In the 2000s Tiikerit started challenging for promotion back to the top level of Finnish volleyball.
They climbed back to the Finnish volleyball league in 2011 by winning the first division league in 2011 and the championship's qualification game series against Joensuun Riento.
At the time, the club's head coach Tommi Tiilikainen was only 25 years old which made him the youngest coach ever to win any Finnish league.
Simultaneously, the club won a record 36 games in a row in the Finnish volleyball league.
[4] They also reached 85 points in the regular season, which is an all-time record in the history of the Finnish Volleyball league.