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HJK Helsinki

Full name

Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi

Nickname(s)

Klubi (The Club)

Founded

19 June 1907; 116 years ago

Ground

Bolt Arena

Capacity

10,770

Chairman

Olli-Pekka Lyytikäinen

Manager

Toni Koskela

League

Veikkausliiga

2020

Champions

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours

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.

European campaigns
- UEFA club competition record
- UEFA Club Ranking
Players
- First team squad
- Out on loan
Managers
Honours
Images for kids
See also

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
1974–75	European Cup	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
1982–83	European Cup	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
1985–86	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	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
1993–94	UEFA Champions League	1R	Anderlecht	0–3	0–3	0–6
1994–95	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	PR	B71 Sandur	2–0	5–0	7–0
1994–95	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1R	Beşiktaş	1–1	0–2	1–3
1995	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Group 5	IFK Norrköping	N/A	1–1	3rd
			Bohemians	3–2	N/A
			OB Odense	N/A	1–2
			Bordeaux	1–1	N/A
1996–97	UEFA Cup	PR	Pyunik Yerevan	5–2 (aet)	1–3	6–5
1996–97	UEFA Cup	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
1999–00	UEFA Cup	1R	Lyon	0–1	1–5	1–6
2000–01	UEFA Cup	QR	CS Grevenmacher	4–1	0–2	4–3
2000–01	UEFA Cup	1R	Celtic	2–1 (aet)	0–2	2–3
2001–02	UEFA Cup	QR	FK Ventspils	2–1	1–0	3–1
2001–02	UEFA Cup	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
2003–04	UEFA Champions League	2QR	MTK Budapest	1–0	1–3	2–3
2004–05	UEFA Champions League	1QR	Linfield	1–0	1–0	2–0
2004–05	UEFA Champions League	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
2007–08	UEFA Cup	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
	UEFA Champions League	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
	UEFA Champions League	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
	UEFA Champions League	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
	UEFA Champions League	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
	UEFA Champions League	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
2017–18	UEFA Europa League	2QR	Shkëndija	1–1	1–3	2–4
2018–19	UEFA Champions League	1QR	Víkingur Gøta	3–1	2–1	5–2
	UEFA Champions League	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
	UEFA Champions League	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.

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

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

No.	Position	Player
17	DF	Nikolai Alho
19	FW	Tim Väyrynen
21	MF	Santeri Väänänen
22	MF	Ferhan Hasani
24	FW	David Browne
25	GK	Antonio Reguero
28	MF	Rasmus Schüller
31	GK	Hugo Keto
37	FW	Atomu Tanaka
47	MF	Matti Peltola
88	MF	Pyry Hannola
-	MF	Jair

Out on loan

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

No.		Position	Player
20		FW	Enoch Banza (at RoPS until the end of the 2020 season)
27		DF	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

Images for kids

HJK squad that won the club's first title in 1911.
Bolt Arena, located in the Töölö district of Helsinki.
Nabil Bahoui of AIK taking on HJK winger Demba Savage during a friendly match between the two teams in March 2013.
HJK supporters at the Bolt Arena.
HJK squad in 1964.

HJK Helsinki facts for kids

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