External links
- Lommel SK official profile
- Juho Talvitie at WorldFootball.net
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Juho Jaakko Talvitie | ||
| Date of birth | 25 March 2005 | ||
| Place of birth | Tampere, Finland | ||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Winger | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | NAC Breda (on loan from Lommel) | ||
| Number | 23 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2021 | Ilves | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2021– | Lommel | 52 | (6) |
| 2024–2025 | → Heracles Almelo (loan) | 31 | (3) |
| 2025– | → NAC Breda (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2019 | Finland U15 | 3 | (0) |
| 2021–2022 | Finland U17 | 7 | (1) |
| 2023 | Finland U18 | 2 | (0) |
| 2022– | Finland U19 | 5 | (2) |
| 2023– | Finland U21 | 18 | (3) |
| 2024– | Finland | 2 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 May 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18 June 2025 | |||
Juho Jaakko Talvitie (born 25 March 2005) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a winger for Eredivisie club NAC Breda, on loan from Lommel, and for the Finland national team. [1]
Talvitie started playing football in Ilves in Tampere. In 2020, Talvitie trialed for the youth academy of English Premier League side Manchester United. [2]
In 2021, he signed for Belgian First Division B club Lommel. [3] On 15 September 2021, he debuted for 4–2 win over Diegem Sport in a Belgian Cup game. [4] He made his Belgian First Division B debut on 1 October 2021 against Westerlo. During season 2021–22 he made six appearances in league matches and one in the Belgian Cup.[ citation needed ] In the 2023–24 season, Talvitie made 35 appearances for Lommel in all competitions, scoring four goals and providing three assists. He played six games in the Belgian Pro League Promotion Play-offs.
On 19 July 2024, Talvitie extended his contract with Lommel until June 2028, and simultaneously he was loaned out to Eredivisie club Heracles Almelo for the 2024–25 season with no option to buy. [5] On 25 August 2024, in the third match of the season, Talvitie scored his first goal in Eredivisie, in a 1–1 draw against Willem II. [6]
On 11 June 2025, Eredivisie club NAC Breda announced that they had loaned in Talvitie for the 2025–26 season. [7]
Talvitie made his debut in international football in Algarve on 22 November 2019 at the age 15 playing for Finland U15 in a 3–2 defeat against Spain U15. [8]
Talvitie has been capped at under-17, under-18 and under-19 youth international levels for Finland. Since 2023, he has played for Finland under-21 national team. On 21 November 2023, Talvitie scored his first U21 goal, in a 6–0 home win over Armenia. [9]
On 4 June 2024, Talvitie made his senior national team debut for Finland, as a starter in a 4–2 friendly defeat against Portugal. [10]
| Club | Season | League | National cup [a] | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Lommel | 2021–22 | Challenger Pro League | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 7 | 0 | ||
| 2022–23 | Challenger Pro League | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 17 | 3 | |||
| 2023–24 | Challenger Pro League | 29 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | 6 [b] | 1 | 35 | 4 | ||
| Total | 52 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 59 | 7 | ||
| Heracles Almelo (loan) | 2024–25 | Eredivisie | 31 | 3 | 5 | 1 | – | – | 36 | 4 | ||
| NAC Breda (loan) | 2025–26 | Eredivisie | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 84 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 96 | 11 | ||
| Finland | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Apps | Goals | |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 2 | 0 | |
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