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

Founded	1960
Ground	Musan kenttä, Pori
Capacity	2,000 (700 seated)
Chairman	Mikko-Tapio Mattila
Manager	Risto Puustinen
League	Ykkönen
2018	1st (Group B)(Promoted via Playoffs)
Home colours Away colours

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

2000 Ykkönen – 9th 2001 Ykkönen – 10th (relegated) 2002 Kakkonen – 7th 2003 Kakkonen – 7th 2004 Kakkonen – 7th 2005 Kakkonen – 12th (relegated) 2006 Kolmonen – 1st (promoted)

2007 Kakkonen – 13th (relegated) 2008 Kolmonen – 2nd 2009 Kolmonen – 1st (promoted) 2010 Kakkonen – 9th 2011 Kakkonen – 13th (relegated) 2012 Kolmonen – 1st (promoted) 2013 Kakkonen – 9th (relegated)

2014 Kolmonen – 1st (promoted) 2015 Kakkonen – 2nd 2016 Kakkonen – 2nd (promotion play-offs) 2017 Kakkonen – 2nd 2018 Kakkonen - 1st (promoted via Playoffs)

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. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  FIN Sami Liuhala 3 FW  JPN Taiki Kagayama 4 MF  FIN Ville Vihlman 5 DF  FIN Verneri Salminen 6 DF  FIN Jussi Välilä 7 DF  FIN Antti-Pekka Pihlainen 8 MF  FIN Jesse Junnila 9 FW  FIN Rudi Dieter 10 FW  FIN Sami Rantala 11 FW  FIN Samu-Petteri Mäkelä 12 GK  FIN Janne Järnstedt 13 FW  FIN Santeri Tähkä

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 DF  FIN Joonas Lakkamäki 15 MF  FIN Joni Lämsä 16 FW  FIN Aleksi Leppänen 17 MF  FIN Arttu Virtanen 18 MF  FIN Juuso Rantala 19 MF  FIN Samuli Virtanen 20 MF  FIN Waltteri Riihimäki 21 MF  FIN Matias Sallila 22 MF  FIN Aleksi Pöntinen 27 DF  FIN Ronald Karlsson 32 FW  FIN Matias Koskinen 52 GK  FIN 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.

External links

• MuSa's official website (in Finnish)