Imatran Ketterä is an

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club based in

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, Finland. Ketterä plays in the Finnish second-tier league,

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, during the 2022–23 season. Ketterä has played in Mestis since 2017 and has won the championship three times (2019, 2021, 2022). With the 2020 playoffs being cancelled due to

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, Ketterä has been the defending champion of Mestis for four years.

Honours

Champions

''(3)'': 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22 * Suomi-sarja ''(2)'': 2008–09, 2016–17 *

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''(3)'': 2018, 2019, 2021

Runners-up

* Suomi-sarja ''(1)'': 2015-16

Notable players

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Petteri Sihvonen Petteri is a Finnish masculine given name, meaning Peter. People with this name include: * Petteri Forsell (born 1990), Finnish footballer * Petteri Iivonen (born 1987), Finnish violinist * Petteri Koponen (born 1988), Finnish professional bas ...

* Joni Yli-Torkko * Olli Sipiläinen * Brian Baxter Arroyo Lopez * Steve Peters *

Heikki Mälkiä Heikki is a Finnish and Estonian male given name. It derives from a medieval vernacular form of the name Henrik. Notable people with the name include: * Heikki Aho (footballer) (born 1983), Finnish footballer * Heikki A. Alikoski (1912–1997), ...

* Pasi Nurminen *

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* Gary Prior * Björn Robert Sigurdarson * Michael Messner

References

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