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Jazz Pori
Logo
Full nameFootball Club Jazz Pori
Founded22 September 1934; 90 years ago (22 September 1934)
StadiumPori Stadium, Pori
Capacity12,600
ManagerAndrea Sassarini
LeagueYkkönen
20232nd (Group B, promoted)
Current season

Football Club Jazz, commonly known as just Jazz, is a Finnish football club based in Pori, which plays in the Finnish second tier, Ykkönen. The club was founded in 1934 as Porin Pallo-Toverit. PPT changed its name to FC Jazz in November 1991.

FC Jazz is tied with several other clubs as the 13th most successful Finnish club by Finnish Championship titles. FC Jazz won the Finnish Championship twice (1993, 1996). Other medals for the club include Finnish Championship bronze (1992), Finnish Cup silver (1994) and Finnish League Cup silver (1994).

History

2013 promotion playoffs FC Jazz vs. Ekenäs IF at Pori Stadium.

PPT 1934–1991

PPT's ice hockey player (left) and a Porin Karhut player (right)

FC Jazz was established in 1934 as Porin Pallo-Toverit (PPT for short) by 18 young men who had previously played football in the local sports club Pyrintö. The founders had strong labour movement background and PPT immediately joined the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation (TUL). PPT had also a section for bandy and ice hockey.[1]

PPT played its first years in TUL regional series and after the second world war in TUL national divisions. The club made its debut in Finnish Football Association's national divisions in 1948 Suomensarja which was the second tier of Finnish football. After six more seasons in TUL series PPT joined the FA's divisions permanently in 1955 playing third or fourth tiers up to the 1980s. In 1982 PPT was promoted to 1. division and year later to the premier division Mestaruussarja.[1]

FC Jazz

In 1992 PPT changed its name for FC Jazz. The name was inspired by Pori Jazz festival, which is one of the most popular jazz festivals in Europe. FC Jazz won two Finnish championship titles in 1993 and 1996. The club was relegated to second tier in 2004, but the first team was dissolved 2005 as a result of financial problems.

FC Jazz youth section had been separated from the league organisation in 2002 and was known as FC Jazz-juniorit (FC Jazz Juniors). In 2006 club started in FA Satakunta district 5. division. Two years later FC Jazz-juniorit was promoted to third tier Kakkonen, which is the lowest national level in Finnish football. Since 2010 FC Jazz-juniorit has been again known as FC Jazz. In 2013 FC Jazz was promoted to Ykkönen after beating Ekenäs IF 4–2 on aggregate in the promotion playoffs.[2]

Name changes

  • Porin Pallo-Toverit (PPT, 1934–1992)
  • FC Jazz (1992–2004)
  • FC Jazz-juniorit (FC Jazz-j, 2005–2009)
  • FC Jazz (2010–present)

Honours

PPT 1940 squad.

Domestic competition record

European competitions

UEFA Champions League:

Season Round Club Home Away Aggregate
1997–1998 1st qualifying round Estonia FC Lantana 2–0 1–0 3–0
2nd qualifying round Netherlands Feyenoord 1–2 2–6 3–8

UEFA Cup:

Season Round Club Home Away Aggregate
1994–95 Preliminary round Denmark FC Copenhagen 0–4 1–0 1–4
1996–97 Preliminary round Faroe Islands GÍ Gøta 3–1 1–0 4–1
Qualifying round Russia Dynamo Moscow 1–3 1–1 2–4
1997–98 1st round Germany 1860 Munich 0–1 1–6 1–7

UEFA Intertoto Cup:

Season Round Club Home Away Aggregate
2001 1st round Romania Gloria Bistrița 1–0 1–2 2–2
2nd round France Paris Saint-Germain 1–4 0–3 1–7

Current squad

As of 24 September 2023[3]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Finland FIN Rasmus Simula
2 DF Finland FIN Jussi Lemio
3 DF Finland FIN Rasmus Jokinen
4 DF Finland FIN Alex Luhtanen
5 DF Finland FIN Joose Mäkinen
6 DF New Zealand NZL Ben Stroud
7 FW Finland FIN Waltteri Riihimäki
8 FW Finland FIN Mico Heinilä
9 FW Brazil BRA Lyon Dantas Firmino
10 FW Finland FIN Impton Söderlund
11 DF Finland FIN Jegor Petrishin
12 GK Finland FIN Vili-Verneri Virtanen
14 MF South Korea KOR Yoon Jong-tae
No. Pos. Nation Player
15 DF Finland FIN Otto Schultz
16 DF Finland FIN Samuli Virtanen
17 MF Nigeria NGA Mmenie-Abasi Etok
18 MF Finland FIN Eino-Iivari Pitkälä
19 MF Finland FIN Joona Visavuori
20 MF Finland FIN Eeli Tuominen
21 MF Finland FIN Justus Rantanen
22 MF Finland FIN Joonatan Lehto
23 MF Ivory Coast CIV Fousseny Sanogo
25 MF Finland FIN Aaro Holappa
26 GK Finland FIN Jaakko Lakkamäki
28 GK Finland FIN Lauri Leivo-Jokimäki
30 MF Italy ITA Sedrick Kalombo

Former players

Two-time Veikkausliiga top scorer Luiz Antônio in 1996.

All following players who have represented FC Jazz have been capped at least once by their respective national team's first squad.

References

  1. ^ a b PPT 1934–1984 50th Anniversary book.
  2. ^ "Europa League football for Vaasa in 2014". Yle News. 20 October 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  3. ^ "FC Jazz : Pelaajat" (in Finnish). Football Association of Finland. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
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