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JS Hercules
Full name	Jalkapalloseura Hercules ry.
Nickname(s)	Herkku
Founded	1998; 26 years ago
Ground	Castrén
Chairman	Mikko Perälä
Manager	Peter Ebbe Tønder
Website	http://www.jshercules.com/

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

Current squad 2018

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	FIN	Ville Seppä
2	DF	FIN	Joni Leskelä
5	DF	FIN	Santeri Ukkola
7	MF	FIN	Aleksi Nousiainen
9	FW	NGA	Kalim Amokachi
10	FW	NGA	Paul Obi
11	FW	NGA	Nazim Amokachi
12	DF	FIN	Markku Huoponen (C)
19	MF	FIN	Miika Vihavainen
21	MF	FIN	Miika Lammela


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
22	MF	FIN	Valtteri Kovalainen
23	FW	NGA	Junior Obagbemiro
24	MF	NGA	Jerome Ogbuefi
25	MF	EGY	Karam Hadhoud
27	MF	MKD	Calvin N'Sombo
37	FW	FIN	Sami Karjalainen
41	GK	FIN	Aleksanteri Patronen
45	GK	FIN	Darius Kangnissoukpe
80	MF	FIN	Samu Himanka

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.^[4] In 2017, the club entered into a partnership with Indian I-League club Chennai City.^[5]^[6]