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HIFK Fotboll Players
HIFK, the Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna, Helsingfors (IFK, Helsingfors) rf (officially abbreviated IFK Helsingfors, colloquially often Helsingfors IFK or Helsingin IFK ) is a multi-sport association based in Helsinki, Finland. Formed in 1897 on the initiative of Georges Doubitsky and fellow students of the Svenska Reallyceum, the Swedish lyceum in Helsinki, it is the oldest continuously-operating Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna (IFK) organization in Finland. HIFK has sections in many sports, including athletics, bandy, bowling, football, ice hockey, and handball. Bandy HIFK Bandy ry oversees the men's and women's representative teams, junior teams and bandy school, and recreational bandy programs. Kauko Rautiainen is chairman of HIFK Bandy ry. The men's bandy section of HIFK was created in 1907 and the representative team has won the Finnish Championship seventeen times, more than any other club, and the Finnish Cup twice. The team plays in the Bandyliiga and their home aren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kruununhaka
Kruununhaka (; ) is a neighbourhood of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Kruununhaka became the area next to the harbour and the center, when Helsinki was moved from the earlier location in the mid-1660s. From the very beginning, the residents included city and state officials. Many buildings of the University of Helsinki are also situated in Kruununhaka. The area has become known for its vintage shops. Notable people * Kirka Babitzin, singer * Harri Holkeri, politician *Magnus Lindberg, composer *Johannes Virolainen Johannes Virolainen (; 31 January 1914 – 11 December 2000) was a Finnish politician and who served as 30th Prime Minister of Finland. Virolainen was born near Viipuri. After the Continuation War Virolainen moved to Lohja, but he remained one ..., politician * Bror-Erik Wallenius, sports commentator * Valtteri Bottas, racing driver Gallery Image:Helsinki Cathedral in July 2004.jpg, Helsinki Cathedral Image:Presidentinlinna.jpg, Presidential Palace Image ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna
Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna (English: Sporting Society Comrades), usually abbreviated IFK, is a central organisation for many sports clubs in Sweden. There are also eight IFK clubs in Finland but they are organised separately. The Swedish IFK was founded 1 February 1895 and has 164 member clubs with around 100,000 members as of 2004. The best known IFK club in football is probably the one in Gothenburg, IFK Göteborg, which won the UEFA Cup twice in the 1980s. In ice hockey, the most successful IFK club is IFK Helsingfors from Helsinki, which have won the Finnish championship seven times. History IFK was founded in Stockholm by two young students (Louis Zettersten and Pehr Ehnemark) that wanted to create a sports association, consisting of a main club in Stockholm with smaller clubs in other parts of the country. This was in a time when no nationwide sports organization or other larger associations existed. An advertisement in the youth paper ''Kamraten'' (The Comrade) that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HIFK (women’s Ice Hockey)
HIFK Naiset, also known by the nickname Stadin Gimmat ('Girls of ,' a nickname for Helsinki), are an ice hockey team in the Naisten Liiga. They play in the Pirkkola district of Helsinki, at the Pirkkola Ice Hall (). As the representative women's ice hockey team of the Helsinki-based multi-sport club HIFK, the team is closely affiliated with the HIFK men's ice hockey team of the Liiga. One of the ten founding teams from the inaugural 1982–83 Naisten SM-sarja season, the original HIFK Naiset was financially relegated in 1989 and the club chose not to pursue women’s ice hockey for the following several decades. The current team was established in 2018 and gained promotion to the Naisten Liiga from the second-tier Naisten Mestis at the end of their debut season in 2018–19. History Original team, 1982–1989 HIFK Naiset was one of the original ten teams to play in the inaugural season, 1982–83, of the (renamed Naisten Liiga in 2017). The team struggled early on, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liiga
The SM-liiga (marketed as just Liiga from 2013 on), (Finnish for ''League'') colloquially called the Finnish Elite League in English or FM-ligan in Swedish, is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. It is one of the six founding leagues of the Champions Hockey League and currently allocated five spots - the maximum number - based on success in previous editions. It was created in 1975 to replace the SM-sarja, which was fundamentally an amateur league. The SM-liiga is not directly overseen by the Finnish Ice Hockey Association, but the league and association have an agreement of cooperation. SM is a common abbreviation for ''Suomen mestaruus'', "Finnish championship". The SM-liiga formerly had a system of automatic promotion and relegation in place between itself and the Mestis, the second highest level of competition in Finland, but the automatic system was ended in 2000. The league was opened in 2005 and allowed KalPa to get a promotion. In 2009, a new system ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HIFK (ice Hockey)
HIFK (a traditional abbreviation of the Swedish name Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna, Helsingfors, English: "Sporting Society Fellows, Helsinki") is a professional ice hockey team based in Helsinki, Finland that plays in the Liiga, the sport's top-level league in Finland. The team plays at Helsinki Ice Hall. History The club was founded in 1897 and started participating in ice hockey in 1929. Since then, HIFK has won the Finnish national championship seven times (1969, 1970, 1974, 1980, 1983, 1998, and 2011). HIFK has the highest number of audience in the Liiga and is one of the wealthiest sports clubs in Finland. The derbies against local rivals Jokerit were often sold out and were in the later years among the fiercest in Nordic ice hockey, but are no longer played following Jokerit's withdrawal from Liiga after the 2013–14 season to join the Russian-based Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Following a history of even series of games, HIFK won the game total with 106–105 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aktiebolag
''Aktiebolag'' (, " stock company") is the Swedish term for "limited company" or "corporation". When used in company names, it is abbreviated AB (in Sweden), Ab (in Finland), or, rarely, A/B (dated), roughly equivalent to the abbreviations '' Ltd.'' and '' PLC''. The state authority responsible for registration of aktiebolag in Sweden is called the Swedish Companies Registration Office. Sweden All ''aktiebolag'' are divided into two categories: private limited companies and public limited companies. The name of a private limited company may not contain the word ''publikt'' ("public") and the name of a public limited company may not contain the word ''privat'' or ''pvt.'' ("private"). Public A public limited company (''publikt aktiebolag'') is legally denoted as "AB (publ.)" in Sweden or "Abp" in Finland. A Swedish public limited company must have a minimum share capital of 500,000 Swedish kronor and its shares can be offered to the general public on the stock market. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osakeyhtiö
''Osakeyhtiö'' (; " stock company"), often abbreviated to Oy (), is the term for a Finnish limited company (e.g., Ltd, LLC, or GmbH). The Swedish-language term is '' aktiebolag'', often abbreviated (in Finland) to Ab. The Swedish abbreviation is sometimes included, as in ''Ab Company Oy'', ''Oy Company Ab'', or ''Company Oy Ab''. The abbreviations have been styled in many ways, such as ''Oy'', ''OY'', ''O.Y.'', or even ''O/Y''. The English form is ''Ltd.'' ''Julkinen osakeyhtiö'' ''Julkinen osakeyhtiö'' (pl. ''julkiset osakeyhtiöt'') means "public stock company" and is abbreviated to oyj (). A ''julkinen osakeyhtiö'' can be listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange. The term's Swedish equivalent is ''Abp'' (''publikt aktiebolag''). An oyj may be called a public limited company or public company in English and may use the abbreviation PLC or the term corporation in the company's English name, for example Remedy Entertainment Plc, Kone Corporation and Nokia Corporation. Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Finnish Women Bandy Champions
List of Finnish women bandy champions. The first women's championships in bandy were only played in 1979. No women's championships were played 1993–2005. Winners through the years * 1979 Veitsiluodon Vastus * 1980 Veitsiluodon Vastus * 1981 Lauttasaaren Pyrintö * 1982 Oulun Luistinseura * 1983 Oulun Luistinseura * 1984 Lauttasaaren Pyrintö * 1985 Jyväskylän Seudun Palloseura * 1986 IFK Helsingfors * 1987 IFK Helsingfors * 1988 Oulun Luistinseura * 1989 Jyväskylän Seudun Palloseura * 1990 Jyväskylän Seudun Palloseura * 1991 Jyväskylän Seudun Palloseura * 1992 Jyväskylän Seudun Palloseura * 1993–2005 ''no women's championships'' * 2006 Botnia-69, Helsinki * 2007 Botnia-69, Helsinki * 2008 Botnia-69, Helsinki * 2009 Botnia-69, Helsinki * 2010 Tornion Palloveikot * 2011 IFK Helsingfors, Helsinki * 2012 Veiterä, Lappeenranta * 2013 Veitsiluodon Vastus * 2014 Sudet, Kouvola * 2015 Sudet, Kouvola * 2016 Sudet, Kouvola * 2017 Sudet, Kouvola * 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alppiharju
Alppiharju ( sv, Åshöjden) is a district of approximately 12,000 inhabitants in the eastern part of the Central major district of Helsinki, Finland. It consists of sub-districts Alppila and Harju, and is bordered by Kallio in the south, Taka-Töölö in the west, Pasila in the north-west and north, and Vallila in the north-east and east. Statistics When comparing the districts of Helsinki, Alppiharju has on average the smallest apartments (average of 38 m2, or 409 square feet), the highest population density (approximately 13,200 inhabitants per km2, or 34,150 per square mile) and smallest households (on average 1.36 persons per household). Because of small-sized apartments, there are few families with children in Alppiharju (4% of the inhabitants of the district are under 16). At the end of the year 2012, there were 3,140 people employed in various workplaces within the Alppiharju district. Buildings and attractions The residential buildings of Alppiharju have mainly bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brahenkenttä
Brahe Field ( fi, Brahenkenttä; sv, Braheplan), is a sports ground in Helsinki, Finland. It is the home field for the Helsinki Wolverines American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ... team and the HIFK bandy club. References {{coord, 60.1875, N, 24.9492, E, source:wikidata, display=title Bandy venues in Finland Sports venues in Helsinki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. Bandyliiga is organized by the Finnish Bandy Association () and the current chairman is Mika Mutikainen. The 2021–22 Bandyliiga season marked the 112th season in which the Finnish Championship was contested and comprised nine teams. Veiterä are the reigning Finnish Champions, having won the 2022 Bandyliiga playoffs. History The competitive side of men's bandy in Finland was organized in 1907 and the first Finnish Championship series was played in the winter of 1908. The very first title was won by Polyteknikkojen Urheiluseura, who beat IFK Helsingfors in the final match with a score of 8–3. The championship was decided as a cup competition until 1931. The league was played as single round-robin tournament with various numbers of divisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Cup (bandy)
The Finnish Cup (''Suomen Cup'', or ''Finska cupen'') in bandy was played for the first time in 1960 and has been played on and off since then. The competition has now been held annually since 2014. It is arranged by Finland's Bandy Association. Finals References National bandy cups Bandy in Finland Bandy competitions in Finland {{Bandy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
