JS Hercules
- Leagues Played
- Finland - Kakkonen - Grupp C 192 Finland - Cup 8 Finland Kakkosen Cup 7
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- Related Teams
- JS Hercules II
Wikipedia - JS Hercules
JS Hercules is an association football club based in Oulu, Finland. Founded in 1998, the team started at the lowest level of the Finnish league system and was playing in the Third Division until promoted to Finnish Second Division, Kakkonen, for the first time for season 2016.
History
When Hercules played the first matches in 1998, some of the players had never played in a football club previously. Some had a little background in their local youth teams and nothing else. The team's core was a group of students mostly from the Faculty of Technology at the University of Oulu. This first generation is almost gone, but a couple are still playing for the reserve team, Herkku-Papat, or manage the team business in the background. Younger ranks are now taking care of the first team efforts on the field.
Hercules spelar för närvarande i Ykkönen, den näst högsta nivån i det finländska seriesystemet. Klubbens största framgång är segern i finska cupen 2017.
Hercules är känt för sin ungdomsverksamhet och har fostrat flera spelare som har representerat det finländska landslaget, bland annat Niklas Moisander, Jari Litmanen och Tim Sparv.