Tykkimiehet FC

Tykkimiehet FC (1054874)

Full name	Tykkimiehet Football Club
Nickname(s)	Tykärit, TFC
Founded	January 2006
League	Finland
Region	Päijät-Häme
Stadium	Vesivehmaan Highbury (Capacity 27,580)
Fan Club	Punamustat ("Red and Black", about 1900 members)
Manager	Template:Flag/ENG Simon Bunni
Captain	Template:Flag/OCE Joeli Odber-De-Baubeta
Youth Team
Name	Tykkipojat
Trainer	Template:Flag/FIN Artturi Härkönen
Captain	Template:Flag/FIN Ilkka Neiglick
League	De Beste
All-Time Leaders
League/Cup Appearances	Template:Flag/OCE Joeli Odber-De-Baubeta, 80 (123 total)
Total Appearances	Template:Flag/SWE Holger Robertsson, 147 (73 in league/cup)
Best player (All-time, fan vote, before season 36)	Template:Flag/BRA Charles Forjaz

Tykkimiehet FC is a Finnish Hattrick club. The club plays nowadays in Finnish League VI.604. The word "Tykkimiehet" is Finnish and means "The Gunners". Club's Youth Team is called Tykkipojat, straight translation is "The Cannon Boys", as Tykkimiehet and Gunners can also mean "Cannon Men".

Youth team

Tykkimiehet FC's Youth Team is called Tykkipojat, as said before. Youth team's coach is Artturi Härkönen. There are three youth coaches, they are called Jukka Varis, Aki Laaksonen and Juho Ylikorpi. Usually the team's captain is the goalkeeper Ilkka Neiglick. Tykkipojat played it's first season in a league called Slaya's Junior League. Then the team went abroad to a league called Donnykleuterschool. There Tykkipojat took the championship three times in as many seasons. After some different leagues, they joined to their current league called De Beste.

History

Season 28

Tykkimiehet FC was founded 12.1.2006, when there was season 28 ongoing in Finland. Tykkimiehet arrived to it's league, IX.175, after one game. Tykkimiehet finished sixth on it's first season.

Season 29

Though the team was only sixth in it's league last season, it promoted to eighth division to a league named VIII.1130. The team had improved a lot from it's starting season and finished third.

Season 30

On season 30 Tykkimiehet tried to promote to seventh division. After long battling against other teams, Tykkimiehet finished only second and failed to promote. Fans almost got bored to hanging in same league for so long, but the future seemed better...

Season 31

Finally on season 31 Tykärit managed to promote to seventh division after exciting matches.

Season 32

First, Tykkimiehet tried to just avoid the relegation and maybe reach bit more higher, but with a great surprise, Tykkimiehet won the championship and promoted immediately to sixth division. Many new players had bought and when the next season started, the team was ready to face the first big challenge in sixth division.

Season 33

The Club accomplished it's minimum objective and stayed clear out of the relegation. Tykkimiehet finished fifth place in a league called VI.604.

Season 34

Second season in VI.604 was harder than the first: there wasnt't a clearly weaker team and a bot team like last season. Still Tykkimiehet stayed in it's league and finished sixth.

Season 35

The Club finished sixth again, but the place in the league was bit clear already, because there were two bot teams. Tykkimiehet failed to climb up higher.

Season 36

Season 36 seemed easier at the start: there were two bot teams and only one team was clearly better. The Club's aim was to finish fifth, but sometimes even the third place was possible. But Tykkimiehet lost some important matches in the end and finished "only" fourth. The Cup performance (fifth round) was great, though. In the middle of the season the coach, Aiman Sye, who had been in the job since September 2007, retired and Simon Bunni took the control.

Season 37

In the first round, Tykkimiehet won one of it's main opponents, IF Pemar 2-0 away. It was a great start to the season, which the team tries to finish at least fourth, and third place will be very nice.

Famous Players

Information about players coming soon!

Hall of Fame Players

Tykkimiehet FC has an own Hall of Fame, where some retired TFC legends may come after their career. There are currently seven players in Hall of Fame, one of them being a former coach.

• Paavo Heiskanen

Heiskanen was the first player of Tykkimiehet that got promoted to the Hall of Fame. He started his career in Tykkimiehet and never went to another club. On first seasons of Tykkimiehet, Heiskanen was a vital link in the team's defence. He also made some great goals, usually with his head.

• Jori Pöntinen

Pöntinen retired and went to Hall of Fame a day after Paavo Heiskanen. Pöntinen also played as a defender, usually as a full-back. He scored lots of goals and even one hat-trick despite his position and was one of the fan's favourites. He played totally 40 matches.

• Petri Laru

Laru wasn't great player, but still almost the best of the best: Laru is known as a very "funny" person and did things like selling Hot-Dogs during the game, being in the line-up at the same time! Even opponent team's fans clapped, or laughed, to him when the line-up was announced before the game. Nowadays he doesn't play at all (Thank God!) but sells Hot-Dogs near the pitch before matches and at half-time.

• Ludovic Kondo

Kondo was the second coach of Tykkimiehet. He bought many solid players to positions where they were needed. He was also formidable tactician, but he still not managed to promote the team to the seventh division.

• Valter Zeba

Zeba was first foreign Hall of Fame -player. That Croatian superstriker scored 23 goals in 48 matches. Many of those goals were important in eighth and also seventh division. Fans think that Zeba was one of the most important players in season 31, when Tykkimiehet promoted to VII and it's history changed forever.

• Iikka Pikkarainen

Along with Laru, Pikkarainen's glorius matches are all friendlies. He was the first player of the Club who scored a Hat-Trick. This game was a friendly against ZC Kukkila, and this match is probably the legendariest match in TFC's history. To see why, check it out in Hattrick (80462466) or see below from this page. Pikkarainen has also scored one league goal.

• Henrik Fogelholt

Fogelholt was promoted to the Hall of Fame after he announced to end his career. He started his career in Tykkimiehet when the whole club was formed and ended it in May 2008. The Finnish wingback with Swedish descent also scored 21 goals and played 115. Even so he wasn't as legendary as Heiskanen, Pöntinen or Zeba and not as funny as Laru, Pikkarainen or Kissa, but he still is a honorable member of the Hall of Fame.

• Toni Kissa

The latest player promoted to Hall of Fame, Kissa, belongs to the same category as Laru and Pikkarainen as a legendary Friendly match player and humoristic attitude. Most important thing about him is that his surname Kissa means "Cat" in English. Mostly because of his name he was bought from Lamminpää Predators in September 2006 for 1000 euros. He played 42 matches, most of them friendlies, and he didn't score any league or cup goals.

Non-HoF retired legends

Some legends of The Club have been sold to another club and then retired, or retired in Tykkimiehet without entering to the Hall of Fame. They are not in Hall of Fame but still on hearts of the fans.

• Charles Forjaz

• Miika Hannonen

• Joonas Tupamäki

• Jaakko Sunden

Legends still playing in The Club

Of course some of the greatest are legends when they are still living, i.e. playing still in Tykkimiehet.

• Joeli Odber-De-Baubeta

• Holger Robertsson

• Ricky Ramos

• Jouke Reckers

• Teemu Rautapää

• Alessandro Wyssmann

Legends playing elsewhere

Some great players have been sold in spite of their reputation and praise of the fans.

• Sami Kauhanen

• Arvo Kojo

• Alex Evora

• Hector Denis

• Vidas Mergiunas

• Marco Zanzi

Legendary Events

Tykkimiehet FC - ZC Kukkila

This friendly match is the favourite of many Tykkimiehet fans. There happened many legendary things: first, Tykkimiehet scored 7 beautiful goals. Then, Joeli Odber-De-Baubeta, who has played most games in TFC shirt, head-butted the opponent and was sent off. Remember, that Zinedine Zidane's head butt was about two months after that... Also, Iikka Pikkarainen scored three goals and a Hat-Trick, first time in The Club's history. Also Petri Laru almost played a clean sheet, but one player called Antonello Spinola made a mistake on 86th minute and so Laru just couldn't make a save. A month later Spinola was sold...

Stadium

Tykkimiehet FC's Stadium is called Vesivehmaan Highbury. It means Vesivehmaa's Highbury, Vesivehmaa is the name of The Club's home village. Stadium's capacity is 27580. It was first 12000-seater, then 14000-seater for a long time and being present for couple of seasons after a large revonation.

See Also

• User:Jopetshow
• Tykkimiehet FC/Petri Laru

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