Veera Kauppi
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.jpg) Kauppi playing for IKSU at the 2019 Champions Cup | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| National team | Finland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 July 1997 Tampere, Finland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Floorball | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Swedish Super League (2018–) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Koovee (2011–2018) IKSU (2018–2020) Team Thorengruppen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Veera Kauppi (born 19 July 1997) is a Finnish floorball player and national team member, a gold medallist at the 2025 World Games, a four-time World Championship silver medallist, a six-time Swedish champion, a three-time Champions Cup winner, and a former footballer. Between 2017 and 2023, she was named the World's Best Floorball Player four times, becoming the first Finnish player in history to receive this award.[1][2]
Kauppi played football in the Finnish women's league as a midfielder for Tampereen Ilves, with whom she finished second in 2015. She also represented the Finland national under-17 team, making six appearances and scoring two goals.[3]
Floorball club career
Kauppi began playing floorball at a young age with the Finnish club Koovee. She made her debut in the Finnish women's top league in the 2011–12 season. She played for the club until 2018, when she transferred to the Swedish team IKSU. During her time at Koovee, she recorded 256 points—138 goals and 118 assists—in 95 league matches.[4]
In her first season with IKSU, she became not only the league's top goal scorer but also the overall leading point scorer. With 91 points from 60 goals and 31 assists in the regular season, she set a new league record (which she herself surpassed in the 2024–25 season).[5][6] Although IKSU finished first in the regular season, the team was eliminated in the semifinals of the playoffs.[7] In January 2019, the team won the Champions Cup, with Veera Kauppi scoring a hat trick in the final match.[8] In the following 2019–20 season, she again finished as the league's top scorer. With her team, she won the Swedish league title,[9] which was ended prematurely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[10]
Ahead of the new season, she signed a contract with Team Thorengruppen, which took over a large part of IKSU's squad after the club decided not to enter the top division for financial reasons.[11][12][13] With her new team, she won the league title in very first season (2020–21), contributing in the Superfinal with, among other things, two goals including the game-winner.[14] The team defended the title in the following four seasons, again with significant point contributions from Kauppi.[15] In 2023 and 2024, they also won the Champions Cup.[16][17] At the beginning of 2025, she broke Anna Wijk's record by registering points in 144 consecutive Swedish Super League matches.[18]
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