Matias Rale

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Matias Rale
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Rale with Finland U21 in 2022
Personal information
Full name Matias Johan Erik Rale
Date of birth (2001-03-04) 4 March 2001 (age 23) [1]
Place of birth Vantaa, Finland
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Left back
Youth career
–2014 TiPS
2015–2019 Honka
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2016–2022 Honka II 35 (1)
2021–2023 Honka 61 (3)
2024 Kauno Žalgiris 24 (0)
International career‡
2016–2017 Finland U16 4 (0)
2018 Finland U17 7 (0)
2018 Finland U18 2 (0)
2021–2022 Finland U21 4 (0)
Medal record
Honka
Gold medal icon.svg Finnish League Cup 2022
Silver medal icon.svg Finnish Cup 2023
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 5 December 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 7 June 2022

Matias Johan Erik Rale (born 4 March 2001) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a left back.

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Club career

Rale was born in Vantaa, and started playing football with a local club TiPS in Tikkurila.

He joined the Espoo-based FC Honka organisation when aged 14, [2] and made his Veikkausliiga debut with the Honka first team in 2021. [3] For the 2023 season, Rale was named one of the team captains of Honka. [4] [5]

On 15 January 2024, after a surprising bankruptcy of Honka, Rale joined Lithuanian club Kauno Žalgiris in A Lyga. [6] He left the club after the season.

Career statistics

As of 21 November 2024. [7] [1]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueCup [a] EuropeOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Honka Akatemia2016 Kolmonen 20–––20
2017Kolmonen40–––40
2018 Kakkonen 110–––110
2019Kakkonen00–––00
2020 Kakkonen15130––181
2021Kakkonen20–––20
2022Kakkonen10–––10
Total351300000381
Honka 2021 Veikkausliiga 1314000–171
2022 Veikkausliiga21210–5 [b] 0272
2023 Veikkausliiga270502 [c] 04 [b] 0380
Total6131002090823
Kauno Žalgiris 2024 A Lyga 24030––270
Career total120416020901474

Honours

Honka

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References

  1. 1 2 Matias Rale at WorldFootball.net
  2. ↑ 14-vuotiaana Matias Rale matkusti kolme tuntia päivässä saavuttaakseen liigapaikan Espoon Hongan riveissä ja nyt hän tähtää korkealle myös kentän ulkopuolella – "Käytin sen ajan tehden läksyjä", Länsiväylä, Jari Kostiainen, 4 June 2022
  3. ↑ Matias Ralen debyyttiosuma toi Hongalle kirivoiton ennätysyleisön edessä, Etelä-Suomen Sanomat, Tomi Siren, 24 June 2021
  4. ↑ "Nuorten pelaajien ääni esille" - Matias Rale on ylpeänä osa Hongan kapteenistoa, Veikkausliiga, 15 April 2023
  5. ↑ "Itseluottamus pitää nyt korjata" - Hongan Matias Rale kaipaa ryhtiliikettä loppukauteen, Veikkausliiga, 8 October 2023
  6. ↑ ""Kauno Žalgirio" gynybos liniją papildė 22-ejų suomis". zalgiris.lt (in Lithuanian). Kauno Žalgiris. 15 January 2024.
  7. ↑ Matias Rale, Finnish FA
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