The National Volleyball Team of Finland achieved the biggest success in Finnish Volleyball history when it took fourth place in the European Championships in Moscow in September 2007.

Before that, the best achievement of the team was a seventh-place finish in 1983.

Additionally, Finland have participated 13 times in the final round of the Men's European Championships and finished four times among the top 10 teams.

Furthermore they have taken part in the World Championships six times, the last time in 1982 when it finished 17th.

Guiding the side is top Italian coach Mauro Berruto, who started training the team in 2005 and has turned a young group of players into one of the best teams in Europe.

Many of the players in the National Team have moved abroad to play professionally in different European Leagues.

Setter Mikko Esko plays for Italian A1 League team Modena. Esko has also played in Montichiari, Padova, Maaseik Belgium and Unterhaching Germany.

Other Finnish players in Italy include Konstantin Shumov at Loreto, Jari Tuominen and Urpo Sivula at Monza, Matti Oivanen ar Piacenza and team captain Jukka Lehtonen at A2-Ravenna.
 
In Greece Finland has three players: Olli Kunnari at Olympiakos, Olli-Pekka Ojansivu and Matti Hietanen at PAOK. Mikko Oivanen plays in Poland (Rzeszow).
 
At the European Championships, Finland’s best showing was a fourth-place finish in 2007. Other results were: 2009 (12th), 1997 (11th), 1993 (9th), 1991 (8th), 1983 (7th), 1981 (9th), 1977 (11th), 1971 (13th), 1967 (17th), 1963 (14th), 1958 (14th), 1955 (11th).
 
Finland are also six-time participants in the World Championships and have made five appearances in the World League, finishing 8th in 2009, 10th in 2008, seventh in 2007, 10th in 2006 and 12th in 1993.

Finland won silver in the 2005 European League, played in Kazan, Russia.

Mauro Berruto has been a professional Volleyball coach since 1990 and has worked for National Teams, top club sides in Europe and at top events such as the Olympics, World Championships, World League and European Championships.

As well as coaching Finland, he is also the head coach of Italian A1 League side Monza.

In 2007, Berruto coached Finland to a seventh-place finish in the World League and fourth at the European Championships. His sterling accomplishments during the year earned him a nomination as 2007 Coach of the Year by the Finnish Sports Journalists' Association.

The team finished 8th in the World League in 2009 after getting a historical win over Brazil and three wins against Poland.

Berruto first coached Finland in the summer of 2005, and guided the team to 10th in the World League the following year. In the winter of 2006, Berruto moved to the Italian men’s national team as assistant coach to Giampaolo Montali, and helped the Italians to a fifth-place finish at the 2006 FIVB World Championships in Japan.

Berruto has had a successful career on the Italian Volleyball Club circuit. Before joining Monza, he coached Giotto Padova, Lube Banca Marche Macerata (where he won the CEV Cup), UniMade Parma, Copra Ventaglio Piacenza and Montichiari.

He also enjoyed stints during major international events as assistant to Montali with Italy and with the Greek men's national team in 1999.