Registration and the Finnish competition system KITU
Competitions and registration at Finnish competition system KITU.
The system was updated in early 2025 and some translations are still underway. In the meantime, please use Google Chrome translation feature or other online translation tools.
In short:
- Create an account (remember to save your username and password)
- Verify the account from your email
- Add your dog
- Browse for competitions, register and pay the registration fee
National exceptions from FCI rules
Finnish champion, certificates and course types
Finnish Grades (skill level) are the same as in FCI, but you can advance separately in Jumping, Agility, Gamblers, Snooker or Hoopers. You start from Grade 1 and advance to the highest Grade 3, where you can achieve champion titles for each variety of our sport.
Champion titles are awarded when you receive your third certificate (from three different judges), or for foreign country champions, when they receive their first certificate.
Certificates are awarded as follows:
| Amount of competitors | Certificate transferable to |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1st place |
| 2 – 20 | 2nd place |
| 21 – 30 | 3rd place |
| 31 – 40 | 4th place |
| … | … |
| 151 – 160 | 16th place |
Foreign competitor checklist:
- The owner/handler must be a member of a club or a national canine organization affiliated to the FCI.
- The handler must have the right to compete in his/her home country.
- You need to have a license or a record/competition book or some other document to prove the handler’s right to compete in his/her home country.
- Competing in the Finnish XS (under 28 cm) category requires a measurement result written in cm/inch to your document.
- If you think your dog is under 28 cm, and don’t have a written measurement stating the fact, your dog must be measured by a Finnish judge.
- Other FCI height categories compete in their corresponding Finnish height categories.
- Intermediates compete in the SL category.
- Dog must have a document stating their assigned FCI category or measurement result.
- Dogs without any written measurement results must always be measured by a Finnish judge before they are eligible to compete.
- A foreign competitor must always prove his/her identity, if he/she doesn’t have a Finnish licence.
- A dog must have a record book (or similar document) confirmed by a national canine organization (to write the Finnish results into).
- If you don’t have a document, one can be confirmed on the competition site by a Finnish judge.
- Dogs with docked tail cannot compete in Finland.
- According to Finnish legislation, only dogs with a natural bobtail are allowed to compete. Bobtailed dogs must have a document of the natural bobtail. or a veterinarian statement that it has been amputated due to medical reasons.
- Finnish antidoping regulations can be found here.