FC Jazz
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| Full name | Football Club Jazz | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Jazz | ||
| Founded | 22 September 1934 | ||
| Stadium | Pori Stadium, Pori | ||
| Capacity | 12,600 | ||
| Manager | Ville Ulanen | ||
| League | Ykkönen | ||
| 2024 | Ykkönen, 6th of 12 | ||
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Football Club Jazz, commonly known as just Jazz, is a Finnish football club based in Pori, which plays in the Finnish third tier, Ykkönen. The club was founded in 1934 as Porin Pallo-Toverit. PPT changed its name to FC Jazz in November 1991.
FC Jazz is tied with several other clubs as the 13th most successful Finnish club by Finnish Championship titles. FC Jazz won the Finnish Championship twice (1993, 1996). Other medals for the club include Finnish Championship bronze (1992), Finnish Cup silver (1994) and Finnish League Cup silver (1994).
History
[edit]PPT 1934–1991
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FC Jazz was established in 1934 as Porin Pallo-Toverit (PPT for short) by 18 young men who had previously played football in the local sports club Pyrintö. The founders had strong labour movement background and PPT immediately joined the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation (TUL). PPT had also a section for bandy and ice hockey.[1]
PPT played its first years in TUL regional series and after the second world war in TUL national divisions. The club made its debut in Finnish Football Association's national divisions in 1948 Suomensarja which was the second tier of Finnish football. After six more seasons in TUL series PPT joined the FA's divisions permanently in 1955 playing third or fourth tiers up to the 1980s. In 1982 PPT was promoted to 1. division and year later to the premier division Mestaruussarja.[1]
FC Jazz 1991–present
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In 1991 PPT changed its name for FC Jazz. The name was inspired by Pori Jazz festival, which is one of the most popular jazz festivals in Europe. FC Jazz won two Finnish championship titles in 1993 and 1996. The club was relegated to second tier in 2004, but the first team was dissolved 2005 as a result of financial problems.
FC Jazz youth section had been separated from the league organisation since 2002, and was known as FC Jazz-juniorit (FC Jazz-j). In 2006, the club started competing with the league license of its youth organisation, and were placed in the sixth-tier Vitonen, administrated by the Finnish Football Association Satakunta. Two years later, FC Jazz-j was promoted to third tier Kakkonen, which is the lowest national level in Finnish football. In 2010, FC Jazz-juniorit were allowed to start using the name FC Jazz. In 2013, FC Jazz was promoted to second-tier Ykkönen after beating Ekenäs IF 4–2 on aggregate in the promotion playoffs.[2] FC Jazz was relegated back to the Kakkonen for the 2017 season, but got promoted back to Ykkönen, the new nation-wide third-tier, for the 2024 season. In 2024, the new second tier Ykkösliiga was founded and Ykkönen had been demoted one level in the Finnish football league system.[3] In the inaugural season of the competition, Jazz finished 5th in Ykkönen.
Name changes
[edit]- Porin Pallo-Toverit (PPT, 1934–1991)
- FC Jazz (1991–present)
Rivalries
[edit]FC Jazz's main rival is considered to be the other Pori club Musan Salama. The games between MuSa and Jazz are known as the Pori Derby.[4][5][6] Other rival for Jazz is the Rauma club Pallo-Iirot.[7][8]
Honours
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- Finnish Championship:
- Finnish Cup:
- Runners-up (1): 1995
- Finnish League Cup:
- Runners-up (1): 1994
Domestic competition record
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Season to season of FC Jazz
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European competitions
[edit]| Season | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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| 1997–1998 | 1st qualifying round |  FC Lantana |
2–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 |
| 2nd qualifying round |  Feyenoord |
1–2 | 2–6 | 3–8 |
| Season | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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| 1994–95 | Preliminary round |  FC Copenhagen |
0–4 | 1–0 | 1–4 |
| 1996–97 | Preliminary round |  GÍ Gøta |
3–1 | 1–0 | 4–1 |
| Qualifying round |  Dynamo Moscow |
1–3 | 1–1 | 2–4 | |
| 1997–98 | 1st round |  1860 Munich |
0–1 | 1–6 | 1–7 |
| Season | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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| 2001 | 1st round |  Gloria Bistrița |
1–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 |
| 2nd round |  Paris Saint-Germain |
1–4 | 0–3 | 1–7 |
Current squad
[edit]- As of 12 January 2025[11]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Farm team
[edit]Euran Pallo of the Finnish fifth division Kolmonen works as FC Jazz's farm team.[12]
Former players
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All following players who have represented FC Jazz have been capped at least once by their respective national team's first squad.
References
[edit]- ^ a b PPT 1934–1984 50th Anniversary book.
- ^ "Europa League football for Vaasa in 2014". Yle News. 20 October 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
- ^ "Jalkapallo | FC Jazz nousee Ykköseen, vaikka sarjaporras pysyy jatkossakin samana: stadionilla raikasi lauantaina laulu: "Tämä oli hyvä tulos meille"". Satakunnan Kansa (in Finnish). 2023-10-07. Retrieved 2024-04-10.
- ^ "Jalkapallo | Katso tallenne: MuSa ja FC Jazz kohtasivat – Porin derby pelattiin ilman yleisöä". Satakunnan Kansa (in Finnish). 12 March 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
- ^ "Jalkapallo | Kauden ensimmäisestä Porin derbystä muodostui todellinen trilleri, MuSa kukisti Jazzin lopulta rangaistuspotkuilla: "Derbyvoitto on aina iso juttu"". Satakunnan Kansa (in Finnish). 9 April 2022. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
- ^ "Jalkapallo | FC Jazz ja MuSa iskivät yhteen Suomen cupissa – tallenne katsottavissa". Satakunnan Kansa (in Finnish). 6 April 2022. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
- ^ Kansa, Satakunnan (2019-09-14). "Pallo-Iirot voitti Juuso Aallon maaleilla Satakunnan derbyn – Katso tallenne pelistä". Satakunnan Kansa (in Finnish). Retrieved 2024-06-18.
- ^ Kansa, Satakunnan (2020-07-31). "FC Jazz ja Pallo-Iirot taistelivat tärkeistä pisteistä – Katso tästä tallenne pelistä". Satakunnan Kansa (in Finnish). Retrieved 2024-06-18.
- ^ "Home". tulospalvelu.palloliitto.fi.
- ^ "Home". finlandfootball.net.
- ^ "FC Jazz : Pelaajat" (in Finnish). Football Association of Finland. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
- ^ "FC Jazz on solminut farmisopimuksen Euran Pallon kanssa". Yle Uutiset (in Finnish). 2024-02-09. Retrieved 2024-06-16.
External links
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