Pallo-Iirot Explained

Clubname:Pallo-Iirot
Fullname:Pallo-Iirot
Nickname:P-Iirot
Founded:1930
Ground:Äijänsuon stadion, Rauma
Capacity:2,000
Chairman:Tarmo Salvi
Mgrtitle:Head Coach
Manager:Hannu Touru
Coach:Scott Green
League:Kakkonen
Season:2019
Position:7th – Kakkonen (Group B)
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Pallo-Iirot (abbreviated P-Iirot) is a football club from Rauma in Finland. The club was formed in 1930 and their home ground is at the Äijänsuon stadion. The men's first team currently plays in the Kakkonen. The Chairman of Pallo-Iirot is Tarmo Salvi.

Background

The club was known as Iirot when it was established in 1930 and it has since taken a number of forms:

In the 1940s, the club also played bandy for a few years.

At the beginning of the 1990s the leading football clubs in Rauma, namely Rauman Pallo and Pallo-Iirot, merged to form Rauman Pallo-Iirot. A few years later the name reverted to Pallo-Iirot. The other club based in the town is FC Rauma.

Since 1982 Pallo-Iirot has played 14 seasons in the Ykkönen (First Division), the second tier of Finnish football, in the periods 1984–85, 1991, 1993–2001 and 2004–05.[2]

They also have had six spells in the third tier, the Kakkonen (Second Division), covering 12 seasons from 1983, 1986–87, 1990, 1992, 2002–03 and 2006 to the present day.[3]

The club has approximately 1,000 members comprising both boys and girls and offers the whole family the possibility to engage in football.

Season to season

SeasonLevelDivisionSectionAdministrationPositionMovements
2000Tier 2 Ykkönen North GroupFinnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto)7thRelegation Group – 7th
2001Tier 2 Ykkönen North GroupFinnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto)9thRelegated
2002Tier 3KakkonenWest GroupFinnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto)8th
2003Tier 3Kakkonen West GroupFinnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto)1stPlay-offs – Promoted
2004Tier 2 Ykkönen Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto)10th
2005Tier 2 Ykkönen Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto)14thRelegated
2006Tier 3Kakkonen Group BFinnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto)6th
2007Tier 3Kakkonen Group BFinnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto)9th
2008Tier 3KakkonenGroup BFinnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto)6th
2009Tier 3KakkonenGroup BFinnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto)5th
2010Tier 3KakkonenGroup BFinnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto)4th
2011Tier 3KakkonenGroup BFinnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto)3rd
2012Tier 3KakkonenWest GroupFinnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto)3rd
2013Tier 3KakkonenWest GroupFinnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto)3rd
2014Tier 3Kakkonen West GroupFinnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto)8th
2015Tier 3KakkonenWest GroupFinnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto)8thRelegated
2016Tier 4KolmonenTampereenFinnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto)3rd
2017Tier 4KolmonenLänsi-SuomenFinnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto)3rd
2018Tier 4KolmonenLänsi-SuomenFinnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto)1stPromoted
2019Tier 3KakkonenGroup BFinnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto)7th
2020Tier 3KakkonenGroup BFinnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto)

Junior Section

Pallo-Iirot has the Seal of approval for football which is an acknowledgement for quality of its youth activities in Finland. The club's youth team's programme is based on the active participation of the parents. P-Iirot welcomes the parents together with their children to join the club activities by becoming the youth teams' coaches, and managers or to otherwise support their children's team's activities.

The Nappulaliiga (Little league) offers sports and games, emphasising football, twice a week for the ages of 3 to 11 years. The programme runs from April until September.

Club Structure

Pallo-Iirot currently has 2 men's teams, 1 ladies team, 9 boys teams and 4 girls teams. In the winter the club practices at Äijänsuo indoor hall and on the heated astro-turf.

References and sources

Notes and References

  1. News: Finland – Divisional Movements 1930–2009 . 2010 . . 2010-05-14.
  2. News: Finland – Divisional Movements 1930–2009 . 2010 . . 2010-05-14.
  3. News: Finland – Divisional Movements 1930–2009 . 2010 . . 2010-05-14.