Grankulla IFK, or GrIFK as the name is commonly abbreviated, is a

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sports club from the city of

Kauniainen Kauniainen (; sv, Grankulla) is a small town and a municipality of inhabitants () in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland. It is surrounded and enclaved by the City of Espoo, in the Capital Region of Greater Helsinki. Kauniainen was founde ...

. The club was formed in 1925 and the main activities covered are football,

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, handball, floorball and alpine. The club's main handball team... The club's main ice-hockey team is... Handball... Alpine... The club's main football team is currently playing in the

Kakkonen Kakkonen or II divisioona is the third level in the Finnish football league system, league system of Finnish football and comprises 36 Finland, Finnish football (soccer), football teams. The II divisioona was introduced in 1973 and in the mid-1 ...

, the third tier of the

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. GrIFK play their home matches at '' Kauniaisten Keskuskenttä''. The Chairman of the football club is Matti Hannuksela. The club has more than 700 registered players.

History

GrIFK Football has played 13 seasons in the

Ykkönen ''Ykkönen'' ( Finnish for 'Number One'; sv, Ettan) is the second highest level of the Finnish football league system (after the Veikkausliiga), although it is the highest league managed by the Football Association of Finland. The teams also pla ...

(First Division), the second tier of Finnish football in 1978–80, 1982–85, 1987–88, 1990, 2008 and 2016-2017. They also have had ten spells (covering 21 seasons) in the third tier, the

(the Second Division), in 1973–75, 1977, 1981, 1986, 1989, 1991–92, 1996, 2005–07, 2009-2015 and 2018 to the present day.

Season to season

Club structure

GRIFK run a number of teams including 3 men's teams, 1 veteran's team, close to 20 boys teams (including A and B juniors on 2nd highest level (Ykkönen) in Finland) and 4 girls teams.

2020 season

GrIFK are competing in Group B (Lohko B) of the

administered by the Football Association of Finland '' (Suomen Palloliitto) ''. This is the third highest tier in the Finnish football system. In 2019 GrIFK finished in ninth position in their

section.

Current squad 2020 (updating in process)

Sources

Suomen Cup

References

External links

Official Football Website

GrIFK Jalkapallo / Fotboll Facebook
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