The sports club Savonlinnan Pallokerho was founded in 1929. First it consisted football and bandy sections, but since the 1960s ice hockey has been the main sport.
In 1960s SaPKo played four seasons in the highest tier of Finnish ice hockey SM-sarja but was relegated to Suomi-sarja in 1971. In 1974 the new First Division was formed and SaPKo was one of the teams participating. SaPKo soon established itself as the team of I-divisioona expect few visits to Second Division. In 1968 SaPKo worked its way to the final of Finnish Cup, but lost the final to KooVee 10–2.
Later bigger success came in the season 1994/1995 when SaPKo had very good regular season with players like Team Canada captain Brian Tutt and was close to promotion to the SM-liiga. It played tight promotion playoffs against Ilves but failed to promote. After the success started downtrend which culminated to relegation to Suomi-sarja. At the end of the 2005/2006 season SaPKo finally gained promotion back to the second tier, Mestis. On 22 June 2022 SaPKo filed for bankruptcy, due to Financial difficulties.
sapko, this, article, does, cite, sources, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, news, newspapers, books, scholar, jstor, october, 2021, learn, when, remove, this, t. This article does not cite any sources Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources SaPKo news newspapers books scholar JSTOR October 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message Savonlinnan Pallokerho SaPKo was an ice hockey team from Savonlinna Finland they formerly play in the Mestis league It plays its home matches at the Talvisalo ice rink SaPKoCitySavonlinna FinlandFounded1929Folded2022Colours General managerVesa KutvonenHead coachPekka TirkkonenCaptainMatti TiihonenAffiliateKalPa SM liiga Websitewww wbr sapko wbr fiThe sports club Savonlinnan Pallokerho was founded in 1929 First it consisted football and bandy sections but since the 1960s ice hockey has been the main sport In 1960s SaPKo played four seasons in the highest tier of Finnish ice hockey SM sarja but was relegated to Suomi sarja in 1971 In 1974 the new First Division was formed and SaPKo was one of the teams participating SaPKo soon established itself as the team of I divisioona expect few visits to Second Division In 1968 SaPKo worked its way to the final of Finnish Cup but lost the final to KooVee 10 2 Later bigger success came in the season 1994 1995 when SaPKo had very good regular season with players like Team Canada captain Brian Tutt and was close to promotion to the SM liiga It played tight promotion playoffs against Ilves but failed to promote After the success started downtrend which culminated to relegation to Suomi sarja At the end of the 2005 2006 season SaPKo finally gained promotion back to the second tier Mestis On 22 June 2022 SaPKo filed for bankruptcy due to Financial difficulties Contents 1 Honours 1 1 Mestis 1 2 Suomi sarja 1 3 Finnish cup 2 Notable players 3 Retired numbers 4 External linksHonours EditMestis Edit 1 2017 1 2018Suomi sarja Edit 1 2003 1 2006Finnish cup Edit 3 1967 1968 2017Notable players EditArto Heiskanen Jarkko Immonen Gennadi Kurdin Wikidata Niko Laakkonen Jukka Pekka Laamanen Ville Leino Steve MacDonald Randy Maxwell Jarmo Myllys Tuukka Rask Seppo Repo Reino Soijarvi Antti Tirkkonen Pekka Tirkkonen Paavo Tirkkonen Tommi Turunen Seppo Aksila Brian Tutt Viktor Tyumenev Jan Mikael JarvinenRetired numbers Edit2 Paavo Tirkkonen 3 Jyrki Turunen 5 Ahti Ruohoaho 10 Raimo TurkulainenExternal links EditOfficial website This European ice hockey team related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte This article about sports in Finland is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title SaPKo amp oldid 1134306127, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
