The World Lacrosse Box Championships at Utica, New York. September 13-22nd 2024

This year the Finnish men’s national league is completely renewed. The changes have been prepared and finetuned with all of the team representatives. Even though everything had to be done with a tight schedule, everythings is ready for the leagues start this Saturday June 13th, 2020. For this season we’ve really stirred the pot and the teams were formed by drafting players from a huge player pool. This was inspired by the Premier Lacrosse League that launched last season and was a great success. In addition to these new teams, we are playing a so-called hybrid league, in which we play both box- and field lacrosse. The winner of regular season will go on to pick which one is played in the finals. We strongly believe, that the decision made will increase the competitive level of the league and we will see closer and closer games throughout the season. See you out there! Full game schedule here . Regards, Tuomas Tilkanen Commissioner Mens National Lacrosse League

The roster for the men's field lacrosse team, that will represent Finland in the upcoming EC in Poland in July, has been announced. More information on the team can be found here .

Tracey Kelusky, the head coach for the Men’s National Box Lacrosse Team, will be part of the coaching team for the Men’s National Field Lacrosse team in the European Championships 2020. Kelusky has been involved in the Finnish Men’s National Lacrosse Teams since 2015. He coached the National Box Lacrosse team in the European Box Lacrosse Championships in 2017 in Turku, Finland and as his recent achievement he steered the National Team to a historical sixth place in the World Indoor Lacrosse Championships 2019. Kelsusky has an extensive history in lacrosse and as a coach. He played as a professional in the North American league, NLL for 14 seasons. Besides winning the NLL Championships twice, Kelusky holds several personal rewards and was named to the NLL Hall of Fame in 2016. Kelusky has played for Team Canada and won silver at the World Lacrosse Championships in 2002 and gold at the World Indoor Lacrosse Championships in 2003. He’s been an assistant coach with the New England Black Wolves and is currently acting as offensive coach with the Philadelphia Wings. "Glad to assist Pentti in the upcoming Euros. The plan has always been to have a Finnish coach in place and it will be nice to still be a part of it." Tracey Kelusky comments. The tryout camp for the 2020 European Championships are held in two parts. The first one is on January 4th, 2020 in Masku, Finland and the second one on January 26th in Nurmijärvi, Finland. The 23-player roster will be published after the tryouts in February 2020. Finland will attend the European Championships in Wroclaw, Poland as the defending bronze medalists from 2016 European Championships in Hungary. The head coach of the National Team for the 2020 EC is Pentti Pekkonen, with Mika Wickström and Tracey Kelusky serving as assistant coaches. More information about the tryouts: https://www.lacrosse.fi/en/news