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Tampereen Kisatoverit

football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ11896272 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tampereen Kisatoverit (TKT) is a Finnish multi-sport club from Tampere. The club has activity in football, gymnastics, arm wrestling and volleyball.

Background

Tampereen Kisatoverit was founded by workers of Tampella. It had a strong working class identity since the beginning and is a member of Finnish Workers' Sports Federation.

Football

Football was one of the main sports early on, and is still strongest sport of the club. Back in 1960 TKT played one season in finnish top tier Mestaruussarja. The club operates in southeast Tampere and operates a training center in Aitolahti, north of Tampere.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tampereen Kisatoverit” is football club. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tampereen, Kisatoverit and football, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Tampereen, Kisatoverit and football is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “football club” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11896272. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1960.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tampereen Kisatoverit” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.