Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi

HJK

Full name	Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi
Nickname(s)	Klubi (The Club)
Founded	June 19, 1907 (1907-06-19)
Ground	Sonera Stadium, Helsinki (Capacity: 10,770)
Chairman	Olli-Pekka Lyytikäinen
Manager	Antti Muurinen
League	Veikkausliiga
2011	Veikkausliiga, 1st
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Sonera Stadium

HJK squad that won the club's first championship in 1911.

Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi (or HJK), internationally known as HJK Helsinki, is a Finnish football club, based in the capital Helsinki. HJK is the most successful Finnish football club with 24 Championship titles.

History

The club was founded as "Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi – Helsingfors Fotbollsklubb" in 1907 by Fredrik Wathen.

Generally considered Finland's biggest club, HJK is also the most successful Finnish club in terms of league championships with 22. The club has also won ten Finnish Cups and four Finnish League Cups. Many of Finland's internationally most successful players have played for HJK before moving abroad.

HJK is the only Finnish club to have played in the UEFA Champions League group stage. They did so in the 1998–1999 season, triumphing over FC Metz in the second qualifying round. The club also managed a respectable five points in their group, beating Benfica at home and earning draws at home to Kaiserslautern and away to Benfica. They lost to PSV Eindhoven twice and to Kaiserslautern away.

Their highest score in European competition came in the 2011–2012 season, with a 13–0 aggregate victory over Welsh champions Bangor City, which included a 10–0 win at home.

Formerly HJK had ice hockey, bowling, field hockey, handball, figure skating and bandy sections. In 1972 the hockey section separated to independent club Helsingin Jääkiekkoklubi.

Honours

Football

• Finnish Championship:
  • Winners (24): 1911, 1912, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1923, 1925, 1936, 1938, 1964, 1973, 1978, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2011
  • Runners-up (13): 1921, 1933, 1937, 1939, 1956, 1965, 1966, 1982, 1983, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2006

• Finnish Cup:
  • Winners (11): 1966, 1981, 1984, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2011
  • Runners-up (5): 1975, 1985, 1990, 1994, 2010

• Finnish League Cup:
  • Winners (4): 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998
  • Runners-up (2): 1995, 2009

• Finnish Women's Championship:
  • Winners (22): 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991. 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005

Ice hockey

• Finnish Championship:
  • Winners (3): 1929, 1932, 1935
• Finnish Cup:
  • Winners (1): 1970

Bandy

• Finnish Championship:
  • Winners (5): 1921, 1923, 1924, 1928, 1937

Veikkausliiga history

Season	Pos.	Pld.	W	D	L	GS-GA	Pts.
1990	1	22	11	6	5	40–29	28
1991	5	33	14	9	10	61–44	51
1992	1	33	20	6	7	59–35	66
1993	3	29	15	4	10	34–26	49
1994	3	26	12	7	7	40–29	43
1995	3	26	14	10	2	44–18	52
1996	9	27	11	5	11	36–37	38
1997	1	27	18	4	5	53–18	58
1998	4	27	9	11	7	33–31	38
1999	2	29	20	5	4	53–18	65
2000	4	33	16	9	8	51–33	57
2001	2	33	19	10	4	64–19	67
2002	1	29	20	5	4	51–21	65
2003	1	26	17	6	3	51–15	57
2004	6	26	9	12	5	42–31	39
2005	2	26	15	7	4	43–26	52
2006	2	24	13	6	5	45–18	45
2007	7	26	7	13	6	31–25	34
2008	4	26	14	5	7	47–29	47
2009	1	26	14	10	2	45–21	52
2010	1	26	15	7	4	43–19	52
2011	1	33	26	3	4	86−23	81

Supporters and Rivalries

Supporters

In early days of club, its support came mostly from middle class finnish speaking population of Helsinki, such as shopkeepers, officials and college and university students. But unlike most clubs at the time it didnt have particular political, lingual or socioeconomical status. Oppose to almost all other clubs HJK had players through class or language barriers. In mid 1910s club stated to support finnish nationalism and finnish language opposing russian regime and radical svecoman movement, still it had swedish speaking players and club officials. Today due to mass migration in and inside helsinki as well as changes in society, those boundaries have vanished and support is very mixed.

HJK's first organized supporter's club was called Töölöön Raiku, formed in the mid 1980s; although it only existed for a few seasons it was one of the first supporter's clubs in Finland. In the late 1990s HJK's fan action had a new boost and Forza HJK was registered in 1999. Today HJK has a few small supporter's clubs, the most notable being Section 140 (including the casual group Sakilaiset) in the south stand and the official fan club Forza HJK (older supporters) in the east stand. HJK's strongest support areas are in central and northern Helsinki where most of its youth teams exist, but like all big clubs it draws support from all over metropolitan Helsinki and across Finland.

Local rivalries

HJK's main rivalries in Helsinki are considered KIF, HPS and HIFK. Those are the "big four" clubs in Helsinki together with 43 league and 11 cup titles. However these rivalries have slowly faded away due downfall of all three other clubs, HPS dropped from mestaruusarja in 1964, HIFK in 1972 and KIF in 1978. From these HIFK is considered biggest rivalry, historically both clubs had wide support in many same neighbourhoods, especially Töölö and they often shared same grounds. They also had higher attendances than KIF or HPS. Due to success in many other sports, most notably ice hockey, HIFK still has strong support base in Finland. After this there have been only some short-term rivalries against various clubs including FC Jokerit, Viikingit, PK-35, Finnpa and Ponnistus, but none of these have drawn bigger popularity.

Helsinki-Lahti rivalry

HJK has competed against Lahti based clubs from 1960s, between 1963 and 1978 HJK and Lahden Reipas had a minor rivalry as both won 3 league titles and 2 runner-ups, HJK were 4 times 3rd and Reipas 3 times 3rd, Reipas also won 7 cup titles against 1 of HJK. A more notable rivalry was against Kuusysi from early 1980s to mid 1990s. Between 1981 and 1992 HJK won 6 league titles against Kuusysis 5, both clubs also won the cup twice, facing two times in finals (which were both won by HJK). Both clubs also succeeded well in european competitions. In 1996 the Lahti clubs merged and FC Lahti was born, HJK and FC Lahti matches are more known from outside of pitch, some crowd disturbances and small fights have occurred which otherwise are rare in Finnish football. Due to relatively small distance between citys matches often draw bigger away support than normal matches.

HJK-Haka rivalry

HJK and Valkeakosken Haka are the two most successful clubs in Finnish football, HJK with 23 league and 10 cup titles and Haka with 9 league and 12 cup titles. The match is also considered as Urban-Rural rivalry as HJK is a club from Finland's biggest city Helsinki and Haka is representing the small town of Valkeakoski.

Current squad

As of 7 February 2012. Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Ville Wallén 2 DF Tuomas Kansikas 3 DF Valtteri Moren 4 MF Antti Okkonen 5 DF Rami Hakanpää 6 DF Timi Lahti 7 MF Sebastian Mannström 8 MF Erfan Zeneli 9 FW Berat Sadik 11 DF Mathias Lindström 14 DF Janne Saksela 15 FW Akseli Pelvas 16 FW Kastriot Kastrati 17 FW Nikolai Alho

No. Position Player 18 MF Robin Lod 20 FW Joel Pohjanpalo 21 DF Mikko Sumusalo 22 MF Joel Perovuo 26 FW Demba Savage 27 MF Sebastian Sorsa 28 DF Felipe Aspegren 29 MF Rasmus Schüller 30 MF Arttu Järvinen 31 MF Aleksi Pahkasalo 35 GK Saku-Pekka Sahlgren TBA MF Emerik Grönroos TBA DF Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player — MF Alexander Ring (at Mönchengladbach)

Notable former players

Mikael Forssell Markus Heikkinen Perparim Hetemaj Mehmet Hetemaj Ari Hjelm Atik Ismail Toni Kallio Mikko Kavén Peter Kopteff Mika Kottila Toni Kuivasto Shefki Kuqi Martti Kuusela Veli Lampi Mika Lehkosuo Jari Litmanen Ismo Lius Sakari Mattila

Juho Mäkelä Antti Niemi Jyrki Nieminen Mika Nurmela Ville Nylund Kai Pahlman Antti Pohja Teemu Pukki Jukka Raitala Jari Rantanen Pasi Rautiainen Aki Riihilahti Paulus Roiha Aulis Rytkönen Janne Saarinen Sebastian Sorsa Hannu Tihinen Jarkko Wiss

Ridvan Zeneli Alexei Eremenko Jr. Alexei Eremenko Sr. Farid Ghazi Gustavo Manduca Luiz Antonio Piracaia Rafael Rafinha Klaus Granlund Neville Gordon (1996–??) Jeff Wood Steve Wright (1982–83) Dawda Bah András Babócsy Raf de Gregorio Medo

Notable coaches

• George Duke (1948–??)
• Aulis Rytkönen (1960–71)
• Raimo Kauppinen (1972–74)
• Kai Pahlman (1973–74)
• Aulis Rytkönen (1975–79)
• Raimo Kauppinen (1975–79)
• Martti Kuusela (1980–81)
• Raimo Kauppinen (1981–82)
• Thure Sarnola (1982)
• Miikka Toivola (1982)
• Jyrki Heliskoski (1985–89)

• Martti Kuusela (1990)
• Jyrki Nieminen (1991)
• Jari-Pekka Keurulainen (1992–94)
• Bo Johansson (1995)
• Jari-Pekka Keurulainen (1996)
• Martti Kuusela (1996)
• Antti Muurinen (1997–99)
• Jyrki Heliskoski (2000–01)
• Keith Armstrong (2002–07)
• Aki Hyryläinen (2007)
• Antti Muurinen (2008–)

European campaigns

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Score	Agg.	Notes
1965–66	European Cup	First round		Manchester United	2–3, 0–6	2–9
1967–68	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	First round		Wisla Kraków	1–4, 0–4	1–8
1972–73	UEFA Cup	Prel. round		Hvidovre IF			Walkover
1974–75	European Cup	First round		Valletta FC	0–1, 4–1	4–2
		Second round		Åtvidabergs FF	0–3, 0–1	0–4
1975–76	UEFA Cup	Prel. round		Hertha Berlin	1–4, 1–2	2–6
1979–80	European Cup	First round		Ajax Amsterdam	1–8, 1–8	2–16
1982–83	European Cup	First round		Omonia	0–2, 3–0	3–2
		Second round		Liverpool FC	1–0, 0–5	1–5
1983–84	UEFA Cup	Prel. round		Spartak Moscow	0–2, 0–5	0–7
1984–85	UEFA Cup	Prel. round		FK Dynamo Minsk	0–4, 0–6	0–10
1985–86	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	First round		KS Flamurtari Vlorë	3–2, 2–1	5–3
		Second round		Dynamo Dresden	1–0, 2–7	3–7
1986–87	European Cup	First round		APOEL	0–1, 3–2	3–3	Away goal
1988–89	European Cup	First round		FC Porto	0–3, 2–0	2–3
1989–90	European Cup	First round		AC Milan	0–4, 0–1	0–5
1991–92	European Cup	First round		Dynamo Kiev	0–1, 0–3	0–4
1993–94	UEFA Champions League	Qualification round		Norma Tallinn	1–0, 1–1	2–1
		First round		RSC Anderlecht	0–3, 0–3	0–6
1994–95	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	First round		B71 Sandur	5–0, 2–0	7–0
		Second round		Beşiktaş JK	0–2, 1–1	1–3
1995	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Group 5		FC Girondins de Bordeaux	1–1	1–1	Placed 3rd
				Bohemians	3–2	3–2
				IFK Norrköping	1–1	1–1
				OB Odense	1–2	1–2
1996–97	UEFA Cup	Prel. round		Pyunik Yerevan	1–3, 5–2	6–5
		First round		Chernomorets Odessa	2–2, 0–2	2–4
1997–98	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	First round		Red Star Belgrade	1–0, 0–3	1–3
1998–99	UEFA Champions League	First round		FK Yerevan	2–0, 3–0	5–0
		Second round		FC Metz	1–0, 1–1	2–1
		Group F		PSV Eindhoven	1–2, 1–3	2–5	Placed 4th
				1. FC Kaiserslautern	0–0, 2–5	2–5
				SL Benfica	2–0, 2–2	4–2
1999–2000	UEFA Cup	Qual. round		Shirak Gyumri	2–0, 0–1	2–1
		First round		Olympique Lyonnais	0–1, 1–5	1–6
2000–01	UEFA Cup	Qual. round		CS Grevenmacher	4–1, 0–2	4–3
		First round		Celtic FC	0–2, 2–1	2–3	After extra time
2001–02	UEFA Cup	Qual. round		FK Ventspils	2–1, 1–0	3–1
		Second round		Parma AC	0–1, 0–2	0–3
2002–03	UEFA Cup	Qual. round		FC Gomel	0–1, 0–4	0–5
2003–04	UEFA Champions League	First qual. round		Glentoran FC	0–0, 1–0	1–0
		Second qual. round		MTK Budapest	1–3, 1–0	2–3
2004–05	UEFA Champions League	First qual. round		Linfield FC	1–0, 1–0	2–0
		Second qual. round		Maccabi Tel-Aviv	0–0, 0–1	0–1
2006–07	UEFA Cup	Qual. round		Drogheda United	1–1, 1–3	2–4
2007–08	UEFA Cup	First qual. round		FC Etzella Ettelbruck	2–0, 1–0	3–0
		Second qual. round		Aalborg BK	2–1, 0–3	2–4
2009–10	UEFA Europa League	Second qual. round		FK Vėtra	1–0, 1–3	2–3
2010–11	UEFA Champions League	Second qual. round		FK Ekranas	0–1, 2–0	2–1
		Third qual. round		FK Partizan	0–3, 1–2	1–5
2010–11	UEFA Europa League	Play-off Round		Besiktas JK	0–2, 0–4	0–6
2011–12	UEFA Champions League	Second qual. round		Bangor City	3–0,10–0	13–0
		Third qual. round		Dinamo Zagreb	1–2, 0−1	1−3
2011–12	UEFA Europa League	Play-off Round		Schalke 04	2−0, 1−6	3−6

UEFA club competition record

As of August 3, 2011.

Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
ECCC	52	19	5	28	69	86
ECWC	12	6	1	5	18	24
UCUP	34	10	2	22	31	71
UI	4	1	2	1	6	6
Total	102	34	10	54	124	187

UEFA Club Ranking

This is the current UEFA Club Ranking, including season 2011–12.

Last update: January 19, 2012

Rank	Team	Points
205	Slovan Liberec	5.520
	FK Teplice	5.520
207	Aalesunds FK	5.435
208	Maccabi Netanya	5.400
209	Slask Wroclaw	5.333
210	HJK	5.326
211	Gaz Metan Medias	5.264
212	Garabag Agdam	5.241
213	Dinamo Tbilisi	5.233
214	Hibernian	5.228
215	Malmö FF	5.180

See also

HJK Helsinki season 2009

External links

• Official website (English)
• Statistics on Metro.co.uk (English)
• UEFA's news about HJK (English)
• HJK Shop – Official Merchandise (Finnish)
• Forza HJK – fans (Finnish)
• Helsingin Sanomat: HJK (Finnish)