Ilves (football)


Ilves Tampere is a Finnish football club, based in Tampere. They currently play in the Veikkausliiga, the highest level of professional football in Finland.
They were formed in 1975 as a merger between Ilves-Kissat Tampere and TaPa Tampere, and joined the Premier Division in 1979.
Ilves won the Finnish League championship in 1983 and the Finnish Cup on three occasions in 1979, 1990, and 2019.
In the late 1990s, Ilves suffered financial trouble and its professional team was reformed into Tampere United before the 1999 season. The initial plan was to join Ilves with TPV, but TPV decided to continue as its own team. As a result, Tampere United inherited Ilves' place in the second highest division, and Ilves dissolved their men’s team. Thus the club did not have a men's team from 1999 to 2007.
match between Ilves and local rivals TPV in 2011.
Their home ground is Tammelan Stadion.

Honours

Mestaruussarja/Veikkausliiga
Finnish Cup
SeasonCompetitionRoundClub1st leg2nd legAggregate
1980–81European Cup Winners' Cup1R Feyenoord1–32–43–7
1984–85European Cup1R Juventus0–41–21–6
1986–87UEFA Cup1R Rangers0–42–02–4
1991–92European Cup Winners' Cup1R Glenavon2–32–14–4
1991–92European Cup Winners' Cup2R Roma1–12–53–6
2018–19UEFA Europa League1QR PFC Slavia Sofia0–11–21–3
2020–21UEFA Europa League1QR

Current squad

As of 31 July 2020.

Management and boardroom

Management

As of 31 July 2020.

Boardroom

As of 31 July 2020

Managers

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