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Antti Okkonen

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Antti Okkonen
Okkonen with RoPS in 2018.
Personal information
Date of birth (1982-06-06) 6 June 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth Oulu, Finland
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
OLS
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2003 MyPa 98 (6)
2004–2007 Landskrona BoIS 93 (3)
2007Silkeborg (loan) 12 (1)
2008–2009 Mons 36 (2)
2009–2011 MyPa 42 (2)
2012 HJK 22 (0)
2013–2018 RoPS 162 (5)
International career
2003–2006 Finland 13 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Antti Okkonen (born 6 June 1982) is a former footballer who played in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Belgium. In addition, he played for the national team. He was a defensive midfielder.[1]

Career

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Okkonen started youth career in Oulun Luistinseura. He made his debut on the club's OPS representative team in the second season in 1998. He made his league debut at Myllykoski Pallo in the year 2000. In MyPa's shirt, Okkonen won one Finnish Championship silver and two Finnish Championship bronzes during three seasons (2000-2003).

From Myllykoski, Okkonen moved to Sweden in the team of Landskrona for four (2004-2007) seasons. In the first half of 2007, he was on loan in Silkeborg, Denmark. In January 2008, Okkonen moved to the Belgian RAEC Mons, where he played for one and a half seasons. In August 2009, he returned to MyPa with a contract for the rest of the season, which was extended for two years at the end of the period. For the 2012 season, Okkonen joined the team of the reigning Finnish champion Helsinki Football Club, where he also won the only Finnish championship in his career.

After the championship season, Okkonen moved to the Rovaniemi Football Club, where he would play his final years. He managed to play 6 seasons (2013-2018) in RoPS, during this period he won the Finnish Cup 2013 and two Finnish Championship silver medals in 2015 and 2018. He also served as the team's captain.

During his career in Veikkausliiga, Okkonen played more than 300 matches and played 13 national matches in the Finnish national team. He has also played 18 youth and 56 boys national matches. Okkonen participated in the Finnish team at the 2001 World Championships for under-20s.

After the end of his player career, Antti Okkonen continued his cooperation with the RoPS and currently works as a junior manager and is responsible for the activities of 7-12 year olds.

Career statistics

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As of 1 September 2024.[2]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup[a] League cup[b] Europe Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
OPS 1998 Kakkonen 12 0 12 0
1999 Kakkonen 20 7 20 7
Total 32 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 7
MyPa 2000 Veikkausliiga 20 2 20 2
2001 Veikkausliiga 27 3 1[c] 0 28 3
2002 Veikkausliiga 27 1 2[c] 0 29 1
2003 Veikkausliiga 24 0 4[c] 2 28 2
Total 98 6 0 0 0 0 7 2 105 8
Landskrona BoIS 2004 Allsvenskan 25 0 25 0
2005 Allsvenskan 23 1 23 1
2006 Superettan 28 2 28 2
2007 Superettan 17 0 17 0
Total 93 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 93 3
Silkeborg (loan) 2006–07 Danish Superliga 12 1 12 1
R.A.E.C. Mons 2007–08 Belgian First Division 13 1 1 0 14 1
2008–09 Belgian First Division 24 1 1 0 25 1
Total 37 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 39 2
MyPa 2009 Veikkausliiga 7 0 7 0
2010 Veikkausliiga 24 1 1 0 1 0 6[d] 1 32 2
2011 Veikkausliiga 11 1 1 0 2 0 14 1
Total 42 2 2 0 3 0 6 1 53 3
HJK Helsinki 2012 Veikkausliiga 22 0 3 0 9 1 4[e] 0 38 1
RoPS 2013 Veikkausliiga 30 3 5 0 2 0 37 3
2014 Veikkausliiga 32 1 2 0 4 0 2[d] 0 40 1
2015 Veikkausliiga 30 0 1 0 6 0 37 0
2016 Veikkausliiga 16 0 1 0 5 1 2[d] 0 24 1
2017 Veikkausliiga 25 0 2 0 27 0
2018 Veikkausliiga 29 1 5 0 34 1
Total 162 5 16 0 17 1 4 0 199 6
Career total 498 26 23 0 29 2 21 3 571 31
  1. ^ Includes Suomen Cup and Belgian Cup
  2. ^ Includes Finnish League Cup
  3. ^ a b c Appearance(s) in UEFA Cup
  4. ^ a b c Appearances in UEFA Europa League
  5. ^ Appearances in UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League

International

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Finland national team
Year Apps Goals
2003 3 0
2004 6 0
2005 2 0
2006 2 0
Total 13 0

Statistics accurate as of match played 25 January 2006[3]

Personal life

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Antti is the younger brother of former footballer Jarkko Okkonen.

Honours

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Veikkausliiga

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Individual


References

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  1. ^ "Antti Okkonen". Soccerway. Global Sports Media. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
  2. ^ Antti Okkonen stats, Finnish FA
  3. ^ "Antti Okkonen". National-Football-Teams.com. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  4. ^ [1] (in Finnish)
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