Kokkolan Tiikerit

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Kokkolan Tiikerit (Finnish for Tigers of Kokkola) is a Finnish volleyball team in the 'Mestaruusliiga' (Finnish volleyball league). The team's hometown is Kokkola, Finland. Tiikerit were the Finnish champions in 2013, 2015 and 2016 and in addition, won the Finnish Cup in 2014, 2015, and 2016. [1]

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History

Kokkolan Tiikerit was founded in 1974. The club was relegated to the first division in 1981. In the 2000s Tiikerit started challenging for promotion back to the top level of Finnish volleyball. They climbed back to the Finnish volleyball league in 2011 by winning the first division league in 2011 and the championship's qualification game series against Joensuun Riento. Ever since, Tiikerit has been improving. In 2013, the club won the Finnish Cup and won the gold medal in the Finnish volleyball championships. At the time, the club's head coach Tommi Tiilikainen was only 25 years old which made him the youngest coach ever to win any Finnish league. [2]

In 2014, Tiikerit won the Finnish cup and placed second in the Finnish volleyball championships. In 2015, Tiikerit won both the Finnish Cup[ citation needed ] and the Finnish championships. [3] They repeated this achievement in 2016. Simultaneously, the club won a record 36 games in a row in the Finnish volleyball league. [4] They also reached 85 points in the regular season, which is an all-time record in the history of the Finnish Volleyball league. [5] [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Kokkolan Tiikerit - Ottelut - Tiikerit - VaLePa" . Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "Nuoria mestarivalmentajia". HS.fi. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  3. ↑ Anu Karttunen (15 April 2016). "VaLePan murska-aloitus ei häkellyttänyt Tiikereitä – Ropposesta voiton takuumies" [Strong start by VaLePa did not startle the Tigers - victory guaranteed by Ropponen]. urheilu.beta.yle.fi (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 25 April 2016. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  4. ↑ Manu Myllyaho (13 April 2016). "Tiikerit omaa luokkaansa ensimmäisessä finaalissa" [Tiikerit in a league of their own in the first final]. urheilu.beta.yle.fi (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 25 April 2016. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  5. ↑ "VaLePa katkaisi Tiikereiden voittokulun". Mestaruusliiga. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  6. ↑ "Kokkolan Tiikerit - Ottelut - Riento, Joensuu - Tiikerit". Archived from the original on 9 April 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
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