Tampereen Pallo-Veikot

Tampereen Pallo-Veikot was founded in 1930 as a general sports club for workers. TPV played its first football match on 16 May 1930 against Tampereen Kisatoverit, and managed to win the district championship in their first season. In the 1932 season TPV won its first Finnish Worker's Sports Federation (TUL) football championship.^[3] Before the 1950s the clubs of the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation, such as TPV, played in their own leagues that were not connected to the Football Association of Finland. Tampereen Pallo-Veikot won the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation championship six times.

Between 1930s and 1960s, TPV also had bandy, boxing and ice hockey sections, but nowadays TPV is purely a football club. In the 1960s TPV played three seasons at the highest level of Finnish ice hockey, but eventually disbanded its ice hockey section in 1969.

TPV joined the Finnish FA in 1955 and competed in the top tier of the Finnish football league system for five seasons: in 1971, 1993–1995 and 1999. The most successful year was 1994 when the club won the Finnish Championship, but the next season the club was relegated to Ykkönen.

In July 1998 TPV merged together with another Tampere club Ilves. A new club called Tampere United (TamU) was created. However, TPV left the merger soon after its creation and continued playing as its own team.^[4] In 1999 the club regained its Veikkausliiga status, but this only lasted for one season. In 2002 TPV had to abandon its place in the second tier Ykkönen due to bankruptcy.^[5]

The club was promoted back to Ykkönen in 2006 and stayed there for four seasons before being relegated to the third tier Kakkonen again. Finally in 2018 TPV defeated Myllykosken Pallo -47 in Kakkonen Promotion Playoffs and was promoted back to the second tier Ykkönen.

TPV managed to stay in Ykkönen only for the 2019 season and was once again relegated to Kakkonen. The club played in Kakkonen for two seasons, the 2020 and 2021 seasons, until it was once again relegated, this time to Kolmonen. The club played in Kolmonen for two seasons and gained promotion after the 2023 season.^[6] TPV played in Kakkonen for the 2024 and 2025 seasons and gained promotion to Ykkönen after the 2025 season.^[7]

Markus Räikkönen, ex-husband of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin played in the club between 2006 and 2009.^[8]

Veikkausliiga

• Champions: 1994

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  POL Juliusz Pazio 2 DF  FIN Aleksi Rantanen 4 DF  FIN Eino-Veikko Ek 6 MF  FIN Sebastian Kruusimaa 7 FW  FIN Antti Kujala 8 MF  FIN Berkin Özcelik 9 FW  FIN Eemil Mäentakanen 11 FW  FIN Roope Kostiainen 12 GK  FIN Niko Pienmunne 13 DF  FIN Ville Puustinen 15 FW  FIN Eric Bullock 16 MF  FIN Vikke-Valtteri Anttila 17 DF  FIN Juuso Yli-Rajala

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF  FIN Elmeri Riikonen 19 FW  FIN Mohammad Akbal 20 FW  FIN Lamin Jadama 23 GK  FIN Mico Syrjälä 24 MF  FIN Ossi Rättäri 25 DF  FIN Juho Mattila (Captain) 26 DF  FIN Santeri Pitkäkoski 27 FW  FIN Toni Toijala 28 MF  FIN Jasi Kinnunen 33 DF  FIN Kasper Kylen 34 FW  FIN Samuli Sipilä 56 MF  FIN Tomi Ylinen 77 DF  FIN Viljami Veltti

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