Kotkan Työväen Palloilijat

Kotkan Työväen Palloilijat (short KTP Kotka ) is a ball sport club from the south-eastern Finnish town of Kotka. The club won in 1951 and 1952, the Finnish football championship four times and the FA Cup. The basketball team of the club won the Finnish championship six times.

  • 2.1 Achievements
  • 2.2 European Cup

Football

The club was founded in 1927. As a member of the Workers' Sports Federation TUL, the teams initially did not play in the leagues of the national sports federations. 1937, 1939 and 1947, won the football championship of the KTP TUL. 1947 played the best two teams in the SPL and the TUL from a common final round of the Finnish championship. This KTP finished third. As of 1948, the TUL - clubs playing in the league system of SPL. In the first season in the Mestaruussarja KTP was ninth of 16 teams, and thus managed to avoid relegation. This was followed by a gradual improvement that culminated in the two championships of 1951 and 1952. After that remained KTP to 1958 class before the first descent followed in the Second Division. After the Cup victories in 1958 and 1961 KTP rose again in 1962 to the Mestaruussarja. With the young Arto Tolsa a real guarantee of success came from his own youth in the team. In 1964, he scored 26 goals in 22 games and thus scorer. KTP reached third place in the league. In addition, the club reached 1966 to 1968, three times in a row, the final of the Finnish football Cup. 1967 KTP won the final 2-0 against Lahti Reipas. 1968 moved Tolsa in the Belgian league and already the following year KTP rose last but one again in the second division. After three seasons in the second division even followed the relegation to the third tier. 1977 and 1978 increased KTP but twice in a row and was again top notch. In this third phase of excellence, which reached from 1979 to 1983, KTP again won the Finnish Cup and qualified it for the Europa Cup Winners' Cup. There KTP difference but in the first round already. In 1983, the relegation to the second division, and only a year later the relegation to the third tier. The team took almost ten years until it was second-rate again. Once there KTP missed several times just to climb up this 1998 but succeeded once again. KTP now played more than two years and reached top notch at this time again the cup final, but the 0-1 lost against HJK Helsinki. In the former Estonian national team several players, such as Urmas Kirs, Martin Reim and Toomas played Kallaste. and before the 2001 season, in the KTP should be competing in the second-rate Ykkönen, the club announced his renunciation of a start. The FC KooTeePee, which had formed from the second team KTP, took over the League place KTP, KTP during 2002 took a new start in the fourth division. 2011 KTP played in the third highest league in Finland.

Achievements

Finnish Championship

Finnish Cup

Finnish League Cup

  • 2nd Place: 1999

Cup of Workers Sports Association

Known player

  • Estonia Argo Arbeiter (* 1973), between 1998 and 2000 at KTP
  • Estonia Urmas Hepner (born 1967 ), from 1992 to 1993 at KTP
  • Estonia Toomas Kallaste (born 1971 ), 1999 and 2000, KTP
  • Estonia Urmas Kirs (born 1966 ), 1999 and 2000, KTP
  • Hungary Zsolt Petry (born 1966 ), 2000 at KTP
  • Estonia Martin Reim (born 1971 ), 1999 and 2000, KTP
  • Finland Arto Tolsa (1945-1989) until 1969 and again in 1980 at KTP
  • Estonia Rain Vessenberg (* 1975 ), 1998 at KTP

Basketball

The basketball team of the club appears under the name KTP Basket since 1927 in competitions at. Since 1957, the team is consistently in the top Finnish basketball league, the Korisliiga represented. The 2012/13 season was the 57th in a row for KTP KTP in the elite class.

With six national championships and nine cup wins KTP is one of the most successful Finnish basketball clubs.

Achievements

League

  • 6x Finnish Champion (1958, 1967, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1994 )
  • 7x Finnish runner-up (1960, 1961, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990, 2013)
  • 10x Third (1957, 1959, 1964, 1966, 1970, 1976, 1982, 1984, 2004, 2011)

Cup

  • 9x Finnish Cup Winner

European Cup

The club qualified for the European Cup six times the national champion, five times for the European Cup Winners' Cup and twice for the Korac Cup. Subsequently, the performance per competition:

  • European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1959 - Top 16, 1968 - Top 16, 1989 - Top 16, 1992 - Top 32 1994 - 1st Round, 1995 - 1st Round
  • European Cup Winners' Cup: 1980 - Top 16 1985 - 1st Round, 1986 - 2nd round, 1987 - Top 16, 1992 - 3rd round ( relegated from the Landesmeistercup )
  • Korac Cup: 1988 - 2nd round, 1992 - first round
  • Finnish football club
  • Finnish Basketball Association
  • Kotka
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