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Tero Mäntylä

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Tero Mäntylä
Mäntylä with Ludogorets in 2014
Personal information
Date of birth (1991-04-18) 18 April 1991 (age 33)
Place of birth Seinäjoki, Finland[1]
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Centre back
Youth career
TP-Seinäjoki
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007 TP-Seinäjoki 24 (0)
2008 SJK 1 (0)
2008–2010 Portsmouth 0 (0)
2010–2011 Inter Turku 33 (0)
2012–2014 Ludogorets Razgrad 27 (0)
2014–2017 Aalesund 19 (0)
2017–2018 Inter Turku 38 (0)
2019 HIFK 23 (0)
2020–2021 SJK 26 (0)
International career
2010–2012 Finland U-21[2] 12 (1)
2014 Finland 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 5 October 2021 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Tero Mäntylä (born 18 April 1991) is a Finnish footballer who most lately played as a defender for SJK.[3]

Career

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A product of his local club TP-Seinäjoki, Mäntylä joined Premier League club Portsmouth in February 2008, only at the age of 16, signing a three-year contract.[4]

However, during his time in England, he never got any chance to prove his merit and only managed to play in two reserve league matches. After his link with Portsmouth expired, he signed with Inter Turku in August 2010. After the 2011 season his contract with Inter expired, and he signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with Ludogorets.[5] Mäntylä left the team from Razgrad in the summer of 2014 and moved back to Scandinavia. He made his debut in the national team in Helsinki in a friendly game against Czech Republic on 21 May 2014 (2−2).

Career statistics

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As of 15 May 2024
Club Season Division League Cup Europe Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
TP-Seinäjoki 2007 Kakkonen 24 0 24 0
SJK 2008 Kakkonen 1 0 1 0
Inter Turku 2010 Veikkausliiga 9 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
2011 Veikkausliiga 24 0 7 0 31 0
Total 33 0 7 0 0 0 40 0
Ludogorets Razgrad 2011–12 Bulgarian First League 3 0 1 0 4 0
2012–13 Bulgarian First League 5 0 1 0 0 0 6 0
2013–14 Bulgarian First League 17 0 1 0 8[a] 1 26 1
2014–15 Bulgarian First League 2 0 2 0 1[b] 0 5 0
Total 27 0 5 0 9 1 41 1
Aalesund 2015 Tippeligaen 16 0 1 0 17 0
2016 Tippeligaen 3 0 1 0 4 0
2017 Eliteserien 0 0 2 1 2 1
Total 19 0 4 1 0 0 23 1
Inter Turku 2017 Veikkausliiga 12 0 0 0 12 0
2018 Veikkausliiga 26 0 5 1 31 1
Total 38 0 5 1 0 0 43 1
HIFK 2019 Veikkausliiga 23 0 1 0 24 0
SJK 2020 Veikkausliiga 19 0 5 0 24 0
2021 Veikkausliiga 2 0 4 1 6 1
Total 21 0 9 1 0 0 30 1
SJK II 2021 Kakkonen 6 0 6 0
Career total 192 0 31 3 9 1 232 4

Honours

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Club

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Ludogorets

References

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  1. ^ TP-Seinäjoki
  2. ^ Suomen Palloliitto[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "Kiitos Tero Mäntylä ja Nikko Boxall!". 6 January 2022.
  4. ^ Tero Mäntylä joins Portsmouth (in Finnish)
  5. ^ Mäntylä to Bulgaria[dead link] (in Finnish)
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