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Finnish District Football Associations
The District Football Associations are the local governing bodies of association football in Finland. The 12 District FAs exist to govern all aspects of local football in their defined areas, providing grassroots support to the Finnish Football Association by promoting and administering football and futsal in their respective districts. The District FAs administer youth football and the lower tier leagues covering Kolmonen (Division 3) and the lower divisions. The 12 district organisations are as follows: * Ålands Fotbollförbund *SPL Helsingin piiri * SPL Itä-Suomen piiri *SPL Kaakkois-Suomen piiri *SPL Keski-Pohjanmaan piiri *SPL Keski-Suomen piiri *SPL Pohjois-Suomen piiri *SPL Satakunnan piiri *SPL Tampereen piiri *SPL Turun piiri *SPL Uudenmaan piiri *SPL Vaasan piiri The SPL Vaasan piiri ''(Vaasa Football Association)'' is one of the 12 district organisations of the Football Association of Finland. It administers lower tier football in Vaasa. Background Suom ...
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Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ...
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SPL Vaasan Piiri
The SPL Vaasan piiri ''(Vaasa Football Association)'' is one of the 12 district organisations of the Football Association of Finland. It administers lower tier football in Vaasa. Background Suomen Palloliitto Vaasan piiri, commonly referred to as SPL Vaasan piiri or SPL Vaasa, is the governing body for football in Vaasa. Based in the city of Vaasa, the Association's Chairman is Stig Nygård. Member clubs League Competitions SPL Vaasan piiri run the following league competitions: Men's Football * Division 3 - Kolmonen - one section * Division 4 - Nelonen - one section * Division 5 - Vitonen - one section * Division 6 - Kutonen Kutonen or VI divisioona is the seventh level in the Finnish football league system and comprises 265 teams. The VI divisioona was introduced in 1973 and in the mid-1990s became known as the Kutonen (''Number Six'' in English and ''Sexan'' in ... - three sections Ladies Football * Division 3 - Kolmonen - one section Footn ...
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SPL Savon Piiri
SPL may refer to: Association football * Saudi Professional League * Scottish Premier League * SportPesa Premier League, Kenya * Singapore Premier League * RoboCup Standard Platform League, matches between autonomous robots Computing Programming languages * System programming language * Shakespeare Programming Language * Space Programming Language, influenced by JOVIAL Other uses in computing * Spl (Unix) functions to set priority level * Secondary Program Loader * Software product line * Standard PHP Library, used in PHP5 onwards * Sun Public License, Sun Microsystems * RoboCup Standard Platform League, autonomous robot association football matches Businesses and organisations Political * Sammarineses for Freedom, Italian: ''Sammarinesi per la Libertà'', a political party in San Marino * Socialist Party of Latvia, formed in 1994 * Secular Pro-Life, in the United States Other businesses and organisations * Finnish Wood Workers' Union, a former trade union * Service de polic ...
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SPL Saimaan Piiri
The Suomen Palloliiton Saimaan piiri ''(SPL Saimaa district)'' was a Finnish District Football Associations, district organisation of the Football Association of Finland operating from 1924 to 1994. Until the World War II, Second World War the district was known as the ''Suomen Palloliiton Viipurin piiri (SPL Viipuri district)''. It administered football (soccer), football and bandy initially in and around Vyborg, Viipuri, later expanding to cover the southern part of the Karelia (historical province of Finland), historical Finnish Karelia, and ultimately in the Saimaa, Lake Saimaa area. Currently it's part of the ''SPL Kaakkois-Suomen piiri, Suomen Palloliiton Kaakkois-Suomen piiri.'' History The district was founded by Sudet, Viipurin Reipas, Reipas and Viipurin IFK, IFK in early 1924 as ''Suomen Palloliiton Viipurin piiri''. It was based in Viipuri, a major city in the Karelian Isthmus, and covered the southern part of the Karelia (historical province of Finland), historica ...
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SPL Oulun Piiri
SPL may refer to: Association football * Saudi Professional League * Scottish Premier League * SportPesa Premier League, Kenya * Singapore Premier League * RoboCup Standard Platform League, matches between autonomous robots Computing Programming languages * System programming language * Shakespeare Programming Language * Space Programming Language, influenced by JOVIAL Other uses in computing * Spl (Unix) functions to set priority level * Secondary Program Loader * Software product line * Standard PHP Library, used in PHP5 onwards * Sun Public License, Sun Microsystems * RoboCup Standard Platform League, autonomous robot association football matches Businesses and organisations Political * Sammarineses for Freedom, Italian: ''Sammarinesi per la Libertà'', a political party in San Marino * Socialist Party of Latvia, formed in 1994 * Secular Pro-Life, in the United States Other businesses and organisations * Finnish Wood Workers' Union, a former trade union * Service de ...
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SPL Länsi-Uudenmaan Piiri
SPL may refer to: Association football * Saudi Professional League * Scottish Premier League * SportPesa Premier League, Kenya * Singapore Premier League * RoboCup Standard Platform League, matches between autonomous robots Computing Programming languages * System programming language * Shakespeare Programming Language * Space Programming Language, influenced by JOVIAL Other uses in computing * Spl (Unix) functions to set priority level * Secondary Program Loader * Software product line * Standard PHP Library, used in PHP5 onwards * Sun Public License, Sun Microsystems * RoboCup Standard Platform League, autonomous robot association football matches Businesses and organisations Political * Sammarineses for Freedom, Italian: ''Sammarinesi per la Libertà'', a political party in San Marino * Socialist Party of Latvia, formed in 1994 * Secular Pro-Life, in the United States Other businesses and organisations * Finnish Wood Workers' Union, a former trade union * Service de ...
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SPL Lapin Piiri
SPL may refer to: Association football * Saudi Professional League * Scottish Premier League * SportPesa Premier League, Kenya * Singapore Premier League * RoboCup Standard Platform League, matches between autonomous robots Computing Programming languages * System programming language * Shakespeare Programming Language * Space Programming Language, influenced by JOVIAL Other uses in computing * Spl (Unix) functions to set priority level * Secondary Program Loader * Software product line * Standard PHP Library, used in PHP5 onwards * Sun Public License, Sun Microsystems * RoboCup Standard Platform League, autonomous robot association football matches Businesses and organisations Political * Sammarineses for Freedom, Italian: ''Sammarinesi per la Libertà'', a political party in San Marino * Socialist Party of Latvia, formed in 1994 * Secular Pro-Life, in the United States Other businesses and organisations * Finnish Wood Workers' Union, a former trade union * Service de polic ...
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SPL Lahden Piiri
SPL may refer to: Association football * Saudi Professional League * Scottish Premier League * SportPesa Premier League, Kenya * Singapore Premier League * RoboCup Standard Platform League, matches between autonomous robots Computing Programming languages * System programming language * Shakespeare Programming Language * Space Programming Language, influenced by JOVIAL Other uses in computing * Spl (Unix) functions to set priority level * Secondary Program Loader * Software product line * Standard PHP Library, used in PHP5 onwards * Sun Public License, Sun Microsystems * RoboCup Standard Platform League, autonomous robot association football matches Businesses and organisations Political * Sammarineses for Freedom, Italian: ''Sammarinesi per la Libertà'', a political party in San Marino * Socialist Party of Latvia, formed in 1994 * Secular Pro-Life, in the United States Other businesses and organisations * Finnish Wood Workers' Union, a former trade union * Service de ...
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SPL Kymenlaakson Piiri
SPL may refer to: Association football * Saudi Professional League * Scottish Premier League * SportPesa Premier League, Kenya * Singapore Premier League * RoboCup Standard Platform League, matches between autonomous robots Computing Programming languages * System programming language * Shakespeare Programming Language * Space Programming Language, influenced by JOVIAL Other uses in computing * Spl (Unix) functions to set priority level * Secondary Program Loader * Software product line * Standard PHP Library, used in PHP5 onwards * Sun Public License, Sun Microsystems * RoboCup Standard Platform League, autonomous robot association football matches Businesses and organisations Political * Sammarineses for Freedom, Italian: ''Sammarinesi per la Libertà'', a political party in San Marino * Socialist Party of Latvia, formed in 1994 * Secular Pro-Life, in the United States Other businesses and organisations * Finnish Wood Workers' Union, a former trade union * Service de ...
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SPL Keski-Uudenmaan Piiri
SPL may refer to: Association football * Saudi Professional League * Scottish Premier League * SportPesa Premier League, Kenya * Singapore Premier League * RoboCup Standard Platform League, matches between autonomous robots Computing Programming languages * System programming language * Shakespeare Programming Language * Space Programming Language, influenced by JOVIAL Other uses in computing * Spl (Unix) functions to set priority level * Secondary Program Loader * Software product line * Standard PHP Library, used in PHP5 onwards * Sun Public License, Sun Microsystems * RoboCup Standard Platform League, autonomous robot association football matches Businesses and organisations Political * Sammarineses for Freedom, Italian: ''Sammarinesi per la Libertà'', a political party in San Marino * Socialist Party of Latvia, formed in 1994 * Secular Pro-Life, in the United States Other businesses and organisations * Finnish Wood Workers' Union, a former trade union * Service de ...
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SPL Karjalan Piiri
The SPL Karjalan piiri ''(Karelia Football Association)'' is a former district organisation of the Football Association of Finland. It administered football in the North Karelia area. Background Suomen Palloliitto Karjalan piiri, commonly referred to as SPL Karjalan piiri or SPL Karjala, was the governing body for football in the North Karelia area. The organisation was founded in May 1930 and was based in Sortavala. It is not clear when the association ceased operating but it is known that 4 clubs broke away from their own area to form the SPL Joensuun piiri on 18 December 1938. Member clubs Member clubs affiliated to the association included: *Joensuun Kalevaiset *Joensuun Palloseura Joensuun Palloseura (abbreviated JoPS) is a football club from Joensuu, Finland. JoPS is Joensuu's oldest football club having been formed in 1929. The club has competed in the second tier of Finnish football over 6 seasons, the last time being i ... *Sortavalan Palloilijat (SP) *Sortava ...
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SPL Joensuun Piiri
SPL may refer to: Association football * Saudi Professional League * Scottish Premier League * SportPesa Premier League, Kenya * Singapore Premier League * RoboCup Standard Platform League, matches between autonomous robots Computing Programming languages * System programming language * Shakespeare Programming Language * Space Programming Language, influenced by JOVIAL Other uses in computing * Spl (Unix) functions to set priority level * Secondary Program Loader * Software product line * Standard PHP Library, used in PHP5 onwards * Sun Public License, Sun Microsystems * RoboCup Standard Platform League, autonomous robot association football matches Businesses and organisations Political * Sammarineses for Freedom, Italian: ''Sammarinesi per la Libertà'', a political party in San Marino * Socialist Party of Latvia, formed in 1994 * Secular Pro-Life, in the United States Other businesses and organisations * Finnish Wood Workers' Union, a former trade union * Service de polic ...
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