Suomen Palloliitto

Suomen Palloliitto Finlands Bollförbund
founding	1907
FIFA accession	1908
UEFA accession	1954
president	vacant
Secretary General	Marco Casagrande
National teams	A national team U-21 Finland women's national team youth national teams
Clubs (approx.)	> 1,000
Members (approx.)	115,000
Homepage	Off. Homepage

Suomen Palloliitto (SPL) ( Finnish ) or Finlands Bollförbund (FBF) ( Swedish ) (about "Finland's Ballunion") is the Finnish football association.

The Football Association of Finland was founded in 1907. A year later they joined FIFA . In 1954 the Finnish association was one of the founding members of UEFA . The Finnish national soccer team has not yet qualified for any European Championship or World Cup. The greatest success so far was fourth place at the 1912 Summer Olympics . The women's national team made it to the semi-finals when they first participated in the 2005 European Championships .

The association takes care of the organization of the Veikkausliiga , the Finnish football professional league and the highest women's division SM-Sarja . Furthermore, the association organizes the games of the national teams and the junior teams. Since 1953, the association has also chosen the Footballer of the Year in Finland .

The Finnish Football Association hosted the European Women's Championship in 2009 . Previously, the U-18 European Championships in 1982 and 2001 , the U-19 European Women's Championship in 2004 and the U-17 World Cup in 2003 took place in Finland .

Until 1972, Suomen Palloliitto was also responsible for bandy sport in Finland, before Suomen Jääpalloliitto was founded as the Finnish bandy association on March 18, 1972 .

UEFA five-year ranking

Placement in the UEFA five-year ranking ( previous year's ranking in brackets ). The abbreviations CL and EL after the country coefficients indicate the number of representatives in the 2019/20 season of the Champions League and the Europa League .

• 36. ( 34 ) Albania ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 7,500 - CL: 1, EL: 3 
• 37. ( 39 ) Ireland ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 7,450 - CL: 1, EL: 3 
• 38. ( 38 ) Finland ( league , cup - coefficient: 7,275 - CL: 1, EL: 3 
• 39. ( 35 ) Iceland ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 7,250 - CL: 1, EL: 3 
• 40. ( 40 ) Bosnia and Herzegovina ( league , cup ) - coefficient: 7.125 - CL: 1, EL: 3 

Status: end of the European Cup season 2018/19

Web links

• Off. Association website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ rsssf.com: Finland - Player of the Year Awards
2. ↑ finbandy.fi: The Finnish Bandy Federation
3. ↑ UEFA rankings for club competitions. In: UEFA. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .