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Mikkelin Palloilijat

 

 

Mikkelin Palloilijat

Full name	Mikkelin Palloilijat
Nickname(s)	Siniset (The Blues)
Founded	1929
Ground	Mikkelin Urheilupuisto, Mikkeli, Finland
Capacity	7,000
Chairman	Jarmo Vuorinen
Manager	Ilkka Mäkelä
League	Kakkonen
Home colours Away colours

Mikkelin Palloilijat (or MP) is a Finnish football club, based in Mikkeli. The club was formed in 1929 and has also had teams in volleyball, ice hockey and bandy. 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 Janne Wilkman, and it plays its home matches at Mikkelin Urheilupuisto.
Ice hockey departments of MP and local rivals MiPK 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 Naisten Liiga was moved from MP to Porrassalmen Urheilijat-62 in 1992.

Current Squad 2015

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Antti Kuismala 2 DF Miika Suhonen 6 MF Elias Inkilä 7 DF Vili Nyström 8 MF Antti-Pekka Kesonen 9 MF Juuso Tuppurainen 11 MF Eemil Tuukkanen 13 DF Jiri Haikonen 16 MF Erno Nissilä

No. Position Player 17 FW Mika Jussila 19 DF Juuso Kuronen 20 FW Dimitri Klimov 21 DF Mikko Iivanainen 22 MF Antti Voutilainen 24 GK Juho Piispanen 27 DF Vili-Petri Vänttinen 30 GK Tuomo Hiltunen 41 MF Sasha Popovitch

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