Oulun Luistinseura
Finnish sports club

Football club
OLS
Full nameOulun Luistinseura
Founded1880
GroundCastrén
Capacity2500
ChairmanTimo Salmi
ManagerMikko Mannila
LeagueFootball:
Ykkönen
Floorball:
F-liiga
Websitehttps://ols.fi/

Oulun Luistinseura (or OLS) is a Finnish multi-sports club, based in Oulu. The club has football, bandy, bowling and floorball sections. Since 2020, the club's football first team AC Oulu/OLS has been the reserve team of Veikkausliiga club AC Oulu and competes in Finnish third tier.

Football

OLS football team was founded in 1941 by clubs bandy players. Throughout the years the club has played mostly in lower divisions, never competing in the highest tier of Finnish football except as a part of short lived merger with OTP called FC Oulu in the early 1990s. The most successful part of OLS is the youth academy which has produced many national team level players. Men's football team earned promotion to Kakkonen (the third tier of Finnish football) for 2014 season.

Current squad

As of 14 September 2024[1]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
31 FW  FIN Narit Sarkkinen
34 FW  FIN Olli Sassi
36 FW  FIN Rene Kähkönen
38 FW  FIN Eemil Merikanto
41 DF  FIN Santtu Seppänen
48 DF  FIN Otso-Pekka Parkkila
51 FW  FIN Julius Paananen
63 FW  FIN Aleksi Isomäki
68 GK  FIN Johannes Pentti
71 FW  FIN Eemeli Raittinen
— DF  FIN Nikolas Similä
— MF  FIN Asla Peltola
— DF  FIN Anselmi Nurmela
— FW  FIN Onni Suutari
— DF  FIN Eetu Saarela
— MF  FIN Jesse Korhonen
No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF  FIN Kasper Flygare
— DF  FIN Touko Ridanpää
— FW  FIN Lauritapio Tiainen
— GK  FIN Juuso Saarikoski
— MF  FIN Hugo Karlsson
— GK  FIN Onni Sillanpää
— FW  FIN Aleksi Räisänen
— MF  FIN Vili Saarikoski
— MF  FIN Lucas Piirto
— FW  FIN Antti Torniainen
— DF  FIN Santeri Silander
— DF  FIN Sampo Ala-Iso
— GK  NGA Israel Oklenyi
— DF  NGA Chikadibia Nwachukwu
— MF  NGA Joel Omotayo

League history in Football

Bandy

Oulun Luistinseura beats Jyväskylän Seudun Palloseura in the 2014 Finland men's national bandy championship final. Here playing at home at Pakkalan kenttä.

OLS is one of the most successful clubs in Finland and is the only non-Swedish or Russian-Soviet club to have won the Bandy World Cup, having won the title in 1976. In 1977 and 1990 they were European Cup runners-up.

OLS have won the Bandyliiga play-off to become Finnish champions 16 times the first was in 1970 and the most recent title was in 2014.[4] OLS has won the Finnish championship in the following years: 1970, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1991, 2001, 2003, 2008, 2009, and 2014.

References

  1. ^ "Joukkue 2024" (in Finnish). AC Oulu. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Home". tulospalvelu.palloliitto.fi.
  3. ^ "Home". finlandfootball.net.
  4. ^ "OLS Suomen mestari, Yrjö Utin ja Pekka Huovilan valokuvia" (in Finnish). Finland's Bandy Association. 15 March 2014. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
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