Oulun Luistinseura

OLS

Full name	Oulun Luistinseura
Founded	1880
Ground	Castrén
Capacity	2500
Chairman	Timo Salmi
Manager	Mikko Mannila
League	Football: Ykkönen Floorball: F-liiga
Website	https://ols.fi/
Home colours Away colours

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

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 14 September 2024 ^[1]

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 31 FW   FIN Narit Sarkkinen 34 FW   FIN Olli Sassi 36 FW   FIN Rene Kähkönen 38 FW   FIN Eemil Merikanto 41 DF   FIN Santtu Seppänen 48 DF   FIN Otso-Pekka Parkkila 51 FW   FIN Julius Paananen 63 FW   FIN Aleksi Isomäki 68 GK   FIN Johannes Pentti 71 FW   FIN Eemeli Raittinen — DF   FIN Nikolas Similä — MF   FIN Asla Peltola — DF   FIN Anselmi Nurmela — FW   FIN Onni Suutari

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF   FIN Eetu Saarela — MF   FIN Jesse Korhonen — DF   FIN Kasper Flygare — DF   FIN Touko Ridanpää — FW   FIN Lauritapio Tiainen — GK   FIN Juuso Saarikoski — MF   FIN Hugo Karlsson — GK   FIN Onni Sillanpää — FW   FIN Aleksi Räisänen — MF   FIN Vili Saarikoski — MF   FIN Lucas Piirto — FW   FIN Antti Torniainen — DF   FIN Santeri Silander

Bandy

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.

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.

External links

• Official website