Lapuan Virkiä

Lapuan Virkiä
Full name Lapuan Virkiä
Nickname(s) Virkiä
Founded 1907
Ground Lapuan keskuskenttä, Lapua, Finland
Chairman Finland Seppo Saranpää
Coach Finland Topias Tervasmäki
League Kolmonen
Lapuan keskuskenttä

Lapuan Virkiä (abbreviated Virkiä) is a sports club from Lapua, Finland. The club was formed in 1907 and currently operates 11 divisions namely skiing, football, ice hockey, volleyball, wrestling, basketball, slalom, orienteering, swimming, fitness and athletics. Another sport that the club excels at is pesäpallo. The men's football first team currently plays in the Kolmonen (Third Division). Their home ground is at the Lapuan keskuskenttä.

Background

Virkiä was established in 1907 and most of the time have played in the lower levels of Finnish football. Their key achievement has been one season in the Suomensarja (Finland League), the second tier of Finnish football in 1964. They also have had five spells covering 14 seasons in the third tier, the Kakkonen (Second Division), in 1981–88, 1997, 2000, 2004–06 and 2009.[1] In this respect the club have enjoyed their greatest success over the last decade as they have spent 5 seasons in the Kakkonen (Second Division).

Season to season

Season Level Division Section Administration Position Movements
2003 Tier 4 Kolmonen (Third Division) Section 10 Vaasa District (SPL Vaasa) 1st Upper Section -1st – Promoted
2004 Tier 3 Kakkonen (Second Division) East Group Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) 8th
2005 Tier 3 Kakkonen (Second Division) West Group Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) 10th Relegation Play-Offs
2006 Tier 3 Kakkonen (Second Division) Group C Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) 14th Relegated
2007 Tier 4 Kolmonen (Third Division) Vaasa District (SPL Vaasa) 7th
2008 Tier 4 Kolmonen (Third Division) Central Ostrobothnia and Vaasa (SPL Vaasa) Kesä 3rd Syksy 1st – Play-Offs – Promoted
2009 Tier 3 Kakkonen (Second Division) Group C Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) 14th Relegated
2010 Tier 4 Kolmonen (Third Division) Central Ostrobothnia and Vaasa (SPL Vaasa)

Club structure

Lapuan Virkiä run a large number of teams including 2 men's teams, 1 ladies team, 7 boys teams and 6 girls teams.

2010 season

Virkiä Men's Team are competing in the Kolmonen (Third Division) section administered by the Vaasa SPL. This is the fourth highest tier in the Finnish football system. In 2009 Virkiä finished in last place in Group C of the Kakkonen (Second Division) and were relegated.

Virkiä /2 are participating in Section 3 of the Kutonen (Sixth Division) administered by the Vaasa SPL.

Players in 2010

  • Finland 1. Toni Raiski
  • Finland 2. Tuomo Känsäkoski
  • Finland 3. Mikko Ahonen
  • Finland 4. Teemu Vilppola
  • Finland 5. Ville Luomala
  • Finland 6. Jarkko Takaluoma
  • Finland 7. Topias Tervasmäki
  • Finland 8. Tuomas Linjamäki
  • Finland 9. Ilpo Tuulari
  • Finland 10. Jussi Laapio
  • Finland 11. Lauri Jääskeläinen
  • Finland 12. Raine Kattelus
  
  • Finland 13. Kimmo Känsäkoski
  • Finland 14. Teemu Lehto
  • Finland 15. Janne Niemi
  • Finland 16. Henri Hovila
  • Finland 17. Eetu Jääskeläinen
  • Finland 19. Eemeli Vähäsöyrinki
  • Finland 21. Miika Rantasalo
  • Finland 22. Sami Ojala
  • Finland 24. Juha Karhu
  • Finland 27. Ville Suutala
  • Finland 30. Ville Talvitie
  • Finland 41. Petri Ijäs

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Finland – Divisional Movements 1930–2009". RSSSF Archives. 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
  2. ↑ "Lapuan Virkiä pelaajaluettelo 2010". Retrieved 2010-07-05.

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