Matias Ritari

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Matias Ritari
Personal information
Date of birth (2005-07-15) 15 July 2005 (age 19)
Place of birth Finland
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Klubi 04
Youth career
2011 PPJ
2011–2023 HJK
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2023– Klubi 04 48 (9)
2023– HJK 0 (0)
International career‡
2023 Finland U18 2 (0)
2023 Finland U19 3 (0)
2024– Finland U21 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 25 November 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 30 August 2024

Matias Ritari (born 15 July 2005) is a Finnish professional footballer, playing as a midfielder for Klubi 04.

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Early career

Ritari started football in a youth team of PPJ in 2011 when aged five, but after a few training sessions he joined a newly established district youth team of HJK Helsinki in Töölö neighbourhood. [1] [2]

Ritari captained the HJK U17 team in 2022, and helped the team to win the league of their age group. He signed his first contract with HJK organisation on 7 November 2022. [3]

Club career

Ritari made his senior debut for HJK in a Finnish League Cup match against Inter Turku in February 2023. In the 2023 season, he played for the club's reserve team Klubi 04 in third-tier Kakkonen. He represented HJK in the 2023–24 UEFA Youth League in all four games, [4] where the team advanced by winning Malmö FF, but was eventually knocked out by Nantes in the 2nd round on penalties, after a 1–1 aggregate draw.

In 2024, Ritari captained Klubi 04 in the new third-tier Ykkönen. He also made two appearances scoring a goal in Finnish League Cup, and two appearances in Finnish Cup for HJK first team. On 30 August 2024, he signed a professional contract with the club, on a deal until the end of 2026 with a one-year option. [5] At the end of the season, Klubi 04 won the Ykkönen title and earned a promotion to Ykkösliiga.

Career statistics

As of 25 November 2024
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueCup [a] League cup [b] EuropeTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Klubi 04 2023 Kakkonen 23300——233
2024 Ykkönen 256———256
Total489000000489
HJK 2023 Veikkausliiga 0000100010
2024 Veikkausliiga0020210041
Total0020310051
Career total4892031005310

Honours

Klubi 04

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