JS Hercules
Association football club in Finland
title: "JS Hercules" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["football-clubs-in-finland", "association-football-clubs-established-in-1998", "1998-establishments-in-finland", "sport-in-oulu", "sports-clubs-and-teams-in-north-ostrobothnia", "js-hercules"] description: "Association football club in Finland" topic_path: "sports" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JS_Hercules" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Association football club in Finland ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| clubname | JS Hercules |
| fullname | Jalkapalloseura Hercules ry. |
| nickname | Herkku |
| founded | |
| ground | Castrén |
| chairman | Mikko Perälä |
| manager | Peter Ebbe Tønder |
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| website | http://www.jshercules.com/ |
| :: |
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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.
Season to season
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|Season to season of Hercules ::data[format=table]
| Season | Level | Division | Section | Administration | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Tier 5 | Nelonen (Fourth Division) | Group 1 | Northern District (SPL Pohjois-Suomi) | 5th |
| 1999 | Tier 5 | Nelonen (Fourth Division) | Premilinary Group | Northern District (SPL Pohjois-Suomi) | 2nd |
| 2000 | Tier 5 | Nelonen (Fourth Division) | Premilinary Group | Northern District (SPL Pohjois-Suomi) | |
| 2001 | Tier 4 | Kolmonen (Third Division) | Oulu/Kainuu | Northern District (SPL Pohjois-Suomi) | 7th |
| 2002 | Tier 4 | Kolmonen (Third Division) | Oulu | Northern District (SPL Pohjois-Suomi) | 7th |
| 2003 | Tier 4 | Kolmonen (Third Division) | Group A | Northern District (SPL Pohjois-Suomi) | 8th |
| 2004 | Tier 5 | Nelonen (Fourth Division) | Oulu | Northern District (SPL Pohjois-Suomi) | 2nd |
| 2005 | Tier 5 | Nelonen (Fourth Division) | Oulu | Northern District (SPL Pohjois-Suomi) | 6th |
| 2006 | Tier 5 | Nelonen (Fourth Division) | Group A | Northern District (SPL Pohjois-Suomi) | 9th |
| 2007 | Tier 5 | Nelonen (Fourth Division) | Oulu | Northern District (SPL Pohjois-Suomi) | 7th |
| 2008 | Tier 5 | Nelonen (Fourth Division) | Oulu | Northern District (SPL Pohjois-Suomi) | 10th |
| 2009 | Tier 5 | Nelonen (Fourth Division) | Oulu | Northern District (SPL Pohjois-Suomi) | 9th |
| 2010 | Tier 5 | Nelonen (Fourth Division) | Oulu | Northern District (SPL Pohjois-Suomi) | 2nd |
| 2011 | Tier 4 | Kolmonen (Third Division) | Northern Finland | Northern District (SPL Pohjois-Suomi) | 6th |
| 2012 | Tier 4 | Kolmonen (Third Division) | Northern Finland | Northern District (SPL Pohjois-Suomi) | 7th |
| 2013 | Tier 4 | Kolmonen (Third Division) | Northern Finland | Northern District (SPL Pohjois-Suomi) | 7th |
| 2014 | Tier 4 | Kolmonen (Third Division) | Northern Finland | Northern District (SPL Pohjois-Suomi) | 7th |
| 2015 | Tier 4 | Kolmonen (Third Division) | Northern Finland | Northern District (SPL Pohjois-Suomi) | 2nd |
| 2016 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen (Second Division) | Group C | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 8th |
| 2017 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen (Second Division) | Group C | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 5th |
| 2018 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen (Second Division) | Group C | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 4th |
| 2019 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen (Second Division) | Group C | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 9th |
| 2020 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen (Second Division) | Group C | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 2nd |
| 2021 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen (Second Division) | Group C | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 3rd |
| 2022 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen (Second Division) | Group C | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 3rd |
| 2023 | Tier 3 | Kakkonen (Second Division) | Group C | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 11th |
| 2024 | Tier 4 | Kakkonen (Second Division) | Group C | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | 7th |
| 2025 | Tier 4 | Kakkonen (Second Division) | Group C | Finnish FA (Suomen Pallolitto) | |
| :: |
- 8 season in Third tier
- 10 seasons in Fourth tier
- 10 seasons in Fifth tier
Current season
On season 2018 Hercules had three teams in different leagues. The first team plays in Kakkonen, group C. The reserve team, JS Hercules/2, plays in the Third Division in northern Finland; the third team, Herkku-Papat, in the Fifth Division in the Oulu area.
Current squad 2018
Outside the pitch
JS Hercules has combined football and business in creating a yearly seminar, FootCoop, which brings together teams and businesses from Northern Fennoscandia with exceptional speakers. The 2012 seminar featured Brian Deane, Tom Saintfiet, Martti Kuusela, Tom Markham, Jarmo Kekäläinen, Aki Riihilahti and Miguel Huhta, and others. At the same time they organized "Sister City Football Tournament" which included teams from Oulu's sister cities and other neighboring places like Alta IF, AC Oulu, RoPS and Bodens BK. In 2017, the club entered into a partnership with Indian I-League club Chennai City.
References
References
- "JS Hercules history". JS Hercules.
- (6 September 2015). "JS Hercules nousee Kakkoseen!". JS Hercules.
- "Tulospalvelu".
- "Finnish Football Archive - Index of SPL Finnish League Suomen Cup Seasons".
- "ResultCode – sarjat/kesä 2012". Palloliitto.
- "FootCoop 2012 was a success!". Topspot.
- (28 June 2019). "10 Partnerships between Indian and European football clubs which broke down". [[Sportskeeda]].
- (6 April 2017). "JS HERCULES OPENS A BRANCH OFFICE IN INDIA AND TIES UP FOR LONG-TERM COOPERATION WITH I-LEAGUE CLUB CHENNAI CITY FC".
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