Petri Vuorinen

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Petri Vuorinen
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Vuorinen with VPS in 2018.
Personal information
Date of birth (1972-08-31) 31 August 1972 (age 52)
Place of birth Vaasa, Finland
Position(s) Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team
 HJK (sporting director)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1989 Wasa-88 22 (3)
1991–1999 BK-IFK 128 (4)
2000 Närpes Kraft 22 (0)
2001 Jaro 17 (1)
Managerial career
2004–2007 VIFK (assistant) [1]
2008–2009 VPS (assistant)
2009 VPS
2010–2011 VPS (assistant)
2011 VPS
2012–2015 VPS (assistant)
2015–2019 VPS
2020 Honka II (assistant)
2021–2023 Honka (sporting director)
2024 VPS (sporting director)
2024– HJK (sporting director)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Petri Vuorinen (born 31 August 1972) is a Finnish football manager and a former player. He is currently working as the sporting director of Veikkausliiga club HJK Helsinki.

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Playing career

As a player, Vuorinen played as a defensive midfielder in second-tier Ykkönen for BK-IFK, Närpes Kraft and Jaro. With Jaro, they won the promotion to Veikkausliiga, but Vuorinen did not make any appearances in the league due to knee injury. He also played for Wasa-88, Korsholm and Vasa IFK in the lower divisions in the Finnish football league system.

Coaching career

Vuorinen started his senior coaching career as an assistant of his hometown club Vasa IFK in 2004. After three years, he first joined Vaasan Palloseura (VPS) as an assistant coach. He worked as assistant to Tomi Kärkkäinen, Tommi Pikkarainen and Olli Huttunen. Vuorinen worked also as a caretaker manager of VPS twice, in 2009 accompanied by sporting director Juha Reini, and in 2011 solely. During 2015–2019, Vuorinen served as the VPS first team head coach in Veikkausliiga. [2] [3]

In 2020, Vuorinen joined fellow Veikkausliiga club FC Honka, first as a coach. In 2021, he was named the club's sporting director. [4]

For the 2024 season, Vuorinen returned to Vaasa and was appointed a sporting director of his former club VPS. [5]

On 22 October 2024, he was named the new sporting director of HJK Helsinki, starting in the beginning of November. [6] [7]

Managerial statistics

As of 9 July 2023 [8]
TeamNatFromToRecord
GWDLWin %
VPS Flag of Finland.svg 15 May 200931 December 2009211047047.62
VPS Flag of Finland.svg 28 July 201131 December 201117665035.29
VPS Flag of Finland.svg 29 June 20157 July 2019163564859034.36
Total201725871035.82

Honours

Individual

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References

  1. ↑ Petri Vuorinen VPS:n apuvalmentajaksi Archived 11 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Pikkarainen ja VPS purkivat sopimuksen – Vuorinen vetovastuuseen Archived 11 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ VPS on irtisanonut päävalmentajansa Archived 15 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ "Urheilutoimenjohtajana aloittanut Petri Vuorinen uskoo nuorten pelaajien kehitysmahdollisuuksiin" (in Finnish). Honka. 15 March 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  5. ↑ Petri Vuorinen on VPS:n uusi urheilujohtaja, vps.fi, 14 December 2023
  6. ↑ Petri Vuorinen on HJK:n uusi urheilujohtaja, hjk.fi, 22 October 2024
  7. ↑ HJK vahvisti uuden urheilujohtajansa nimen, Helsingin Sanomat, 22 October 2024
  8. ↑ Petri Vuorinen coaching stats, veikkausliiga.com
  9. ↑ Pyry Soiri kuukauden pelaajaksi (in Finnish)
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