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Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
club, based in the industry town of Valkeakoski
Valkeakoski
Valkeakoski is a town and municipality in Finland.Valkeakoski is located south of Tampere and north of Helsinki in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality has a population of...
. It is one of the most successful clubs in Finland, with nine Finnish championships and 12 Finnish Cup
Finnish Cup
The Finnish Cup is Finland's main national cup competition in football.This yearly competition is open for member clubs of the FA of Finland. Finnish Cup has been played since 1955.Finnish Cup winner qualifies to UEFA Europa League...
wins.
History
Haka has historically had close ties with the paper industry in the Valkeakoski area, and it is still sponsored by UPM Kymmene.The club was founded as Valkeakosken Haka in 1934. In 1949 it was promoted to Finland's top division Mestaruussarja (now called Veikkausliiga
Veikkausliiga
Veikkausliiga is the premier division of Finnish football, comprising the top 12 clubs of the country. Veikkausliiga is currently ranked as the 28th best league in Europe. Its main sponsor is the Finnish national betting agency Veikkaus, hence the league's name...
), and in 1955 won the inaugural Finnish Cup
Finnish Cup
The Finnish Cup is Finland's main national cup competition in football.This yearly competition is open for member clubs of the FA of Finland. Finnish Cup has been played since 1955.Finnish Cup winner qualifies to UEFA Europa League...
.
The 1960s was the most successful era in the club's history, winning both the league and cup three times, including the first double
The Double
The Double is a term in association football which refers to winning a country's top tier division and its primary cup competition in the same season...
in Finnish football history in 1960. The club was relegated in 1972, but came straight back, and won
the double again in 1977.
The club's name was changed to FC Haka in the early 1990s. Haka won the title again 1995, but was relegated the next season. Keith Armstrong
Keith Armstrong
Keith Thomas Armstrong is a former footballer who played in the Football League for Sunderland, Newport County and Scunthorpe United, and in Finland for a number of clubs...
was hired as the new coach, and the club came straight back again, winning three straight championships from 1998 to 2000. Goalkeeping legend Olli Huttunen
Olli Huttunen
Olavi "Olli" Huttunen is a Finnish football coach and former goalkeeper. He is the former head coach of the Finnish national team....
succeeded Armstrong as coach in 2002, and has already led the club to the championship (2004) and two cups (2002 and 2005).
Haka's best performance in UEFA
UEFA
The Union of European Football Associations , almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA is the administrative and controlling body for European association football, futsal and beach soccer....
competition was in the 1983–1984 season when they reached the quarterfinals of the Cup Winners' Cup, losing to eventual winners Juventus
Juventus F.C.
Juventus Football Club S.p.A. , commonly referred to as Juventus and colloquially as Juve , are a professional Italian association football club based in Turin, Piedmont...
0-2 on aggregate. The club has been involved in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an competitions every year since 1998.
Honours
- Finnish championshipVeikkausliigaVeikkausliiga is the premier division of Finnish football, comprising the top 12 clubs of the country. Veikkausliiga is currently ranked as the 28th best league in Europe. Its main sponsor is the Finnish national betting agency Veikkaus, hence the league's name...
(9): 1960, 1962, 1965, 1977, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004 - Finnish CupFinnish CupThe Finnish Cup is Finland's main national cup competition in football.This yearly competition is open for member clubs of the FA of Finland. Finnish Cup has been played since 1955.Finnish Cup winner qualifies to UEFA Europa League...
(12): 1955, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1969, 1977, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1997, 2002, 2005 - Finnish League CupFinnish League CupThe Finnish League Cup is a knock-out football competition contested annually during pre-season in winter by teams from Veikkausliiga.-Finnish League Cup finals:...
(1): 1995
European campaigns
| Season | Competition | Round | Country | Club | Score | Agg. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961–62 | European Cup | First round |  |
Standard Liège Standard Liège Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège (Dutch: Standard Luik [], German: Standard Lüttich , is a Belgian football club from the city of Liège.... |
1-5, v 0-2 | 1-7 |
| 1963–64 | European Cup | Preliminary round |  |
Jeunesse d'Esch | 4-1, v 0-4 | 4-5 |
| 1964–65 | European Cup Winners' Cup | First round |  |
Skeid Fotball Skeid Fotball Skeid Fotball is a Norwegian football club and is located in the capital Oslo. Its current home field is Bislett. In past decades it has gained a reputation as a talent factory for the larger clubs in Norwegian football, and it has produced several players for the national team such as Daniel... |
0-1, v 2-0 | 2-1 |
| Second round |  |
AC Torino | 0-1, v 0-5 | 0-6 | ||
| 1966–67 | European Cup | First round | |
RSC Anderlecht | 1-10, v 0-2 | 1-12 |
| 1970–71 | European Cup Winners' Cup | First round |  |
CSKA Sofia | 0-9, v 1-2 | 1-11 |
| 1977–78 | UEFA Cup | First round |  |
Górnik Zabrze Górnik Zabrze Górnik Zabrze is a Polish football club from Zabrze. The club has won numerous championships, and was a dominant force in the 1960s and 1980s. For now Górnik has the most titles in Poland. The club plays in white or dark blue - red kit, and is based at the Ernest Pohl Stadium... |
3-5, v 0-0 | 3-5 |
| 1978–79 | European Cup | First round |  |
Dynamo Kiev | 0-1, v 1-3 | 1-4 |
| 1981–82 | UEFA Cup | First round |  |
IFK Göteborg IFK Göteborg IFK Göteborg is a Swedish professional football club based in Gothenburg. Founded in 1904, the club has won 18 national championship titles, five national cup titles, and two UEFA Cups.... |
2-3, v 0-4 | 2-7 |
| 1983–84 | European Cup Winners' Cup | First round |  |
Sligo Rovers | 1-0, v 3-0 | 4-0 |
| Second round | |
Hammarby IF Hammarby IF Hammarby Fotboll is a Swedish football club based in Johanneshov - just south of Södermalm, the southernmost district of Stockholm city centre... |
1-1, v 2-1(aet) | 3-2 | ||
| Quarter-finals | |
Juventus | 0-1, v 0-1 | 0-2 | ||
| 1986–87 | European Cup Winners' Cup | First round | |
FC Torpedo Moscow FC Torpedo Moscow FC Torpedo Moscow is an association football club, based in Moscow, Russia. The club was founded in 1930. On March 19, 2009 it was denied membership of the Professional Football League and did not play in the professional competitions in 2009... |
2-2, v 1-3 | 3-5 |
| 1989–90 | European Cup Winners' Cup | First round |  |
Ferencvárosi TC | 1-5, v 1-1 | 2-6 |
| 1996-97 | UEFA Cup | First qualifying round |  |
FC Flora Tallinn FC Flora Tallinn MTÜ JK FC Flora is an Estonian football club that was founded in 1990. FC Flora are a multiple winner of the Meistriliiga title and the Estonian Cup. They have for years been raising the most number of players for the national team, and have also grown players from their successful youth system... |
2-2, v 1-0 | 3-2 |
| Second qualifying round | |
Legia Warszawa Legia Warszawa Legia Warszawa is a professional football club based in Warsaw, Poland. It was founded in March 1916 in the area of Maniewicze in Volhynia as the football club of the Polish Legions... |
0-3, v 1-1 | 1-4 | ||
| 1998–99 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | Qualifying round |  |
Bangor City | 2-0, v 1-0 | 3-0 |
| First round |  |
Panionios FC | 0-2, v 1-3 | 1-5 | ||
| 1999–2000 | UEFA Champions League | First qualifying round |  |
HB Tórshavn | 1-1, v 6-0 | 7-1 |
| Second qualifying round |  |
Rangers FC | 1-4, v 0-3 | 1-7 | ||
| 2000–01 | UEFA Champions League | First qualifying round |  |
Linfield FC | 1-2, v 1-0 | 2-2 (a Away goals rule The away goals rule is a method of breaking ties in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. By the away goals rule, the team that has scored more goals "away from home" will win if scores are otherwise equal... ) |
| Second qualifying round |  |
Inter Bratislava | 0-0, v 0-1(aet) | 0-1 | ||
| 2001–02 | UEFA Champions League | First qualifying round |  |
Valletta FC | 0-0, v 5-0 | 5-0 |
| Second qualifying round |  |
Maccabi Haifa Maccabi Haifa Maccabi Haifa is a sports club in Israel, founded in 1913, and part of the Maccabi association. It runs several sports clubs and teams in Haifa which have competed in a variety of sports over the years, such as Football, Weightlifting, swimming, Tennis, Table tennis, Volleyball, Team handball,... |
0-1, v 3-0 | 3-1 | ||
| Third qualifying round |  |
Liverpool FC | 0-5, v 1-4 | 1-9 | ||
| 2001-02 | UEFA Cup | First round |  |
1. FC Union Berlin 1. FC Union Berlin 1. FC Union Berlin is a German association football club based in Berlin. It is one of two sides in the city bearing the name Union that emerged during the Cold War and played in East Germany, while the other played in the west. The club currently plays in the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga.-Foundation to... |
1-1, v 0-3 | 1-4 |
| 2002 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | First round |  |
FK Obilić FK Obilic Fudbalski klub Obilić is a football club based in Belgrade, Serbia. Named after legendary Serbian medieval hero Miloš Obilić, the club currently competes in the Druga beogradska liga - grupa Dunav .The club's stadium is also named accordingly; to venerate the Serbian knight it is called the... |
2-1, v 1-1 | 3-2 |
| Second round | |
Fulham F.C. Fulham F.C. Fulham Football Club is a professional English Premier League club based in southwest London Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Founded in 1879, they play in the Premier League, their 11th current season... |
0-0, v 1-1 | 1-1 (a Away goals rule The away goals rule is a method of breaking ties in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. By the away goals rule, the team that has scored more goals "away from home" will win if scores are otherwise equal... ) |
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| 2003-04 | UEFA Cup | Qualifying round |  |
Hajduk Split | 2-1, v 0-1 | 2-2 (a Away goals rule The away goals rule is a method of breaking ties in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. By the away goals rule, the team that has scored more goals "away from home" will win if scores are otherwise equal... ) |
| 2004-05 | UEFA Cup | First qualifying round | |
Etzella Ettelbruck | 2-1, v 3-1 | 5-2 |
| Second qualifying round | |
Stabæk IF Stabæk IF Stabæk Idrætsforening is a Norwegian multi-sports club in Bærum, a municipality bordering on Oslo in the west.-Organization:It has sections for football, bandy, handball and alpine skiing. While the football team Stabæk Fotball is the most prominent, the men's bandy team has taken multiple national... |
1-3, v 1-3 | 2-6 | ||
| 2005–06 | UEFA Champions League | First qualifying round |  |
Pyunik F.C. | 1-0, v 2-2 | 3-2 |
| Second qualifying round | |
Vålerenga IF | 0-1, v 1-4 | 1-5 | ||
| 2006-07 | UEFA Cup | First qualifying round | |
Levadia Tallinn | 0-2, v 1-0 | 1-2 |
| 2007-08 | UEFA Cup | First qualifying round | |
Rhyl F.C. Rhyl F.C. Rhyl Football Club is a Welsh football club, playing in the Cymru Alliance.The club was founded in 1882 and the team plays its home matches at Belle Vue, Rhyl, which can accommodate 3,000 spectators.- History :Few clubs in the Welsh Premier League have as distinguished a past as Rhyl's... |
1-3, v 2-0 | 3-3 (a Away goals rule The away goals rule is a method of breaking ties in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. By the away goals rule, the team that has scored more goals "away from home" will win if scores are otherwise equal... ) |
| Second qualifying round |  |
FC Midtjylland FC Midtjylland FC Midtjylland is a professional Danish football team from Herning and Ikast. The team is a result of a merger between Ikast FS and Herning Fremad... |
1-2, v 2-5 | 3-7 | ||
| 2008-09 | UEFA Cup | First qualifying round | |
Cork City | 2-2, v 4–0 | 6-2 |
| Second qualifying round | |
Brøndby IF Brøndby IF Brøndby IF is a Danish professional football club based in Brøndbyvester, Brøndby, on the western outskirts of Copenhagen and is the biggest football club in Denmark with almost 2000 members. The club is also known as Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening, or Brøndby and BIF for short... |
0-4, v 0–2 | 0-6 |
Divisional movements
- Top Level (60 seasons): 1945, 1950–72, 1974–96, 1998–present day
- Second Level (11 seasons): 1938-43/44, 1945/46-49, 1973, 1997
Season to season
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Current squad
Staff
- Head Coach:
Sami RistiläSami RistiläSami Ristilä is a Finnish football manager and former player who has been managing FC Haka since September 2010 in the Veikkausliiga.- Career :... - Assistant Coach: Asko Jussila
- Fysiotherapist / GK coach: Erkka Heinä
- Fitness Coach: Juha-Pekka Taskinen
- Youth Program Director: Mikko Hatakka
Notable former players
Jhon Cagua Marlon HarewoodMarlon Harewood
Marlon Anderson Harewood is an English footballer who plays as a striker for Guangzhou R&F in China.Harewood started his career at Nottingham Forest. During his career there, he had loan spells at Haka and Ipswich Town before joining West Ham United in 2003 and then Aston Villa in 2007...
Guy "Biscuits" Salmon David Wilson Sergei Terehhov
Sergei Terehhov
Sergei Terehhov is an Estonian footballer, who plays in the Meistriliiga, for JK Nõmme Kalju. He is a winger.-Club career:...
Olli Huttunen
Olli Huttunen
Olavi "Olli" Huttunen is a Finnish football coach and former goalkeeper. He is the former head coach of the Finnish national team....
Mikko Innanen
Mikko Innanen (footballer)
Mikko Innanen is a Finnish football midfielder who currently plays for MYPA in Finland.-References:**...
Juuso Kangaskorpi
Juuso Kangaskorpi
Juuso Kangaskorpi is a Finnish football defender and manager who currently is player-manager of for the Ykkönen side Mikkelin Palloilijat in Finland. Kangaskorpi was a long-time captain of FC Haka in Veikkausliiga and coached the clubs A-juniors in 2008 before returning to his hometown club...
Martti Kuusela
Martti Kuusela
Martti Kuusela is an internationally successful Finnish football manager.Kuusela enjoyed a moderately successful career as a player in Finland. As a coach he won the Finnish championship in 1981 and 1990 with HJK Helsinki...
Toni Lehtinen
Toni Lehtinen
Toni Pekka Lehtinen is a Finnish professional football player who plays for Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho in Finland. Lehtinen plays as a striker.-Early career:...
Esko Malm Marko Myyry
Marko Myyry
Marko Myyry is a former Finnish footballer.-External links and references:* *...
Jari Niemi
Jari Niemi
Jari Niemi is a Finnish footballer who currently plays forFC Ilves in the third tier of Finnish football league system. He has also played for R.A.E.C. Mons, Standard Liège and K. Sint-Truidense V.V. in Belgium. In the Finnish Veikkausliiga Niemi has played for TPV Tampere, FC Haka and Tampere...
Mika Nurmela
Mika Nurmela
Mika Nurmela is a Finnish footballer who currently plays for the Veikkausliiga club AC Oulu.- Trivia :He is a right sided player who has played most of his career as a wide midfielder or winger, but can also play at full back....
Matti Paatelainen
Matti Paatelainen
Matti Paatelainen is a Finnish former international footballer who played as a striker.-Career:Paatelainen earned 47 caps for Finland, scoring eleven goals, between 1970 and 1977...
Mixu Paatelainen
Mixu Paatelainen
Mika-Matti Petteri "Mixu" Paatelainen is a former Finnish international football player and the current manager of the Finnish national team, having started the role in April 2011...
Juhani Peltonen
Juhani Peltonen
Juhani Peltonen is a former Finnish footballer.Peltonen was the first Finnish player to play in the German Bundesliga. The forward made 38 appearances for Hamburger SV between 1964 and 1966, scoring six goals...
Esko Ranta Janne Salli Teemu Tainio
Teemu Tainio
Teemu Tainio is a Finnish footballer, who currently plays for New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer.He can play both as a defensive and attacking midfielder and out wide. Tainio also played at right-back under Juande Ramos at Tottenham.-Early career:...
Ari Valvee
Ari Valvee
Ari Valvee is a retired football striker.During his club career, Valvee played for Haka, Vasalunds, HJK Helsinki and Pallo-Iirot.-External links:*...
Cherno Samba
Cherno Samba
Cherno Samba is a Gambian footballer who plays as a forward. His last club was Panetolikos in Greece. He represented England at every youth level up to the under-20 team, having moved to England at an early age. He earned his first full cap for Gambia in 2008. Samba began his career with Millwall...
András Babócsy Oleg Ivanov
Oleg Viktorovich Ivanov
Oleg Viktorovich Ivanov is a retired Russian professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1988 for FC Krasnaya Presnya Moscow.-Honours:* Soviet Top League runner-up: 1991.* Soviet Cup winner: 1992....
Valeri Popovitch
Valeri Popovitch
Valeri Aleksandrovich Popovitch is a Russian football striker with Finnish nationality. Popovitch is the all-time scoring leader of FC Haka. After his contract ended with HJK in 2010, he joined Ilves Tampere playing in Kakkonen, as a player-coach, signing a two-year contract.He has also capped...