Finnish national football team

This article is about the Finnish men's national football team . For the women's team, see Finnish Women's National Football Team .

Finland
Suomi
Finland

Nickname (s)	Huuhkajat (the eagle owls)
Association	Suomen Palloliitto Finlands Bollförbund
confederacy	UEFA
Technical sponsor	Nike
Head coach	Markku Kanerva (since 2016)
captain	Tim Sparv
Record scorer	Jari Litmanen (32)
Record player	Jari Litmanen (137)
Home stadium	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
FIFA code	FIN
FIFA rank	58th (1386 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
743 games 192 wins 151 draws 400 losses
statistics
First international Finland 2-5 Sweden ( Helsinki , Finland ; October 22, 1911 )
Biggest win Finland 10-2 Estonia ( Helsinki , Finland ; Aug 11, 1922 )
Biggest defeat by the German Reich 13-0 Finland ( Leipzig , Germany ; September 1, 1940 )
(As of November 15, 2019)

The Finnish national soccer team is the national soccer team of Finland and is subordinate to the Finnish soccer association Suomen Palloliitto . Finland has never qualified for a World Cup and will take part in a European Football Championship for the first time in 2021 .

World championships

• 1930 and 1934: did not participate
• 1938: not qualified
• 1950: Withdrawal during qualification
• 1954 to 2018: not qualified

European championships

• 1960 and 1964: did not participate
• 1968 to 2016: not qualified
• 2021: qualified

Olympic Games (senior national team)

1908 in London	not participated
1912 in Stockholm	4th Place
1920 in Antwerp	not participated
1924 in Paris	not participated
1928 in Amsterdam	not participated
1936 in Berlin	Round of 16
1948 in London	not participated

After 1948 the senior national team no longer took part in the Olympic Games; However, she played qualifying games for the Olympic Games in 1960 against Poland, 1964 against the USSR and 1976 against Norway, which are not recognized by FIFA as A international games. At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 , the Finnish Olympic team eliminated as hosts in the first round against Austria. In 1980 the Finnish Olympic team replaced the Norwegian Olympic team and dropped out in the preliminary round. After that no Finnish team could qualify for the Olympic Games.

Current squad

The following players were in the squad for the game against Armenia on October 15, 2019.

Status: January 12, 2019

No.	Surname	birthday	Games	Gates	society	debut	Last game
goalkeeper
01	Lukas Hradecky	Nov. 24, 1989	053	00	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	May 21, 2010	Oct 15, 2019
12	Jesse Joronen	21 Mar 1993	07th	00	Brescia Calcio	Jan. 23, 2013	0Jan. 8, 2019
23	Anssi Jaakkola	13 Mar 1987	03	00	Bristol Rovers	0June 7, 2011	26th Mar 2018
Defense
03	Albin Granlund	0Sep 1 1989	14th	00	Örebro SK	0Jan. 9, 2017	08 Sep 2019
04th	Joona Toivio	0Apr 4, 1988	59	03	BK hooks	0Feb 9, 2011	Oct 15, 2019
05	Leo Väisänen	July 23, 1997	01	00	FC Den Bosch	June 11, 2019	June 11, 2019
15th	Sauli Väisänen	05th June 1994	15th	01	Chievo Verona	0Oct 6, 2016	Oct 15, 2019
16	Juha Pirinen	Oct 22, 1991	17th	00	Tromso IL	Jan. 10, 2016	26th Mar 2019
18th	Jere Uronen	July 13, 1994	36	01	KRC Genk	May 26, 2012	Oct 15, 2019
22nd	Jukka Raitala	Sep 15 1988	46	00	Montreal Impact	0Feb. 4, 2009	Oct 15, 2019
midfield
02	Petteri Forsell	Oct 16, 1990	12	01	HJK Helsinki	0Feb 6, 2013	0June 8, 2019
06th	Glen Kamara	Oct 28, 1995	13	01	Glasgow Rangers	0Nov 9, 2017	Oct 15, 2019
08th	Robin Lod	Apr 17, 1993	33	03	Minnesota United	Jan. 19, 2015	Oct 15, 2019
09	Fredrik Jensen	0Sep 9 1997	07th	02	FC Augsburg	28 Mar 2017	Oct 15, 2019
11	Rasmus Schüller	June 18, 1991	36	00	Minnesota United	Jan. 23, 2013	Oct 15, 2019
13	Pyry Soiri	22 Sep 1994	16	05	Esbjerg fB	0Oct 6, 2017	Oct 15, 2019
14th	Tim Sparv	Feb 20, 1987	71	01	FC Midtjylland	0Feb. 4, 2009	Oct 15, 2019
19th	Joni Kauko	July 12, 1990	13	00	Esbjerg fB	Jan. 22, 2012	Oct 15, 2019
21st	Lassi Lappalainen	Aug 24, 1998	05	00	Montreal Impact	0Jan. 8, 2019	Jan. 11, 2019
Storm
07th	Jasse Tuominen	Nov 12, 1995	10	00	BATE Baryssau	0Jan. 9, 2017	Oct 12, 2019
10	Teemu Pukki	29 Mar 1990	75	20th	Norwich City	0Feb. 4, 2009	Oct 15, 2019
17th	Simon Scrabb	Jan. 19, 1995	12	00	IFK Norrköping	Jan. 10, 2016	0June 8, 2019
20th	Joel Pohjanpalo	13 Sep 1994	28	06th	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	Nov 14, 2012	Oct 15, 2019

Record player

(As of November 15, 2019)

Record player
Games	player	Period	Gates
137	Jari Litmanen	1989-2010	32
105	Sami Hyypia	1992-2010	5
105	Jonatan Johansson	1996-2010	22nd
100	Ari Hjelm	1983-1996	20th
98	Joonas Kolkka	1994-2010	11
87	Mikael Forssell	1999-2012	29
84	Erkka Petäjä	1983-1994	0
77	Arto Tolsa †	1964-1981	9
76	Teemu Pukki	since 2009	22nd
76	Petri Pasanen	2000-2013	0
76	Hannu Tihinen	1999-2009	5
75	Toni Kuivasto	1997-2009	1

Record shooters
Gates	player	Period	Games
32	Jari Litmanen	1989-2010	137
29	Mikael Forssell	1999-2012	87
22nd	Teemu Pukki	since 2009	76
22nd	Jonatan Johansson	1996-2010	105
20th	Ari Hjelm	1983-1996	100
18th	Mika-Matti Paatelainen	1986-2000	70
17th	Verner Eklöf †	1919-1927	32
16	Aulis Koponen †	1924-1935	38
16	Gunnar Åström †	1923-1937	43
14th	Alexei Eremenko	2003-2013	57

Of the currently active players, Teemu Pukki has played the most international matches with 76 games.

Previous trainers

Surname	Nat	Period	Games	S.	U	N
No trainer		1911-1921	17th	6th	2	9
Jarl Öhman		1922	4th	1	0	3
No trainer		1923-1935	77	22nd	12	43
Ferdinand Fabra		1936-1937	8th	1	1	6th
No trainer		1937-1938	9	3	0	6th
Gábor Obitz		1939	6th	1	0	5
No trainer		1939-1943	7th	0	1	6th
Axel Mårtensson		1945	2	0	0	2
Niilo Tammisalo		1946	3	0	0	3
Aatos Lehtonen		1947-1955	51	7th	9	35
Kurt Weinreich		1955-1958	23	3	1	19th
Aatos Lehtonen		1959-1961	19th	3	0	16
Olavi Laaksonen		1962-1974	91	16	21st	54
Martti Kosma		1975	2	0	1	1
Aulis Rytkönen		1975-1988	30th	8th	4th	18th
Esko Malm		1979-1981	27	4th	6th	17th
Martti Kuusela		1982-1987	53	9	11	33
Jukka Vakkila		1988-1992	48	7th	21st	20th
Tommy Lindholm		1993-1994	25th	5	7th	13
Jukka Ikäläinen		1994-1996	21st	7th	4th	10
Richard Møller Nielsen		1996-1999	34	9	12	13
Antti Muurinen		2000-2005	72	34	12	26th
Jyrki Heliskoski		2005	6th	2	2	2
Roy Hodgson		2006-2007	22nd	6th	11	5
Stuart Baxter		2008-2010	28	8th	5	15th
Olli Huttunen		2010	1	1	0	0
Markku Kanerva		2011	2	0	1	1
Mixu paatelainen		2011-2015	45	17th	11	17th
Markku Kanerva		2015	5	3	2	0
Hans Backe		2016	11	0	2	9
Markku Kanerva		2017–	32	18th	5	9

• Data as of November 15, 2019

International matches against German-speaking national soccer teams

→ Main article : List of international matches for the Finnish national football team

Games against the German national soccer team

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
01.	September 18, 1921	Helsinki	Finland	3: 3	German Empire
02.	August 12, 1923	Dresden	German Empire	1: 2	Finland
03.	October 26, 1925	Helsinki	Finland	3: 5	German Empire
04th	October 20, 1929	Altona	German Empire	4-0	Finland
05.	July 1, 1932	Helsinki	Finland	1: 4	German Empire
06th	August 18, 1935	Munich	German Empire	6-0	Finland
07th	June 29, 1937	Helsinki	Finland	0: 2	German Empire
08th.	September 1, 1940	Leipzig	German Empire	13: 0	Finland
09.	October 5, 1941	Helsinki	Finland	0: 6	German Empire
10.	June 7, 1964	Helsinki	Finland	1: 4	BR Germany
11.	7th September 1977	Helsinki	Finland	0: 1	BR Germany
12.	May 24, 1981	Lahti	Finland	0: 4	BR Germany
13.	September 23, 1981	Bochum	BR Germany	7: 1	Finland
14th	August 31, 1988	Helsinki	Finland	0: 4	BR Germany
15th	4th October 1989	Dortmund	BR Germany	6: 1	Finland
16.	May 27, 1998	Helsinki	Finland	0-0	Germany
17th	March 31, 1999	Nuremberg	Germany	2-0	Finland
18th	September 4, 1999	Helsinki	Finland	1: 2	Germany
19th	June 2, 2001	Helsinki	Finland	2: 2	Germany
20th	October 6, 2001	Gelsenkirchen	Germany	0-0	Finland
21st	September 10, 2008	Helsinki	Finland	3: 3	Germany
22nd	October 14, 2009	Hamburg	Germany	1: 1	Finland
23.	August 31, 2016	Mönchengladbach	Germany	2-0	Finland

Games against the national soccer team of the GDR

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
1.	September 6, 1959	Helsinki	Finland	3: 2	German Democratic Republic
2.	October 30, 1960	Rostock	German Democratic Republic	5: 1	Finland
3.	October 7, 1972	Dresden	German Democratic Republic	5-0	Finland
4th	June 6, 1973	Tampere	Finland	1: 5	German Democratic Republic
5.	March 16, 1983	Magdeburg	German Democratic Republic	3: 1	Finland
6th	August 20, 1986	Lahti	Finland	1-0	German Democratic Republic
7th	March 22, 1989	Dresden	German Democratic Republic	1: 1	Finland

Games against the Liechtenstein national football team

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
1.	June 6, 2009	Helsinki	Finland	2: 1	Liechtenstein
2.	September 9, 2009	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	1: 1	Finland
3.	June 7, 2017	Turku	Finland	1: 1	Liechtenstein
4th	June 11, 2019	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	0: 2	Finland
5.	15th November 2019	Helsinki	Finland	3-0	Liechtenstein

Games against the Luxembourg national football team

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
1.	November 4th 1951	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	3-0	Finland
2.	22nd September 1976	Helsinki	Finland	7: 1	Luxembourg
3.	May 26, 1977	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	0: 1	Finland
4th	February 28, 2001	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	0: 1	Finland
5.	March 26, 2013	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	0: 3	Finland

Games against the Austrian national soccer team

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
01.	July 31, 1921	Helsinki	Finland	2: 3	Austria
02.	August 15, 1923	Vienna	Austria	2: 1	Finland
03.	July 10, 1925	Helsinki	Finland	1: 2	Austria
04th	2nd October 1966	Helsinki	Finland	0-0	Austria
05.	September 24, 1967	Vienna	Austria	2: 1	Finland
06th	September 24, 1980	Helsinki	Finland	0: 2	Austria
07th	17th June 1981	Linz	Austria	5: 1	Finland
08th.	May 13, 1993	Turku	Finland	3: 1	Austria
09.	August 25, 1993	Vienna	Austria	3-0	Finland
10.	February 29, 2012	Klagenfurt	Austria	3: 1	Finland
11.	March 28, 2017	innsbruck	Austria	1: 1	Finland

Games against the Swiss national football team

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
1.	May 19, 1976	Kuopio	Finland	1-0	Switzerland
2.	5th October 1977	Zurich	Switzerland	2-0	Finland
3.	October 6, 1996	Helsinki	Finland	2: 3	Switzerland
4th	September 6, 1997	Lausanne	Switzerland	1: 2	Finland
5.	November 19, 2008	St. Gallen	Switzerland	1-0	Finland

See also

• Finnish national football team (U-17 juniors)
• Finnish national football team (U-20 men)
• Finnish national football team (U-21 men)

Web links

Commons : Finland national soccer team  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official site (Finnish)
• RSSSF archive results since 1911
• RSSSF archive player
• RSSSF archive trainer

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nike and Finnish National Team Announce New Partnership In: news.nike.com, April 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2015
2. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
3. ↑ https://www.transfermarkt.de/finnland_armenien/aufstellung/spielbericht/3131123
4. ↑ ^{a b} rsssf.com: Finland - International Player Records
5. ↑ ^{a b} Including 7 qualifying games for the 1984 Olympic Games, which FIFA does not count as A international games.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Including 2 goals in a qualifying game for the 1984 Olympic Games, which FIFA does not count as an A international match.
7. ↑ Including 8 qualifying games for the 1984 Olympic Games, which FIFA does not count as A international games.