Musan Salama

Musan Salama
Nickname(s)	Valkoiset Tiikerit (The White Tigers)
Founded	April 10, 1960; 64 years ago
Ground	Musan kenttä, Pori
Capacity	700
Chairman	Mikko-Tapio Mattila
Manager	Ville Ulanen
League	Kolmonen
2023	Kolmonen group A, 3rd
Home colours	Away colours

Musan Salama (lit. 'The Lightning of Musa'), commonly abbreviated MuSa,^[1] is a football club based in Pori, Finland, currently playing in the Finnish fifth tier Kolmonen. It was founded in 1960 in the Musa suburb of Pori as a football and ice hockey club. The ice hockey section was continued by the Porin Kiekko-Salamat in 1972.^[2]^[3]

Musan Salama has mostly played in the Finnish third or fourth levels. In 1999–2001 MuSa made a three-year spell to the second tier Ykkönen, but was relegated after the 2001 season. In 2016 MuSa made it to the promotion play-offs losing to the Helsinki side Gnistan on penalties. Finally, in 2018 MuSa achieved promotion back to the second tier Ykkönen by defeating Kokkola based side GBK in the finals of the promotion playoffs on penalties. ^[4]

MuSa is a member of the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation.^[5]

Division history 2000–2023

2000 Ykkönen – 9th
2001 Ykkönen – 10th (relegated)
2002 Kakkonen – 7th
2003 Kakkonen – 7th
2004 Kakkonen – 7th
2005 Kakkonen – 12th (relegated)
2006 Kolmonen – 1st (promoted)

2007 Kakkonen – 13th (relegated)
2008 Kolmonen – 2nd
2009 Kolmonen – 1st (promoted)
2010 Kakkonen – 9th
2011 Kakkonen – 13th (relegated)
2012 Kolmonen – 1st (promoted)
2013 Kakkonen – 9th (relegated)

2014 Kolmonen – 1st (promoted)
2015 Kakkonen – 2nd
2016 Kakkonen – 2nd (promotion play-offs)
2017 Kakkonen – 2nd
2018 Kakkonen - 1st (promoted via Playoffs)
2019 Ykkönen – 5th
2020 Ykkönen – 5th

2021 Ykkönen – 11th (relegated)
2022 Kakkonen – 11th (relegated)
2023 Kolmonen – 3rd

Squad 2021

As of 14 April 2021^[update].^[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
1	GK	FIN	Eetu Lindfors
4	DF	FIN	Samuli Virtanen
5	MF	FIN	Verneri Salminen
6	DF	FIN	Jussi Välilä
7	FW	FIN	Samu-Petteri Mäkelä
8	MF	JPN	Naoki Maeda
9	MF	FIN	Rudi Dieter
11	FW	FIN	Juho Heikkinen
12	GK	FIN	Olli Hakanpää
13	FW	FIN	Santeri Tähkä
14	DF	FIN	Joonas Lakkamäki
15	MF	FIN	Juuso Rantala
16	MF	FIN	Matias Koskinen


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
17	MF	EGY	Karam Hadhoud
18	DF	FIN	Joonas Rantala
20	FW	FIN	Niilo Puustinen
21	DF	FIN	Matias Sallila
23	MF	FIN	Tobias Laaksonen
25	MF	FIN	Jyri Kiuru
26	MF	FIN	Juho Montola
28	DF	FIN	Kristo Niinisalo
29	MF	FIN	Julius Kangaslahti
30	MF	ANG	Wadir
31	FW	AFG	Fareed Sadat
34	GK	FIN	Rasmus Simula