Oulun Luistinseura

Oulun Luistinseura is a Finnish multi-sports club, based in Oulu. The club has football, bandy, bowling and floorball sections. Since 2020, the club's football first team AC Oulu/OLS has been the reserve team of Veikkausliiga club AC Oulu and competes in Finnish third tier.

WWW ols.fi

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 for 2014 season.

League history in Football

4 season in 2nd Tier
37 seasons in 3rd Tier
22 seasons in 4th Tier

Season	Level	Division	Section	Administration	Position	Movements
1956	Tier 4	Aluesarja	Group 11 - Oulu	Finnish FA '	4th
1957	Tier 4	Aluesarja '	Group 17 - Oulu	Finnish FA '	3rd
1958	Tier 4	Aluesarja '	Group 16 - Oulu	Finnish FA '	1st	Promoted
1959	Tier 3	Maakuntasarja '	Group 9	Finnish FA '	5th
1960	Tier 3	Maakuntasarja '	Group 9	Finnish FA '	6th
1961	Tier 3	Maakuntasarja '	Group 9	Finnish FA '	8th	Relegated
1962	Tier 4	Aluesarja '	Group 17 - Oulu	Finnish FA '	1st	Promoted
1963	Tier 3	Maakuntasarja '	Group 9	Finnish FA '	8th	Relegated
1964	Tier 4	Aluesarja '	Group 17 - Oulu	Finnish FA '	2nd
1965	Tier 4	Aluesarja '	Group 17 - Oulu	Finnish FA '	2nd
1966	Tier 4	Aluesarja '	Group 17 - Oulu	Finnish FA '	4th
1967	Tier 4	Aluesarja '	Group 17 - Oulu	Finnish FA '	3rd
1968	Tier 4	Aluesarja '	Group 16 - Oulu	Finnish FA '	4th
1969	Tier 4	Aluesarja '	Group 16 - Oulu	Finnish FA '	2nd
1970	Tier 4	4. divisioona '	Group 17 - Oulu	Finnish FA '	2nd	Merger with Oulun Pallo-Veikot
1971	Tier 3	3. divisioona '	Group 7	Finnish FA '	4th	as OLS-Veikot
1972	Tier 3	3. divisioona '	Group 9	Finnish FA '	1st	OLS-Veikot - Promoted
1973	Tier 3	2. divisioona '	North Group	Finnish FA '	8th	OLS-Veikot
1974	Tier 3	2. divisioona '	North Group	Finnish FA '	9th	OLS-Veikot
1975	Tier 3	2. divisioona '	North Group	Finnish FA '	8th
1976	Tier 3	2. divisioona '	North Group	Finnish FA '	3rd
1977	Tier 3	2. divisioona '	North Group	Finnish FA '	1st	Promoted
1978	Tier 2	1. divisioona '		Finnish FA '	12th	Relegated
1979	Tier 3	2. divisioona '	North Group	Finnish FA '	6th
1980	Tier 3	2. divisioona '	North Group	Finnish FA '	10th	Relegated
1981	Tier 4	3. divisioona '	Group 9	Finnish FA '	6th
1982	Tier 4	3. divisioona '	Group 9	Finnish FA '	6th
1983	Tier 4	3. divisioona '	Group 9	Finnish FA '	2nd	Promotion Playoff
1984	Tier 4	3. divisioona '	Group 9	Finnish FA '	7th
1985	Tier 4	3. divisioona '	Group 9	Finnish FA '	3rd
1986	Tier 4	3. divisioona '	Group 9	Finnish FA '	2nd
1987	Tier 4	3. divisioona '	Group 9	Finnish FA '	1st	Promoted
1988	Tier 3	2. divisioona '	North Group	Finnish FA '	2nd
1989	Tier 3	2. divisioona '	North Group	Finnish FA '	4th
1990	Tier 3	2. divisioona '	North Group	Finnish FA '	1st	FC OLS - Promoted
1991	Tier 2	1. divisioona '		Finnish FA '	9th	Merged with Oulun Työväen Palloilijat to FC Oulu
1992-1995						No first team football
1996	Tier 3	Kakkonen '	North Group	Finnish FA '	10th	As OPP due to FA naming regulations - Relegated
1997	Tier 3	Kakkonen '	North Group	Finnish FA '	8th	Took place of OPS
1998	Tier 3	Kakkonen '	North Group	Finnish FA '	6th	As OPS due to FA naming regulation
1999	Tier 3	Kakkonen '	North Group	Finnish FA '	2nd	Promotion Playoff
2000	Tier 3	Kakkonen '	North Group	Finnish FA '	5th
2001	Tier 3	Kakkonen '	North Group	Finnish FA '	9th
2002	Tier 3	Kakkonen '	North Group	Finnish FA '	1st	Promotion Playoff - Promoted
2003	Tier 2	Ykkönen '		Finnish FA '	13th	Relegated
2004	Tier 3	Kakkonen '	Northern Group	Finnish FA '	2nd	Promotion Playoff - Lost but Promoted due to bankruptcy of FC Jazz
2005	Tier 2	Ykkönen '		Finnish FA '	13th	Relegated
2006	Tier 3	Kakkonen '	Group C	Finnish FA '	4th
2007	Tier 3	Kakkonen '	Group C	Finnish FA '	7th
2008	Tier 3	Kakkonen '	Group C	Finnish FA '	9th
2009	Tier 3	Kakkonen '	Group C	Finnish FA '	12th	Relegated
2010-2012						No first team football
2013	Tier 4	Kolmonen '	Northern Finland	Finnish FA '	1st	Promoted
2014	Tier 3	Kakkonen '	Northern Group	Finnish FA '	10th	Relegated
2015	Tier 4	Kolmonen '	Northern Finland	Finnish FA '	4th
2016	Tier 4	Kolmonen '	Northern Finland	Finnish FA '	3rd
2017	Tier 4	Kolmonen '	Northern Finland	Finnish FA '	1st	Promoted
2018	Tier 3	Kakkonen '	Group c	Finnish FA '	8th
2019	Tier 3	Kakkonen '	Group c	Finnish FA '	7th
2020	Tier 3	Kakkonen '	Group c	Finnish FA '	11th	Remained due to bankruptcy of AC Kajaani
2021	Tier 3	Kakkonen '	Group A	Finnish FA '	8th
2022	Tier 3	Kakkonen '	Group C	Finnish FA '	4th
2023	Tier 3	Kakkonen '	Group C	Finnish FA '	1st	Promotion playoff to Ykkösliiga - Promoted to Ykkönen
2024	Tier 3	Ykkönen '		Finnish FA '	3rd
2025	Tier 3	Ykkönen '		Finnish FA

Bandy

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. 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.