SalPa

Salon Palloilijat's clearest run of form sits at the third tier. The club won Kakkonen in 2000, and again in 2022. The second promotion held longer: SalPa stayed in the second tier through the 2023, 2024 and 2025 seasons, finishing seventh in 2023, the club's best placing there, before a last-place finish in 2025 sent the team back down to Kakkonen.

Football in Salo runs through a wider sports society founded in 1956, one that still carries floorball, figure skating and basketball sections alongside the men's team. In 2021 the club hived off its professional football operations into a separate company, Swan Business & Sports Oy, while the original society kept its name and its other sports. Home matches are played at Salon urheilupuisto, which holds 2,500, and the side takes the field in blue and white under the nickname the Swans.

Petri Jakonen, a former goalkeeper, is remembered as the man behind the club's revival in the early 2000s as sports director, a spell that produced the 2000 Kakkonen title. The academy's clearest export from that era is Jussi Jääskeläinen, who came through SalPa before a long career in goal for the Finland national team.

Iiku Leino captained the side and wore the number 21 shirt. SalPa retired that number after he died in 2022.