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Vammalan Lentopallo — Valepa is a volleyball team in southwest Finland founded in 1978. It is based in the Vammala district of the town of Sastamala, in the Pirkanmaa Region. Valepa plays in the highest level in Finland.




History


Vammalan Lentopallo was founded 1978, with the club's first season in SM-liiga in 1980-1981.
VaLePa is known to be a good place for young players. Many of the club's own juniors have reached professional level and other young talents have made their pro-level debut in the club. Some of the best-known of them are Olli-Pekka Ojansivu, Olli Kunnari, Mikko Oivanen and Matti Oivanen.
The team's best result to date is the national champion title, which it won twice (in the 2011-2012 and 2013-2014 seasons). In 2012, it also won the Finnish Cup.




= European competitions

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Valepa played in the CEV Challenge Cup in the 2008-2009 season, where it lost both the home match (1-3) and the return match in Burgas (3-0) to the Bulgarian Neftehimik team.
In 2012-2013 VaLePa played in the CEV Cup. The first round was against the Estonian team of Selver Tallinn. VaLePa won through golden set after both teams had won a match (Selver - VaLePa 3-2, VaLePa - Selver 3-0). In the second round, VaLePa faced the Italian Andreoli Latina, which was stronger in the golden set (VaLePa - Latina 3-1, Latina - VaLePa 3-0).




= New Arena

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Season 2012-2013 was a big change for the club. Old small homeground Sylvää was abandoned for new bigger VexVe Arena. The team sometimes still train in Sylvää and second team also plays there some of their games.




= Achievements

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Finland league bronze 1992, 2008,2013 and 2014
Finland league silver 2011
Finland league champion 2012 and 2014
Finnish Cup winner 2012
Finnish Cup runners-up 2013 and 2014




Team






= Season 2018-2019

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Setters
Mikko Esko
Arttu Lehtimäki
Middle-blockers
Daniel Jansen Van Doorn (CAN)
Markus Kaurto
Tommi Siirilä
Mikko Karjarinta
Rami Rekomaa
Wing-spikers
Olli Kunnari
Erik Sundberg
Niko Suihkonen
Opposite
Arvis Greene (USA)
Urpo Sivula
Aaro Nikula
Libero
Alan Barbosa Domingos
Head coach
Radovan Gacic
Assistant coach
Janne Kangaskokko
Club chairman
Arto Satonen — also a member of the Parliament of Finland.




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Vammalan Lentopallo
• Mikko Esko
• Sastamala
• Sjoerd Hoogendoorn
• Olli Kunnari
• Olli-Pekka Ojansivu
• Mikko Oivanen
• Elviss Krastiņš
• Finland men's national volleyball team
• Finland Volleyball League