Turun Pallokerho (or TPK) is an

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

club from

Turku Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper (''Varsinais-Suomi'') and the former Turku and Pori Province (''Turun ja Porin lääni''; ...

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 ...

currently playing in the Finnish fourth tier

Kolmonen Kolmonen or III divisioona is the fourth level in the league system of Finnish football and comprises 104 Finnish football teams. The III divisioona was introduced in 1973 and in the mid-1990s became known as the Kolmonen (''Number Three'' in En ...

. TPK has played two seasons in the Finnish premier division Mestaruussarja in 1951 and 1952, finishing third in

1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United ...

. TPK is the first youth club of the

Finland national football team The Finland national football team ( fi, Suomen jalkapallomaajoukkue, sv, Finlands fotbollslandslag) represents Finland in men's international football competitions and is controlled by the Football Association of Finland, the governing body ...

goalkeeper

Lukáš Hrádecký Lukáš Hrádecký (; born 24 November 1989) is a Finnish association football, footballer who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Bundesliga club Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Bayer Leverkusen and the Finland national football te ...

Season to Season

*2 seasons in '' Mestaruussarja'' *10 seasons in ''

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 ...

'' *21 seasons in ''

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' ...

'' *22 seasons in ''

'' *13 seasons in '' Nelonen'' *2 seasons in ''V Divisioona''

References

Football clubs in Finland Association football clubs established in 1935 Sport in Turku 1935 establishments in Finland {{Finland-footyclub-stub