Porin Palloilijat or formerly FC PoPa is a Finnish football club, based in the city of Pori in Finland.

[1] It was decided to form a team called Porin Palloilijat and to make football and bandy their main focus.

[3] PoPa had a rich early history playing 10 seasons in the Suomisarja (Finland League) which at that time was the second tier of Finnish football in 1937–39 and 1945–51.

The club maintained their rapid progress in 2009 by finishing 4th in the Ykkönen and are well on target of bringing Veikkausliiga football back to Pori.

[7] From the beginning, the focal point of new executive board has been raising the football in Pori and Satakunta back to the top level in Finland.