Tampereen Pallo-Veikot

Football club infobox
clubname = TPV


fullname = Tampereen Pallo-Veikot
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founded = 1930
ground = Tammela Stadion, Tampere
capacity = 5 000 | chairman = Matti Asseri Nyberg
manager = Mikko Purola
league = Ykkönen
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Tampereen Pallo-Veikot or TPV is a Finnish football club, playing in the city of Tampere. It is playing in Ykkönen, the second highest level of football in Finland.

Tampereen Pallo-Veikot is the second largest football club in the Pirkanmaa region in the terms of active members (1600 members in 2005).

History

The club was founded in 1930 as as general sports club for workers. In the past there were also bandy, boxing and ice hockey sections, but nowadays TPV is a pure football club. In the 1960s TPV played three seasons on the highest level of Finnish ice hockey.

Before the 1950s the clubs of Finnish Workers' Sports Federation played their own leagues that had not connections to Football Association of Finland. Tampereen Pallo-Veikot won the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation championship six times. On the highest level of the leagues of Finnish FA for five years: 1971, 1993-1995, 1999. The most successful year was 1994 when it won the Finnish Championship, but the next season it was relegated to Ykkönen. In 1999 the club regained its Veikkausliiga status, but it only lasted for one season.

In July 1998 there were plans to join TPV and other local club FC Ilves as a fusion team. Both of the teams continued as their own teams (Ilves in lower divisions), but the new club Tampere United inherited its place in the Finnish first division Ykkönen and soon was promoted to Veikkausliiga.

Current squad

Squad 2007

External links

* [http://www.tpv.fi/ Official website]