Myllykosken Pallo −47

MyPa was founded in December 1947 in the village of Myllykoski in the then municipality of Sippola, which in 1975 became part of the town of Anjalankoski and since 2009 is part of Kouvola. Before that there had been some small-scale football culture in Myllykoski, so forming a football club was a natural step. The final move came from the local paper industry, which built a football pitch with spectator stands. MyPa was promoted to the highest tier in 1975, but the season ended in relegation.^[1]

MyPa played continuously in the Veikkausliiga from 1992 to 2014. From 1993 to 1996 they were runners up four consecutive times under the control of Harri Kampman. They won a first Finnish Cup in 1992, and a second in 1995. In 1997 Timo Liekoski was named as the manager of the club, but his employment lasted only one season. He was replaced by Juha Malinen. From 1999 to 2001, under the control of Malinen MyPa, they finished third three times in a row, and finished second in 2002. After the 2003 season Malinen was replaced by Ilkka Mäkelä. Though dropping to 8th in the league, in 2004 MyPa won a third Finnish Cup, and the next season won their first Finnish championship. Mäkelä resigned during the 2007 season and the former assistant coach Janne Hyppönen became the new manager. Hyppönen was sacked in September 2008 and assistant Janne Lindberg took over in a caretaker capacity for the rest of the season. MYPA was denied league licence for the 2015 season due to financial troubles, and after having at first accepted a place in the second tier Ykkönen, finally withdrew from all professional football on 13 February 2015.

MYPA made a return in the 2017 season earning a place from Inkeroisten Purha in the fourth tier Kolmonen due to Purha having difficulties gathering a team for the upcoming season.

In the 2017 Kolmonen season MYPA didn't lose a single game and was promoted to third tier Kakkonen. Playing in group A of the second division MYPA continued their positive endeavours and won the group, which granted them a place in the promotion playoffs to Ykkönen. They lost the following playoffs to Tampereen Pallo-Veikot.

Due to PS Kemi relinquishing their place in Ykkönen after getting relegated from Veikkausliiga,^[2] MYPA received an invitation to join Ykkönen on their place as first in line for the 2019 season. MYPA accepted the offer and played in Ykkönen for the next two seasons. After struggling on a higher level. MYPA was relegated in the 2020 Ykkönen back to Kakkonen. Losing many key players after getting relegated, MYPA's struggles continued and after the season in Kakkonen was relegated back into Kolmonen. After the season MYPA changed their club name's spelling back into 'MyPa'.^[3]

 

In 2022 on their first season back in Kolmonen, while being heavy favourites for the coming campaign, MyPa was able to stabilize their results and started winning matches more frequently. However, due to losing points in key matches through the season, MyPa narrowly missed the promotion playoffs and came second behind Haminan Pallo-Kissat.^[4] In 2023 after bringing back many key players from the earlier seasons such as Jari Hassel and Jussi-Pekka Rämä, their results improved and won the league by a large margin. The championship granted them a direct promotion to Kakkonen for the 2024 season with Rämä being the top goalscorer of the league with 31 goals in 17 matches.^[5]

MyPa has participated in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, UEFA Cup and Intertoto Cup. It has faced many clubs like Boavista, PSV Eindhoven, Rapid București, Liverpool, Blackburn Rovers and Dundee United. In 2005 they reached the first round of UEFA Cup but lost the decisive match against Swiss side Grasshoppers 1–4 on aggregate.

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Score	Agg.
1993–94	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Qualifying round		Valur	1–3, 0–1	1–4
1994–95	UEFA Cup	Qualifying round		Inter Bratislava	3–0, 0–1	3–1
		First round		Boavista	1–2, 1–1	2–3
1995–96	UEFA Cup	Qualifying round		Motherwell	3–1, 0–2	3–3
		First round		PSV Eindhoven	1–1, 1–7	2–8
1996–97	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Qualifying round		Qarabağ	1–0, 1–1	2–1
		First round		Liverpool	0–1, 1–3	1–4
1997–98	UEFA Cup	Prel. round		Apollon Limassol	1–1, 0–3	1–4
2000	UEFA Intertoto Cup	First round		Neuchâtel Xamax	1–2, 3–3	4–5
2001–02	UEFA Cup	Qualifying round		Helsingborgs IF	1–3, 1–2	2–5
2002–03	UEFA Cup	First qualifying round		OB Odense	1–0, 0–2	1–2
2003–04	UEFA Cup	Qualifying round		Young Boys	3–2, 2–2	5–4
		First round		Sochaux	0–1, 0–2	0–3
2004	UEFA Intertoto Cup	First round		Tescoma Zlín	1–1, 2–3	3–4
2005–06	UEFA Cup	First qualifying round		FC TVMK	1–1, 1–0	2–1
		Second qualifying round		Dundee United	0–0, 2–2	2–2
		First round		Grasshopper	1–1, 0–3	1–4
2006–07	UEFA Champions League	First qualifying round		The New Saints	1–0, 1–0	2–0
		Second qualifying round		Copenhagen	2–2, 0–2	2–4
2007–08	UEFA Cup	First qualifying round		EB/Streymur	1–0, 1–1	2–1
		Second qualifying round		Blackburn Rovers	0–1, 0–2	0–3
2010–11	UEFA Europa League	First qualifying round		Narva Trans	2–0, 5–0	7–0
		Second qualifying round		UE Sant Julià	3–0, 5–0	8–0
		Third qualifying round		Politehnica Timișoara	1–2, 3–3	4–5
2012–13	UEFA Europa League	First qualifying round		Cefn Druids	0–0, 5–0	5–0
		Second qualifying round		Rapid București	1–3, 0–2	1–5
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	First qualifying round		ÍF Fuglafjørður	1–0, 0–0	1–0
		Second qualifying round		Dinamo Minsk	0–3, 0–0	0–3

Updated 14 February 2015.

 

• Veikkausliiga
  • Winners (1): 2005
  • Runners up (5): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2002
  • Third place (3): 1999, 2000, 2001
• Ykkönen, I divisioona
  • Winners (2): 1974, 1991
• Kakkonen
  • A-Group, Winners (1): 2018
• Kolmonen
  • South-Eastern Group, Winners (1): 2017, 2023
• Finnish Cup
  • Winners (3): 1992, 1995, 2004

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As of 24 October 2023^[7]

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 Eetu Kangaskolkka 5 DF   FIN Juhani Rauos 7 FW   FIN Daniel Kaiga 8 DF   FIN Niko Ritola 10 MF   FIN Olli Mäkelä 11 MF   FIN Joakim Joutjärvi 13 DF   FIN Olli Kähkönen 15 MF   FIN Sasu Hernesniemi 16 FW   FIN Jussi-Pekka Rämä 17 MF   FIN Jari Hassel 18 FW   FIN Väinö Hietala 19 MF   UKR Anatolii Moiseyev 20 MF   FIN Kalle Korpi 21 MF   FIN Vili Toppinen

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 DF   FIN Panu Pykäläinen 23 FW   FIN Aleksi Mykrä 24 MF   FIN Tuomas Stadig 26 DF   FIN Joona Martikainen 27 FW   FIN Tommi Roponen 29 MF   FIN Aaro Laine 30 GK   FIN Joel Peltola 32 DF   FIN Veeti Laiho 34 FW   FIN Niklas Rautomäki 45 FW   FIN Juho Innanen 61 DF   FIN Veeti Karppanen 80 DF   FIN Vilho Katajala 99 GK   FIN Antti Kaikkonen

•   Harri Kampman (1991–96)
•   Timo Liekoski (1997)
•   Juha Malinen (1998–2003)
•   Ilkka Mäkelä (Jan 2004 – Aug 2007)
•   Janne Hyppönen (Aug 2007 – Sept 2008)
•   Janne Lindberg (Sept 2008 – Dec 2010)
•   Toni Korkeakunnas (Jan 2011 – Sept 2013)
•   Antti Muurinen (Sept 2013 – Feb 2015)
•   Jukka Karjalainen (Apr 2017 – Nov 2019)
•   Ilkka Mäkelä (Jan 2020 – Sep 2020)
•   Marko Honkanen (Sep 2020 – Nov 2021)
•   Jyrki Saarela (Nov 2021 – Oct 2023)
•   Mika Pasanen (Oct 2023 –)

• (in Finnish) Official website