Jakobstads BK, also known as JBK, is a Finnish Football team from Jakobstad currently playing in

Kakkonen Kakkonen or II divisioona is the third level in the league system of Finnish football and comprises 36 Finnish football teams. The II divisioona was introduced in 1973 and in the mid-1990s became known as the Kakkonen (Finnish for 'Number Two' ...

, a third tier soccer league in Finland. The club's home venue is Västra plan.

History

The club was founded at a meeting held on December 14, 1944. Jakobstads Bollklubb's first official match was played on May 10, 1945 against

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. The team's captain at that time, Lasse Hellund, scored the club's first goal. JBK later won the match 3–1. The club's early history was significant as they played 16 seasons in the Suomisarja (Finland League), which at that time was the second tier of

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, over three periods from 1948, 1950 and 1952–65. More recently, JBK has mostly been represented in

or in regional leagues (

Kolmonen Kolmonen or III divisioona is the fourth level in the league system of Finnish football and comprises 104 Finnish football teams. The III divisioona was introduced in 1973 and in the mid-1990s became known as the Kolmonen (''Number Three'' in En ...

and lower). Since the early 1970s, the club has played in

for 23 seasons in total (1973–75, 1977–78, 1996–97, 1999–2011, 2014–2015 and 2017).

References and sources

Official Website
* Finnish Wikipedia
Suomen CupJBK Facebook

Footnotes

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