Seinäjoen Maila-Jussit is a professional Finnish pesäpallo team from

Seinäjoki Seinäjoki (; "Wall River"; la, Wegelia, formerly sv, Östermyra) is a city located in South Ostrobothnia, Finland; east of Vaasa, north of Tampere, west of Jyväskylä and southwest of Oulu. Seinäjoki originated around the Östermyra bru ...

. It was founded in 1932. Seinäjoen Maila-Jussit is playing in the top-tier women's

Superpesis The Superpesis, known as SM-sarja from 1955 to 1989, is the top professional pesäpallo league in Finland. It was created in 1990 to replace the SM-sarja which was fundamentally an amateur league. The Superpesis is directly overseen by the Finnis ...

. Seinäjoen Maila-Jussit has won the men's Finnish Pesäpallo Championship (

) four times in years 1975, 1983, 1985 and 1987 and the women's Championship in 1977. The home ground of Seinäjoen Maila-Jussit is the

Seinäjoki Pesäpallo Stadium Seinäjoki Pesäpallo Stadium is a pesäpallo stadium located in Seinäjoki, Finland. Since its opening in 1992, it has been the home field of the Seinäjoen Maila-Jussit, a Superpesis team. It is also home of the Seinäjoen JymyJussit Sein� ...

History

Seinäjoen Maila-Jussit was founded in 1932. The club visited the Championship league three times in the 1940s and 1950s. The club consolidated its place in the main league in 1969 and played in the top flight continuously until 2005. In 1969, the SMJ won the first medal in its history, the silver medal in the Championship league. Seinäjoki Maila-Jussit took '' Vimpelin Vetos place as the number one club in South Ostrobothnia in the 1970s. The club's golden age was particularly in the 1980s and the club remained successful until the early 2000s. Between 1974 and 1989, the club won 11 medals - four gold, four silver and three bronze. It dominated the late 70s and 80s together with '' Jyväskylän Kiri'' and ''

Hyvinkään Tahko Hyvinkään Tahko is a Finnish sports club from Hyvinkää. It was founded in 1915. Hyvinkää Tahko has participated in many sports in Finland over the years, such as athletics, skiing and orienteering. Since 1980, the club's main successes have ...

''. During the same period, the club's women's team won five medals - one championship, three silver and one bronze. SMJ also won the Finnish volleyball championship in 1986 and 1987.In the 1990s, the club won four bronze medals. The club's last medal came in 2004. A year later, the club was relegated to the Ykköspesis. The club was immediately promoted back to the main league. In 2008, however, the club relinquished its main league place and in 2012 the club's men's team merged with ''

Nurmon Jymy Nurmon Jymy is a Finnish sports club with several departments, located in Nurmo. History The club was founded in 5.5.1925. Today the most popular departments are pesäpallo, floorball, and volleyball. Other departments are cross-country skiin ...

'' to form ''

Seinäjoen JymyJussit Seinäjoen JymyJussit (Finnish for "Jymy and Jussit from Seinäjoki", sometimes referred to as Seinäjoki) is a Finnish professional pesäpallo team based in Seinäjoki and playing in the top-tier Superpesis, Finnish Superpesis. Seinäjoen JymyJu ...

''. Both clubs were left with their own junior organisations and the club's women's team continued to operate under the SMJ name.

Achievements

Men's Pesäpallo ''

'' Women's Pesäpallo ''

References

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