Oulun Palloseura or OPS is a

Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...

multi-sports club based in

Oulu Oulu ( , ; sv, Uleåborg ) is a city, municipality and a seaside resort of about 210,000 inhabitants in the region of North Ostrobothnia, Finland. It is the most populous city in northern Finland and the fifth most populous in the country after: ...

. The club has sections in

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bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

and

bowling Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). The term ''bowling'' usually refers to pin bowling (most commonly ten-pin bowling), thou ...

. The club was founded in 1927.

Football

The football team has won the Finnish championship twice (1979, 1980) and as a consequence played in the European Cup twice. On both occasions they met the English champions

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. In the 1980–81 season they drew 1–1 in Finland, and lost 1–10 at

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. In the 1981–82 season they lost 0–1 in Finland, and 0–7 at

. Now their senior football team is playing in

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 play ...

Bandy

OPS bandy club is playing in the top tier of Finnish

, the Bandyliiga.

Achievements

*Finnish Championship :*Winners 1953, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 :*Silver 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1951, 1952, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959 :*Bronze 1954, 1965, 1967 {{Finnish Champions in Football Bandy clubs in Finland Football clubs in Finland Sport in Oulu Bandy clubs established in 1927 Association football clubs established in 1927 1927 establishments in Finland Multi-sport clubs in Finland