Tampere United

The club was formed in July 1998. The initial plan was to merge two local football clubs FC Ilves and TPV but TPV decided to continue as its own team. FC Ilves continued to play in lower divisions and Tampere United inherited its place in the second highest division.

In their first season, 1999 they won promotion to the top division, 15 months after the formation of the club. During season 2000 they reached sixth place in the league. In their third season 2001 they won the Finnish championship.

In 2002, they finished in fifth place, and in 2003, third place. In 2006, Tampere United won their 2nd Finnish Championship and one year later, in 2007, they were the champions yet again taking home their 3rd title.

During the 2007 season, Tampere United also reached the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League. Tampere defeated Bulgarian champions Levski Sofia 2–0 on aggregate in the second qualifying round. Tampere United failed to reach the Champions League group stage when Rosenborg BK defeated them 5–0 on aggregate. In the UEFA Cup first round, United lost to Girondins de Bordeaux 4–3 on aggregate.

On 14 April 2011 the club were suspended indefinitely by the Football Association of Finland because they had received money from a dubious company based in Singapore, known for involvement in fixed games and money laundering. The club was excluded from the 2011 season of Veikkausliiga.^[1] Players under contract were released due to lack of funds.

The club did not participate in any league in 2012 or 2013. In April 2013 the Turku Court of Appeal found the former CEO Deniz Bavautdin and the former chairman of the board Harri Pyhältö guilty of money laundering.

Supporters of Tampere United founded a supporters' trust in 2009 after the club had hit financial difficulties. The aim was to help fans gain a voice within the club and to buy shares of the club.

In 2012 the supporters' trust founded a new team named after the supporters' trust, TamU-K, In 2012 the team played in Kutonen, the bottom division in Finnish football, and gained promotion to Vitonen. The promotion playoff match that decided promotion had the attendance of 441.^[2] In 2013 the team was promoted to Vitonen and in 2014 the team made it to penalties in the promotion playoff and lost.^[3] After another season in Nelonen TamU-K was promoted to Kolmonen,

In the lead up to the 2016 season, Tampere United took over all the teams that played under TamU-K. Thereby the first team played in Kolmonen in 2016, and after the season it got promoted Kakkonen. In 2017 Tampere United finished sixth in Kakkonen Group B and in 2018 it finished ninth in Group C, and remains in Kakkonen in the 2019 season.

Veikkausliiga

• Champions: 2001, 2006, 2007

Finnish Cup

• Champions: 2007
• Runners-up: 2001, 2009

Finnish League Cup

• Champions: 2009
• Runners-up: 2011

Finnish Regions’ Cup

• Champions: 2021

As of 9 May 2021

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  FIN Riku Tanila 29 GK  FIN Henri Savolainen 30 GK  FIN Aapo Sipponen 32 GK  FIN Antti Kuusinen 3 DF  FIN Matias Stark 4 DF  FIN Eino-Veikko Ek 6 DF  FIN Severi Kankkunen 7 DF  FIN Mauno Sirén 8 FW  FIN Topias Järvelä 9 FW  FIN Eric Bullock 10 MF  FIN Ali Aitbenzanzoun 11 FW  FIN Roope Kostiainen 13 MF  FIN Anton Bright 15 DF  FIN Jesse Vuori

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 DF  FIN Paavo Kujala 17 FW  FIN Jesse Oksanen 18 FW  FIN Panu Väliaho 19 FW  FIN Hakim Belbachir 20 MF  FIN Arttu Haapala 21 DF  FIN Pyry Virtanen 22 MF  GER Markus Kopf 23 DF  FIN Po Law 24 MF  FIN Arttu Mättö 25 FW  FIN Iikka Häkkinen 26 DF  FIN Verneri Uimonen 27 MF  FIN Nils Strömsholm 41 MF  FIN Eetu Räisänen — MF  FIN Taha Özcelik

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