From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 91 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match5 Nov 2026
KuPS come up short in Europe
0‑2 away to the standard of Galatasaray. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.
Match5 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for KuPS
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Artem Kozak in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KuPS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Johannes Kreidl falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match5 Nov 2026
KuPS leaking at the back
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Leandro Cañete out for 99 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason KuPS will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Bob Nii Armah: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” KuPS have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at KuPS
Artem Kozak was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
Leandro Cañete breaks a bone — 107 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 107 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
KuPS are in Europe
Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.
Match22 Oct 2026
A European lesson for KuPS
2‑3 against Galatasaray. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Saku Savolainen: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” KuPS have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KuPS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Johannes Kreidl falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.34 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market26 Oct 2026
Kasim Adams linked with a move away
The name of Kasim Adams keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KuPS say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
Leandro Cañete breaks a bone — 114 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 114 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” KuPS may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at KuPS
Artem Kozak was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Leandro Cañete breaks a bone — 121 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 121 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” KuPS may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Artem Kozak in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KuPS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Johannes Kreidl falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I did not go to HIFK to sit and watch. I want to come back to KuPS and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Market12 Oct 2026
Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and KuPS have gone and got theirs early.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Leandro Cañete breaks a bone — 128 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 128 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match1 Oct 2026
A European night to remember for KuPS
2‑2 against OB, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Squad5 Oct 2026
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Otto Ruoppi, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.97
A mark of 8.97 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Geovanni Vianney is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; KuPS are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Otto Ruoppi
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 8.57 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
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Boardroom
Wages eat 90% of everything KuPS earn
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Market
The Arttu Heinonen talk will not go away
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The terraces
The press cannot get enough of Artem Kozak
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Leandro Cañete breaks a bone — 135 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 135 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Artem Kozak in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KuPS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Johannes Kreidl falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Renato Hyshmeri out for 74 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason KuPS will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match17 Sep 2026
A European lesson for KuPS
0‑2 against Bodo/Glimt. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 6 of the 29 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 52 days on the sidelines for Dmytro Shcherbak, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at KuPS
Artem Kozak was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at KuPS training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johannes Kreidl is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
Everybody has an opinion about Johannes Kreidl
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Market21 Sep 2026
It is the least glamorous business a club does and the reason seasons do not collapse in February. Juan Esteban Larrahondo is here for the weeks when three men are injured and somebody still has to play.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Renato Hyshmeri out for 81 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason KuPS will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KuPS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Artem Kozak falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Renato Hyshmeri out for 88 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason KuPS will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Petteri Pennanen, 35, rolls back the years — 8.23
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.23 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at KuPS
Artem Kozak was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.28, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at KuPS training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johannes Kreidl is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match5 Sep 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Jaime Moreno’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to KuPS.
Match5 Sep 2026
KuPS keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.70, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Upbeat
Squad31 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Renato Hyshmeri out for 95 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason KuPS will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.36 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Artem Kozak in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KuPS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
Kasim Adams scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to FF Jaro, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Johannes Kreidl falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Jaime Moreno gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Upbeat
Squad24 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Renato Hyshmeri out for 102 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason KuPS will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match19 Aug 2026
KuPS out of the cup
IFK Mariehamn ended it 1‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.06, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market24 Aug 2026
KuPS say no — this time
The offer from Ilves for Arttu Heinonen was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at KuPS
Petteri Pennanen was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match22 Aug 2026
It finished 3‑1, and it was Cəlal Hüseynov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to KuPS.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at KuPS training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artem Kozak is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
One of those days for Karl Ward
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Triumph
Squad17 Aug 2026
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.99 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match15 Aug 2026
KuPS cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KuPS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Arttu Heinonen has come up in conversations KuPS were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Johannes Kreidl falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match15 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Calvin Kabuye’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to KuPS.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 8.93 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Triumph
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Johannes Kreidl and KuPS agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KuPS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Emmanuel Boateng has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means KuPS have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gustav Engvall falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match8 Aug 2026
Ilves made KuPS work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
KuPS supporters have found a favourite in Calvin Kabuye
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Calvin Kabuye has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.80 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.01, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
KuPS run riot against VPS
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A brace, and Jaime Moreno takes the afternoon — 8.57
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jaime Moreno provided it, and the 8.57 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Otto Ruoppi could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.43
Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.43, 0 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jaime Moreno and KuPS agree another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at KuPS
Petteri Pennanen was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Niilo Kujasalo, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at KuPS training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artem Kozak is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Joslyn Luyeye-Lutumba has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Arttu Lötjönen has come up in conversations KuPS were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.