Taneli Hämäläinen
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Full name
Taneli Armas Hämäläinen[1]
Date of birth
16 April 2001
Place of birth
Kuopio, Finland
Height
1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
_45_(cropped).jpg) Hämäläinen with Finland U21 in 2022 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Taneli Armas Hämäläinen[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 16 April 2001 | ||
| Place of birth | Kuopio, Finland | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | ADO Den Haag | ||
| Number | 12 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2018–2020 | KuFu-98 | 28 | (1) |
| 2020–2024 | KuPS | 76 | (4) |
| 2022–2023 | → KuPS II | 2 | (0) |
| 2025– | ADO Den Haag | 11 | (0) |
| 2025– | → KuPS (loan) | 11 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2018 | Finland U17 | 3 | (0) |
| 2021–2022 | Finland U21 | 12 | (0) |
|
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 19 November 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 10 June 2022 | |||
Taneli Armas Hämäläinen (born 16 April 2001) is a Finnish professional football player who plays as a defender for KuPS, on loan from ADO Den Haag.[2]
Hämäläinen is a product of Kuopion Palloseura (KuPS) youth academy, and made his debut with the first team in Veikkausliiga in the 2020 season. With KuPS, Hämäläinen has won one Finnish championship title in 2024, three Finnish Cups, and finished as the league's runner-up on three occasions.
On 14 December 2024, it was announced that Hämäläinen would join Eerste Divisie club ADO Den Haag in January 2025.[3]