Rovaniemen Palloseura

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RoPS
Full nameRovaniemen Palloseura
Founded1950; 74 years ago (1950)
GroundKeskuskenttä,
Rovaniemi
Capacity4,000
ChairmanMatti Poikajärvi
ManagerVille Ulanen
LeagueYkkönen
2023Increase Kakkonen C, 3rd
WebsiteClub website

Rovaniemen Palloseura (RoPS) is a

Keskuskenttä
in the Arctic Circle of Lapland. The closest affiliated team is RoPS/2 from Kakkonen who participates in the third tier of Finnish football.

History

Keskuskenttä, home ground of RoPS

RoPS have won the Finnish Cup on two occasions, in 1986 and 2013, and were runners-up in 1962. They placed third in the Finnish Premier Division in 1988 and 1989, before finishing as runner-up in 2015, losing out on the title by 1 point to eventual champions SJK. The club's most notable international achievement was reaching the quarter-finals of the European Cup-Winners' Cup in 1987–88 against Marseille.

Match fixing allegations and scandal

Throughout the 2000s, RoPS became infamous for suspected involvement in match fixing.

In spring 2011 the Finnish

National Bureau of Investigation started a large investigation into match fixing. On February 25 Singaporean businessman Wilson Raj Perumal, a convicted match fixer, was arrested after entering Finland with a fake passport. The National Bureau of Investigation suspected that over 30 games between 2008 and 2011, mostly from the Finnish premier league, had been fixed or manipulated.[1]

On July 19, 2011, the Rovaniemi Court of Appeal convicted Perumal and nine RoPS players of match-fixing. Altogether 24 games had been manipulated, and the intended score had been achieved in 11 of them. Perumal was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to return 150,000 euros deemed to be match-fixing profits. The bribes ranged from 500 euros offered to one player to a total of 80,000 euros offered to eight players. The highest total of bribes for one individual was slightly over 40,000 euros. The players received suspended sentences. The sentenced players were six Zambian and two Georgian players:

Domestic history

Season Level Pos Pld W D L For Against Points Finnish Cup League Cup Top goalscorer
1991 1st 7 33 14 8 11 63 51 50 -
1992 7 33 12 6 15 53 49 42 -
1993 7 29 11 5 13 32 35 38 Runners-up -
1994 5 26 10 8 8 32 32 38
1995 9 26 8 8 10 29 30 32 Ninth Round
1996 8 27 11 6 10 35 29 39 Quarter-final Runners-up
1997 6 27 9 6 12 31 30 33 Semi-final
1998 8 27 6 14 7 27 31 32
1999 8 29 7 10 12 31 46 31 Seventh Round
2000 9 33 10 6 17 35 50 36
2001 12 33 5 9 19 25 56 24 Sixth Round -
2002 2nd 4 22 9 4 9 41 10 31 Quarter-final - Finland Niclas Grönholm  – 11
2003 2 26 14 7 5 40 27 49 Sixth Round -
2004 1st 12 26 7 4 15 28 45 25 Quarter-final
2005 13 26 3 8 15 18 50 17
2006 2nd 7 26 10 8 8 40 35 38 -
2007 2 26 16 7 3 44 23 55 -
2008 1st 10 26 8 6 12 31 37 30 Sixth Round Quarter-finals
2009 14 26 4 4 18 21 66 16 Sixth Round Group stage Nigeria Echiabhi Okodugha  – 5
2010 2nd 1 26 15 9 2 61 17 54 Fourth round - Zambia Nchimunya Mweetwa  – 13
2011 1st 12 33 5 8 20 39 78 23 Fifth Round Group stage Mexico José Manuel Rivera  – 10
2012 2nd 1 27 18 5 4 53 20 59 Fifth Round - Finland Aleksandr Kokko  – 15
2013 1st 11 33 8 10 15 25 36 34 Winners Quarter-finals Finland Aleksandr Kokko  – 6
2014 9 33 11 5 17 37 41 38 Sixth Round Group stage Finland Aleksandr Kokko  – 9
2015 2 33 17 8 8 44 29 59 Sixth Round Runners-up Finland Aleksandr Kokko  – 17
2016 6 33 13 11 9 43 33 50 Sixth Round Group stage Finland Robert Taylor  – 11
2017 7 33 12 6 15 43 51 42
Quarter-final Play-offs
- Nigeria Emeka Friday Eze  – 7
2018 2 33 18 8 7 42 25 62 Sixth Round - Finland Lassi Lappalainen  – 8
2019 10 27 8 6 13 23 35 30 Quarterfinal - Finland Youness Rahimi  – 5
2020 12
2021 2nd 2

European history

Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
1987–88 Cup Winners' Cup 1R Northern Ireland Glentoran 0–0 1–1 1–1
(a)
2R Albania Vllaznia 1–0 1–0 2–0
QF France Marseille 0–1 0–3 0–4
1989–90 UEFA Cup 1R Poland GKS Katowice 1–1 1–0 2–1
2R France Auxerre 0–5 0–3 0–8
1990–91 UEFA Cup 1R East Germany 1. FC Magdeburg 0–1 0–0 0–1
2014–15 UEFA Europa League 2Q
Asteras Tripoli
1–1 2–4 3–5
2016–17 UEFA Europa League 1Q Republic of Ireland Shamrock Rovers 1–1 2–0 3–1
2Q
Lokomotiva
1–1 0–3 1–4
2019–20 UEFA Europa League 1Q Scotland Aberdeen 1–2 1–2 2–4
Notes
  • 1R: First round
  • 2R: Second round
  • 1Q: First qualifying round
  • QF: Quarter-finals

Honours

Current squad

As of 1 January 2022

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 Finland FIN Miikka Mujunen
2 DF Finland FIN Simo Majander
6 MF Netherlands NED Nino Roffelsen
7 FW Finland FIN Veka Pyyny
8 MF Finland FIN Vili Saarikoski
12 GK Finland FIN Mikko Rantala
15 DF Finland FIN Miska Ylitolva
16 FW Finland FIN Kirill Bullat
19 DF Finland FIN Joona Lahdenmäki
No. Pos. Nation Player
20 FW Finland FIN Simo Roiha
21 MF Finland FIN Elmeri Hirvonen
22 DF Portugal POR Rodrigo Antunes
23 DF Finland FIN Sampo Ala-Iso
26 DF Finland FIN Eerik Kantola
28 FW Finland FIN Jarkko Luiro
33 MF Ghana GHA Geoffrey Acheampong
34 FW Serbia SRB Srđan Vujaklija

Management and boardroom

Management

As of 18 February 2020.

Name Role
Finland Vesa Tauriainen Head Coach
Finland Mika Pulkkinen Coach
Finland Jari Alamäki Fitness Coach
Finland Ossi Koskela Goalkeeping Coach
Finland Tuomas Könönen Physiotherapist
Finland Vilma Poutiainen Physiotherapist
Scotland David Coull Kit Manager
Finland Essi Jokelainen Masseur
Finland Olavi Tammimies Team Manager

Boardroom

As of 18 February 2020[3]

Name Role
Finland Risto Niva Chairman, Managing director
Finland Pekka Konstenius Vice chairman
Finland Jari Ilola Director of Football

Rovaniemi Football Academy

Rovaniemi Football Academy (RFA)[4] is the reserve team of RoPS. The team plays in Kakkonen in 2020 season. It is coached by Aleksi Tanner.

As of 14 September 2020[5]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
11 GK Finland FIN Lauri Vetri
24 MF Finland FIN Kirill Bullat
30 GK Finland FIN Tino Korhonen
35 GK Finland FIN Pauli Tuisku
36 MF Finland FIN Vertti Hänninen
37 DF Finland FIN Joona Lahdenmäki
36 MF Finland FIN Jonne Länsipää
39 DF Finland FIN Akseli Kantola
40 MF Finland FIN Ville Ojala
40 FW Finland FIN Santeri Matilainen
41 MF Finland FIN Jonne Koistinen
42 MF Finland FIN Riku-Veli Niska
No. Pos. Nation Player
43 FW Finland FIN Joona Kähkönen
44 DF Finland FIN Tuomas Leppäkangas
46 FW Finland FIN Adam Mekki
47 FW Finland FIN Janne Ojaniemi
49 MF Egypt EGY Karam Hadhoud
50 DF Finland FIN Severi Salmirinne
52 DF Finland FIN Miska Ylitolva
53 MF Finland FIN Roni Pietsalo
54 FW Finland FIN Antti Salmi
56 DF Finland FIN Luka Kuittinen
57 DF Finland FIN Sampo Ala-Iso

Managers

References

  1. ^ Susanna Kemppainen. "RoPS:lla yli 30 epäiltyä sopupeliä | Pohjois-Suomi". Kaleva.fi. Archived from the original on 2012-09-10. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  2. ^ Uusi Suomi. "Oikeus: Sopupeleistä 150 000 euroa – 2 vuotta vankeutta — Uusi Suomi". Uusisuomi.fi. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  3. ^ "Yhteystiedot" (in Finnish). RoPS. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  4. ^ "RoPS/2 on jatkossa Rovaniemi Football Academy". rops.fi. RoPS. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  5. ^ "Kokoonpano: Rovaniemi Football Academy 2020". rops.fi. RoPS. Retrieved 14 September 2020.

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