Oulun Palloseura (OPS) is a Finnish professional

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

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: ...

. Founded in 1925, the club is currently competing in the Finnish second tier –

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 ...

History

The original

Oulun Palloseura Oulun Palloseura or OPS is a Finnish multi-sports club based in Oulu. The club has sections in football, bandy and bowling. The club was founded in 1927. Football The football team has won the Finnish championship twice (1979, 1980) and as a co ...

(''Oulu Ball Club'') was founded in 1925. Contemporary club which is now called Oulun Palloseura dates back to 2006, when a third-tier club called ''FC Dreeverit'' was cleared to use the name ''OPS-jp''. Next year the competition spot went to a registered association called ''Oulun Palloseura – jalkapallo ry.'' and then in 2008 to ''Oulun jalkapallon tuki ry.'' which is founded by businessman Miika Juntunen. In 2009 OPS-jp won the Group C of

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' ...

(the 3rd tier) and was promoted to

. Since 2011 the club has been allowed to use the original name of Oulun Palloseura.

Season to season

Current squad

External links

Official website
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