Grankulla IFK, or GrIFK as the name is commonly abbreviated, is a Finnish sports club from the city of Kauniainen. The club was formed in 1925 and the main activities covered are football, ice-hockey, handball, floorball and alpine. The club's main handball team... The club's main ice-hockey team is... Handball... Alpine... The club's main football team is currently playing in the Kakkonen, the third tier of the Finnish football league system. GrIFK play their home matches at Kauniaisten Keskuskenttä. The Chairman of the football club is Matti Hannuksela. The club has more than 700 registered players.

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Grankulla IFK

Full name	Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna, Grankulla
Nickname(s)	GrIFK, Grani
Founded	1925
Ground	Kauniaisten Keskuskenttä, Kauniainen Finland
Chairman	Jan Sten
Manager	Jari Europeaus
League	2020 Kakkonen
Home colours Away colours

History

GrIFK Football has played 13 seasons in the Ykkönen (First Division), the second tier of Finnish football in 1978–80, 1982–85, 1987–88, 1990, 2008 and 2016-2017. They also have had ten spells (covering 21 seasons) in the third tier, the Kakkonen (the Second Division), in 1973–75, 1977, 1981, 1986, 1989, 1991–92, 1996, 2005–07, 2009-2015 and 2018 to the present day.[1]

Season to season

Club structure

GRIFK run a number of teams including 3 men's teams, 1 veteran's team, close to 20 boys teams (including A and B juniors on 2nd highest level (Ykkönen) in Finland) and 4 girls teams.

2020 season

GrIFK are competing in Group B (Lohko B) of the Kakkonen administered by the Football Association of Finland (Suomen Palloliitto) . This is the third highest tier in the Finnish football system. In 2019 GrIFK finished in ninth position in their Kakkonen section.

Current squad 2020 (updating in process)

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 Toni Vuorinen 2 MF  FIN Noa Maxwell 3 DF  FIN Otto Pitkänen 4 DF  FIN Niko Perera 5 DF  FIN Sebastian Veijola 6 MF  FIN Teemu Koskinen 7 DF  FIN Joni Kaasinen 8 DF  FIN Joonas Ilomäki 9 FW  FIN Daniel Langhoff 10 MF  FIN Janne Törmänen 11 MF  FIN Sami Stam 12 GK  FIN Kimi Lindeman

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 MF  FIN 14 DF  FIN 15 MF  FIN 16 FW  FIN Jonas Britschgi 17 FW  FIN Petter Meyer 18 MF  FIN 19 FW  FIN Samuel Langhoff 21 MF  FIN Lassi Luoto 22 DF  FIN Vertti Tiilikainen 23 DF  FIN Juho Tuuliainen 24 DF  FIN Saman Safiyari 25 DF  FIN Vili Nyström 26 DF  FIN Anton Lindblad 27 MF  FIN Juha Hakola 30 DF  FIN Tino Palmasto 77 MF  FIN Niko Saraste

Sources

• Suomen Cup

References

External links

• Official Football Website
• GrIFK Jalkapallo / Fotboll Facebook

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