Haka Valkeakoski

Haka Valkeakoski
Basic data
Surname	Football Club Haka
founding	1934
president	Sedu Koskinen
Website	fchaka.fi
First soccer team
Head coach	Keith Armstrong
Venue	Tehtaan kentta , Valkeakoski
Places	3,516
league	Veikkausliiga
2019	▲ 1st place, Ykkönen
home Away Alternatively

Haka Valkeakoski (officially: Football Club Haka ) is a Finnish football club from Valkeakoski . As a nine-time Finnish champion and twelve-time national cup winner, the club , which currently only plays second-class in the Ykkönen , is one of the most successful teams in the country.

history

The association was founded in 1934 as Valkeakosken Haka . 15 years later, the club rose as champions of the second division in the Mestaruussarja , the top division at the time.

When the Finnish Cup was played for the first time in 1955, the club won the first title in the club's history with a 5-1 final win over Helsingin Palloseura . The 1960s were the most successful era in the club's history. In 1960, Haka was the first club in Finnish football history to win a double from the championship and the cup, which was also the club's first championship. Two more championship titles and cup victories were won in this decade.

In 1972 the club went into the second tier, but rose again straight away. It took until 1977 for the next title: Haka won the double for the second time. In the 1980s get three cup wins, as a result of which Haka encountered Juventus Turin in the 1983/84 season after successes against Sligo Rovers and Hammarby IF in the quarter-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup . That was where Haka ended up with two 0-1 defeats. It wasn't until 1995 that they became Finnish champions again. However, the club rose in the season after in the second division. With the newly signed coach Keith Armstrong they rose again and Haka was Finnish champion three times in a row. Under Armstrong's successor Olli Huttunen , the club won the championship and twice the cup in 2004. In 2012 Haka finished twelfth and last place in the championship and again relegated to the Ykkönen .

European Cup balance sheet

season	competition	round	opponent	total	To	Back
1961/62	European Champions Cup	1 round	Standard Liege	1: 7	1: 5 (A)	0: 2 (H)
1963/64	European Champions Cup	Preliminary round	Jeunesse Esch	4: 5	4: 1 (H)	0: 4 (A)
1964/65	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	Skeid Oslo	2: 1	0: 1 (A)	2: 0 (H)
		2nd round	AC Turin	0: 6	0: 1 (H)	0: 5 (A)
1966/67	European Champions Cup	Preliminary round	RSC Anderlecht	01:12	01:10 (H)	0: 2 (A)
1970/71	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	CSKA Sofia	01:11	0: 9 (A)	1: 2 (H)
1977/78	Uefa cup	1 round	Górnik Zabrze	3: 5	3: 5 (A)	0: 0 (H)
1978/79	European Champions Cup	1 round	Dynamo Kiev	1: 4	0: 1 (H)	1: 3 (A)
1981/82	Uefa cup	1 round	IFK Gothenburg	2: 7	2: 3 (H)	0: 4 (A)
1983/84	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	Sligo Rovers	4-0	1: 0 (A)	3: 0 (H)
		2nd round	Hammarby IF	3: 2	1: 1 (A)	2: 1 a.d. (H)
		Quarter finals	Juventus Turin	0: 2	0: 1 (H)	0: 1 (A)
1986/87	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	Torpedo Moscow	3: 5	2: 2 (H)	1: 3 (A)
1989/90	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	Ferencváros Budapest	2: 6	1: 5 (H)	1: 1 (A)
1996/97	Uefa cup	Preliminary round	FC Flora Tallinn	3: 2	2: 2 (H)	1: 0 (A)
		qualification	Legia Warsaw	1: 4	0: 3 (A)	1: 1 (H)
1998/99	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	qualification	Bangor City	3-0	2: 0 (A)	1: 0 (H)
		1 round	Panionios Athens	1: 5	0: 2 (A)	1: 3 (H)
1999/2000	UEFA Champions League	1st qualifying round	HB Tórshavn	7: 1	1: 1 (A)	6: 0 (H)
		2nd qualifying round	Glasgow Rangers	1: 7	1: 4 (H)	0: 3 (A)
2000/01	UEFA Champions League	1st qualifying round	Linfield FC	( a ) 2: 2(a)	1: 0 (H)	1: 2 (A)
		2nd qualifying round	Inter Bratislava	0: 1	0: 0 (H)	0: 1 a.d. (A)
2001/02	UEFA Champions League	1st qualifying round	Valletta FC	5-0	0: 0 (A)	5: 0 (H)
		2nd qualifying round	Maccabi Haifa	3: 1	0: 1 (H)	3: 0 (A)
		3rd qualifying round	Liverpool FC	1: 9	0: 5 (H)	1: 4 (A)
2001/02	Uefa cup	1 round	1. FC Union Berlin	1: 4	1: 1 (H)	0: 3 (A)
2002	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1 round	FK Obilić	3: 2	2: 1 (A)	1: 1 (H)
		2nd round	Fulham FC	(a)1: 1 ( a )	0: 0 (A)	1: 1 (H)
2003/04	Uefa cup	qualification	Hajduk Split	(a)2: 2 ( a )	2: 1 (H)	0: 1 (A)
2004/05	Uefa cup	1st qualifying round	Etzella Ettelbruck	5: 2	2: 1 (H)	3: 1 (A)
		2nd qualifying round	Stabæk Fotball	2: 6	1: 3 (A)	1: 3 (H)
2005/06	UEFA Champions League	1st qualifying round	FC Pyunik Yerevan	3: 2	1: 0 (H)	2: 2 (A)
		2nd qualifying round	Vålerenga Oslo	1: 5	0: 1 (A)	1: 4 (H)
2006/07	Uefa cup	1st qualifying round	FC Levadia Tallinn	1: 2	0: 2 (A)	1: 0 (H)
2007/08	Uefa cup	1st qualifying round	Rhyl FC	( a ) 3: 3(a)	1: 3 (A)	2: 0 (H)
		2nd qualifying round	FC Midtjylland	3: 7	1: 2 (H)	2: 5 (A)
2008/09	Uefa cup	1st qualifying round	Cork City	6: 2	2: 2 (A)	4: 0 (H)
		2nd qualifying round	Brøndby IF	0: 6	0: 4 (H)	0: 2 (A)

Legend: (H) - home game, (A) - away game, (N) - neutral place, (a) - away goal rule , (i. E.) - on penalties , (n. V.) - after extra time

Overall record: 76 games, 20 wins, 15 draws, 41 defeats, 85: 149 goals (goal difference −64)

successes

• Finnish football champions : 1960, 1962, 1965, 1977, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004
• Finnish cup winners : 1955, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1969, 1977, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1997, 2002, 2005
• Finnish league cup winner : 1995

player

Juhani Peltonen (1954–1964, 1967–1971) Matti Paatelainen (197?) Martti Kuusela (1973–1974) Olli Huttunen (1978–1995) Mixu Paatelainen (1985-1987) Mika Nurmela (1991–1992)

Valeri Popovitch (1994-2008) Teemu Tainio (1996-1997) Marlon Harewood (1998) Lutz Pfannenstiel (1998) Jari Niemi (1998–1999) Toni Lehtinen (2003-2008, 2010)

Trainer

• Olli Huttunen (1997-2002) assistant trainer, (2002-2009) trainer,

Web links

• Official website of the association