Kirkenes FC

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Kirkenes FC
Full nameKirkenes Football Club
Nickname(s)Red Firm
GroundExhibition Place, Kirkenes
Ground Capacity38,600
ManagerKelssek Blake McDonagh
LeagueKelssek Championship

Kirkenes F.C. is a professional football club playing in the Kelssek Football League Championship. Their home stadium Exhibition Place is located on the shores of the Inner Harbour of Kirkenes, Kelssek's largest city. Known colloquially as the Red Firm or by their initials KFC, they have won the league title five times along with one IFCF Champions League title, only the second club in Kelssek to have won the world championship. It is also the football club in Kelssek with the most subscribing members. Kirkenes has also set the record for an incoming transfer fee twice in a row, first for Catheline Matthias and prior to the KFL79 season for Banijan forward Yob Yeyeh Aan, who joined from FK Arsika for a fee of ϑ3 million.

Under manager Natalia Rossi, who was appointed ahead of KFL season 66, Kirkenes won its first Patriotes Cup and became the second Kelssek team to win an international tournament by beating Strathcona Internationals in the final of the 12th Vilitan Cove Invitational. Kirkenes also reached the Champions League round of 16, its best result in the IFCF tournaments. Rossi's tenure was fraught with an inability to progress towards challenging for the league title however, and a series of losses late in the KFL 71 season capped by a humiliating Anglian Derby loss to Burnaby led her to be dismissed after almost six years in charge.

Daniel Archer's tenure didn't immediately deliver success, but the signing of Catheline Matthias for a transfer fee that set a new league record eventually paid off with the first league championship in 33 years. The following year they went on to win the 16th IFCF Champions League at the Stadium Konueira, the home ground of their major domestic rivals. This was the first of three consective IFCF finals the club reached, although they lost both of them and a decline in league form led to the decision to replace Archer at the end of his contract.

Fan culture

The words of the club's iconic supporter song are: Kirkenes, between the valleys / That is where I want to be / At the Ex, with the Red Firm / They're the greatest team in history. You'd think a Girl Guides campfire song is a strange choice for people heavily into performative masculinity, but there you go.

Rivalries

Kirkenes's most important rivalries are the Anglian Derby against Burnaby SC and the War of the Crowns against CF Outineau. These matches against two of Kelssek's other big clubs often carry key implications for league position and championship chances. A major cultural element exists with both rivalries too, against Burnaby is a match between the two biggest Anglian cities in Kelssek, with Burnaby's stereotypical free-thinking, mountain-climbing, progressive culture pit as a contrast to business-oriented, straight-laced, suit-wearing Kirkenes. Alternative names for this rivalry include "long black/flat white" in reference to alleged coffee preferences in the respective cities and "freshy-salty" to the type of water body the respective cities are located by.

In the War of the Crowns against CF Outineau, animosity is rooted in that historical conflict but also involving linguistic and religious differences, and in which incidents of racism and sectarian abuse are sadly common.

Kirkenes also has an intra-city rivalry with Passerine, which was known as North York prior to its insolvency and merger with Dungeaf during the KFL 66 season. Passerine is seen as representing the working class and northern districts of the city, and historically was associated with the republican movement during the Kelssek Revolution. As a result, and despite the club's efforts to distance itself and ban members of such groups from its stadium, right-wing ultras have gravitated to Kirkenes FC and form a significant part of its fanbase. The smaller clubs in Noua Cymru including Hamiltonian Cambria, St. David Wanderers, Saintsport Heath, and Wynleth Flyers all also fancy taking the big boys down a peg, if they can.

Honours

International

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 KFL season 67

Players

Current squad

As of KFL season 84

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under World Cup Committee eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WCC nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Kelssek GK Jenas Maraipu
29 Kelssek GK Joseph Albeam (on loan)
47 Kelssek GK Aidan Dupuis
2 Kelssek DF Colm Lumsden
3 South Newlandia DF Alexis Tuskie
4 Kelssek DF Bleke Durocher (captain)
13 Kelssek DF Lazar Soltész
17 Quebec and Shingoryeo DF Kweon Hyeok-Joon
25 Kelssek DF Joseph-Jean Compagnie
38 Kelssek DF Ruaridh Ó hÓgáin
30 Kelssek DF Natalia Konarik
6 Kelssek MF Oskari Ross
7 Yuezhou MF Liljan Álfarsdottír Zhou
8 Crpostran MF Quirino Naoise
12 Sajnur MF Aurora Merelu
15 Kelssek MF Damien Store
16 Yuezhou MF Dong Yichun
No. Position Player
18 Kelssek MF Sydney Pouliot
19 United Mandaran States MF Satria Wiradarma (vice-captain)
20 Kelssek MF Trant McKelvey
21 Cap Nord MF Jan Van Dijcke
22 Kelssek MF Oskari Perry
24 Kelssek MF Peter Markov
28 Kelssek MF Sierra Bonilla
30 South Newlandia MF Kathryn Gray
45 Kelssek MF Maryus Nguyen
46 Yuezhou MF Gao Renliang
9 Pasarga FW Musa Diya Seif
10 Banija FW Yob Yeyeh Aan
11 Chromatika FW Evin Françine-Miklavivec
39 Kelssek MF Daemond Tartt

Notable ex-players

  • Nephara Catheline Matthias - Striker who set league record for most expensive incoming transfer. KFL75 Player of the Year; captained team to Champions League win and three straight IFCF finals.
  • Licentian Isles Quinten van der Ven - KFL 73 Young Player of the Year and Championship winner before leaving for Ridgewell Rovers.
  • Siovanija and Teusland Bastian Wolff - Legend status for his dedication to the club through the lean years before winning the Championship and Champions League at the end of his career.
  • Valanora Victor Nyquist - Club captain for over five seasons with his career culminating in the KFL75 league title, played nine years at the club, nominated for Kelssek Player of the Year once.
  • Juvencus Ceferino Audiol - Juvencus wonderkid. Bags goals, wins league title. Does not elaborate, leaves.
Played in major international tournaments while at the club

Recent seasons

Key

Results of league and cup competitions by season
Season League Cup IFCF/UICA Other
Division Pld W D L GF GA Pts Rank
60 Champ 38 16 14 8 60 41 62 2nd 3R
61 Champ 38 22 9 7 82 65 75 2nd 4R ChC 1PR
62 Champ 38 22 7 9 79 49 73 3rd 3R ChC 3PR
63 Champ 38 20 6 12 54 47 66 6th 4R ChC QR
64 Champ 38 20 9 9 41 29 69 3rd 3R
65 Champ 38 18 5 15 63 56 59 7th 3R ChC R16
66 Champ 38 16 11 11 41 27 59 10th 3R
67 Champ 38 22 7 9 86 63 73 4th W VCI W
68 Champ 38 14 13 11 61 44 55 8th QF ChC PO CWC R16
69 Champ 38 16 10 12 65 54 58 9th SF
70 Champ 38 25 7 6 84 42 82 2nd 4R
71 Champ 38 23 5 10 81 44 74 5th QF CL R16
72 Champ 38 22 8 8 67 36 74 4th QF ChC 4QR
73 Champ 38 22 4 12 73 49 70 6th QF ChC GS
74 Champ 38 21 5 12 80 44 68 5th 4R ChC 2QR
75 Champ 38 24 9 5 81 34 81 1st QF ChC 2QR
76 Champ 38 21 7 10 83 49 70 4th 3R CL W
77 Champ 38 17 12 9 70 47 63 5th SF CL F
78 Champ 38 20 8 10 61 38 68 5th QF AT F
79 Champ 38 27 5 6 103 43 86 2nd QF AT R32
80 Champ 38 22 12 4 97 46 78 4th 3R ChC R16
81 Champ 38 24 8 6 95 41 80 1st QF AT R32
82 Champ 38 22 8 8 84 45 74 6th 5R CL QF
83 Champ 38 20 8 10 70 38 68 5th 4R AT R32

Coaching staff

  • Manager: Kelssek Blake McDonagh
  • Assistant manager: Kita-Hinode Areke Shinra
  • Coaches: Kelssek Rodney Bright, Kelssek Brad Brunelle

Managerial history

  • Savigliane Natalia Rossi (66-71)
  • Nephara Daniel Archer (72-78)
  • Chromatika Margerie Pax (79-83)
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