Tampereen Palloilijat
Tampereen Palloilijat or TaPa is a Finnish football club based in Tampere. In the 2025 season the club played in Nelonen, the sixth tier of football in Finland. In the past the club has also played ice hockey and the club participated in the first ever Finnish ice hockey championship in 1928 and won the championship in 1931.
History
Tampereen Palloilijat was founded in July of 1921 by eleven youngsters interested in football. In 1924 the members of the club built the first grass pitch of inner Finland in the Kaleva district of Tampere. In the opening match of the pitch Tampereen Palloilijat won HIFK 3–2. In January of 1928 Tampereen Palloilijat made history after playing the first ever official ice hockey match in the history of Finland and in 1931 the club won its first championship in ice hockey after beating HJK. Doing so, the club also became the first one to bring the ice hockey championship to Tampere.TaPa was promoted to the Mestaruussarja, the top tier of Finnish football in 1960. In the 1961 season of the Mestaruussarja the club made the new attendance record of the Tampere Stadium after attracting 8000 people to the stands of the stadium in a game against local rivals FC Haka. In the 1962 season the club achieved third place in the Mestaruussarja. In 1968 the club merged together with Tampellan Pallo after hitting financial difficulties creating the club Tampellan Palloilijat which played in the Mestaruussarja for one season in 1971. Soon after in 1974 Tampellan Palloilijat and Ilves-Kissat merged together into Ilves which made a comeback to the Finnish football scene after having no football department for almost three decades. After the merger into Ilves Tampereen Palloilijat re-established its junior department in 1980 but after the merger TaPa have no longer played in the upper tiers of Finnish football.
Season to season
| Season | Level | Division | Section | Administration | Position | Movements |
| 1930 | Tier 2 | B-Sarja | Cup format | Finnish FA ' | Semi-finals | |
| 1931-34 | Häme District competitions | |||||
| 1935 | Tier 2 | B-Sarja ' | West Group | Finnish FA ' | 4th | |
| 1936 | Tier 2 | Itä-Länsi-sarja ' | West League | Finnish FA ' | 5th | |
| 1937 | Tier 2 | Itä-Länsi-sarja ' | West League | Finnish FA ' | 5th | |
| 1938 | Tier 2 | Itä-Länsi-sarja ' | West League, North Group | Finnish FA ' | 4th | |
| 1939 | Tier 2 | Itä-Länsi-sarja ' | West League, Group 3 | Finnish FA ' | 1st | Promotion Group West 4th |
| 1940-41 | Tier 2 | B-Sarja ' | Finnish FA ' | 6th | ||
| 1945-46 | Tier 3 | Maakuntasarja ' | Satakunta | Finnish FA ' | 1st | Promotion Playoff |
| 1946-47 | Tier 3 | Maakuntasarja ' | Tampere | Finnish FA ' | 2nd | |
| 1947-48 | Tier 3 | Maakuntasarja ' | Satakunta | Finnish FA ' | 3rd | |
| 1948 | Tier 3 | Maakuntasarja ' | West Group A | Finnish FA ' | 1st | Promotion Playoff |
| 1949 | Tier 3 | Maakuntasarja ' | West Group B | Finnish FA ' | 6th | Relegated |
| 1950 | Tier 4 | Piirisarja ' | West | Tampere District ' | Promotion Playoff | |
| 1951 | Tier 4 | Piirisarja ' | West | Tampere District ' | Promotion Playoff | |
| 1952 | Tier 4 | Piirisarja ' | Tampere District ' | Promotion Playoff | ||
| 1953-54 | Piirisarja ' | Tampere District ' | ||||
| 1955 | Tier 4 | Piirisarja ' | Tampere District ' | Promotion Playoff - Promoted | ||
| 1956 | Tier 3 | Maakuntasarja ' | West Group I | Finnish FA ' | 6th | |
| 1957 | Tier 3 | Maakuntasarja ' | West Group II | Finnish FA ' | 3rd | |
| 1958 | Tier 3 | Maakuntasarja ' | Group 5 | Finnish FA ' | 2nd | |
| 1959 | Tier 3 | Maakuntasarja ' | Group 6 | Finnish FA ' | 1st | Promoted |
| 1960 | Tier 2 | Suomensarja ' | North Group | Finnish FA ' | 1st | Promoted |
| 1961 | Tier 1 | Mestaruussarja ' | Finnish FA ' | 8th | ||
| 1962 | Tier 1 | Mestaruussarja ' | Finnish FA ' | 3rd | ||
| 1963 | Tier 1 | Mestaruussarja ' | Finnish FA ' | 11th | Relegated | |
| 1964 | Tier 2 | Suomensarja ' | West Group | Finnish FA ' | 1st | Promoted |
| 1965 | Tier 1 | Mestaruussarja ' | Finnish FA ' | 12th | Relegated | |
| 1966 | Tier 2 | Suomensarja ' | West Group | Finnish FA ' | 6th | |
| 1967 | Tier 2 | Suomensarja ' | West Group | Finnish FA ' | 6th | |
| 1968 | Tier 2 | Suomensarja ' | West Group | Finnish FA ' | 5th | |
| 1969 | Tier 2 | Suomensarja ' | West Group | Finnish FA ' | 8th | Tampellan Palloilijat |
| 1970 | Tier 2 | II Divisioona ' | West Group | Finnish FA ' | 4th | Tampellan Palloilijat |
| 1971 | Tier 2 | II Divisioona ' | West Group | Finnish FA ' | 1st | Promotion Group 2nd - Promoted,Tampellan Palloilijat |
| 1972 | Tier 1 | Mestaruussarja ' | Finnish FA ' | 8th | Tampellan Palloilijat | |
| 1973 | Tier 1 | Mestaruussarja ' | Finnish FA ' | 12th | Relegated Tampellan Palloilijat | |
| 1974 | Tier 2 | I Divisioona ' | Finnish FA ' | 8th | Relegated, merged with Ilves-Kissat to join Ilves | |
| 1975-97 | No team | |||||
| 1998 | Tier 6 | Vitonen ' | Tampere District ' | 6th | ||
| 1999 | Tier 6 | Vitonen ' | Tampere District ' | |||
| 2000 | Tier 6 | Vitonen ' | South | Tampere District ' | ||
| 2001 | Tier 6 | Vitonen ' | North | Tampere District ' | 2nd | |
| 2002 | Tier 6 | Vitonen ' | South | Tampere District ' | 2nd | |
| 2003 | Tier 6 | Vitonen ' | North | Tampere District ' | 2nd | Promoted |
| 2004 | Tier 5 | Nelonen ' | North | Tampere District ' | 9th | |
| 2005 | Tier 5 | Nelonen ' | North | Tampere District ' | 11th | |
| 2006 | Tier 5 | Nelonen ' | North | Tampere District ' | 9th | Relegated |
| 2007 | Tier 6 | Vitonen ' | Group 1 | Tampere District ' | 11th | Relegation Playoff |
| 2008 | Tier 6 | Vitonen ' | Group 3 | Tampere District ' | 6th | |
| 2009 | Tier 6 | Vitonen ' | Group 2 | Tampere District ' | 5th | |
| 2010 | Tier 6 | Vitonen ' | Group 2 | Tampere District ' | 7th | |
| 2011 | Tier 6 | Vitonen ' | Group 1 | Tampere District ' | 9th | |
| 2012 | Tier 6 | Vitonen ' | Group 2 | Tampere District ' | 4th | |
| 2013 | Tier 6 | Vitonen ' | Group 1 | Tampere District ' | 11th | Relegated |
| 2014 | Tier 7 | Kutonen ' | Group 3 | Tampere District ' | 2nd | Promotion Playoff - Promoted |
| 2015 | Tier 6 | Vitonen ' | Group 1 | Tampere District ' | 2nd | |
| 2016 | Tier 6 | Vitonen ' | Group 2 | Tampere District ' | 3rd | |
| 2017 | Tier 6 | Vitonen ' | Tampere District ' | 3rd | ||
| 2018 | Tier 6 | Vitonen ' | Tampere District ' | 6th | ||
| 2019 | Tier 6 | Vitonen ' | Tampere District ' | 2nd | Promoted | |
| 2020 | Tier 5 | Nelonen ' | Group B | Western District ' | 9th | |
| 2021 | Tier 5 | Nelonen ' | Group B | Western District ' | 10th | |
| 2022 | Tier 5 | Nelonen ' | Group B | Western District ' | 5th | |
| 2023 | Tier 5 | Nelonen ' | Group B | Western District ' | 8th | |
| 2024 | Tier 6 | Nelonen ' | Group B | Western District ' | 8th | |
| 2025 | Tier 6 | Nelonen ' | Group B | Western District ' |
- 6' seasons in Mestaruussarja
- 16 seasons in Ykkönen
- 9 seasons in Maakuntasarja
- 4 seasons in Piirisarja
- 8 seasons in Nelonen
- 20 seasons in Vitonen
- 1 season in Kutonen''
Ice Hockey
TaPa played in the first SM-sarja 1927-28 [SM-sarja season|season]. TaPa played a total of 4 seasons in the SM-sarja.The best result for TaPa was the winning of SM-sarja in 1931