Oulun Luistinseura

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OLS
Oulun Luistinseura.png
Full nameOulun Luistinseura
Founded1880
Ground Castrén
Capacity2500
Chairman Timo Salmi
Manager Mikko Isokangas
LeagueFootball:
Ykkönen
Floorball:
F-liiga
Website Club website

Oulun Luistinseura (or OLS) is a Finnish multi-sports club, based in Oulu. The club has football, bandy, bowling and floorball sections.

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Football

OLS football team was founded in 1941 by clubs bandy players. Throughout the years the club has played mostly in lower divisions, never competing in the highest tier of Finnish football except as a part of short lived merger with OTP called FC Oulu in the early 1990s. The most successful part of OLS is the youth academy which has produced many national team level players. Men's football team earned promotion to Kakkonen (the third tier of Finnish football) for 2014 season.

Since 2020, AC Oulu/OLS is the reserve team of Veikkausliiga club AC Oulu, and competed in third-tier Kakkonen in 2023 season. The team won the promotion to new third-tier Ykkönen for 2024.

Current squad

As of 6 February 2024 [1]

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

No.Pos.NationPlayer
17 MF Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Daniel Heikkinen
31 FW Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Narit Sarkkinen
33 MF Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Julius Körkkö
34 FW Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Olli Sassi
36 FW Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Rene Kähkönen
38 FW Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Eemil Merikanto
41 DF Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Santtu Seppänen
48 DF Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Otso-Pekka Parkkila
51 FW Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Julius Paananen
63 FW Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Aleksi Isomäki
68 GK Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Johannes Pentti
71 FW Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Eemeli Raittinen
DF Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Nikolas Similä
MF Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Asla Peltola
No.Pos.NationPlayer
DF Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Anselmi Nurmela
DF Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Eetu Saarela
MF Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Jesse Korhonen
DF Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Kasper Flygare
DF Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Touko Ridanpää
FW Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Lauritapio Tiainen
GK Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Juuso Saarikoski
MF Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Hugo Karlsson
GK Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Onni Sillanpää
FW Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Aleksi Räisänen
MF Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Vili Saarikoski
MF Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Lucas Piirto
FW Flag of Finland.svg  FIN Antti Torniainen

Bandy

Oulun Luistinseura beats Jyvaskylan Seudun Palloseura in the 2014 Finland men's national bandy championship final. Here playing at home at Pakkalan kentta. Bandyliiga Final Oulu 20140315 04.JPG
Oulun Luistinseura beats Jyväskylän Seudun Palloseura in the 2014 Finland men's national bandy championship final. Here playing at home at Pakkalan kenttä.

OLS is one of the most successful clubs in Finland and is the only non-Swedish or Russian/Soviet club to have won the Bandy World Cup, having won the title in 1976. In 1977 and 1990 they were European Cup runners-up.

OLS have won the Bandyliiga play-off to become Finnish champions 16 times the first was in 1970 and the most recent title was in 2014. [2] OLS has won the Finnish championship in the following years: 1970, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1991, 2001, 2003, 2008, 2009, and 2014.

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References

  1. "Joukkue 2024" (in Finnish). AC Oulu. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  2. "OLS Suomen mestari, Yrjö Utin ja Pekka Huovilan valokuvia" (in Finnish). Finland's Bandy Association. 15 March 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2014.