HJK Helsinki

Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi (translation: The Football Club of Helsinki), commonly known as HJK Helsinki, or simply as HJK, is a professional football club based in Helsinki, Finland. The club competes in the Finnish Veikkausliiga. The club's home stadium is the Bolt Arena, with a capacity of 10,770.^[1]

HJK Helsinki

Full name	Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi
Nickname(s)	Klubi (The Club)
Founded	19 June 1907; 117 years ago (1907-06-19)
Ground	Bolt Arena
Capacity	10,770
Chairman	Olli-Pekka Lyytikäinen
Manager	Toni Koskela
League	Veikkausliiga
2020	Champions
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

European campaigns

UEFA club competition record

As of 6 August 2019.

Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
UEFA Champions League	71	25	12	34	89	110
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	12	6	1	5	18	24
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League	61	18	9	34	62	124
UEFA Intertoto Cup	4	1	2	1	6	6
Total	148	50	24	74	175	264

Season	Competition	Round	Opposing team	Home	Away	Aggregate
1965–66	European Cup	PR	Manchester United	2–3	0–6	2–9
1967–68	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1R	Wisla Kraków	1–4	0–4	1–8
1974–75	European Cup	1R	Valletta	4–1	0–1	4–2
		2R	Åtvidabergs FF	0–3	0–1	0–4
1975–76	UEFA Cup	PR	Hertha Berlin	1–2	1–4	2–6
1979–80	European Cup	1R	Ajax Amsterdam	1–8	1–8	2–16
1982–83	European Cup	1R	Omonia	3–0	0–2	3–2
		2R	Liverpool	1–0	0–5	1–5
1983–84	UEFA Cup	1R	Spartak Moscow	0–5	0–2	0–7
1984–85	UEFA Cup	PR	Dinamo Minsk	0–6	0–4	0–10
1985–86	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1R	Flamurtari	3–2	2–1	5–3
		2R	Dynamo Dresden	1–0	2–7	3–7
1986–87	European Cup	1R	APOEL	3–2	0–1	3–3 (a)
1988–89	European Cup	1R	FC Porto	2–0	0–3	2–3
1989–90	European Cup	1R	AC Milan	0–1	0–4	0–5
1991–92	European Cup	1R	Dynamo Kyiv	0–1	0–3	0–4
1993–94	UEFA Champions League	PR	Norma Tallinn	1–1	1–0	2–1
		1R	Anderlecht	0–3	0–3	0–6
1994–95	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	PR	B71 Sandur	2–0	5–0	7–0
		1R	Beşiktaş	1–1	0–2	1–3
1995	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Group 5	IFK Norrköping	—	1–1	3rd
			Bohemians	3–2	—
			OB Odense	—	1–2
			Bordeaux	1–1	—
1996–97	UEFA Cup	PR	Pyunik Yerevan	5–2 (aet)	1–3	6–5
		QR	Chernomorets Odessa	2–2	0–2	2–4
1997–98	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	QR	Red Star Belgrade	1–0	0–3	1–3
1998–99	UEFA Champions League	1QR	FC Yerevan	2–0	3–0	5–0
		2QR	FC Metz	1–0	1–1	2–1
		Group F	PSV Eindhoven	1–3	1–2	4th
			1. FC Kaiserslautern	0–0	2–5
			Benfica	2–0	2–2
1999–00	UEFA Cup	QR	Shirak Gyumri	2–0	0–1	2–1
		1R	Lyon	0–1	1–5	1–6
2000–01	UEFA Cup	QR	CS Grevenmacher	4–1	0–2	4–3
		1R	Celtic	2–1 (aet)	0–2	2–3
2001–02	UEFA Cup	QR	FK Ventspils	2–1	1–0	3–1
		1R	Parma	0–2	0–1	0–3
2002–03	UEFA Cup	QR	FC Gomel	0–4	0–1	0–5
2003–04	UEFA Champions League	1QR	Glentoran	1–0	0–0	1–0
		2QR	MTK Budapest	1–0	1–3	2–3
2004–05	UEFA Champions League	1QR	Linfield	1–0	1–0	2–0
		2QR	Maccabi Tel Aviv	0–0	0–1	0–1
2006–07	UEFA Cup	1QR	Drogheda United	1–1	1–3 (aet)	2–4
2007–08	UEFA Cup	1QR	FC Etzella Ettelbruck	2–0	1–0	3–0
		2QR	Aalborg BK	2–1	0–3	2–4
2009–10	UEFA Europa League	2QR	FK Vėtra	1–3	1–0	2–3
2010–11	UEFA Champions League	2QR	FK Ekranas	2–0 (aet)	0–1	2–1
		3QR	FK Partizan	1–2	0–3	1–5
	UEFA Europa League	PO	Beşiktaş	0–4	0–2	0–6
2011–12	UEFA Champions League	2QR	Bangor City	10–0	3–0	13–0
		3QR	Dinamo Zagreb	1–2	0–1	1–3
	UEFA Europa League	PO	Schalke 04	2–0	1–6	3–6
2012–13	UEFA Champions League	2QR	KR Reykjavik	7–0	2–1	9–1
		3QR	Celtic	0–2	1–2	1–4
	UEFA Europa League	PO	Athletic Bilbao	3–3	0–6	3–9
2013–14	UEFA Champions League	2QR	Nõmme Kalju	0–0	1–2	1–2
2014–15	UEFA Champions League	2QR	FK Rabotnički	2–1	0–0	2–1
		3QR	APOEL	2–2	0–2	2–4
	UEFA Europa League	PO	SK Rapid Wien	2–1	3–3	5–4
		Group B	Copenhagen	2–1	0–2	3rd
			Club Brugge	0–3	1–2
			Torino	2–1	0–2
2015–16	UEFA Champions League	2QR	FK Ventspils	1–0	3–1	4–1
		3QR	Astana	0–0	3–4	3–4
	UEFA Europa League	PO	Krasnodar	0–0	1–5	1–5
2016–17	UEFA Europa League	1QR	FK Atlantas	1–1	2–0	3–1
		2QR	Beroe Stara Zagora	1–0	1–1	2–1
		3QR	IFK Göteborg	0–2	2–1	2–3
2017–18	UEFA Europa League	1QR	Connah's Quay Nomads	3–0	0–1	3–1
		2QR	Shkëndija	1–1	1–3	2–4
2018–19	UEFA Champions League	1QR	Víkingur Gøta	3–1	2–1	5–2
		2QR	BATE Borisov	1–2	0–0	1–2
	UEFA Europa League	3QR	Olimpija Ljubljana	1–4	0–3	1–7
2019–20	UEFA Champions League	1QR	HB Tórshavn	3–0	2–2	5−2
		2QR	Red Star Belgrade	2–1	0–2	2−3
	UEFA Europa League	3QR	Riga FC	2–2	1–1	3−3 (a)
2021–22	UEFA Champions League	1QR

UEFA Club Ranking

This is the current UEFA Club Ranking.^[2]

Last update: 8 July 2019

Rank	Team	Points
129	C.D. Nacional	9.646
130	Asteras Tripoli F.C.	9.500
131	Fehérvár FC	9.000
132	FC Dinamo Minsk	9.000
133	HJK	9.000
134	FC Sion	9.000
135	FC Slovan Liberec	9.000
136	FC Spartak Trnava	8.500
137	AEK Larnaca FC	8.000

Players

First team squad

As of 13 November 2020 ^[3]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF  Finland Henri Toivomäki 4 DF  Finland Markus Halsti 5 DF  Finland Daniel O'Shaughnessy 6 DF  Serbia Ivan Ostojić 7 FW  Finland Eetu Vertainen 8 MF  Portugal Bubacar Djaló 9 MF  Finland Riku Riski 10 MF  Finland Lucas Lingman 11 FW  Finland Roope Riski 13 DF  Colombia Luis Carlos Murillo 15 DF  Finland Miro Tenho 16 DF  Finland Valtteri Moren

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 DF  Finland Nikolai Alho 19 FW  Finland Tim Väyrynen 21 MF  Finland Santeri Väänänen 22 MF  Macedonia Ferhan Hasani 24 FW  Papua New Guinea David Browne 25 GK  Spain Antonio Reguero 28 MF  Finland Rasmus Schüller 31 GK  Finland Hugo Keto 37 FW  Japan Atomu Tanaka 47 MF  Finland Matti Peltola 88 MF  Finland Pyry Hannola - MF  Brazil Jair

Out on loan

As of 8 October 2020 ^[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 12 GK  Sweden Jakob Tånnander (at FC Haka until the end of the 2020 season) 16 DF  Finland Kalle Katz (at RoPS until the end of the 2020 season)

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 FW  Finland Enoch Banza (at RoPS until the end of the 2020 season) 27 DF  Finland Kevin Kouassivi-Benissan (at Inter Turku until the end of the 2020 season)

Managers

Yrjö Larha (1933–1944) Eino Nuutinen (1945–1947) George Duke (1948–1949) Eino Nuutinen (1950) János Nagy (1951) Eino Nuutinen (1952) Niilo Nordman (1953–1955) Aatos Lehtonen (1956–1958) Aulis Rytkönen (1960–71) Raimo Kauppinen (Jan 1, 1972–74) Kai Pahlman (1973–74) Aulis Rytkönen (July 1, 1975–79) Raimo Kauppinen (1975 – Dec 31, 1979) Martti Kuusela (Jan 1, 1980 – Dec 31, 1981) Raimo Kauppinen (Jan 1, 1981–82) Thure Sarnola (1982)

Miikka Toivola (1983–1984) Jyrki Heliskoski (Jan 1, 1985 – Dec 31, 1989) Martti Kuusela (Jan 1, 1990 – Dec 31, 1990) Jyrki Nieminen (Jan 1, 1991 – Dec 31, 1991) Jari-Pekka Keurulainen (Jan 1, 1992 – Dec 31, 1994) Bo Johansson (Jan 1, 1995 – Dec 31, 1995) Tommy Lindholm (Jan 1, 1996 – July 8, 1996) Jari-Pekka Keurulainen, Martti Kuusela (July 8, 1996 – Dec 31, 1996) Antti Muurinen (Jan 1, 1997 – Dec 31, 1999) Jyrki Heliskoski (Jan 1, 2000 – Dec 31, 2001) Keith Armstrong (Jan 1, 2002 – Sept 5, 2007) Aki Hyryläinen (Sept 6, 2007 – Oct 10, 2007) Antti Muurinen (Oct 10, 2007 – Dec 31, 2012) Sixten Boström (Jan 1, 2013 – April 28, 2014) Mika Lehkosuo (April 29, 2014 – May 22, 2019) Toni Koskela (May 22, 2019–)

Honours

• Veikkausliiga:
  • Winners (30): 1911, 1912, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1923, 1925, 1936, 1938, 1964, 1973, 1978, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2020
  • Runners-up (14): 1921, 1933, 1937, 1939, 1956, 1965, 1966, 1982, 1983, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2016
• Finnish Cup:
  • Winners (14): 1966, 1981, 1984, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2016–17, 2020
  • Runners-up (5): 1975, 1985, 1990, 1994, 2010
• Finnish League Cup:
  • Winners (5): 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2015
  • Runners-up (3): 1995, 2009, 2012