FC Kiffen 08

Kiffen football is known as the Mustat Hurmurit (Black charmers). 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 (Mestaruussarja) in 1913, 1915 and 1916 in the years prior to Finnish independence in 1917. Kiffen's last championship win came much later in 1955.[1]

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 (Finland League), 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.[2] 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 (First Division) and in the subsequent years the club have not reached second-tier football.[2] Over the last 30 years the club has fluctuated between the Kakkonen (Second Division) and Kolmonen (Third Division).

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.[3]

• Finnish Champions (Mestaruussarja Winners): 1913, 1915, 1916 and 1955[1]
• Finnish Cup (Suomen Cup): Runners–up in 1958 (2–4 to KTP Kotka).

Top Level (25 seasons): 1930–32, 1940/41–46/47, 1948–57, 1960–64, 1977–78
Second Level (16 seasons): 1936–39, 1947/48, 195859, 1965, 1969–74, 1976, 1979
Third Level (21 seasons): 1975, 1980–85, 1990, 1994–2004, 2009–2012, 2015– [2]

Kiffen runs 3 men's teams and 6 veteran's teams.

FC Kiffen are competing in Group A of the Kakkonen. This is the third tier of the Finnish football system. In 2020 the team finished in fifth position in their Kakkonen group.

FC Kiffen/3 are participating in the Section 1 of the Nelonen (Fourth Division).

FC Kiffen/3 are participating in the Section 3 of the Vitonen (Fifth Division).

As of 26 October 2023[6]

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 Axel Andersson 2 DF  FIN Maxim Nazari (on loan from HJK) 2 DF  FIN Pyry Korhonen 4 DF  FIN Arttu Loukiainen 5 DF  FIN Artti Korhonen 5 MF  FIN Leo Ussher 6 MF  FIN Emil Lehtinen 7 MF  FIN Valtteri Lohi 8 MF  FIN Riku Heinonen 9 FW  FIN Samuli Heiska 10 FW  FIN Mauricio Hopsu 11 FW  FIN Eetu Kolu 12 GK  FIN Tuuka Niemelä 13 MF  FIN Bob Diasonama 14 MF  FIN Severi Murto 15 FW  FIN Akseli Hollmen 16 MF  BRA Dudu

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  SLE Tejan Deen 18 FW  FIN Noakim Lokake 18 FW  FIN Peik Koskinen 19 FW  FIN Joona Tukiainen 20 FW  FIN Reko Räsänen 21 DF  FIN Jere Pulkkinen 23 MF  FIN Fesal Mohamed 24 DF  FIN Valtteri Karlsson 25 DF  FIN Liam Lokake 26 DF  FIN Touko Laakkonen 27 DF  FIN Tuomas Saarikko 28 DF  FIN Arttu Mäkinen 29 MF  FIN Muslim Markhiyev 30 GK  FIN Niko Tervonen 31 GK  EST Martin Kella 32 FW  FIN Milot Kastrati

Updated 9 January 2021

Name Role Mako Tukiainen Head coach Daniel Stevens Assistant coach Jari Hakala Coach Oso Hautamo Goalkeeping coach Teemu Itkonen Kit Manager Raynold Dickmann Honorary Kit Manager Kimmo Silventoinen Team Manager Henrik Lindström First Team Administrator Janne Wikman Executive Director Jaakko Jokilahti Media