Mikkelin Palloilijat

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Mikkelin Palloilijat

Full name	Mikkelin Palloilijat
Nickname(s)	Siniset (The Blues)
Founded	1929; 93 years ago (1929)
Ground	Mikkelin Urheilupuisto, Mikkeli, Finland
Capacity	7,000
Chairman	Olli Heinikainen
Manager	Juha Pasoja
League	Ykkönen
2021	9th
Home colours Away colours

Mikkelin Palloilijat (or MP) is a Finnish professional football club, based in Mikkeli, that competes in the Ykkönen. The club was founded in 1929 and also included volleyball, bandy and ice hockey sections.

History[]

In 1998, MP merged with Mikkelin Kissat to form FC Mikkeli. Due to financial difficulties, this union in 2001 was dissolved and the two clubs returned to manage individually. It played in the Finnish First Division (Ykkönen) from 2004 to 2006 but was relegated to Kakkonen at the end of the season. The club gained promotion to Ykkönen by winning the Group A of Kakkonen 2009 but was immediately relegated back to Kakkonen in 2010. The club's manager is Ilkka Mäkelä, and it plays its home matches at Mikkelin Urheilupuisto. In 2015 they got promoted to the Ykkönen again.

Ice hockey departments of MP and local rivals merged in 1970, creating new club Jukurit. Jukurit has then been quite successful in Finnish amateur levels of ice hockey. However, the only medal on Finnish championship level is still won by MP, a bronze in A-juniors year 1961.

Bandy department of MP was disbanded in 1977. After that colours of Mikkeli on bandy fields have been represented by Mikkelin Kampparit. Kampparit was formed in 1972.

MP was a pioneer of women's football in Finland, forming one of the first ladies team. The spot in Kansallinen Liiga was moved from MP to in 1992.

Season to season[]

Current squad[]

As of 19 March 2021^[1]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  FIN Yassin Daoussi 3 DF  FIN Reetu Räsänen 4 DF  FIN Iiro Äijö 6 DF  FRA Killian Denoual 7 MF  FIN Antti-Ville Räisänen 8 FW  FIN Antti Ulmanen 9 FW  FIN Peetu Kerminen 10 MF  FIN Arjan Goljahanpoor 12 DF  FIN Nuutti Laaksonen 14 MF  FIN Jesse Jäppinen 15 FW  FIN Santeri Karjalainen

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 FW  FIN Eero Ylönen 17 MF  NGA Samson Ebuka 18 MF  FIN Topi Keskinen 20 MF  NGA Jonathan Dunyin 21 FW  FIN Leevi Leinonen 22 MF  FIN Antti Voutilainen 23 MF  FIN Niila Forsell 24 GK  FIN Jonne Uronen 25 MF  FIN Juuso Tarvainen 28 MF  FIN Aatu Manninen

Management and boardroom[]

Management[]

As of 21 February 2020^[2]

Name Role Juha Pasoja Head Coach Jorma Naakka Coach Ozeias Graciano Coach Janne Loukiainen Coach Mika Korpela Team Manager Aki Lampinen Kit Manager Hannu Paajanen Doctor Ilari Kuitunen Doctor Timo Kyttä Physiotherapist

References[]

External links[]

• Official website