Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi, commonly known as HJK Helsinki, or simply as HJK, is a professional football club based in Helsinki, Finland. The club competes in the Finnish Veikkausliiga. Founded in 1907, the club has spent most of its history in the top tier of Finnish football. The club's home ground is the 10,770-seat Bolt Arena, where they have played since 2000.
Klubi 04 is a Finnish football club based in Helsinki. It is the reserve team of Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi for whom a number of the players are also registered.
Atomu Tanaka is a Japanese football player who plays for HJK Helsinki in the Veikkausliiga.
Tomasz Sajdak is a Polish retired striker and midfielder. He also holds German citizenship. He played in eleven different countries. In Poland, Germany, Faroe Islands, Latvia, Finland, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Iran, Åland Islands, Denmark and Luxemburg.
Sakari Mattila is a Finnish professional football defensive midfielder who plays for the Helsinki IFK and represents the Finland national football team. Mattila was born in Tampere, Finland. He began his senior club career playing for Klubi-04, before making his league debut for HJK at age 18 in 2008.
Kansallinen Liiga is the premier division of women's football in Finland. The first season as Kansallinen Liiga will be played in 2020.
The 2009 season was Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi's 79th competitive season, 29th consecutive season in the Veikkausliiga, and 102nd year in existence as a football club.
Sanna Irene Malaska is a Finnish football coach and former midfielder, currently running the female youth teams at HJK Helsinki of the Naisten Liiga. As well as for HJK, she has played for Sunnanå SK of Sweden's Damallsvenskan, Prainsa Zaragoza in the Spanish Superleague and Amazon Grimstad in Norway's Toppserien.
The 2014 season was Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi's 106th competitive season. HJK is the most successful Finnish football club with 26 Finnish Championships, 11 Finnish Cup titles, 4 Finnish League Cup titles and one appearance in the UEFA Champions League Group Stages.
The Stadin Derby, or The Helsinki Derby, is the name for a Helsinki association football fixture played between HIFK Fotboll and HJK Helsinki. The name of the derby derives from the common slang word nickname for Helsinki (Stadi), widely used by the locals. Both the teams play at the highest level of football in Finland, in Veikkausliiga. Before 2015, the clubs hadn't faced each other at the highest level since 1972 when HIFK got relegated from the top league, which was then known as Mestaruussarja.
The 2013 season was Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi's 105th competitive season. HJK is the most successful Finnish football club with 25 Finnish Championships, 11 Finnish Cup titles, 4 Finnish League Cup titles and one appearance in the UEFA Champions League Group Stages.
The 2012 season was Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi's 104th competitive season. HJK is the most successful Finnish football club with 25 Finnish Championships, 11 Finnish Cup titles, 4 Finnish League Cup titles and one appearance in the UEFA Champions League Group Stages.
The 2018 season is Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi's 110th competitive season.
Eetu Vertainen is a Finnish professional footballer who plays for HJK, as a midfielder.
The 2019 season is Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi's 111th competitive season.
Niilo Rudolf Tammisalo was an influential figure in Finnish sports in the first half of the 20th Century. He was a versatile athlete who represented Finland as a player with the national teams in football, ice hockey, and bandy; he was also on Finnish Champion teams in each of the three sports with domestic clubs. When his career as a player came to a close in the early 1930s, he dedicated himself to coaching, refereeing, teaching, and administrating sports organizations.
The 2020 season is Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi's 112th competitive season.
Pallo-Pojat Juniorit is a football club in Helsinki. Pallo-Pojat operates in southern Helsinki. Club mainly focuses on youth football but also has adults teams for men and women. Pallo-Pojat won finnish cup in 1956. They played in Mestaruussarja in 1960 and 1961 seasons but weren't able to compete with bigger traditional Helsinki based clubs HIFK, HJK, HPS and KIF and were relegated to lower levels. In 1995 Clubs youth department were separated from rest of the club and named Pallo-Pojat Juniorit, as of 2020 this club continues the tradition of the original Pallo-Pojat.
Markku Peltoniemi is a Finnish former footballer and a current sporting director for Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi
Kaija Salopuro is a Finnish former footballer, who won five women's football championships with Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi between 1971 and 1975. She later worked for the Football Association of Finland, and won multiple awards for her contributions to Finnish women's football.
