FC Kuusysi is a Finnish

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 town of Lahti

Lahti

Lahti is a city and municipality in Finland.Lahti is the capital of the Päijänne Tavastia region. It is situated on a bay at the southern end of lake Vesijärvi about north-east of the capital Helsinki...

. It currently plays in third tier of Finnish football (Kakkonen

Kakkonen

Kakkonen is the third tier of the Finnish football league system.-League structure:Kakkonen is divided to three groups of 14 clubs. A club plays each of the others in the same group twice, once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents. Clubs gain three points for a win, one for a...

). The homeground of FC Kuusysi is Lahden kisapuisto

Lahden kisapuisto

The Lahden kisapuisto is a multi-use stadium in Lahti, Finland. It is currently used mostly for football and hosts the home matches of FC City Stars. The stadium holds 4,000 people and is all-seater. It also hosted some football matches during the 1952 Summer Olympics.-External links:*...

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Kuusysi won several championships

Mestaruussarja

Mestaruussarja was the top division of Finnish football from 1930 to 1989. It was replaced by Veikkausliiga in 1990.In 1930 league format was used for the first time to decide Finnish champion. Before that from 1908 to 1929 the championship was decided with cup competition. The league was...

 during the 1980s. In Europe they managed to advance to quarter-finals in European Champion Clubs' Cup

European Champion Clubs' Cup

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 in season 1985–86. The team merged with Lahden Reipas in 1996 and founded FC Lahti

FC Lahti

FC Lahti is a Finnish football club, based in the town of Lahti. It currently plays in the Finnish First Division after placing last in Finnish Premier League during season 2010...

. Since 2006 Kuusysi played in lower divisions named FC City Stars. In the year 2010 City stars was dissolved and Kuusysi took their place in third tier.