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

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, OLS is the reserve team of Veikkausliiga club AC Oulu, playing in Kakkonen. The team won the promotion to new Ykkönen after the 2023 season.

Current squad

As of 21 December 2023[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
31 FW Finland FIN Narit Sarkkinen
34 FW Finland FIN Olli Sassi
38 FW Finland FIN Eemil Merikanto
41 DF Finland FIN Santtu Seppänen
63 FW Finland FIN Aleksi Isomäki
68 GK Finland FIN Johannes Pentti
71 FW Finland FIN Eemeli Raittinen
74 DF Finland FIN Otso-Pekka Parkkila
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Finland FIN Julius Körkkö
— MF Finland FIN Asla Peltola
— DF Finland FIN Anselmi Nurmela
— DF Finland FIN Eetu Saarela
— MF Finland FIN Jesse Korhonen
— DF Finland FIN Kasper Flygare
— DF Finland FIN Touko Ridanpää
— FW Finland FIN Lauritapio Tiainen

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.


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