Seinäjoen JK

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Seinäjoen JK
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Basic data
Surname Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho
Seat Seinäjoki , Finland
founding 2007
Colours black and white
president Raimo Sarajärvi
Website sjk.fi
First soccer team
Head coach Alexei Eremenko
Venue OmaSP stadium
Places 6,000
league Veikkausliiga
2019 9th place
home
Away

The Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho ( German  Seinäjokischer Fußballklub or Fußballklub Seinäjoki ) - Seinäjoen JK for short or just SJK , also known as SJK Seinäjoki and also incorrectly referred to as SJK Seinäjoen - is a football club from the town of Seinäjoki in western Finland that was founded in 2007 . In 2013 he was promoted to the first-class Veikkausliiga and became Finnish champion in 2015.

history

Seinäjoen JK was formed in 2007 from the merger of the first teams of TP-Seinäjoki - a club that played in Veikkausliiga for a year in 1997 - with Jalkapalloseura Sepsi-78 . From 2008 the new team took over the starting place from TP-Seinäjoki in the third-class Kakkonen. In 2011 SJK won the season C of the Kakkonen with a 21 point lead and without defeat. In the subsequent relegation to the Ykkönen, he prevailed against Tampereen Ilves and the Bollklubben-46 , with which the promotion to the second division succeeded. Seinäjoki finished second in the first second division season. A year later he won the title in the Ykkönen and was promoted to the Veikkausliiga . There he immediately came 2nd and qualified for the Europa League 2015/16 . In the 2015 season one then Finnish champion and qualified for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League .

Squad 2019

As of April 4, 2019

No. position Surname
1 FinlandFinland TW Jesse Ost
2 FinlandFinland FROM Joel Mero
5 FinlandFinland FROM Dani Hatakka
6th GhanaGhana MF Jew Arthur
7th FinlandFinland MF Moshtagh Yaghoubi
8th FinlandFinland MF Sergei Eremenko
9 BrazilBrazil ST Batista
10 EnglandEngland ST Billy Ions
11 UkraineUkraine ST Denys Olijnyk
14th FinlandFinland MF Maximo Tolonen
15th EstoniaEstonia FROM Trevor Elhi
16 FinlandFinland FROM Joonas Sundman
No. position Surname
17th FinlandFinland FROM Ville Tikkanen
18th FinlandFinland FROM Jarkko Hurme
19th FinlandFinland MF Obed Malolo
23 Ivory CoastIvory Coast FROM Didier Kadio
25th FinlandFinland ST Daniel Håkans
26th FinlandFinland ST Jesse Sarajärvi
28 FinlandFinland ST Serge Atakayi
29 FinlandFinland ST Jeremiah Strictly
30th BrazilBrazil FROM Nadson
33 EstoniaEstonia TW Mihkel Aksalu
58 FinlandFinland MF Mehmet Hetemaj
77 United StatesUnited States ST Dion Acoff

successes

Master (1 ×): 2015
Runner-up (1 ×): 2014
Master (1 ×): 2013
Runner-up (1 ×): 2012
Master (1 ×): 2011
Cup winners (1 ×): 2016
Finalist (1 ×): 2017
League cup winners (1 ×): 2014
Finalist (1 ×): 2016

Season overview

season class league placement comment Nat. Cup Int. Cup
2008 III. Kakkonen, Group C 08th place / 14th 5th round
2009 III. Kakkonen, Group C 05th place / 14th
2010 III. Kakkonen, Group C 05th place / 14th 5th round
2011 III. Kakkonen, Group C 01st place / 14th Participation in the promotion round, promotion Round of 16
2012 II. Ykkönen 02nd place / 10 5th round
2013 II. Ykkönen 01st place / 10th Ascent 3rd round
2014 I. Veikkausliiga 02nd place / 12 League cup victory and runner-up Quarter finals
2015 I. Veikkausliiga 01st place / 12 Finnish champion 5th round

European Cup balance sheet

season competition round opponent total To Back
2015/16 UEFA Europa League 1st qualifying round IcelandIceland FH Hafnarfjörður 0: 2 0: 1 (H) 0: 1 (A)
2016/17 UEFA Champions League 2nd qualifying round BelarusBelarus BATE Baryssau 2: 4 0: 2 (A) 2: 2 (H)
2017/18 UEFA Europa League 1st qualifying round IcelandIceland KR Reykjavík 0: 2 0: 0 (A) 0: 2 (H)
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: 6 games, 2 draws, 4 defeats, 2: 8 goals (goal difference −6)

Stages

The team plays their home games in summer on the Seinäjoen Keskuskenttä (central sports ground), a sports facility built in 1950 and renovated in 1975 near the city center owned by the city of Seinäjoki. The grandstands offer space for 2800 spectators, 800 seats are covered.

During the 2016 season , the club moved to the newly built OmaSP stadium , which can seat 6,000 spectators.

  • Seinäjoen Keskuskenttä

  • The OmaSP Stadium (2018)

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ The very common name "SJK Seinäjoki", strictly speaking, gives the place name twice. The same is the case with HJK Helsinki .
  2. ↑ The term "SJK Seinäjoen" can be found in an article from Die Zeit , Focus and Eurosport . The "S" in "SJK" stands for "Seinäjoen", the genitive form of the place name "Seinäjoki". The name given there would be written out as "Seinäjokis football club".
  3. ↑ SJK - Joukkueet. In: sjk.fi. SJK Seinäjoki, accessed May 4, 2019 (Finnish).
  4. ↑ sjk.fi: OmaSp Stadion , accessed on October 17, 2018. (Finnish)