Palloiluseura Apollo

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Palloiluseura Apollo, known as Apollo, is a football club from Hyvinkää, Finland. It was founded in 1956 and plays home games at Kankurin tekonurmi. Ari Alajoki is the club chairman, and the team is coached by Petri Virtanen and Pekka Mononen.

Apollo has mostly played in the lower Finnish leagues but spent two spells in the third tier, the Kakkonen, in 1980–81 and 1985–87. In 1985, former Finland international Atik Ismail scored 11 goals for the club. That year’s home attendance against Honka reached 965, and a KontU-Apollo league match drew 4,349 spectators. In 1986, Apollo finished second in the East Group of Kakkonen, one point behind GrIFK, but the club was relegated the following year.

Derby games with local rivals Hyvinkään Palloseura were a highlight in the 1970s and 1980s. In recent decades Apollo has fallen to the Vitonen, the sixth tier of Finnish football. The club still has ties to its past, with Pekka Mononen as coach and Rudel Matamala having been registered as a player many years later.

Apollo runs one senior team and does not have a junior section. They compete in Section 4 (Lohko 4) of the Vitonen, administered by the Uusimaa SPL. In 2009 they finished 5th in Section 4 of the Vitonen.