What is the Finland squad for the Euro 2020?

Check out the 26 best faces for the Euro 2020 of the Finland squad and see if your favorite Finnish player is on the list or not:

Finland national team’s manager

Coach: Markku Kanerva

• Date of birth: 24 May 1964 (age 57)
• Height: 1m78 (5 ft 10 in)
• Nationality: Finland 
• Position: Former defender, manager
• Club: Finland national team

Being in charge of the Finland national team since 2016, Kanerva is proudly leading his team to the UEFA Euro 2020 qualification for the first time in the history of this football team. He is a former defender in his senior playing career, mainly playing for HJK, where he became the assistant in 2001. He was also part of the Finland national team from 1986 to 1995. He scored a total of 32 goals within 334 matches.

Kanerva ended his playing career in 1998. His first club in which he was a full-time manager was FC Viikingit, playing in the third tier of Finnish football. He moved to the U21 squad of the Finland national team and was responsible for the team for five years with 12 winning matches. He was selected as the permanent manager for the Finland national team in late 2016 after being the assistant and caretaker of the team prior.

The list of 26 players in the Finland squad for Euro 2020

Goalkeeper

1. Jesse Joronen

• Date of birth: 21 March 1993 (age 28)
• Height: 1.97m (6 ft 6 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Goalkeeper
• Club: Brescia, Finland national team
• Market value: €2.00M

Jesse is currently playing for Serie B club Brescia and in the squad of the Finland national team for Euro 2020 as a goalkeeper. He started his football career in a local club, then joined Fulham academy in 2009. One year later, Jesse made his first professional debut for this club and stayed with Fulham until 2017. During this period, he was also loaned on season-long deals to many other English clubs, including Maidenhead United, Cambridge United, Accrington Stanley, and Stevenage.

He moved to a Danish club in the 2017-18 season and helped the club to first place in the Danish Superliga by keeping their clean sheet. He kept choosing another Danish club Copenhagen to play in the next season. In 2019, it was announced that Jesse signed for Serie B club Brescia. He also made his first debut for the national team in 2013 and has made 14 international caps so far.

2. Lukas Hradecky 

• Date of birth: 24 November 1989 (age 32)
• Height: 1.92m (6 ft 4 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Goalkeeper
• Club: Bayer Leverkusen, Finland national team
• Market value: €6.50M

Lukas was born in a sports family, in which his father is a volleyball player and his two brothers are also professional players. He started playing football in TPK and TPS. He signed his first professional contract with the latter club but didn’t actually make any appearance as he was loaned to ÅIFK in that season of 2008. 

From 2009 to 2015, he played for two Danish clubs to participate in the Danish Superliga and First Division, where he made a total of 160 appearances. He was the Danish Superliga Goalkeeper of the Year and Best Player of the Spring Season in 2013.  

He started playing in the top-flight competition Bundesliga in 2015-16. Since then, Lukas has been awarded many honors, including Finnish Footballer of the Year in three consecutive years (2016, 2017, 2018) and many others. He has also made 68 international caps for the national teams since 2010.

3. Anssi Jaakkola

• Date of birth: 13 March 1987 (age 34)
• Height: 1.95m (6 ft 5 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Goalkeeper
• Club: Bristol Rovers, Finland national team
• Market value: €200TH

Anssi is a goalkeeper for League Two club Bristol Rovers and the Finland national team. He has played in different clubs outside Finland, including England, Czech, or Scotland during his senior career, starting from TP-47 to Siena (a Serie A club), Slavia Prague, Kilmarnock, Ajax Cape Town, Reading, and currently Bristol Rovers since 2019.

He has participated in a total of 217 matches in his club career. He was also a member of the U21 squad for the national team. On 7 June 2011, he made his first international debut in a 5-0 win against Sweden. 

Defender

4. Jukka Raitala

• Date of birth: 15 September 1988 (age 33)
• Height: 1.80m (5 ft 11 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Defender
• Club: Minnesota United, Finland national team
• Market value: €500TH

This player has made almost 300 appearances in his senior career in plenty of clubs in and outside Finland. He made his first professional debut for Klubi-04, where he joined them 22 games in one season of the Ykkönen. Jukka then moved to HJK, Bundesliga club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, and many other clubs in Europe but until now, he hasn’t played for any club for more than three seasons. He was also part of the U17, U19, and U21 squads before playing for the senior men’s national team on 4 February 2009. He was awarded Finland U21 Player of the Year this year for his great performance. 

5. Joona Toivio

• Date of birth: 10 March 1988 (age 33)
• Height: 1.86m (6 ft 1 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Defender
• Club: Häcken, Finland national team
• Market value: €700TH

Joona has also played for numerous clubs in different parts of Europe, but not really successful. His peak period was during the time playing for a Norwegian club Molde. He joined 131 matches with the club, including four seasons of Tippeligaen and one season of Eliteserien, scoring a total of 14 goals. They also won the Eliteserien in 2014 and Norwegian Cup in 2013 and 2014. 

He has played for the current club since 2018 and scored seven goals in the Allsvenskan. He was the captain as well as a midfielder and defender for the U21 team of the national squad. In 2011, he was selected for the senior men’s national team and has made 76 international caps with three goals, one in the Euro 2012 qualification and two friendly goals against Luxembourg and Jordan.

6. Leo Väisänen 

• Date of birth: 23 July 1997 (age 24)
• Height: 1.88m (6 ft 2 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Center-back
• Club: IF Elfsborg, Finland national team
• Market value: €1.20M

Leo is playing as a center-back for Swedish club IF Elfsborg and the Finland national team, in which he made his first debut in 2019. He has an older brother who is also a professional footballer in the squad of Finland for Euro 2020. 

Leo started his senior career at Klubi 04, where he had a good start with three goals in a single season. After that, he had other season-long deals with different clubs in and outside Finland. On 12 January 2020, he signed a 3.5-year contract with IF Elfsborg. Leo was also in the U17, U18, U19, and U21 squads before being called up for the national team for Euro 2020 qualification on 11 June 2019.

7. Sauli Väisänen

• Date of birth: 5 June 1994 (age 27)
• Height: 1.90m (6 ft 3 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Defender
• Club: Chievo, Finland national team
• Market value: €400TH

Sauli Väisänen is the older brother of Leo Väisänen. They are both in the Finland squad for Euro 2020. Sauli was trained in numerous academy sides before making his first professional debut in the 2012-13 season for Pallohonka, where he made 35 appearances and scored five goals.

After that, he played for FC Honka, AIK, HIFK (on loan), and Serie A club S.P.A.L, and Serie B club Crotone (on loan). He scored a total of 13 goals in 163 matches. He was a part of the youth squad of the national team, where he was captained occasionally. 

8. Paulus Arajuuri

• Date of birth: 15 June 1988 (age 33)
• Height: 1.93m (6 ft 4 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Center-back
• Club: Pafos, Finland national team
• Market value: €450TH

Paulus started playing football at the age of five. In 2005, he was trained in FC Espoo and then promoted to the senior side of this club in the same year. He then moved to Lech Poznań, Brøndby, and Pafos. He has made 287 appearances and scored 17 goals in his senior career. 

He was also part of the U20 and U21 squad from 2008 to 2010. On 18 January 2010, he made his first international debut for the senior national team in a friendly against South Korea.

9. Daniel O'Shaughnessy

• Date of birth: 14 September 1994 (age 27)
• Height: 1.90m (6 ft 3 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Center-back
• Club: Pafos, Finland national team
• Market value: €400TH

Daniel started playing football very soon, at the age of five in the academy club RiNS. He spent the next years of his youth career in Honkia, HJK, and Metz before making his first professional debut for Klubi 04 in 2011. He joined Metz B in three seasons between 2011 to 2014. 

He played for two English clubs in the Championship and League Two competitions. On 2 January 2018, Daniel returned to HJK, but in their senior side. He has played for them in four consecutive seasons of the Veikkausliiga, the highest tier of the Finnish football system, where he made nine goals in 92 appearances. This defender also joined almost all youth levels of the national squad (from U15 to U21 without U19). He was called up for the national team in 2016 but hasn’t scored any international goal.

10. Jere Uronen  

• Date of birth: 13 July 1994 (age 27)
• Height: 1.77m (5 ft 9 ½ in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Full back
• Club: Genk, Finland national team
• Market value: €2.70M

Jere Uronen is playing as a full back for the Belgian club Genk and the Finland national team. He started his senior career at the age of 17 in TPS. He made 22 appearances with the club and scored once in the Veikkausliiga. Jere moved to Helsingborg to play in four seasons of the Allsvenskan from 2012 to 2015.

In the beginning of 2016, he was transferred to Genk and played in the Belgian First Division A. He has participated in 167 games and scored five goals for Genk. They also won the 2018-19 Belgian First Division A and the 2020-21 Belgian Cup. Jere also played for the national team, from the youth levels to the senior squad in 2012. He scored once in a friendly against Belarus. 

11. Nikolai Alho

• Date of birth: 12 March 1993 (age 28)
• Height: 1.72m (5 ft 7 ½ in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Right-back
• Club: MTK Budapest, Finland national team
• Market value: €400TH

Nikolai spent his youth career in Konka and Klubi-04. He was in the reserves team of the latter club but then was promoted to the senior first team in 2009. He scored 13 goals for Klubi 04 from 2009 to 2012. After that, he moved to HJK in 2012 but made his first debut for this club on 13 June 2013 in a 6-0 win (in which he scored twice) over FC Inter.

Nikolai returned to HJK after one year of playing for Halmstads BK. He was a successful right-back for HJK during this team and scored the other five goals in the next three seasons. He was transferred to the Hungarian club MTK Budapest in the winter transfer window in 2021. Nikolai also joined all the youth squads of the national team from U15 to U21. On 24 January 2014, he made his first international debut for the senior national team in a friendly against Oman.

12. Robert Ivanov  

• Date of birth: 19 September 1994 (age 27)
• Height: 1.97m (6 ft 6 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Defender
• Club: Warta Poznan, Finland national team
• Market value: €250TH

Robert Ivanov is a defender with a humble seven-year career. He started playing football for a local club FC Myllypuro in 2014. The next year, he moved to East Helsinki to play for FC Viikingit. In the period of 2016 to 2020, he played for FC Honka, in which he made 113 matches with the club and scored a total of 13 goals. He and his teammates were in the Veikkausliiga Team of the Month for July and September 2018. 

On 1 September 2020, he was transferred to a Polish club Warta Poznan on a two-year contract. Robert was also selected for the national team in 2019 and made his first international debut on 8 January 2019 as a substitute for Albin Granlund in the 85th minute of a friendly against Sweden.

13. Pyry Soiri

• Date of birth: 22 September 1994 (age 27)
• Height: 1.83m (6 ft 0 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Defender/ Midfielder
• Club: Esbjerg fB, Finland national team
• Market value: €300TH

Pyry was a product of MYPA and made his first professional debut for this club in 2011. He joined them until 2014 and left with two goals in his MYPA career. In 2012, he was loaned to the other two Finnish clubs JäPS and KTP. The period of 2015-2017 seemed to be the most successful time of Pyry. He scored 14 goals in 62 matches with this club.

Since 2017, he has started playing for other clubs outside Finland. He was part of Shakhtyor Soligorsk to play in the highest division Belarusian Premier League for one season and scored three goals. Then he moved to the Austrian club Admira Wacker. On 18 June 2019, he signed a four-year contract with Danish Superliga club Esbjerg fB. He also played for the U19, U20, and U21 squads before being named for the national team in 2017, where he has made 32 international caps and achieved five goals.  

Midfielder

14. Robert Taylor

• Date of birth: 21 October 1994 (age 27)
• Height: 1.82m (6 ft 0 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Midfielder/ Wing-back
• Club: Brann, Finland national team
• Market value: €600TH

Robert started playing football at the age of eight in the youth side of JJK club, where he played as a professional midfielder in the period of 2013-2015 and scored 11 goals in 53 matches. He also joined other clubs outside Finland in his senior career, like Lincoln City and Boston Town from England, AIK from Sweden, Tromsø, and recently Brann from Norway.

He has scored a total of 43 goals in his club career within 213 appearances. He was also part of the young squads of the national team: U17, U19, U20, and U21. On 9 January 2017, he made his first international debut for the national side as a substitute in a friendly against Morocco. 

15. Robin Lod 

• Date of birth: 17 April 1993 (age 28)
• Height: 1.80m (5 ft 11 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Midfielder/ Winger
• Club: Minnesota United, Finland national team
• Market value: €3.00M

Robin has made 332 appearances in his senior career and was successful most in a club in his region Helsinki. He played for HJK Helsinki as the second club in his professional career, after Klubi 04. He joined five seasons of the highest tier in Finnish football, the Veikkausliiga, and scored the most goals (21).

From 2015 to 2018, he played for a Greece club and scored 14 goals in 105 matches of the Superleague Greece. He had one season playing in the La Liga 2 before signing a contract with an American soccer club Minnesota United. Robert has played for the senior men’s national team for eight years and made 49 international caps, scored one World Cup qualification goal, two friendly goals against Estonia, and one Nations League goal against Wales. 

16. Tim Sparv

• Date of birth: 20 February 1987 (age 34)
• Height: 1.94m (6 ft 4 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Defensive midfielder
• Club: Finland national team
• Market value: €250TH

Tim Sparv is currently playing for only the Finland national team as a defensive midfielder. He has recently just ended his contract with AEL FC on 14 May 2021 and currently not playing for any club. He spent three years in the youth side of Southampton and was promoted to the reserve team but didn’t have a chance to make any appearance in the first-team squad.

After that, he played for numerous clubs in and outside Finland, including Halmstad, VPS, Groningen, Greuther Fürth, and Midtjylland. He scored a total of 10 goals in his senior career, plus one for the national team from a friendly against Northern Ireland in 2012. 

17. Rasmus Schuller

• Date of birth: 18 June 1991 (age 30)
• Height: 1.78m (5 ft 10 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Midfielder
• Club: Djurgårdens IF, Finland national team
• Market value: €700TH

Rasmus started his senior career in FC Honka. He made his first debut for this club in the 2008 Finnish League Cup and scored his first league goal in June 2009. He was transferred to HJK in early 2012 and signed a four-year contract until 2015. He returned to this club as a loaned player in 2017 after playing for the other two clubs in Sweden and America. HJK Helsinki won a total of five Veikkausliiga titles, three Finnish Cups, and one Finnish League Cups in Rasmus’ time. He was also part of Finland U19 and U21 squads. Since 2013, he has played for the national team with 53 international caps but hasn’t scored any goal.

18. Thomas Lam

• Date of birth: 18 December 1993 (age 28)
• Height: 1.88m (6 ft 2 in)
• Nationality: Finnish-Dutch
• Position: Defender/ Defensive Midfielder
• Club: PEC Zwolle, Finland national team
• Market value: €650TH

Thomas Lam was trained in the academy club AZ Alkmaar for seven years before this player made his first professional for this club in 2011. Right in his first senior season, he was awarded the Football Association of Finland Promising player of the year. He made a total of nine appearances in three seasons of Eredivisie with AZ Alkmaar and scored one goal.

He moved to PEC Zwolle in 2014 and kept playing in the highest Dutch tier, Eredivisie. On 8 July 2016, he was transferred to Championship club Nottingham Forest for a free fee. In the next season, he was loaned to FC Twente, where he scored three goals in 28 matches. In 2018, he returned to Zwolle. Thomas was also a member of Finland youth levels before playing for the national team in 2015.

19. Fredrik Jensen 

• Date of birth: 9 September 1997 (age 24)
• Height: 1.83m (6 ft 0 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Midfielder/ Winger
• Club: Augsburg, Finland national team
• Market value: €1.80M

Fredrik was trained in four Finnish clubs in his youth career, and he ended up with Twente which is the club he signed his first professional contract with. He played 55 matches with Twente and scored nine goals.  

He made his first international cap on 28 march 2017 in a draw friendly against Austria. He was the player who netted the only goal to equalize the score. Fredrik also scored the other six goals for the national team, including two in the Euro 2020 qualification against Armenia.

20. Glen Kamara

• Date of birth: 28 October 1995 (age 26)
• Height: 1.81m (5 ft 11 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Midfielder
• Club: Rangers, Finland national team
• Market value: €1.80M

Glen is one of the key members in the squad of Finland in Euro 2020. He was in the youth sides of Southend United and Arsenal. He made his first professional debut for Arsenal in 2015 but he only made one appearance for this club in a Football League Cup against Sheffield Wednesday in October 2017. 

He returned to Southend United for a season-long loan in the 2015-16 League One. He then played for League Two club Colchester United as a loaned player in the next season. Since 2017, he has played in the Scottish Premiership for Dundee and now Rangers respectively. Glen was selected for the national team in 2017 and until now, he has made 34 international caps with one goal in the Nations League C against Greece in 2018.

21. Joni Kauko

• Date of birth: 12 July 1990 (age 31)
• Height: 1.86m (6 ft 1 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Midfielder
• Club: Esbjerg, Finland national team
• Market value: €400TH

Joni Kauko was a product of a local club in Turku. He was quite successful in this first club as a professional midfielder who scored 12 goals in 123 Veikkausliiga matches. The club won two titles in 2008, the Finnish League Cup and Veikkausliiga, and the Finnish Cup the next year. After that, he played for two German clubs in the 2. Bundesliga and then two Dennish clubs. He had a great performance while playing for the current club 21 goals in 81 appearances. He has also made 28 international caps since 2012 without any goal yet. 

22. Onni Valakari

• Date of birth: 18 August 1999 (age 22)
• Height: 1.87m (6 ft 2 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Attacking midfielder
• Club: Pafos, Finland national team
• Market value: €500TH

Onni was born in a family with his father and brother are professional footballers too. He started his football career in SJK Akatemia. He only made two appearances for this club in the Kakkonen, the third tier in the Finnish football league. In the next two seasons, he moved to TPS and successfully scored 11 goals in 33 matches.

He was transferred to Tromsø in the 2018 and 2019 seasons of the Eliteserien. In early 2020, he moved to Pafos to play in the Cypriot First Division where he scored 20 goals. Onni was in the squad of the U19 and U21 before being called up for the national team. 

23. Lassi Lappalainen 

• Date of birth: 24 August 1998 (age 23)
• Height: 1.83m (6 ft 0 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Winger
• Club: CF Montreal (on loan), Bologna, Finland national team
• Market value: €800TH

Lassi spent most of his senior years playing in domestic competitions. He started at HJK in the first four years. He was quite successful in Klubi 04 and RoPS, where he only played on a season-long deal. He netted 10 goals in 21 matches for Klubi 04 and 15 goals for RoPS in two seasons of the Veikkausliiga.

On 19 July 2019, he moved to Serie A club Bologna for a transfer fee in the top seven of HJK’s club history. A week later, he was loaned to a Canadian club Montreal. He has scored nine goals in the MLS within 29 games with this Canadian side. They won the Canadian Championship in 2019. Lassi has also made nine international caps for the national team since 2019.

Forward

24. Teemu Pukki

• Date of birth: 29 March 1990 (age 31)
• Height: 1.80m (5 ft 11 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Forward
• Club: Norwich City, Finland national team
• Market value: €7.00M

One of the few Finnish players participating in major competitions in Europe, Teemu Pukki is the key member of the Finland national team for Euro 2020. He started his football career in KTP, where he was trained in his youth years. In the 2008-09 season, he started playing football outside Finland, first in the Segunda Division and La Liga in Sevilla F.C.

He returned to a domestic club HJK to play in the Veikkausliiga and scored 18 goals in 34 matches. In 2011, he moved to Bundesliga club Schalke 04 and stayed here for three seasons in the Bundesliga. His senior career has started to reach its peak since 2018 when he played for Norwich City. He was awarded plenty of honors, including the EFL Championship Player of the Season, Norwich City Player of the Season, EFL Championship Golden Boot, Premier League Player of the Month, Finnish Sports Personality of the Year, Finnish Footballer of the Year, and part of the Team of the Season during this time.

Teemu has scored 67 goals for Norwich City, almost half of his career’s goals (179). He is also successful in the national team, in which he netted 30 goals in 94 international caps. 

25. Joel Pohjanpalo

• Date of birth: 13 September 1994 (age 27)
• Height: 1.86m (6 ft 1 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Striker
• Club: Union Berlin (on loan), Bayer Leverkusen, Finland national team
• Market value: €2.00M

Joel was a youth product of PK-35 and HJK. He had a successful start in his senior career at the age of 16. In only one season of the Kakkonen, he scored 33 goals for Klubi 04 in 25 games, which led to his Finnish League Division 2 Top scorer and Finnish League Division 2 Group A Player of the Season awards. After that, he moved to HJK and did a quite good job with 24 goals in 70 Veikkausliiga matches.

He moved to Germany in 2013 and since then, Joel has only played for German clubs in the 2. Bundesliga and Bundesliga. He has scored a total of 98 goals in his senior career in 233 appearances. Joel was also part of the youth levels of the national squad from U15 to U21. In late 2012, he made his first international debut as a substitute for Teemo Pukki in a friendly against Slovenia. Until now, he has made 45 international caps with 10 goals. 

26. Marcus Forss 

• Date of birth: 18 June 1999 (age 22)
• Height: 1.82m (6 ft 0 in)
• Nationality: Finland
• Position: Forward
• Club: Brentford, Finland national team
• Market value: €3.50M

Marcus is currently playing as a forward in Premier League club Brentford and the Finland national team. He was trained in numerous clubs in and outside Finland and started his senior career in Brentford in 2018. The club was promoted from the Championship play-off and will compete in the next season of the Premier League.

He has scored 13 goals for Brentford in three consecutive seasons of the EFL Championship. This brought him the Brentford B Player of the Year award in the 2017-18 season and EFL Young Player of the Month in October 2019. He was loaned to League One club AFC Wimbledon for a season-long deal (2019-20) and amazingly scored 11 goals in 19 matches. 

He also played for national squads and was the captain of the U19 team. Marcus was finally called up for the senior national team in 2020 and has scored once in November 2020 in a 2-0 win over France. 

Above is all the information about 26 men in the squad of Finland for Euro 2020. Hope you find this post helpful for your prediction in this prestigious game. Check our website betimate.com for more information about football from anywhere in the world.

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