Niklas Seppänen

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Niklas Seppänen
portrait
Date of birth June 30, 1993
place of birth Helsinki, Finland
size 1.94 m
position External attack
societies
2008–2013
2013–2014
2014–2015
2015–2016
2016–2017
2017
2017–2018
2018–2019
2019–2020 		Korson Veto
Kokkolan Tiikerit
Tourcoing Lille Métropole Volley-Ball
Nice Volley-Ball
Narbonne Volley
Tours Volley-Ball
Stroitel Minsk
Kokkolan Tiikerit
SWD Powervolleys Düren
National team
A national team
successes
2013
2014
2016
2017
2018
2018
2020 		Finnish cup winner
World Cup participant
French champion
CEV cup winner
Belarusian cup winner
Belarusian runner-up
DVV cup finalist

As of June 7, 2020

Niklas Seppänen (born June 30, 1993 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish volleyball player . The outside attacker took part in the 2014 World Cup with the national team. He won championships and cups in different countries.

Career

Seppänen started his career in 2008 at Korson Veto in Vantaa . In 2013 he won the Finnish Cup. The outside attacker took part in the 2013 World Volleyball League with the Finnish national team. At the European Championship he reached the quarter-finals in the same year. He then moved to Kokkolan Tiikerit. In 2014, Seppänen took part in the World Cup in Poland with Finland and came in ninth. He then went to France, where he was initially active at Tourcoing Lille Métropole volleyball . At the 2015 European Championship , he came twelfth with the national team. In the 2015/16 season, he made promotion out of the second division (Ligue B) with Nice Volley-Ball. The following season he played for Narbonne Volley, but in March he moved to Tours Volley-Ball . With Tours he won the CEV Cup . In the season 2017/18 Seppänen was at Stroitel Minsk active. With the club he played in the Challenge Cup . He was Belarusian cup winner and runner-up, where he was personally named the best attacker in the league. In 2018 he returned to Kokkolan Tiikerit.

2019 Seppänen was from the German Bundesliga SWD Powervolleys Düren committed. In the DVV-Pokal 2019/20 he reached the final with the SWD Powervolleys, which the team lost to the Berlin Recycling Volleys . When the Bundesliga season was canceled shortly before the playoffs, Düren was in sixth place in the table. After the season he left the club with an unknown destination.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Profile at Nisse Huttunen (English)
  2. ↑ Profile at FIVB (English)
  3. ↑ Reinforcement from Finland. SWD Powervolleys, May 19, 2019, accessed May 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Lukas Maase and Niklas Seppänen leave Düren. SWD Powervolleys, April 23, 2020, accessed on May 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Seppänen, Niklas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki , Finland