Oulun Luistinseura

OLS

Full name	Oulun Luistinseura
Founded	1880
Ground	Castrén
Capacity	2500
Chairman	Timo Salmi
Manager	Mikko Isokangas
League	Football: Ykkönen Floorball: F-liiga
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Oulun Luistinseura (or OLS) is a Finnish multi-sports club, based in Oulu. The club has football, bandy, bowling and floorball sections.

Football

OLS football team was founded in 1941 by clubs bandy players. Throughout the years the club has played mostly in lower divisions, never competing in the highest tier of Finnish football except as a part of short lived merger with OTP called FC Oulu in the early 1990s. The most successful part of OLS is the youth academy which has produced many national team level players. Men's football team earned promotion to Kakkonen (the third tier of Finnish football) for 2014 season.

Since 2020, AC Oulu/OLS is the reserve team of Veikkausliiga club AC Oulu, and competed in third-tier Kakkonen in 2023 season. The team won the promotion to new third-tier Ykkönen for 2024.

Current squad

As of 6 February 2024

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
17	MF	FIN	Daniel Heikkinen
31	FW	FIN	Narit Sarkkinen
33	MF	FIN	Julius Körkkö
34	FW	FIN	Olli Sassi
36	FW	FIN	Rene Kähkönen
38	FW	FIN	Eemil Merikanto
41	DF	FIN	Santtu Seppänen
48	DF	FIN	Otso-Pekka Parkkila
51	FW	FIN	Julius Paananen
63	FW	FIN	Aleksi Isomäki
68	GK	FIN	Johannes Pentti
71	FW	FIN	Eemeli Raittinen
—	DF	FIN	Nikolas Similä
—	MF	FIN	Asla Peltola

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	FIN	Anselmi Nurmela
—	DF	FIN	Eetu Saarela
—	MF	FIN	Jesse Korhonen
—	DF	FIN	Kasper Flygare
—	DF	FIN	Touko Ridanpää
—	FW	FIN	Lauritapio Tiainen
—	GK	FIN	Juuso Saarikoski
—	MF	FIN	Hugo Karlsson
—	GK	FIN	Onni Sillanpää
—	FW	FIN	Aleksi Räisänen
—	MF	FIN	Vili Saarikoski
—	MF	FIN	Lucas Piirto
—	FW	FIN	Antti Torniainen

Bandy

Oulun Luistinseura beats Jyväskylän Seudun Palloseura in the 2014 Finland men's national bandy championship final. Here playing at home at Pakkalan kenttä.

OLS is one of the most successful clubs in Finland and is the only non-Swedish or Russian/Soviet club to have won the Bandy World Cup, having won the title in 1976. In 1977 and 1990 they were European Cup runners-up.

OLS have won the Bandyliiga play-off to become Finnish champions 16 times the first was in 1970 and the most recent title was in 2014. OLS has won the Finnish championship in the following years: 1970, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1991, 2001, 2003, 2008, 2009, and 2014.

External links

• Official website