Greasers FBC

”Floorball in earnest but not too seriously”

Floorball Club Greasers FBC was established in 1998 by a group of young men from Korso. Since the beginning our core values have been fair play, try hard to the last, and intention to do things a bit better than everybody else. These values, together with talented and active people, have brought our small club a lot of positive publicity.

Photo: Silver medallists of Vantaa Championships 2008

Greasers’ aims are to offer good circumstances to practice the noble sport of Floorball, and keep close and progressive relationships to our partners and sponsors.

There will be three teams playing under the Finnish Floorball Assosiation series in becoming season 2011-2012. Greasers I play in 3. division, Greasers II and Greasers III plays in 5. division. As per today we have more than 50 registered players in our club.

International Games

Greasers played the first international game in autumn 2000, when the type of pioneer team IFK SOS celebrated their 21st anniversary with a game trip to Finland. One of the finest moments in club’s history was a test match against Team Malaysia in Helsinki in 2002. Malaysians were preparing for the forthcoming World Cup, and most of the players had not played any real flooball match earlier.

International matches

Situation in the summer of 2011

Player exchange

Greasers and the co-operation club Veddesta Finska IBK (SWE) have been engaged in a player exchange. Jere spent a year in Sweden as a Floorball professional, and Tony still plays in the club.

Photo: Article in Salibandy -lehti (= Officical floorball magazine in Finland) about Greasers player exhange

In addition we have had visitors from Czech Republic, Sweden, UK, Canada and Japan.

Korso Cup

Korso Cup tournament was originated to measure the superiority of local teams of Korso, and bring them together before the season begins. Since the first tournament in 2003, the goal has been to offer high quality matches, in excellent circumstances of Lumo Community Center.

Korso Cup has become an event, which is spoken throughout the year. Participation to it and most of all to succeed in is very important for many teams. One could say it’s the high light of the year.

Photo: Strategy meeting at the bench in Korso Cup final 2008

International color to the tournament is brought by a Swedish team Veddesta Finska IBK. Four times Swedish-Finnish Champion provides an opportunity to measure the level of the game in neighboring country.

Korso Cup is under continuous developing. Our intention is to offer new experiences for players and spectators every year. By its visibility, the tournament offers a great opportunity for our partners to reach local inhabitants, and floorball actives.

Korso t-shirt

Korso is an important home town of Greasers and we felt it needs an own fan product. T-shirt with a Korso sign was accomplished in summer 2003. It has been a huge success since the day one, and is been put on by hundreds of people recognizing the Korso lifestyle. A local newspaper published an article about it and received a lot of publicity. T-shirt is sold at our partner bar’s premises, as well as in our online store.

”Korso is more than a trackside suburb. It’s a lifestyle and an emotion.”

Internet and media

The main communication channel to operate is club’s website at http://www.greasers.net. In addition our operations have exceeded the threshold for news in at least following media: Helsingin Sanomat (nationwide newspaper), Vantaan Sanomat (local newspaper), Salibandy (Floorball) magazine, SB Magazine, Radio Mafia, Metro FM, Innebandynytt, Vartti, Keski-Uusimaa, Unihockey, and Salibandyliiga.fi.

Photo: Media scrab book