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RoPS
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Finnish association football club in Rovaniemi, Finland
Key facts
- 2024
- Ykkönen , 5th of 12
- Full name
- Rovaniemen Palloseura
- Founded
- 1950 ; 76 years ago ( 1950 )
- Ground
- Keskuskenttä , Rovaniemi
- Capacity
- 2,803
- Chairman
- Matti Poikajärvi
- Manager
- Jari Alamäki
- League
- Ykkönen
- Website
- www .rops .fi
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports team
- Sport
- Soccer
- League
- Finnish Ykkönen
- Stadium
- Rovaniemen Keskuskenttä
- Country
- Finland
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- association football club
- Official name
- Rovaniemen Palloseura
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Rovaniemi
- Headquarters
- Rovaniemi
- Sport
- association football
- League
- Ykkösliiga
- Official website
- www.rops.fi
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- official color
- blue
- home venue
- Rovaniemen keskuskenttä
- Commons category
- Rovaniemen Palloseura
- topic's main category
- Category:Rovaniemen Palloseura
- inception
- 1950-00-00
- social media followers
- 5609
- category for members of a team
- Category:Rovaniemen Palloseura players
- number of viewers/listeners
- 448389
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
Rovaniemen Palloseura (RoPS) is a football club founded in 1950 and based in Rovaniemi, Finland. RoPS played in the Finnish Premier Division, (Veikkausliiga) for 32 years, from 1981 to 2021. In 2021, RoPS withdrew from professional football and voluntarily relegated to the amateur Kakkonen division. The club plays home games at the Rovaniemen Keskuskenttä in the Arctic Circle of Lapland.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “RoPS” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.