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Rovaniemen Palloseura

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RoPS
Full nameRovaniemen Palloseura
Founded1950; 76 years ago (1950)
GroundKeskuskenttä,
Rovaniemi
Capacity2,803
ChairmanMatti Poikajärvi
ManagerJari Alamäki
LeagueYkkönen
2024Ykkönen, 5th of 12
Websitewww.rops.fi

Rovaniemen Palloseura (RoPS) is a football club founded in 1950 and based in Rovaniemi, Finland. RoPS played in the Finnish Premier Division, (Veikkausliiga) for 32 years, from 1981 to 2021. In 2021, RoPS withdrew from professional football and voluntarily relegated to the amateur Kakkonen division. The club plays home games at the Rovaniemen Keskuskenttä in the Arctic Circle of Lapland.

History

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Keskuskenttä, home ground of RoPS

RoPS have won the Finnish Cup on two occasions, in 1986 and 2013, and were runners-up in 1962. They placed third in the Finnish Premier Division in 1988 and 1989, before finishing as runner-up in 2015, losing out on the title by 1 point to eventual champions SJK. The club's most notable international achievement was reaching the quarter-finals of the European Cup-Winners' Cup in 1987–88 against Marseille.

Match fixing allegations and scandal

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Throughout the 2000s, RoPS became infamous for suspected involvement in match fixing.

In spring 2011 the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation started a large investigation into match fixing. On February 25 Singaporean businessman Wilson Raj Perumal, a convicted match fixer, was arrested after entering Finland with a fake passport. The National Bureau of Investigation suspected that over 30 games between 2008 and 2011, mostly from the Finnish premier league, had been fixed or manipulated.[1]

On July 19, 2011, the Rovaniemi Court of Appeal convicted Perumal and nine RoPS players of match-fixing. Altogether 24 games had been manipulated, and the intended score had been achieved in 11 of them. Perumal was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to return 150,000 euros deemed to be match-fixing profits. The bribes ranged from 500 euros offered to one player to a total of 80,000 euros offered to eight players. The highest total of bribes for one individual was slightly over 40,000 euros. The players received suspended sentences. The sentenced players were six Zambian and two Georgian players: Godfrey Chibanga, Chileshe Chibwe, Francis Kombe, Stephen Kunda, Christopher Musonda, Chanda Mwaba, Nchimunya Mweetwa, Pavle Khorguashvili, and Valter Khorguashvili.[2]

Domestic history

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European history

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Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
1987–88 Cup Winners' Cup 1R Northern Ireland Glentoran 0–0 1–1 1–1(a)
2R Albania Vllaznia 1–0 1–0 2–0
QF France Marseille 0–1 0–3 0–4
1989–90 UEFA Cup 1R Poland GKS Katowice 1–1 1–0 2–1
2R France Auxerre 0–5 0–3 0–8
1990–91 UEFA Cup 1R East Germany 1. FC Magdeburg 0–1 0–0 0–1
2014–15 UEFA Europa League 2Q Greece Asteras Tripolis 1–1 2–4 3–5
2016–17 UEFA Europa League 1Q Republic of Ireland Shamrock Rovers 1–1 2–0 3–1
2Q Croatia Lokomotiva 1–1 0–3 1–4
2019–20 UEFA Europa League 1Q Scotland Aberdeen 1–2 1–2 2–4
Notes
  • 1R: First round
  • 2R: Second round
  • 1Q: First qualifying round
  • QF: Quarter-finals

Honours

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Current squad

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As of 27 July 2026[4]

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
1 GK  FIN Tino Korhonen
2 DF  FIN Aamos Oinas
4 DF  FIN Jonne Koistinen
6 MF  FIN Weeti Wimmer
7 FW  FIN Valtteri Vatanen
8 MF  FIN Kimi Isometsä
9 FW  FIN Onni Suutari
10 FW  FIN Adam Mekki
11 FW  FIN Tomas Varhi
12 GK  FIN Mikko Rantala
13 DF  FIN Topias Listo
14 MF  CAN Rodane Cato
16 DF  FIN Joel Niska
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 DF  FIN Lloyd Ojo
19 MF  FIN Turkka Katermaa
20 FW  FIN Simo Roiha
22 FW  FIN Aapo Savolainen
23 MF  GER Finn Heiserholt
25 DF  FIN Arttu Leppänen
27 MF  FIN Oliver Wimmer
28 DF  FIN Veeti Katermaa
29 MF  FIN Miika Korhonen
30 GK  NIR Dylan Berry
35 MF  FIN Veeti Mäntymäki
77 MF  CAN Shameiks McLeod
— DF  NED Boy Nijgh

Management and boardroom

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Management

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As of 18 February 2020.

Name Role
Finland Vesa Tauriainen Head Coach
Finland Mika Pulkkinen Coach
Finland Jari Alamäki Fitness Coach
Finland Ossi Koskela Goalkeeping Coach
Finland Tuomas Könönen Physiotherapist
Finland Vilma Poutiainen
Scotland David Coull Kit Manager
Finland Essi Jokelainen Masseur
Finland Olavi Tammimies Team Manager

Boardroom

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As of 18 February 2020[5]

Name Role
Finland Risto Niva Chairman, Managing director
Finland Pekka Konstenius Vice chairman
Finland Jari Ilola Director of Football

Rovaniemi Football Academy

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Rovaniemi Football Academy (RFA)[6] is the reserve team of RoPS. The team plays in Kakkonen in 2020 season. It is coached by Aleksi Tanner.

As of 14 September 2020[7]

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
11 GK  FIN Lauri Vetri
24 MF  FIN Kirill Bullat
30 GK  FIN Tino Korhonen
35 GK  FIN Pauli Tuisku
36 MF  FIN Vertti Hänninen
37 DF  FIN Joona Lahdenmäki
36 MF  FIN Jonne Länsipää
39 DF  FIN Akseli Kantola
40 MF  FIN Ville Ojala
40 FW  FIN Santeri Matilainen
41 MF  FIN Jonne Koistinen
42 MF  FIN Riku-Veli Niska
No. Pos. Nation Player
43 FW  FIN Joona Kähkönen
44 DF  FIN Tuomas Leppäkangas
46 FW  FIN Adam Mekki
47 FW  FIN Janne Ojaniemi
49 MF  EGY Karam Hadhoud
50 DF  FIN Severi Salmirinne
52 DF  FIN Miska Ylitolva
53 MF  FIN Roni Pietsalo
54 FW  FIN Antti Salmi
56 DF  FIN Luka Kuittinen
57 DF  FIN Sampo Ala-Iso

Managers

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References

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  1. ↑ Susanna Kemppainen. "RoPS:lla yli 30 epäiltyä sopupeliä | Pohjois-Suomi". Kaleva.fi. Retrieved 2012-02-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  2. ↑ Uusi Suomi. "Oikeus: Sopupeleistä 150 000 euroa – 2 vuotta vankeutta — Uusi Suomi". Uusisuomi.fi. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  3. ↑ "Home". finlandfootball.net.
  4. ↑ Miesten edustus, rops.fi, 27 July 2026
  5. ↑ "Yhteystiedot" (in Finnish). RoPS. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  6. ↑ "RoPS/2 on jatkossa Rovaniemi Football Academy". rops.fi. RoPS. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  7. ↑ "Kokoonpano: Rovaniemi Football Academy 2020". rops.fi. RoPS. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
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