Kokkolan Tiikerit
Kokkolan Tiikerit (Finnish for Tigers of Kokkola) is Finnish volleyball team in the 'Mestaruusliiga' (Finnish volleyball league). The team's hometown is Kokkola, Finland. Tiikerit were the Finnish champions in 2013 and 2015, and won the Finnish Cup in 2014, 2015, and 2106.
History
Kokkolan Tiikerit was founded in 1974. The club fell to the first division in 1981. The 2000s Tiikerit started fighting to rose back to the top level of Finnish volleyball. They climbed back to Finnish volleyball league in 2011 by winning the first league in 2011 and championchips qualification game series against Joensuun Riento. Ever since, Tiikerit has been moving up. In 2013, the club won the Finnish Cup and won the gold medal in the Finnish volleyball championships. The club's head coach Tommi Tiilikainen was only 25 years old which made him the youngest coach ever who has been coached a team to Finnish Champion in any league in Finland.
In 2014, Tiikerit won the Finnish cup and placed second in the Finnish volleyball championships. In 2015, Tiikerit won both the Finnish Cup[citation needed] and the Finnish championships.[1] They repeated this achievement in 2016. Simultaneously the club made a record[citation needed] by winning 36 games in a row in Finnish volleyball league.[2] They also reached 85 points in regular season, which is all-time record in the history of Finnish Volleyball league.
Honours
- Finnish volleyball league champions 2013, 2015
- Finnish Cup 2013, 2014, 2015
- Champions of the First League (second highest league in Finland) 2011
References
- ^ Anu Karttunen (15 April 2016). "VaLePan murska-aloitus ei häkellyttänyt Tiikereitä – Ropposesta voiton takuumies" [Strong start by VaLePa did not startle the Tigers - victory guaranteed by Ropponen]. urheilu.beta.yle.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2016-04-17.
- ^ Manu Myllyaho (13 April 2016). "Tiikerit omaa luokkaansa ensimmäisessä finaalissa" [Tiikerit in a league of their own in the first final]. urheilu.beta.yle.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2016-04-17.