Musan Salama

Musan Salama (acronym MuSa) is a football club based in Pori, Finland, currently playing in the Finnish second tier Ykkönen. It was founded in 1960 in the Musa suburb of Pori. Literally, the name of the club means the ″Lightning of Musa″.[1]

Musan Salama
Founded1960
GroundMusan kenttä, Pori
Capacity2,000 (700 seated)
ChairmanMikko-Tapio Mattila
ManagerRisto Puustinen
LeagueYkkönen
20181st (Group B)(Promoted via Playoffs)

Musan Salama has mostly played in the Finnish third or fourth levels. In 1999–2001 MuSa made a three-year spell to the second tier Ykkönen, but was relegated after the 2001 season. In 2016 MuSa made it to the promotion play-offs losing to the Helsinki side Gnistan on penalties. Finally, in 2018 MuSa achieved promotion back to the second tier Ykkönen by defeating Kokkola based side GBK in the finals of the promotion playoffs on penalties. [2]

MuSa is a member of the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation.[3]

Division history 2000–2017

Squad 2019

As of 13 May 2019. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 GK Sami Liuhala
3 FW Taiki Kagayama
4 MF Ville Vihlman
5 DF Verneri Salminen
6 DF Jussi Välilä
7 DF Antti-Pekka Pihlainen
8 MF Jesse Junnila
9 FW Rudi Dieter
10 FW Sami Rantala
11 FW Samu-Petteri Mäkelä
12 GK Janne Järnstedt
13 FW Santeri Tähkä
No. Position Player
14 DF Joonas Lakkamäki
15 MF Joni Lämsä
16 FW Aleksi Leppänen
17 MF Arttu Virtanen
18 MF Juuso Rantala
19 MF Samuli Virtanen
20 MF Waltteri Riihimäki
21 MF Matias Sallila
22 MF Aleksi Pöntinen
27 DF Ronald Karlsson
32 FW Matias Koskinen
52 GK Tomi Mikkelsson

References

  1. "Musan Salama". Nordic Football News. 5 April 2007. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 18 April 2009.
  2. Karlsson, Juho (15 October 2016). "Gnistan får fira avancemang till fotbollsettan efter straffdrama" (in Swedish). Yle Nyheter. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  3. Termonen, Tapio (29 March 2010). "Musan Salama 50 vuotta" (in Finnish). Yle. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
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