IFK Mariehamn

While IFK Mariehamn was formed in 1919, the sports club did not have a football department until the mid-1930s. Initially, the team participated primarily in local tournaments on Åland, only sporadically playing other Finnish or Swedish teams. The team has participated in the Finnish football leagues since 1945.

Until the 1970s, IFK Mariehamn played primarily in the Finnish football divisions 3 and 4. The club reached a peak in 1975 and 1976, when the club first advanced to division 2 and then reached division 1 (Ykkönen) the following year. After two seasons in division 1, IFK Mariehamn was relegated to division 2, where it would remain up until the 2000s, except for a few seasons in division 3 during the early 1990s.

In 2003, IFK Mariehamn returned to division 1. After only one season in division 1, the club advanced, for the first time in its history to the premier division of Finnish football, the Veikkausliiga, for the 2005 season following qualifying the October 2004 games against FC Jazz.^[2] In its first season in the Veikkausliiga, IFK Mariehamn finished 12th out of 14 teams. In 2006, the club finished in 5th place and the year after 6th after an impressive run of unbeaten matches during the autumn of 2007.

In addition to playing in the Veikkausliiga, IFK Mariehamn participates in local Åland tournaments, having won the Åland cup 40 times and the Åland football championships 42 times. In recent years, the club has been the most dominant football team on Åland, having in 2008 won its 11th and 15th straight titles in these two events, respectively.

In 2009, IFK Mariehamn started its first season as a fully professional football club. In 2015, the team won the Finnish Cup for the first time.

On 23 October 2016, IFK Mariehamn defeated FC Ilves 2–1 to secure the first ever Veikkausliiga Championship for the island club.^[3] In the 2017–18 season, IFK played its first-ever two-match UEFA Champions League qualification, where it was knocked out by Poland's champion Legia Warsaw.^[4]

The title in 2016 was seen as something "impossible" and well beyond what the club ever could have dreamt of, as their economic resources were well below the bigger clubs on the mainland, and the fact that Åland has 30,000 inhabitants as well as the fact that the squad uses the ferries to travel to away games.

Stadium

IFK Mariehamn plays its home matches at the Wiklöf Holding Arena.

European history

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Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2013–14	UEFA Europa League	1QR	Inter Baku	0–2	1–1	1–3
2016–17	UEFA Europa League	1QR	Odds BK	1–1	0–2	1–3
2017–18	UEFA Champions League	2QR	Legia Warsaw	0–3	0–6	0–9

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Notes

• 1QR: First qualifying round
• 2QR: Second qualifying round

As of 30 January 2026^[6]

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

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No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  SWE Kevin Lund 2 MF  FIN Noah Nurmi 3 DF  FIN Aaro Soiniemi 4 DF  SWE Pontus Lindgren 5 DF  FIN Tuomas Koivisto 6 MF  SWE Nikolaos Dosis 7 FW  SWE Adam Larsson 8 MF  FIN Sebastian Dahlström 9 FW  AXL Wille Nuñez 10 MF  FIN Arvid Bergvik 14 MF  FIN Michael Fonsell

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 MF  FIN Anttoni Huttunen 17 MF  FIN Rasmus Holmberg 20 MF  FIN Emmanuel Patut 21 FW  AXL Arvid Lundberg 23 MF  NED Jelle van der Heyden 26 MF  FIN Milton Jansson 28 DF  FIN Jiri Nissinen 32 GK  FIN Matias Riikonen 33 DF  FIN Daniel Enqvist 43 MF  FIN Leo Andersson

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Youth players

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

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No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  AXL Jimmi Bruhn — MF  AXL Elia Hagström — MF  AXL Ola Melander —  AXL Valter Enberg —  AXL Algot Fyrqvist

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  USA Max Peterson — MF  AXL Hampus Dahlgren — GK  AXL Gabriel Tallblom — MF  AXL Otto Pajunen — GK  AXL Anton Gustafsson

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

• Veikkausliiga
  • Champions: 2016
• Finnish Cup
  • Winners: 2015
  • Runners-up: 2019