File:Symbol delete vote.svg |
- Notes
- 1R: First round
- 2R: Second round
- 1Q: First qualifying round
- QF: Quarter-finals
Honours
Current squad
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Management and boardroom
Management
As of 18 February 2020.
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Boardroom
As of 18 February 2020[4]
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Rovaniemi Football Academy
Rovaniemi Football Academy (RFA)[5] is the reserve team of RoPS. The team plays in Kakkonen in 2020 season. It is coached by Aleksi Tanner.
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Managers
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- Template:Flagicon Jerzy Masztaler (1990–91)
- Template:Flagicon Graham Williams (1991)
- Template:Flagicon Olavi Tammimies (1992)
- Template:Flagicon Keith Armstrong (1993–94)
- Template:Flagicon Timo Salmi (1995)
- Template:Flagicon Graham Williams (1995)
- Template:Flagicon Ari Matinlassi (1995)
- Template:Flagicon Ari Rantamaa (1996–97)
- Template:Flagicon Kari Virtanen (1997–99)
- Template:Flagicon Olavi Tammimies (2000)
- Template:Flagicon Mauri Holappa (2001)
- Template:Flagicon Tomi Molin (2002)
- Template:Flagicon György Hamori (Jan 1, 2003 – June 23, 2004)
- Template:Flagicon Mika Lumijärvi (June 23, 2004 – June 30, 2005)
- Template:Flagicon Matti Vikman (interim) (June 30, 2005 – Dec 31, 2005)
- Template:Flagicon Jukka Ikäläinen (2006)
- Template:Flagicon Tom Saintfiet (Jan 1, 2008 – April 7, 2008)
- Template:Flagicon Valeri Bondarenko (April 14, 2008 – May 27, 2009)
- Template:Flagicon Mika Lumijärvi (May 27, 2009 – Oct 6, 2009)
- Template:Flagicon Zeddy Saileti (Oct 6, 2009 – Dec 31, 2009)
- Template:Flagicon John Allen (Jan 1, 2010 – Aug 9, 2011)
- Template:Flagicon Matti Hiukka (Aug 9, 2011 – Dec 31, 2011)
- Template:Flagicon Kari Virtanen (Jan 1, 2012 – Oct 13)
- Template:Flagicon Juha Malinen (Nov, 2013 – Oct, 2017)
- Template:Flagicon Toni Koskela (Oct, 2017 – May 22, 2019)
- Template:Flagicon Pasi Tuutti (May 22, 2019 – Dec 31, 2019)
- Template:Flagicon Vesa Tauriainen (Jan 1, 2020 – Sep 15, 2020)
- Template:Flagicon Mikko Mannila (Sep 16, 2020 – Dec 31, 2021)
- Template:Flagicon Aleksi Tanner (Jan 1, 2022 – Dec 31, 2022)
- Template:Flagicon Ville Ulanen (Jan 1, 2023 – Dec 31, 2023)
- Template:Flagicon Jari Alamäki (Jan 1, 2024 – )
References
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