Ville Nylund

Ville Nylund
Personal information
Date of birth (1972-08-14) 14 August 1972 (age 52)
Place of birth Kokkola, Finland
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Right back
Youth career
1983–1991 OLS
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1991 OLS 14 (0)
1992–1994 FC Oulu 61 (1)
1995–1996 Jaro 49 (2)
1997–2006 HJK 206 (1)
International career
1991–1992 Finland U21 4 (0)
1996–2004 Finland 21 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14 May 2024

Ville Nylund (born 14 August 1972) is a Finnish former professional footballer, who played as a right back. He was capped 21 times for Finland national football team during 1996–2004.[1]

Career

Nylund started playing football with Oulun Luistinseura (OLS).[2] He has also played for FC Oulu, FF Jaro and HJK Helsinki. While playing with HJK, Nylund won three Finnish championship titles, two Finnish Cups, and historically represented HJK in the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League group stage, the first time for a Finnish club in the UCL.[3][4]

He ended his professional playing career after the 2006 season, having made a total of 285 appearances in top-tier Veikkausliiga.[5] In March 2008, he started working for the Finnish FA.[6][7]

Personal life

His son Antton Nylund is a footballer for HJK Klubi 04.[8]

Career statistics

Club

As of 1 September 2024.
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup[a] Europe Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
OLS 1991 Kakkonen 14 0 – – 14 0
FC Oulu 1992 Veikkausliiga 14 0 – – 14 0
1992 Ykkönen 17 0 – – 17 0
1993 Veikkausliiga 26 0 – – 26 0
Total 57 0 0 0 0 0 57 0
Jaro 1995 Veikkausliiga 23 2 – – 23 2
1996 Veikkausliiga 26 0 – 4[b] 0 30 0
Total 49 2 0 0 4 0 53 2
HJK Helsinki 1997 Veikkausliiga 24 0 – 2[c] 0 26 0
1998 Veikkausliiga 21 0 1 0 10[d] 0 32 0
1999 Veikkausliiga 28 0 – 4[e] 0 32 0
2000 Veikkausliiga 25 0 1 0 4[e] 0 30 0
2001 Veikkausliiga 23 1 – 2[e] 0 25 1
2002 Veikkausliiga 26 0 – 2[e] 0 28 0
2003 Veikkausliiga 22 0 1 0 3[d] 0 26 0
2004 Veikkausliiga 18 0 – 4[d] 0 22 0
2005 Veikkausliiga 18 0 – – 18 0
2006 Veikkausliiga 1 0 – – 1 0
Total 206 1 3 0 31 0 240 1
Klubi 04 2006 Ykkönen 4 0 – – 4 0
Career total 330 3 3 0 35 0 368 3
  1. ^ Includes Suomen Cup
  2. ^ Appearances in UEFA Intertoto Cup
  3. ^ Appearances in UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
  4. ^ a b c Appearances in UEFA Champions League
  5. ^ a b c d Appearances in UEFA Cup

International

As of match played 21 March 2024[9]
Finland
Year Apps Goals
1996 1 0
1997 0 0
1998 0 0
1999 2 0
2000 5 0
2001 6 0
2002 1 0
2003 4 0
2004 2 0
Total 21 0

Honours

HJK

References

  1. ^ Ville Nylund uskoo maajoukkueeseen, mtvuutiset.fi, MTV Oy, 22 August 2007
  2. ^ Oulun kasvatti Ville Nylund on Olympiastadionilla kuin kotonaan – puolustaja onnistui myös maalinteossa: "Se oli suoraan sanoen komea maali", Kaleva, Kai Nevala, 13 October 2020
  3. ^ HJK:n entinen pelaaja Ville Nylund kertaa historiallista Mestarien liiga -kautta, mtvuutiset.fi, MTV Oy
  4. ^ HJK Hall Of Fame: Ville Nylund, hjk.fi, 19 June 2012
  5. ^ Ville Nylund päättää jalkapallouransa, Ilta-Sanomat, 27 December 2006
  6. ^ Ville Nylund Palloliiton tuotepäälliköksi, Yle, 13 March 2008
  7. ^ Ville Nylund, Mika Nurmela ja Antti Niemi ovat tunteneet OLS:n D-juniorijoukkueesta lähtien – EM-kisojen stadioneilla he ovat töissä hyvin lähellä toisiaan: "Lauantain ottelu meni kaikin tavoin tunteisiin", Lapin Kansa, 16 June 2021
  8. ^ Päämäärätietoinen Antton Nylund ottaa myös palautumisen tosissaan, hjk.fi, 16 August 2024
  9. ^ "Ville Nylund". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 12 September 2024.