Tampereen Pallo-Veikot (TPV) is a

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club, based in

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. The club plays in the

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, the third highest level of football in Finland. It is the second largest football club in the

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region in terms of active members, with 1,600 members in 2005.

History

The club was founded in 1930 as a general sports club for

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. In the past there were also

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and

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sections, but nowadays TPV is purely a football club. In the 1960s TPV played three seasons at the highest level of Finnish ice hockey. Before the 1950s the clubs of

Finnish Workers' Sports Federation The Finnish Workers' Sports Federation ( fi, Suomen Työväen Urheiluliitto, ''TUL'', sv, Arbetarnas Idrottsförbund i Finland, ''AIF'') is a Finnish amateur sports organization founded in 1919. In addition to the competitive sports, TUL focuses o ...

played in their own leagues that were not connected to the

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. Tampereen Pallo-Veikot won the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation championship six times. TPV later joined the Finnish FA and competed at the highest level in the top tier of the

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for five seasons in 1971, 1993–1995 and 1999. The most successful year was in 1994 when the club won the Finnish Championship, but the next season they were relegated to the

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. In July 1998 there were plans to merge TPV and the other local Tampere club

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but TPV decided to continue as its own team and

reformed as

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nicknamed

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. In 1999 the club regained its

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status, but this only lasted for one season. In 2002 TPV had to abandon its place in the second tier

most likely due to financial issues. They were promoted back to

in 2006 and stayed for four seasons before being relegated to the 3rd tier

again. Finally in 2018 TPV defeated MyPa in the

Promotion Playoffs to be promoted back to the 2nd tier

Honours

* Champions:

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European record

Season to season

Current squad 2019

References

External links

Official website
{{Finnish Champions in Football Football clubs in Finland Sport in Tampere 1930 establishments in Finland