Pallo-Iirot (abbreviated P-Iirot) is a football club from Rauma in

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

. The club was formed in 1930 and their home ground is at the Äijänsuon stadion. The men's first team currently plays in the

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 Chairman of Pallo-Iirot is Tarmo Salvi.

Background

The club was known as Iirot when it was established in 1930 and it has since taken a number of forms: * Iirot Rauma until 1968 * Hakrit Rauma from 1969 to 1981 (merger with Lukko Rauma) * Pallo-Iirot Rauma since 1982 In the 1940s, the club also played

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for a few years. At the beginning of the 1990s the leading football clubs in Rauma, namely

Rauman Pallo Rauman Pallo was a sports club established in 1949 from Rauma, Finland, playing football, bandy and ice hockey. It was dissolved in 1991 as the club merged with Pallo-Iirot. Rauman Pallo played mainly in the second and third tiers of Finnish fo ...

and Pallo-Iirot, merged to form Rauman Pallo-Iirot. A few years later the name reverted to Pallo-Iirot. The other club based in the town is

FC Rauma FC Rauma (abbreviated FCR) is a football club from Rauma, Finland. The club was formed in 1996 and their home ground is at the Äijänsuon stadion. The men's first team currently plays in the Kolmonen (Third Division). Background FCR was est ...

. Since 1982 Pallo-Iirot has played 14 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 play ...

(First Division), the second tier of

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, in the periods 1984–85, 1991, 1993–2001 and 2004–05. They also have had six spells in the third tier, the

(Second Division), covering 12 seasons from 1983, 1986–87, 1990, 1992, 2002–03 and 2006 to the present day. The club has approximately 1,000 members comprising both boys and girls and offers the whole family the possibility to engage in football.

Season to season

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Junior Section

Pallo-Iirot has the ''Seal of approval for football'' which is an acknowledgement for quality of its youth activities in Finland. The club's youth team's programme is based on the active participation of the parents. P-Iirot welcomes the parents together with their children to join the club activities by becoming the youth teams' coaches, and managers or to otherwise support their children's team's activities. The Nappulaliiga (Little league) offers sports and games, emphasising football, twice a week for the ages of 3 to 11 years. The programme runs from April until September.

Club Structure

Pallo-Iirot currently has 2 men's teams, 1 ladies team, 9 boys teams and 4 girls teams. In the winter the club practices at Äijänsuo indoor hall and on the heated astro-turf.

Current squad

References and sources

Official Website
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Footnotes

{{Reflist Football clubs in Finland Rauma, Finland Association football clubs established in 1930 Bandy clubs established in 1930 1930 establishments in Finland Defunct bandy clubs in Finland Sport in Satakunta