FC Jazz

Jazz Pori

Full name	Football Club Jazz Pori
Founded	22 September 1934; 89 years ago (22 September 1934)
Stadium	Pori Stadium, Pori
Capacity	12,600
Manager	Andrea Sassarini
League	Ykkönen
2023	2nd (Group B, promoted)
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Football Club Jazz, commonly known as just Jazz, is a Finnish football club based in Pori, which plays in the Finnish third 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

PPT 1934–1991

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 1991–present

In 1991 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] FC Jazz was relegated back to the Kakkonen for the 2017 season, but got promoted back to the Ykkönen for the 2024 season, even though Ykkönen, which had just become the 3rd tier after the formation of the new Ykkösliiga.^[3]

Name changes

• Porin Pallo-Toverit (PPT, 1934–1991)
• FC Jazz (1991–2004)
• FC Jazz-juniorit (FC Jazz-j, 2005–2009)
• FC Jazz (2010–present)

Honours

• Finnish Championship:
  • Winners (2): 1993, 1996
• Finnish Cup:
  • Runners-up (1): 1995
• Finnish League Cup:
  • Runners-up (1): 1994

Domestic competition record

Competition record 1980–2018
Season	Level	Division	Section	Position	Manager	Top scorer	Movements
1980	Tier 4	III Divisioona (Third Division)	Satakunta/Tampere	8th	Pertti Lundell	Jari Peltonen, 14
1981	Tier 4	III Divisioona (Third Division)	Satakunta/Turku	1st	Pertti Lundell	Risto Puustinen, 31	Promoted
1982	Tier 3	II Divisioona (Second Division)	Group West	1st	Pertti Lundell	Risto Puustinen, 18	Promoted
1983	Tier 2	I Divisioona (First Division)		2nd	Pertti Lundell	Richard Wilson, 19	Promoted
1984	Tier 1	Mestaruussarja (Premier League)		9th	Pertti Lundell	Richard Wilson, 9
1985	Tier 1	Mestaruussarja (Premier League)		9th	Pertti Lundell	Mika Sankala, 7
1986	Tier 1	Mestaruussarja (Premier League)		8th	Pertti Lundell	Petri Järvinen, 8
1987	Tier 1	Mestaruussarja (Premier League)		6th	Pauno Kymäläinen	Jarmo Alatensiö, 10
1988	Tier 1	Mestaruussarja (Premier League)		12th	Pauno Kymäläinen	Seppo Sulonen, 7	Relegated
1989	Tier 2	I Divisioona (First Division)		4th	Pauno Kymäläinen	Yuri Gavrilov, 9 Saku Laaksonen
1990	Tier 2	I Divisioona (First Division)		1st	Pauno Kymäläinen, Seppo Sairanen (9 August)	Petri Toivonen, 12	Promoted
1991	Tier 1	Futisliiga (Premier League)		8th	Markku Wacklin	Rami Nieminen, 15
1992	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		3rd	Seppo Sairanen	Luiz Antônio, 21
1993	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		1st	Jussi Ristimäki	Antti Sumiala, 20
1994	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		4th	Jussi Ristimäki	Jukka Ruhanen, 12
1995	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		4th	Pertti Lundell	Luiz Antônio, 12
1996	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		1st	Jari Pyykölä	Luiz Antônio, 17
1997	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		8th	Jari Pyykölä, Jukka Vakkila (11 August)	Marco, 9
1998	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		5th	Tapio Raatikainen, Pertti Lundell (7 June)	Marco, 6 Ricky Rodrigo
1999	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		6th	Pertti Lundell	Hasan Cetinkaya, 6 Marco
2000	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		5th	Pertti Lundell	Matti Santahuhta, 6 Hector Takayama
2001	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		10th	Jouni Joensuu, Jussi Ristimäki (13 July)	Rodrigo, 8 Antti Sumiala
2002	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		12th	Risto Virtanen, Jussi Ristimäki (2 September)	Rodrigo, 8
2003	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		12th	Seppo Sairanen	Piracaia, 15
2004	Tier 1	Veikkausliiga (Premier League)		13th	Seppo Sairanen, Sami Rintanen (11 October)	Mikael Muurimäki, 6 Matti Santahuhta	Relegated
2005
2006	Tier 6	Vitonen (Fifth Division)	Satakunta	1st	Mikko Mannila	Juuso Ollonqvist, 6 Juho Wahlroos	Promoted
2007	Tier 5	Nelonen (Fourth Division)	Satakunta	1st	Mikko Mannila	Ville Kuusinen, 11	Promoted
2008	Tier 4	Kolmonen (Third Division)	Satakunta	1st	Mikko Mannila	João Gaetti, 11	Promoted
2009	Tier 3	Kakkonen (Second Division)	Group B	10th	Mikko Mannila	Ari Qvist, 7
2010	Tier 3	Kakkonen (Second Division)	Group B	10th	Mikko Mannila	Mamadou Konate, 9
2011	Tier 3	Kakkonen (Second Division)	Group B	7th	Risto Virtanen, Jouni Joensuu (1 August)	Jesse Junnila, 15
2012	Tier 3	Kakkonen (Second Division)	Western Group	2nd	Matti Santahuhta	Sekou Konate, 14
2013	Tier 3	Kakkonen (Second Division)	Western Group	1st	Matti Santahuhta	Samu-Petteri Mäkelä, 14	Promoted
2014	Tier 2	Ykkönen (First Division)		8th	Jouni Joensuu, Jani Uotinen (5 August)	Alekos Alekou, 14
2015	Tier 2	Ykkönen (First Division)		7th	John Allen	Samu-Petteri Mäkelä, 8
2016	Tier 2	Ykkönen (First Division)		10th	John Allen Jani Uotinen (21 July)	Dani Sánchez, 9	Relegated
2017	Tier 3	Kakkonen (Second Division)	Group B	8th	Olli Oravisto	Juho Lehtonen, 16
2018	Tier 3	Kakkonen (Second Division)	Group B	7th	Olli Oravisto	Iyam Friday, 5 Joonas Meura, 5
2019	Tier 3	Kakkonen (Second Division)			Seth Ablade

European competitions

UEFA Champions League:

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

UEFA Cup:

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

UEFA Intertoto Cup:

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

Current squad

As of 10 April 2024^[4]

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  FIN Rasmus Simula 2 DF  FIN Jussi Lemio 3 DF  FIN Rasmus Jokinen 4 DF  FIN Alex Luhtanen 5 DF  FIN Joose Mäkinen 6  CAN Cristian Campagna 7 FW  FIN Waltteri Riihimäki 9 FW  BRA Lyon Dantas Firmino 10 FW  FIN Justus Lehto 11 DF  FIN Justus Rantanen 12 GK  FIN Arttu Takala 13 DF  FIN Tomi Väkiparta

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 FW  FIN Felix Lamminen 15 DF  FIN Eero Pärkö 17 MF  NGA Mmenie-Abasi Etok 18 MF  FIN Eino-Iivari Pitkälä 18  JPN Taiyo Ushiyama 19 MF  FIN Joona Visavuori 20 MF  FIN Eeli Tuominen 21 FW  FIN Niilo-Olavi Puustinen 22 MF  FIN Joonatan Lehto 28 GK  FIN Lauri Leivo-Jokimäki 29 GK  FIN Mikael Ojanen 33 FW  FIN Elmeri Nieminen 41 MF  FIN Eeli Kiiskilä 63 DF  FIN Konsta Mervelä 67 DF   Nehir Aydin 77  JPN Hideyasu Tanaka 99  JPN takaya Sasaki

Former players

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

References

External links

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