Kuopion PS

Kuopion PS
Basic data
Surname	Kuopion Palloseura ry
Football department	Kuopion Palloseura Oy
Seat	Kuopio , Finland
founding	1923
Colours	black yellow
president	Ari Lahti
Website	kups.fi
First soccer team
Head coach	Jani Honkavaara
Venue	Magnum Areena
Places	4,700
league	Veikkausliiga
2019	master
home Away

The Kuopion Palloseura ry ( German  Kuopioer Ballverein or Ballverein Kuopio ; "ry" is comparable to the German eV ), Kuopion PS for short or just KuPS , is a football club from the Finnish city ​​of Kuopio .

history

In 1923 the association was founded under the name Kuopion Palloseura. In 1949 the club played for the first time in the Mestaruussarja . Only in 1994 was the first descent in the Veikkausliiga to follow. In 1950 they became runner- up behind the Ilves-Kissat Tampere . In 1954 you had to be content with second place behind Pyrkivä Turku . But in 1956 KuPS was able to celebrate its first championship. After an outstanding season, KuPS had six points ahead of the HJK Helsinki . In 1958 , Kuopio won his second championship and would have encountered Eintracht Frankfurt in the 1959/60 European Cup , but KuPS withdrew his registration so that Frankfurt qualified for the round of 16 without a fight and later made it to the final.

In 1961 , KuPS almost went down. One point separated the two-time Finnish champions from relegation position ten at the end of the season.

In 1966 KuPS became Finnish football champions for the third time in its club history, and further successful years followed, in which the cup victory in 1969 and further championships in 1974 and 1976 were celebrated.

In 1979 they reached the second round of a European club competition for the first time as the Finnish runner-up in the UEFA Cup against B 1903 Copenhagen , but were eliminated there against Esbjerg fB .

In the 1980s, KuPS placed in Mestaruussarja always on the ranks 6 to 10. In 1988 they narrowly escaped relegation.

1989 Kuopio stood after a 5-2 derby win at Koparit Kuopio and a 3-2 in Helsinki at the HJK in the semifinals of the Suomen Cup . Here Kuopio defeated FC Reipas Lahti 4-0 and moved into the final. KuPS finally won 3-2 against cup defender FC Haka .

The first descent from Mestaruussarja, now renamed Veikkausliiga , took place in 1994. After six years of abstinence, KuPS celebrated a successful comeback in the top division in the 2001 season with rank 8. Two more relegations to the second-class Ykkönen followed in 2003 and 2006, but in each case succeeded in the direct return to the Veikkausliiga in the following year. In the 2008 season, the team finished penultimate and secured relegation only in the relegation against FC Viikingit . After a 12th place in 2009, KuPS became Finnish runner-up in the 2010 season. In the UEFA Europa League 2012/13 , the club survived two rounds for the first time and was only eliminated against Bursaspor .

Squad 2019

As of April 4, 2019

No. position Surname 1 TW Otso Virtanen 2 FROM Kalle Taimi 3 MF Reuben Ayarna 4th FROM Tony Miettinen 6th ST Saku Savolainen 7th ST Rasmus Karjalainen 8th MF Petteri Pennanen 9 ST Lucas Rangel 10 ST Ats Purje 11 MF Ilmari Niskanen 12 TW Aleski Honka-Hallila 13 FROM Luis Carlos Murillo 14th ST Eetu Pellikka 15th FROM Babacar Diallo 16 TW Miika Töyras 17th FROM Tabi manga

No. position Surname 18th FROM Juho Pirttijoki 19th ST Cem Felek 20th MF Ville Saxman 21st FROM Nuutti Tykkyläinen 22nd ST Arttu Heinonen 23 MF Issa Thiaw 24 MF Jere Hiltunen 25th MF Tommi Jyry 26th MF Joona Hiltunen 28 FROM Jiri Nissinen 29 FROM Mikko Pitkänen 30th FROM Joel Vartiainen 31 TW Hemmo Riihimäki 32 ST Eetu Rissanen 33 FROM Vinko Soldo

European Cup balance sheet

season	competition	round	opponent	total	To	Back
1960/61	European Champions Cup	Preliminary round	Eintracht Frankfurt	1
1967/68	European Champions Cup	1 round	AS Saint-Etienne	0: 5	0: 2 (A)	0: 3 (H)
1969/70	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	Académica Coimbra	0: 1	0: 0 (A)	0: 1 (H)
1975/76	European Champions Cup	1 round	Ruch Chorzów	2: 7	0: 5 (A)	2: 2 (H)
1976/77	Uefa cup	1 round	Östers IF	3: 4	3: 2 (H)	0: 2 (A)
1977/78	European Champions Cup	1 round	Club Bruges	2: 9	0: 4 (H)	2: 5 (A)
1978/79	Uefa cup	1 round	B 1903 Copenhagen	6: 5	2: 1 (H)	4: 4 (A)
		2nd round	Esbjerg fB	1: 6	0: 2 (H)	1: 4 (A)
1980/81	Uefa cup	1 round	AS Saint-Etienne	00:14	0: 7 (H)	0: 7 (A)
1990/91	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	Dynamo Kiev	2: 6	2: 2 (H)	0: 4 (A)
2011/12	UEFA Europa League	2nd qualifying round	Gaz Metan Mediaș	1: 2	1: 0 (H)	0: 2 (A)
2012/13	UEFA Europa League	1st qualifying round	AFC Llanelli	3: 2	2: 1 (H)	1: 1 (A)
		2nd qualifying round	Maccabi Netanya	( a ) 2: 2(a)	2: 1 (A)	0: 1 (H)
		3rd qualifying round	Bursaspor	1: 6	1: 0 (H)	0: 6 (A)
2018/19	UEFA Europa League	1st qualifying round	FC Copenhagen	1: 2	0: 1 (H)	1: 1 (A)
2019/20	UEFA Europa League	1st qualifying round	FK Vitebsk	3: 1	2: 0 (H)	1: 1 (A)
		2nd qualifying round	Legia Warsaw	0: 1	0: 1 (A)	0: 0 (H)
2020/21	UEFA Champions League	1st qualifying round	Molde FK	0: 5	0: 5 (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 : 33 games, 7 wins, 8 draws, 18 defeats, 27:78 goals (goal difference −51)

¹ KuPS Kuopio withdrew its participation.

successes

• Finnish championship

Masters (6 ×): 1956 , 1958 , 1966 , 1974 , 1976 , 2019

Runner-up (10 ×): 1950 , 1954 , 1964 , 1967 , 1969 , 1975 , 1977 , 1979 , 2010 , 2017

• Finnish soccer cup

Cup winners (2 ×): 1968, 1989

Finalist (3 ×): 2011, 2012, 2013

• Finnish League Cup

League cup winners (1 ×): 2006

player

Valery Broochin Marcus Gayle Jani Hartikainen Ville Iiskola Pele Koljonen Kari Laukkanen Jussi Markkanen Marco Pogioli Mart Poom

Janne Reinikainen Oliver Risser Wojciech Rudy Aulis Rytkönen Berat Sadik Jussi-Pekka Savolainen Kari Ukkonen Dieter Wendling Harri Ylönen

Web links

• official homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ KuPS miehet edustusjoukkue 2019. In: kups.fi. Kuopion PS, accessed May 4, 2019 (Finnish).