Miska Ylitolva
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 23 May 2004 | ||
| Place of birth | Espoo, Finland | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position | Right back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | HJK | ||
| Number | 28 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| FC Santa Claus | |||
| RoPS | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2020–2021 | RoPS II | 23 | (2) |
| 2021 | RoPS | 17 | (0) |
| 2022–2023 | Klubi 04 | 9 | (0) |
| 2022– | HJK | 41 | (0) |
| 2023 | → KTP (loan) | 11 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2019 | Finland U16 | 6 | (0) |
| 2021 | Finland U18 | 1 | (0) |
| 2022 | Finland U19 | 1 | (0) |
| 2023– | Finland U21 | 25 | (2) |
| 2022– | Finland | 2 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 19 November 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 31 March 2026 | |||
Miska Ylitolva (born 23 May 2004) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a right back for Veikkausliiga club HJK.[1]
RoPS
Ylitolva was born in Espoo, but soon after his family moved to Rovaniemi, Lapland. He began playing football at age 10 for Rovaniemi side FC Santa Claus. Later he joined another local club Rovaniemen Palloseura (RoPS) where he made his senior debut in 2020 at the age of 16, playing for their reserve team in third tier Kakkonen. In 2021 he was promoted to the RoPS first team playing in second tier Ykkönen.[2][3]
HJK
In January 2022 Ylitolva signed a two-year contract with Veikkausliiga side HJK.[4] He made his Veikkausliiga debut on 2 April 2022 against Honka.[5] Ylitolva suffered an injury in that match and was ruled out almost for the whole season.[6]
On 9 May 2022, Ylitolva signed an updated contract until the end of 2024 season.[7]
2023: Loan to KTP
On 17 July 2023, Ylitolva was sent on loan to a fellow Veikkausliiga club Kotkan Työväen Palloilijat (KTP) for the rest of the season.[8][9] After his loan deal expired, he returned to HJK.
On 29 August 2024, he signed a two-year contract extension with HJK.[10] On 8 January 2025, Ylitolva scored his first goals for HJK, by a brace in a 3–1 win against Haka in Finnish League Cup, providing also the assist to the third goal.[11]