Tampereen Pallo-Veikot was founded in 1930 as a general sports club for
workers. TPV played its first football match on 16 May 1930 against
Tampereen Kisatoverit, and managed to win the district championship in their first season. In the 1932 season TPV won its first
Finnish Worker's Sports Federation (TUL) football championship. Before the 1950s the clubs of the
Finnish Workers' Sports Federation, such as TPV, played in their own leagues that were not connected to the
Football Association of Finland. Tampereen Pallo-Veikot won the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation championship six times. Between 1930s and 1960s, TPV also had
bandy,
boxing and
ice hockey sections, but nowadays TPV is purely a football club. In the 1960s TPV played three seasons at the
highest level of Finnish ice hockey, but eventually disbanded its ice hockey section in 1969. TPV joined the Finnish FA in 1955 and competed in the
top tier of the
Finnish football league system for five seasons: in 1971, 1993–1995 and 1999. The most successful year was 1994 when the club won the Finnish Championship, but the next season the club was relegated to
Ykkönen. In July 1998 TPV merged together with another Tampere club
Ilves. A new club called
Tampere United (TamU) was created. However, TPV left the merger soon after its creation and continued playing as its own team. In 1999 the club regained its
Veikkausliiga status, but this only lasted for one season. In 2002 TPV had to abandon its place in the second tier
Ykkönen due to bankruptcy. The club was promoted back to
Ykkönen in 2006 and stayed there for four seasons before being relegated to the third tier
Kakkonen again. Finally in 2018 TPV defeated
Myllykosken Pallo -47 in
Kakkonen Promotion Playoffs and was promoted back to the second tier
Ykkönen. TPV managed to stay in Ykkönen only for the
2019 season and was once again relegated to Kakkonen. The club played in Kakkonen for two seasons, the
2020 and 2021 seasons, until it was once again relegated, this time to
Kolmonen. The club played in Kolmonen for two seasons and gained promotion after the 2023 season. TPV played in Kakkonen for the
2024 and
2025 seasons and gained promotion to Ykkönen after the 2025 season.
Markus Räikkönen, ex-husband of
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin played in the club between 2006 and 2009. == Honours ==