FC Kiisto

Founded	1904 (Vaasan Kiisto) 1949 (refounded) 1999 (FC Kiisto)
Dissolved	1931
Ground	Kaarlen kenttä, Vaasa
Capacity	5,500
Chairman	Arja Bondas
Manager	Marko Salo
Coach	Jan-Christian Westermark
League	Kolmonen
2009	14th – Ykkönen
Home colours Away colours

FC Kiisto is a Finnish football club, based in the city of Vaasa. It currently plays in Kolmonen (Third Division).

History

Vaasan Kiisto was founded in September 1904 in Vaasa Finnish Gymnasiums gym hall, after members of Vaasa Workers Association saw a need for separate Gymnastics and Sports Club. Kiisto started to play football in 1908. In Finnish civil war some members of the club participated as a red guards and as a result club was dismissed from Finnish Gymnastics and Sports Federation (SVUL) and as a result joined newly formed Finnish Workers' Sports Federation. In 1931 Club was dismissed by court as a communist organisation, after playing a friendly match against football team from soviet union. Club was re-founded in 1949 and football was taken again to club repertoire in 1954. In 1999 when football had become considerably big part of club activity, FC Kiisto was separated from Vaasan Kiisto.^[1]

Season to season

2010 season

For the current season FC Kiisto are competing in Section C of the Kakkonen (Second Division). This is the third tier of the Finnish football system. In 2009 the team finished in fourteenth position in the Ykkönen and were relegated.

FC Kiisto a-team are participating in the Nelonen (Fourth Division) administered by the Vaasa SPL.

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  FIN Kimmo Oksanen 2 DF  FIN Aapo Autio 5 DF  FIN Tomi Paananen 6 MF  FIN Matti Heinämäki 7 MF  FIN Toni Pylkkänen 8 FW  FIN Mikko Joensuu 9 MF  FIN Jeremias Ketonen 10 MF  FIN Pekka Liukkonen 11 MF  FIN Sanjay Gonsalves 12 GK  FIN Ville Rintala

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 FW  FIN Conny Nyman 15  FIN Matias Tiiro 16 DF  FIN Mikko Inki 17 DF  FIN Lauri Karri 20 FW  FIN Jani Takala 22 GK  FIN Mathias Östergård 23  FIN William Tuisku 24 DF  FIN Nicolas Tuisku 26 DF  FIN Arthur Lindholm 27 FW  FIN Niki Lammi