Tampereen Pallo-Veikot

Tampereen Pallo-Veikot was founded in 1930 as a general sports club for workers. TPV played its first football match on 16 May 1930 against Tampereen Kisatoverit, and managed to win the district championship in their first season. In the 1932 season TPV won its first Finnish Worker's Sports Federation (TUL) football championship. Before the 1950s the clubs of the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation, such as TPV, played in their own leagues that were not connected to the Football Association of Finland. Tampereen Pallo-Veikot won the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation championship six times. Between 1930s and 1960s, TPV also had bandy, boxing and ice hockey sections, but nowadays TPV is purely a football club. In the 1960s TPV played three seasons at the highest level of Finnish ice hockey, but eventually disbanded its ice hockey section in 1969. TPV joined the Finnish FA in 1955 and competed in the top tier of the Finnish football league system for five seasons: in 1971, 1993–1995 and 1999. The most successful year was 1994 when the club won the Finnish Championship, but the next season the club was relegated to Ykkönen. In July 1998 TPV merged together with another Tampere club Ilves. A new club called Tampere United (TamU) was created. However, TPV left the merger soon after its creation and continued playing as its own team. In 1999 the club regained its Veikkausliiga status, but this only lasted for one season. In 2002 TPV had to abandon its place in the second tier…

Veikkausliiga

Champions: 1994