Lassi Lappalainen

Lassi Lappalainen (born 24 August 1998) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a winger for Canadian club CF Montréal[1] on loan from Italian club Bologna.

Lassi Lappalainen
Personal information
Full name Lassi Lappalainen
Date of birth (1998-08-24) 24 August 1998
Place of birth Espoo, Finland
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Winger
Club information
Current team
 CF Montréal
Number 21
Youth career
0000–2010 Espoon Palloseura
2011–2015 HJK
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2019 HJK 30 (3)
2015–2016 → Klubi 04 21 (10)
2017–2018 → RoPS (loan) 39 (12)
2019– Bologna 0 (0)
2019– → CF Montréal (loan) 24 (9)
National team‡
2013–2014 Finland U16 5 (1)
2014 Finland U17 7 (0)
2016 Finland U18 2 (0)
2016–2017 Finland U19 6 (5)
2017– Finland U21 7 (3)
2019– Finland 7 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 November 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Club career

Early career

Born in Espoo in 1998,[2] Lappalainen started his football career with Espoon palloseura (EPS)[3] and later moved to HJK youth team. Lappalainen played in Klubi 04, the reserve team of HJK.

HJK

In 2016, Lappalainen was called up for HJK's first team. On 2 April 2016, he made his Veikkausliiga debut against IFK Mariehamn at Sonera Stadium, being substituted on by coach Mika Lehkosuo in place of Nnamdi Oduamadi in the 90th minute.[4]

On 21 July 2017, Lappalainen was loaned to RoPS for remainder of the Veikkausliiga season.[5] Two days later, he scored his first league goal for RoPS just five minutes into his debut after coming on as a substitute.[6]

Bologna

On 19 July 2019, Lappalainen signed to Italian Serie A club Bologna. HJK Helsinki stated it received "significant compensation" and that economically, the transfer was in the "top 7 of HJK's club history".[7][8]

Montreal

On 25 July 2019, it was announced that Lappalainen was loaned to Major League Soccer (MLS) club Montreal Impact, later renamed as CF Montréal, for the remainder of the 2019 season using Targeted Allocation Money. The Impact have options to extend the loan until 30 June 2020, as well as until 31 December 2020.[9] On 27 July 2019, he contributed two goals to Montreal Impact's 4–0 victory over the first-place Philadelphia Union on his Major League Soccer debut.[10]

International career

Lappalainen made his debut for the Finland national football team on 8 January 2019 in a friendly against Sweden, as a starter.[11]

Career statistics

Club
As of 10 November 2020[1]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup League Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
HJK2015Veikkausliiga00001000–10
2016140104000–190
201700510010–61
2019163510012–226
Total 303112502200487
Klubi 042015Kakkonen147000000–147
201651000000–51
201722000000–22
Total 2110000000002110
RoPS (loan)2017Veikkausliiga134000000–134
2018268530000–3111
Total 3912530000004415
Montreal Impact (loan)2019MLS11500000040155
20201440000000010
Total 25900000040299
Career total 1153416550224014241

International
As of match played 10 November 2020[12]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Finland 201970
Total70

Honours

Montreal Impact

References
  1. Lassi Lappalainen at Soccerway. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  2. Lassi Lappalainen at WorldFootball.net
  3. "Lapista tulleella Lappalaisella kovat tavoitteet Stadissa – "Toivon ykköslaiturin roolia"" [Lappalainen from Lapland sets hard goals at Stadio - "I hope to be number one"]. vantaansanomat.fi (in Finnish). Vantaan Sanomat. 19 March 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  4. "HJK vs. Mariehamn - 2 April 2016 - Soccerway". us.soccerway.com. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  5. "RoPS lainasi Lappalaisen Helsingin Jalkapalloklubista". rops.fi. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  6. "RoPS - SJK 23 July 2017". Soccerway. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  7. "UFFICIALE: Bologna, tesserato il finlandese Lappalainen" (in Italian). Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  8. "Arrivederci, Lassi Lappalainen!". HJK Helsinki (in Finnish). 17 July 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  9. "Lappalainen on loan". Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  10. "Lappalainen scores twice in MLS debut, Impact hammer Union". Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  11. "Sweden v Finland game report". Eurosport. 8 January 2019.
  12. "Lassi Lappalainen". National Football Teams. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  13. "Montréal takes 2019 Canadian Championship title". Retrieved 28 September 2019.
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