IFK Mariehamn

Full name	Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Mariehamn
Nickname(s)	Grönvitt (Green White) Saarelaiset (The Islanders).
Founded	1919 (1919)
Ground	Wiklöf Holding Arena, Mariehamn.
Capacity	1,650
Chairman	Dan Mikkola
Manager	Bruno Romão
League	Veikkausliiga
2023	Veikkausliiga, 11th of 12
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Wiklöf Holding Arena

Wiklöf Holding Arena

IFK Mariehamn is a Finnish football club based in Mariehamn, the capital of the Åland Islands. It plays in the Finnish Premier Division (Veikkausliiga), winning their first title in 2016.^[1] The club is managed by Daniel Norrmén, and it plays its home matches at Wiklöf Holding Arena.

History

While IFK Mariehamn was formed in 1919, the sports club did not have a football department until the mid-1930s. Initially the team participated primarily in local tournaments on Åland, only sporadically playing other Finnish or Swedish teams. The team has participated in the Finnish football leagues since 1945.

Until the 1970s, IFK Mariehamn played primarily in the Finnish football divisions 3 and 4. The club reached a peak in 1975 and 1976, when the club first advanced to division 2 and then reached division 1 (Ykkönen) the following year. After two seasons in division 1, IFK Mariehamn was relegated to division 2, where it would remain up until the 2000s, except for a few seasons in division 3 during the early 1990s.

In 2003, IFK Mariehamn returned to division 1. After only one season in division 1, the club advanced, for the first time in its history to the premier division of Finnish football, the Veikkausliiga, for the 2005 season following qualifying the October 2004 games against FC Jazz.^[2] In its first season in the Veikkausliiga, IFK Mariehamn finished 12th out of 14 teams. In 2006, the club finished in 5th place and the year after 6th after an impressive run of unbeaten matches during the autumn of 2007.

In addition to playing in the Veikkausliiga, IFK Mariehamn participates in local Åland tournaments, having won the Åland cup 40 times and the Åland football championships 42 times. In recent years, the club has been the most dominant football team on Åland, having in 2008 won its 11th and 15th straight titles in these two events, respectively.

In 2009, IFK Mariehamn started its first season as a fully professional football club. In 2015, the team won the Finnish Cup for the first time.

On 23 October 2016, IFK Mariehamn defeated FC Ilves 2–1 to secure the first ever Veikkausliiga Championship for the island club.^[3] In the 2017–18 season, IFK played its first-ever two-match UEFA Champions League qualification, where it was knocked out by Poland's champion Legia Warsaw.^[4]

European history

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2013–14	UEFA Europa League	1QR	Inter Baku	0–2	1–1	1–3
2016–17	UEFA Europa League	1QR	Odds BK	1–1	0–2	1–3
2017–18	UEFA Champions League	2QR	Legia Warsaw	0–3	0–6	0–9

Notes

• 1QR: First qualifying round
• 2QR: Second qualifying round

Current squad

As of 17 January 2024^[6]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 4 DF  FIN Daniel Enqvist 5 MF  GHA Usman Suleman 6 MF  FIN Oskari Sallinen 9 FW  BRA Dé 14 MF  FIN Michael Fonsell 17 MF  FIN Robin Sid 18 FW  CIV Muhamed Olawale 21 FW  FIN Arvid Lundberg 28 DF  FIN Jiri Nissinen

No. Pos. Nation Player 43 MF  FIN Leo Andersson 88 GK  FIN Gabriel Kolodziejczyk — MF  FIN Sebastian Dahlström — GK  FIN Marc Nordqvist — GK  FIN Matias Riikonen — DF  FIN Eero-Matti Auvinen — MF  FIN Matias Ojala — DF  NGA Emmanuel Okereke — DF  ENG Jayden Reid

Youth players

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  FIN Jimmi Bruhn

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  FIN Elia Hagström

International players

This is a list of former and current players who have played at full international level while with the club. They are ordered by nationality.

Estonia

• 2017 Andreas Vaikla

Finland

• 2010 Petteri Forsell
• 2011 Kristian Kojola
• 2013 Albin Granlund
• 2023 Elmo Henriksson

Jamaica

• 2013 Dever Orgill

Kenya

• 2007 Willis Ochieng
• 2007 Amos Ekhalie

New Zealand

• 2013 Kris Bright^[7]

Philippines

• 2018 Amin Nazari

Sierra Leone

• 2006 Samuel Barlay

Zambia

• 2007 Clive Hachilensa

Saudi Arabia

• 2023 Abdulfattah Asiri

Management and boardroom

Management

As of 20 January 2021^[8]

Name Role Bruno Romão Head coach Daniel Sjölund Assistant coach Johan Sundman Goalkeeping coach Philip Garvö Fitness Coach Anton Koli Fitness Coach Malin Ringbom Doctor Daniel Norrmén Reserve coach

Boardroom

As of 11 April 2017^[9][10]

Name Role Dan Mikkola Chairman Peter Mattsson Club director

Honours

• Veikkausliiga
  • Champions: 2016
• Finnish Cup
  • Winners: 2015
  • Runners-up: 2019

MIFK Ishockey

MIFK Ishockey is the ice hockey section of IFK Mariehamn. MIFK men's team plays in the Swedish "HockeyFyran", the fifth division of Swedish hockey. MIFK Ishockey has also played in the Finnish III-divisioona.

IFK Mariehamn plays its home games in the Islandia ice rink in Mariehamn. Islandia's capacity is 800. The hockey team was founded in 1993.

MIFK won their division in HockeyFyran with 33 points and advanced to the HockeyTrean qualifiers for the 2023/24 season. MIFK's head coach is Kenneth Westerback, assistant coaches are Kim Schauman and Robert Andersson, the GM is André Portin and the team captain is Pontus Nylén.

IFK Mariehamn U17 plays in the Finnish U17 II-divisioona.

MIFK Ishockey Dam is the women's ice hockey team founded in 2017. The team plays in the Swedish Division 2, but has played in the Finnish Suomi-sarja.

References

External links

• (in Swedish) Official website
• (in Swedish) GMM – The fan club