Tero Mäntylä
Tero Mäntylä (born 18 April 1991) is a Finnish footballer who plays as a defender for SJK.[3]
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 18 April 1991 | ||
| Place of birth | Seinäjoki, Finland[1] | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Centre back | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | SJK | ||
| Number | 5 | ||
| 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– | SJK | 19 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2010–2012 | Finland U-21[2] | 12 | (1) |
| 2014– | Finland | 2 | (0) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 November 2020 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 25 June 2014 (UTC) | |||
Career
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
- As of 22 November 2018
| Club | Season | Division | League | Cup | Europe | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Inter Turku | 2010 | Veikkausliiga | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 2011 | 24 | 0 | 7 | 0 | — | 31 | 0 | |||
| Total | 33 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0 | ||
| Ludogorets Razgrad | 2011–12 | A Group | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 4 | 0 | |
| 2012–13 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||
| 2013–14 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 26 | 1 | ||
| 2014–15 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Total | 27 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 41 | 1 | ||
| Aalesunds FK | 2015 | Tippeligaen | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 17 | 0 | |
| 2016 | 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 | 26 | 0 | 5 | 1 | — | 31 | 1 | |||
| Total | 38 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 1 | ||
Honours
Club
Ludogorets
- Bulgarian A Group: 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14
- Bulgarian Cup: 2011–12, 2013–14
- Bulgarian Supercup: 2012, 2014
References
- TP-Seinäjoki
- Suomen Palloliitto
- "Tero Mäntylä palaa Seinäjoelle". sjk.fi. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
- Tero Mäntylä joins Portsmouth (in Finnish)
- Mäntylä to Bulgaria (in Finnish)