FC Kiffen 08


Kronohagens Idrottsförening is a sports club from Helsinki, Finland. The club was founded on 27 September 1908, and has been mainly known for the achievements of its association football and handball teams. In the past the club also played at the top level in ice hockey and has won the Kalevan malja in athletics. Other sports that the club participates include shooting, bandy, bowling, and boxing.
The men's football team is historically one of the most successful teams in Finland, and won the national football championship on three occasions during the 1910s, but currently plays in the Kakkonen, the third tier of Finnish football. The football section of Kronohagens Idrottsforening is now known as FC Kiffen 08.

Football

History

Kiffen football is known as the Mustat Hurmurit. The name comes from the late 1920s when the black coloured jersey was first introduced bu Kiffen bandy team. Kiffen had two representatives, Ragnar Wickström and Lars Schybergson, in the Finnish football team at the Stockholm Olympics in 1912. The club then won the Finnish football championship in 1913, 1915 and 1916 in the years prior to Finnish independence in 1917. Kiffen's last championship win came much later in 1955.
The decline in Kiffen football set in a decade later when the club were relegated from the Mestaruussarja and then a further relegation from the Suomensarja, the second tier, followed in 1965 to the Maakuntasarja, the third tier. Fortunes fluctuated in the late 1960s and early 1970s before the club made its last appearances in the Mestaruussarja in 1977 and 1978. Among the players representing Kiffen at that time were Erkki Alaja, Juha Dahllund, Kai Haaskivi, Atik Ismail and Reima Kokko.
The following year in 1978 Kiffen had dropped to the Ykkönen and in the subsequent years the club have not reached second-tier football. Over the last 30 years the club has fluctuated between the Kakkonen and Kolmonen.
In 1982 and 1983 Kiffen's ladies team reached the Finnish Women's league championship qualifiers and from 1984 until 1989 played in the Premier Division after which the team withdrew with their divisional place being inherited by MP Mikkeli.

Honours and achievements

  • Finnish Champions : 1913, 1915, 1916 and 1955
  • Finnish Cup : Runners–up in 1958.

    Divisional movements since 1930

Top Level : 1930–32, 1940/41–46/47, 1948–57, 1960–64, 1977–78

Second Level : 1936–39, 1947/48, 195859, 1965, 1969–74, 1976, 1979

Third Level : 1975, 1980–85, 1990, 1994–2004, 2009–2012, 2015–

Season to season

SeasonLevelDivisionSectionAdministrationPositionMovements
1930Tier 1 A-Sarja Finnish FA '6th
1931Tier 1 A-Sarja 'Finnish FA '4th
1932Tier 1 A-Sarja 'Finnish FA '8thRelegated
1933Tier 2 B-Sarja 'Helsinki Region QualifyingFinnish FA 'Did not Qualify to nationwide league
1934Tier 2 B-Sarja 'Western GroupFinnish FA '4th
1935Tier 2 B-Sarja 'West LeagueFinnish FA '5th
1936Tier 2 Itä-Länsi-sarja 'West LeagueFinnish FA '3rd
1937Tier 2 Itä-Länsi-sarja 'West LeagueFinnish FA '3rd
1938Tier 2 Itä-Länsi-sarja 'West League, South GroupFinnish FA '1stPromotion Playoff
1939Tier 2 Itä-Länsi-sarja 'West League, Group 1Finnish FA '1stPromotion Group West 1st – Promoted
1940Tier 1 Cup-CompetitionCup formatFinnish FA'Quarter-finals
1940–41Tier 1 Mestaruussarja Finnish FA '6th
1942Tier 1 Cup-CompetitionCup formatFinnish FA & TUL 'Quarter-finals
1943–44Tier 1 Mestaruussarja Finnish FA '4thQualifying round 2nd
1945Tier 1 SPL Mestaruussarja 'Groub BFinnish FA '4th
1945Tier 1 Cup-CompetitionCup formatFinnish FA & TUL 'Round of 32
1945–46Tier 1 SPL Mestaruussarja Finnish FA '5th
1946–47Tier 1 SPL Mestaruussarja 'Finnish FA '8thRelegated
1947–48Tier 2 Suomensarja 'South GroupFinnish FA '1stPromotion Group 1st – Promoted
1948Tier 1 Mestaruussarja 'Finnish FA '6th
1949Tier 1 Mestaruussarja 'Finnish FA '3rd
1950Tier 1 Mestaruussarja 'Finnish FA '6th
1951Tier 1 Mestaruussarja 'Finnish FA '7th
1952Tier 1 Mestaruussarja 'Finnish FA '8th
1953Tier 1 Mestaruussarja 'Finnish FA '7th
1954Tier 1 Mestaruussarja 'Finnish FA '7th
1955Tier 1 Mestaruussarja 'Finnish FA '1stChampions
1956Tier 1 Mestaruussarja 'Finnish FA '3rd
1957Tier 1 Mestaruussarja 'Finnish FA '9thRelegated
1958Tier 2 Suomensarja 'South GroupFinnish FA '2nd
1959Tier 2 Suomensarja 'South GroupFinnish FA '1stPromoted
1960Tier 1 Mestaruussarja 'Finnish FA '3rd
1961Tier 1 Mestaruussarja 'Finnish FA '2nd
1962Tier 1 Mestaruussarja 'Finnish FA '9th
1963Tier 1 Mestaruussarja 'Finnish FA '9th
1964Tier 1 Mestaruussarja 'Finnish FA '12thRelegated
1965Tier 2 Suomensarja 'West GroupFinnish FA '12thRelegated
1966Tier 3Maakuntasarja 'Group 1 HelsinkiFinnish FA '3rd
1967Tier 3Maakuntasarja 'Group 1 Helsinki & UusimaaFinnish FA '2nd
1968Tier 3Maakuntasarja 'Group 1 Helsinki & UusimaaFinnish FA '1stPromoted
1969Tier 2 Suomensarja 'East GroupFinnish FA '2nd
1970Tier 2 II Divisioona 'East GroupFinnish FA '5th
1971Tier 2 II Divisioona 'East GroupFinnish FA '8th
1972Tier 2 II Divisioona 'East GroupFinnish FA '4th
1973Tier 2 I Divisioona 'Finnish FA '8th
1974Tier 2 I Divisioona 'Finnish FA '12thRelegated
1975Tier 3II Divisioona 'East GroupFinnish FA '1stPromoted
1976Tier 2 I Divisioona 'Finnish FA '1stPromoted
1977Tier 1 Mestaruussarja 'Finnish FA '8th
1978Tier 1 Mestaruussarja 'Finnish FA '11thRelegated
1979Tier 2 I Divisioona 'Finnish FA '12thRelegation Group 8th – Relegated
1980Tier 3II Divisioona 'East GroupFinnish FA '8th
1981Tier 3II Divisioona 'East GroupFinnish FA '9th
1982Tier 3II Divisioona 'East GroupFinnish FA '5th
1983Tier 3II Divisioona 'East GroupFinnish FA '7th
1984Tier 3II Divisioona 'East GroupFinnish FA '7th
1985Tier 3II Divisioona 'West GroupFinnish FA '11thRelegated
1986Tier 4III divisioona 'Group 2Helsinki & Uusimaa4th
1987Tier 4III divisioona Group 2Helsinki & Uusimaa9th
1988Tier 4III divisioona Group 2Helsinki & Uusimaa8th
1989Tier 4III divisioona Group 1Helsinki & Uusimaa1stPromoted
1990Tier 3II Divisioona East GroupFinnish FA '11thRelegated
1991Tier 4III divisioona 'Group 2Helsinki & Uusimaa7th
1992Tier 4III divisioona Group 1Helsinki & Uusimaa5th
1993Tier 4III divisioona Group 2Helsinki & Uusimaa2ndPromoted
1994Tier 3Kakkonen South GroupFinnish FA '9th
1995Tier 3Kakkonen 'South GroupFinnish FA '4th
1996Tier 3Kakkonen 'South GroupFinnish FA '6th
1997Tier 3Kakkonen 'South GroupFinnish FA '8th
1998Tier 3Kakkonen 'East GroupFinnish FA '5th
1999Tier 3Kakkonen 'South GroupFinnish FA '3rd
2000Tier 3Kakkonen 'South GroupFinnish FA '5th
2001Tier 3Kakkonen 'South GroupFinnish FA '7th
2002Tier 3Kakkonen 'South GroupFinnish FA '6th
2003Tier 3Kakkonen 'South GroupFinnish FA '10th
2004Tier 3Kakkonen 'South GroupFinnish FA '12thRelegated
2005Tier 4Kolmonen 'Section 1Helsinki & Uusimaa '3rd
2006Tier 4Kolmonen 'Section 3Helsinki & Uusimaa '5th
2007Tier 4Kolmonen 'Section 2Helsinki & Uusimaa '2nd
2008Tier 4Kolmonen 'Section 3Helsinki & Uusimaa '1stPromoted
2009Tier 3Kakkonen 'Group AFinnish FA '8th
2010Tier 3Kakkonen 'Group AFinnish FA '2nd
2011Tier 3Kakkonen 'Group AFinnish FA '9th
2012Tier 3Kakkonen 'Itäinen Finnish FA '9thRelegated
2013Tier 4Kolmonen 'Section 2Helsinki & Uusimaa '2nd
2014Tier 4Kolmonen 'Section 2Helsinki & Uusimaa '1stPromoted
2015Tier 3Kakkonen 'Itäinen Finnish FA '6th
2016Tier 3Kakkonen 'Itäinen Finnish FA '8th
2017Tier 3Kakkonen 'Itäinen Finnish FA '6th
2018Tier 3Kakkonen 'Group BFinnish FA '9th
2019Tier 3Kakkonen 'Group AFinnish FA '10th
2020Tier 3Kakkonen 'Group AFinnish FA '5th
2021Tier 3Kakkonen 'Group AFinnish FA '6th
2022Tier 3Kakkonen 'Group AFinnish FA '4th
2023Tier 3Kakkonen 'Group AFinnish FA '10th
2024Tier 4Kakkonen 'Group AFinnish FA '2ndPromotion Playoff 2nd round
2025Tier 4Kakkonen 'Group BFinnish FA '

  • 25 seasons in Mestaruussarja
  • 19 seasons in 2nd Tier
  • 32 seasons in 3rd Tier
  • 15' seasons in 4th Tier''