Kimmo Tauriainen

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Kimmo Tauriainen
Personal information
Date of birth (1972-03-16) 16 March 1972 (age 52)
Place of birth Rovaniemi, Finland [1]
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) [1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1983–1989 RoPS
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1989–1992 RoPS 21 (0)
1993–1996 Kontu 75 (11)
1996 KePS 21 (2)
1997 GBK 5 (0)
1998–2001 Atlantis 103 (16)
2002 Start 23 (4)
2003 Jokerit 22 (0)
2004–2005 MyPa 15 (3)
2006 Atlantis 24 (9)
Total309(45)
International career
1991 Finland U21 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kimmo Tauriainen (born 16 March 1972) is a Finnish former footballer.

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Career

He has played for RoPS, KePS, Kontu, FC Jokerit, MyPa and Atlantis FC. He also played one season in Norwegian IK Start. He won the Finnish Cup with Atlantis FC in 2001 and with MyPa in 2004. Tauriainen has also won Finnish championship in 2005 with MyPa.

Tauriainen returned to Atlantis from MyPa in 2006. He had to end his professional career because of knee injury after season 2006.

Personal life

He is the brother of fellow professional footballers Pasi Tauriainen and Vesa Tauriainen, and the uncle of Jimi Tauriainen and Julius Tauriainen. [2]

Nowadays Kimmo works as a sales person in Duosport. Kimmo is also getting married during summer 2009 with singer Maria.

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueCup [a] EuropeTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
RoPS 1989 Mestaruussarja 1 [b] 010
1990 Veikkausliiga
1991 Veikkausliiga100100
1992 Veikkausliiga100100
Total2100010210
Kontu 1993 Ykkönen –
1994Ykkönen–
1995 Ykkönen–
Total751100007511
KePS 1996 Ykkönen212––212
GBK Kokkola 1997Ykkönen50––50
Atlantis 1998Ykkönen––
1999Ykkönen––
2000Ykkönen––
2001 Veikkausliiga31410–324
Total10316100010416
Start 2002 Tippeligaen 234––234
Jokerit 2003 Veikkausliiga220––220
MYPA 2004 Veikkausliiga0010–10
2005 Veikkausliiga153005 [b] 0203
Total1531050213
Atlantis 2006 Ykkönen249––249
Career total30945206031745
  1. ↑ Includes Suomen Cup
  2. 1 2 Appearances in UEFA Cup

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References

  1. 1 2 Kimmo Tauriainen at WorldFootball.net
  2. ↑ "Suomalainen futislupaus solmi ammattilaissopimuksen Chelsean kanssa" [The Finnish football star signed a professional contract with Chelsea]. mtvuutiset.fi (in Finnish). 9 March 2021.


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