Matias Ritari
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Matias Tapio Ritari[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 15 July 2005 | ||
| Place of birth | Finland | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | FC Rosengård | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2011 | PPJ | ||
| 2011–2023 | HJK | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2023–2025 | Klubi 04 | 51 | (9) |
| 2023–2026 | HJK | 3 | (0) |
| 2025 | → Gnistan (loan) | 14 | (1) |
| 2026– | FC Rosengård | 0 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2023 | Finland U18 | 2 | (0) |
| 2023 | Finland U19 | 3 | (0) |
| 2024– | Finland U21 | 1 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 5 March 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 30 August 2024 | |||
Matias Tapio Ritari (born 15 July 2005) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ettan Södra side FC Rosengård.
Ritari started football in a youth team of PPJ in 2011 when aged five, but after a few training sessions he joined a newly established district youth team of HJK Helsinki in Töölö neighbourhood.[2][3]
Ritari captained the HJK U17 team in 2022, and helped the team to win the league of their age group. He signed his first contract with HJK organisation on 7 November 2022.[4]
Club career
HJK
Ritari made his senior debut for HJK in a Finnish League Cup match against Inter Turku in February 2023. In the 2023 season, he played for the club's reserve team Klubi 04 in third-tier Kakkonen. He represented HJK in the 2023–24 UEFA Youth League in all four games,[5] where the team advanced by winning Malmö FF, but was eventually knocked out by Nantes in the 2nd round on penalties, after a 1–1 aggregate draw.
In 2024, Ritari captained Klubi 04 in the new third-tier Ykkönen. He also made two appearances scoring a goal in Finnish League Cup, and two appearances in Finnish Cup for HJK first team. On 30 August 2024, he signed a professional contract with the club, on a deal until the end of 2026 with a one-year option.[6] At the end of the season, Klubi 04 won the Ykkönen title and earned a promotion to Ykkösliiga. On 19 December 2024, in a UEFA Conference League match against Real Betis, Ritari came on from the bench as a late substitute to Georgios Kanellopoulos, in a 1–0 away loss at the Estadio Benito Villamarín. He made his league debut on 11 May 2025, in a 3–0 away win over Jaro.
On 9 July 2025, he was loaned to Gnistan.[7]
FC Rosengård
On 5 March 2026, Ritari officially joined Ettan Södra side FC Rosengård for an undisclosed fee.[8]