FC Jazz


FC Jazz is a football club from Pori, Finland. It plays in the Finnish third tier Kakkonen.

History

PPT 1934–1991

FC Jazz was established in 1934 as Porin Pallo-Toverit 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. PPT had also a section for bandy.
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.

FC Jazz

In 1992 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. 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.

Name changes

Competition record 1980–2018-------
SeasonLevelDivisionSectionPositionManagerTop scorerMovements
1980Tier 4III Divisioona 'Satakunta/Tampere8th Pertti Lundell Jari Peltonen, 14
1981Tier 4III Divisioona 'Satakunta/Turku1st Pertti Lundell Risto Puustinen, 31Promoted
1982Tier 3II Divisioona 'Group West1st Pertti Lundell Risto Puustinen, 18Promoted
1983Tier 2I Divisioona '2nd Pertti Lundell Richard Wilson, 19Promoted
1984Tier 1Mestaruussarja '9th Pertti Lundell Richard Wilson, 9
1985Tier 1Mestaruussarja '9th Pertti Lundell Mika Sankala, 7
1986Tier 1Mestaruussarja '8th Pertti Lundell Petri Järvinen, 8
1987Tier 1Mestaruussarja '6th Pauno Kymäläinen Jarmo Alatensiö, 10
1988Tier 1Mestaruussarja '12th Pauno Kymäläinen Seppo Sulonen, 7Relegated
1989Tier 2I Divisioona '4th Pauno Kymäläinen Yuri Gavrilov, 9
Saku Laaksonen
1990Tier 2I Divisioona '1st Pauno Kymäläinen,
Seppo Sairanen 		Petri Toivonen, 12Promoted
1991Tier 1Futisliiga '8th Markku Wacklin Rami Nieminen, 15
1992Tier 1Veikkausliiga '3rd Seppo Sairanen Luiz Antônio, 21
1993Tier 1Veikkausliiga '1st Jussi Ristimäki Antti Sumiala, 20
1994Tier 1Veikkausliiga '4th Jussi Ristimäki Jukka Ruhanen, 12
1995Tier 1Veikkausliiga '4th Pertti Lundell Luiz Antônio, 12
1996Tier 1Veikkausliiga '1st Jari Pyykölä Luiz Antônio, 17
1997Tier 1Veikkausliiga '8th Jari Pyykölä,
Jukka Vakkila 		Marco, 9
1998Tier 1Veikkausliiga '5th Tapio Raatikainen,
Pertti Lundell 		Marco, 6
Ricky
Rodrigo
1999Tier 1Veikkausliiga '6th Pertti Lundell Hasan Cetinkaya, 6
Marco
2000Tier 1Veikkausliiga '5th Pertti Lundell Matti Santahuhta, 6
Hector Takayama
2001Tier 1Veikkausliiga '10th Jouni Joensuu,
Jussi Ristimäki 		Rodrigo, 8
Antti Sumiala
2002Tier 1Veikkausliiga '12th Risto Virtanen,
Jussi Ristimäki 		Rodrigo, 8
2003Tier 1Veikkausliiga '12th Seppo Sairanen Piracaia, 15
2004Tier 1Veikkausliiga '13th Seppo Sairanen,
Sami Rintanen 		Mikael Muurimäki, 6
Matti Santahuhta		Relegated
2005
2006Tier 6Vitonen 'Satakunta1st Mikko Mannila Juuso Ollonqvist, 6
Juho Wahlroos		Promoted
2007Tier 5Nelonen 'Satakunta1st Mikko Mannila Ville Kuusinen, 11Promoted
2008Tier 4Kolmonen 'Satakunta1st Mikko Mannila João Gaetti, 11Promoted
2009Tier 3Kakkonen 'Group B10th Mikko Mannila Ari Qvist, 7
2010Tier 3Kakkonen 'Group B10th Mikko Mannila Mamadou Konate, 9
2011Tier 3Kakkonen 'Group B7th Risto Virtanen,
Jouni Joensuu 		Jesse Junnila, 15
2012Tier 3Kakkonen 'Western Group2nd Matti Santahuhta Sekou Konate, 14
2013Tier 3Kakkonen 'Western Group1st Matti Santahuhta Samu-Petteri Mäkelä, 14Promoted
2014Tier 2Ykkönen '8th Jouni Joensuu,
Jani Uotinen 		Alekos Alekou, 14
2015Tier 2Ykkönen '7th John Allen Samu-Petteri Mäkelä, 8
2016Tier 2Ykkönen '10th John Allen
Jani Uotinen 		Dani Sánchez, 9Relegated
2017Tier 3Kakkonen 'Group B8th Olli Oravisto Juho Lehtonen, 16
2018Tier 3Kakkonen 'Group B7th Olli Oravisto Iyam Friday, 5
Joonas Meura, 5
2019Tier 3Kakkonen Seth Ablade

European competitions

UEFA Champions League:
SeasonRoundClubHomeAwayAggregate
1997–19981st qualifying round FC Lantana2–01–03–0
1997–19982nd qualifying round Feyenoord1–22–63–8

UEFA Cup:
SeasonRoundClubHomeAwayAggregate
1994–95Preliminary round FC Copenhagen0–41–01–4
1996–97Preliminary round GÍ Gøta3–11–04–1
1996–97Qualifying round Dynamo Moscow1–31–12–4
1997–981st round 1860 Munich0–11–61–7

UEFA Intertoto Cup:
SeasonRoundClubHomeAwayAggregate
20011st round Gloria Bistrița1–01–22–2
20012nd round Paris Saint-Germain1–40–31–7

Current squad

Former players

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