History Kiffen football is known as the
Mustat Hurmurit (Black charmers). The name comes from the late 1920s when the black coloured jersey was first introduced bu Kiffen bandy team. Kiffen had two representatives, Ragnar Wickström and Lars Schybergson, in the Finnish football team at the Stockholm Olympics in 1912. The club then won the Finnish football championship (
Mestaruussarja) in 1913, 1915 and 1916 in the years prior to Finnish independence in 1917. Kiffen's last championship win came much later in 1955. The decline in Kiffen football set in a decade later when the club were relegated from the
Mestaruussarja and then a further relegation from the
Suomensarja (Finland League), the second tier, followed in 1965 to the
Maakuntasarja, the third tier. Fortunes fluctuated in the late 1960s and early 1970s before the club made its last appearances in the
Mestaruussarja in 1977 and 1978. Among the players representing Kiffen at that time were
Erkki Alaja,
Juha Dahllund,
Kai Haaskivi,
Atik Ismail and
Reima Kokko. The following year in 1978 Kiffen had dropped to the
Ykkönen (First Division) and in the subsequent years the club have not reached second-tier football.
Honours and achievements • Finnish Champions (Mestaruussarja Winners): 1913, 1915, 1916 and
1955 Club structure Kiffen runs 3 men's teams and 6 veteran's teams.
FC Kiffen are competing in Group A of the
Kakkonen. This is the third tier of the
Finnish football system. In 2020 the team finished in fifth position in their
Kakkonen group.
FC Kiffen/3 are participating in the Section 1 of the
Nelonen (Fourth Division).
FC Kiffen/3 are participating in the Section 3 of the
Vitonen (Fifth Division).
Current squad Management Updated 9 January 2021 ==Bandy==