Warkauden Pallo -35 (WP 35) is a sports club in

Varkaus Varkaus (before year 1929 ''Warkaus'') is a Middle- Savonian industrial town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the Northern Savonia region, between city of Kuopio and town of Savonlinna. T ...

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 ...

, founded in 1935. The club is most well known for its successful men's team in

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

, which is playing in the

Bandyliiga The Bandyliiga (; 'Bandy League') is the top level of men's bandy in Finland. The league was founded in 1908 as the Jääpallon SM-sarja ('Bandy Finnish Championship Series') and the present name has been used since the 1991–92 season. Bandyl ...

, the top-tier of Finnish bandy.

Bandy titles

* Finnish champions 16 times: 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1971, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 * 7 times runner-up: 1938, 1944, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1992 * 14 times bronze: 1939, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1963, 1968, 1969, 1975, 1990, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2008 * Runner-up in the

European Cup The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competit ...

in 1993 Bandy clubs in Finland Bandy clubs established in 1935 {{bandy-team-stub