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Oulun Luistinseura

Summary

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

OLS
Full nameOulun Luistinseura
Founded1880
GroundCastrén
Capacity2500
ChairmanTimo Salmi
ManagerMikko Isokangas
LeagueFootball:
Ykkönen
Floorball:
F-liiga
WebsiteClub website

Football edit

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 edit

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. Nation Player
17 MF   FIN Daniel Heikkinen
31 FW   FIN Narit Sarkkinen
33 MF   FIN Julius Körkkö
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
No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF   FIN Anselmi Nurmela
— 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

Bandy edit

 
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 edit

  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 edit

  • Official website