FC Jazz is a

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club from

Pori ) , website www.pori.fi Pori (; sv, Björneborg ) is a city and municipality on the west coast of Finland. The city is located some from the Gulf of Bothnia, on the estuary of the Kokemäki River, west of Tampere, north of Turku and north-w ...

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. It plays in the Finnish third tier

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. It was invented in 1934. FC Jazz has won two Finnish championships ( 1993 & 1996 ).

History

PPT 1934–1991

FC Jazz was established in 1934 as Porin Pallo-Toverit (PPT for short) by 18 young men who had previously played football in the local sports club Pyrintö. The founders had strong

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background and PPT immediately joined the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation (TUL). PPT had also a section for

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.''PPT 1934–1984 50th Anniversary book.'' PPT played its first years in TUL regional series and after the

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in TUL national divisions. The club made its debut in Finnish Football Association's national divisions in 1948

Suomensarja Suomensarja (sometimes also ''Suomi-sarja'') (‘Finland Series’) was the second highest level of league format association football in Finland from 1936 to 1972. Before the inauguration of the Suomensarja, there had been, in 1930–1935, special ...

which was the second tier of

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. After six more seasons in TUL series PPT joined the FA's divisions permanently in 1955 playing third or fourth tiers up to the 1980s. In 1982 PPT was promoted to 1. division and year later to the premier division Mestaruussarja.

FC Jazz

In 1992 PPT changed its name for FC Jazz. The name was inspired by Pori Jazz festival, which is one of the most popular

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festivals in

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. FC Jazz won two Finnish championship titles in

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and

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. The club was relegated to second tier in

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, but the first team was dissolved 2005 as a result of financial problems. FC Jazz youth section had been separated from the league organisation in 2002 and was known as FC Jazz-juniorit (FC Jazz Juniors). In 2006 club started in FA Satakunta district 5. division. Two years later FC Jazz-juniorit was promoted to third tier Kakkonen, which is the lowest national level in Finnish football. Since 2010 FC Jazz-juniorit has been again known as FC Jazz. In 2013 FC Jazz was promoted to Ykkönen after beating

Ekenäs IF Ekenäs Idrottsförening (abbreviated EIF or Ekenäs IF) is a sports club from Ekenäs, Raseborg in Finland. EIF was formed in 1905 and they are one of the oldest clubs in the south-west of Finland. The men's football first team currently pla ...

4–2 on aggregate in the promotion playoffs.

Name changes

*Porin Pallo-Toverit (PPT, 1934–1992) *FC Jazz (1992–2004) *FC Jazz-juniorit (FC Jazz-j, 2005–2009) *FC Jazz (2010–present)

Honours

* Finnish Championship: **Winners (2):

* Finnish Cup: **Runners-up (1): 1995 * Finnish League Cup: **Runners-up (1): 1994

Domestic competition record

European competitions

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UEFA Intertoto Cup The UEFA Intertoto Cup (from la, Inter, 'between' + german: toto, 'betting pool'),Most precisely, from (football pool); cf. often abbreviated and more known in the German-speaking world as UI Cup and originally called the International Foot ...

Current squad

*Joukkue
FC Jazz. Retrieved 3 April 2016.

Former players

All following players who have represented FC Jazz have been capped at least once by their respective national team's first squad.

References

External links

FC Jazz Official Website
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