 Kauppi playing for IKSU at the 2019 Champions Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| National team | Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 July 1997 Tampere, Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Floorball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Swedish Super League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Team Thorengruppen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Oona Kauppi (born 19 July 1997) is a Finnish floorball player who plays for the Team Thorengruppen and has played over 60 international matches for the Finland national team. She is also a former footballer who has played in the Women's League for Ilves.
In floorball, Kauppi was a member of Koovee's squad from 2011 to 2018. In the 2014–2015 season, she was fifth in the league's points total with 32+17. [1] In the summer of 2018, she moved to play for the Swedish Super League team IKSU with her sister Veera. [2]
In 2020, IKSU withdrew from the league due to financial difficulties and the siblings moved to Team Thorengruppen, playing in Umeå. [3] Kauppi was named the best female player of the 2019–2020 season. She won the Swedish league championship with IKSU [4] and Thorengruppen six times in total.
In 2014, Kauppi achieved silver at the World Championship with the Finnish under-19 national team. [1] She was the team's top scorer at the tournament with nine goals and two assists. [5] Kauppi has also served as the captain of that national team. [1] She missed the 2015 Women's World Championships due to a knee injury. [6] In 2016, she won silver at the U19 World Cup for the second time. [6]
In 2017, she won silver at the Women's World Championship, [6] [7] as well as winning bronze in 2019, [8] before winning silver again in 2021 [9] [10] and 2023. [11] [12] She was the top scorer at the 2019 World Championship with 15 goals and was named the tournament's most valuable player. [8]
At the first women's floorball tournament at the World Games in 2025, the Finnish team won a major international tournament for the first time since the 2001 World Championship, after Kauppi assisted her sister on the game-winning goal in the final. [13]
In football, Kauppi played as a midfielder. She made her debut for the Ilves in the Women's League in August 2015 against Merilappi United, coming on as a substitute for the last minute. She won one Finnish Championship silver medal in the league. [6]
Kauppi's twin sister Veera Kauppi also plays floorball for Team Thorengruppen and the Finnish national team, and has played football for Ilves. [14]
Kauppi was included among the world's 10 best floorball players six times between 2019 and 2025 in a poll conducted by Innebandymagazinet magazine. Her best placement was 5th in 2019 and 2022. [15] [16]
