Turku PS

Turku PS
	Turku PS
Basic data
Surname	Turun Palloseura
Seat	Turku , Finland
founding	1922
Colours	black-and-white
president	Marco Casagrande
Website	tps.fi
First soccer team
Head coach	Mika Laurikainen
Venue	Veritas stadium
Places	9,372
league	Veikkausliiga / Ykkönen
2019	2nd place, Ykkönen
home	Away

Turku PS (officially: Turun Palloseura (Finnish for Turkuer Ballgesellschaft ) or TPS for short ) is a Finnish football club from the coastal city of Turku ( Åbo in Swedish ). It was founded in 1922 . The club colors are black and white. The club plays in the 9,372-seat Veritas Stadium (Kupittaa) , where city rivals Inter Turku also play.

history

Shortly after it was founded, TPS replaced Åbo IFK as the number 1 in the city and became Finnish champions for the first time in 1928. In the years 1939, 1941 and 1949 the championship title could also be achieved. A dry spell followed in the 1950s and the move to the second division for five years. After rising again, TPS won the title in 1968, 1971, 1972 and 1975. The club celebrated their first cup victory in 1991. The Finnish Cup was also won in 1994. At the end of the 2014 season, the TPS was relegated to the Ykkönen . After being promoted and relegated again in the meantime, TPS failed in two relegation games in 2016 for promotion to the top Finnish league, the Veikkausliiga , to Inter Turku (0-0, 0-2).

With the participation in the European Cup of National Champions in 1969 Turku appeared on the international stage for the first time. The biggest international success was a 1-0 win at Inter Milan in the second round of the 1987/88 UEFA Cup . You dropped out anyway.

European Cup balance sheet

season	competition	round	opponent	total	To	Back
1969/70	European Champions Cup	1 round	Denmark Kjøbenhavns Boldklub	0: 5	0: 1 (H)	0: 4 (A)
1972/73	European Champions Cup	1 round	Germany Democratic Republic 1949 1. FC Magdeburg	1: 9	0: 6 (A)	1: 3 (H)
1973/74	European Champions Cup	1 round	Scotland Celtic Glasgow	1: 9	1: 6 (H)	0: 3 (A)
1976/77	European Champions Cup	1 round	Malta Sliema Wanderers	2: 2	1: 2 (A)	1: 0 (H)
1976/77	European Champions Cup	2nd round	Switzerland FC Zurich	0: 3	0: 2 (A)	0: 1 (H)
1985/86	Uefa cup	1 round	Soviet Union Spartak Moscow	1: 4	0: 1 (A)	1: 3 (H)
1987/88	Uefa cup	1 round	Austria FC Admira / Wacker	2: 1	0: 1 (H)	2: 0 (A)
1987/88	Uefa cup	2nd round	Italy Inter Milan	1: 2	1: 0 (A)	0: 2 (H)
1988/89	Uefa cup	1 round	Northern Ireland Linfield FC	( a ) 1: 1(a)	0: 0 (H)	1: 1 (A)
		2nd round	Austria First Vienna FC	( a ) 2: 2(a)	1: 2 (A)	1: 0 (H)
		3rd round	Romania 1965 AS Victoria Bucharest	(a)3: 3 ( a )	0: 1 (A)	3: 2 (H)
1990/91	Uefa cup	1 round	Poland 1990 GKS Katowice	0: 4	0: 3 (A)	0: 1 (H)
1992/93	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	Turkey Trabzonspor	2: 4	0: 2 (A)	2: 2 (H)
1995/96	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Preliminary round	Albania KS Teuta Durrës	1: 3	1: 0 (H)	0: 3 (A)
1997	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Group stage	Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992 FK Hajduk Kula	1: 2	1: 2 (H)
			Norway Kongsvinger IL	2-0	2: 0 (A)
			Belgium SK Lommel	1: 1	1: 1 (H)
			Sweden Halmstads BK	1: 6	1: 6 (A)
1998	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1 round	Switzerland FC Sion	( a ) 3: 3(a)	0: 1 (H)	3: 2 (A)
1998	UEFA Intertoto Cup	2nd round	Russia Shinnik Yaroslavl	2: 5	0: 2 (H)	2: 3 (A)
2008	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1 round	Northern Ireland Lisburn Distillery	6: 3	3: 2 (A)	3: 1 (H)
2008	UEFA Intertoto Cup	2nd round	Denmark Odense BK	1: 4	1: 2 (H)	0: 2 (A)
2010/11	UEFA Europa League	1st qualifying round	Wales Port Talbot Town	7: 1	3: 1 (H)	4: 0 (A)
2010/11	UEFA Europa League	2nd qualifying round	Belgium Cercle Bruges	(a)2: 2 ( a )	1: 0 (A)	1: 2 (H)
2011/12	UEFA Europa League	2nd qualifying round	Belgium KVC Westerlo	0: 1	0: 1 (H)	0: 0 (A)
2013/14	UEFA Europa League	2nd qualifying round	Luxembourg Jeunesse Esch	2: 3	0: 2 (A)	2: 1 (H)