title: Pallo-Iirot
text: # Pallo-Iirot
  
  Pallo-Iirot (abbreviated P-Iirot) is a football club from Rauma in Finland. The club was formed in 1930 and their home ground is at the Äijänsuon stadion. The men's first team currently plays in the Kakkonen. The Chairman of Pallo-Iirot is Tarmo Salvi.
  
  ## Background
  
  The club was known as Iirot when it was established in 1930 and it has since taken a number of forms:
  
  * Iirot Rauma until 1968
  * Hakrit Rauma from 1969 to 1981 (merger with Lukko Rauma)
  * Pallo-Iirot Rauma since 1982
  
  In the 1940s, the club also played bandy for a few years.
  
  At the beginning of the 1990s the leading football clubs in Rauma, namely Rauman Pallo and Pallo-Iirot, merged to form Rauman Pallo-Iirot. A few years later the name reverted to Pallo-Iirot. The other club based in the town is FC Rauma.
  
  Since 1982 Pallo-Iirot has played 14 seasons in the Ykkönen (First Division), the second tier of Finnish football, in the periods 1984–85, 1991, 1993–2001 and 2004–05.
  
  They also have had six spells in the third tier, the Kakkonen (Second Division), covering 12 seasons from 1983, 1986–87, 1990, 1992, 2002–03 and 2006 to the present day.
  
  The club has approximately 1,000 members comprising both boys and girls and offers the whole family the possibility to engage in football.
  
  ## Season to season
  
  | Season | Level | Division | Section | Administration | Position | Movements |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 2000 | Tier 2 | Ykkönen | North Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 7th | Relegation Group – 7th |
  | 2001 | Tier 2 | Ykkönen | North Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 9th | Relegated |
  | 2002 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen | West Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 8th | |
  | 2003 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen | West Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 1st | Play-offs – Promoted |
  | 2004 | Tier 2 | Ykkönen | | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 10th | |
  | 2005 | Tier 2 | Ykkönen | | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 14th | Relegated |
  | 2006 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen | Group B | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 6th | |
  | 2007 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen | Group B | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 9th | |
  | 2008 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen | Group B | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 6th | |
  | 2009 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen | Group B | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 5th | |
  | 2010 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen | Group B | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 4th | |
  | 2011 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen | Group B | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 3rd | |
  | 2012 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen | West Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 3rd | |
  | 2013 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen | West Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 3rd | |
  | 2014 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen | West Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 8th | |
  | 2015 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen | West Group | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 8th | Relegated |
  | 2016 | Tier 4 | Kolmonen | Tampereen | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 3rd | |
  | 2017 | Tier 4 | Kolmonen | Länsi-Suomen | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 3rd | |
  | 2018 | Tier 4 | Kolmonen | Länsi-Suomen | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 1st | Promoted |
  | 2019 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen | Group B | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 7th | |
  | 2020 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen | Group B | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | | |
  