# Toni Lehtinen

Toni-Pekka Lehtinen (born 5 May 1984) is a Finnish football manager and former player. He is currently an assistant coach of Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho (SJK). Lehtinen was previously the manager of JJK Jyväskylä.

## Playing career
### Early career

Lehtinen has previously played for TP-Seinäjoki and was a youth player at English club Peterborough United. He returned to TP-Seinäjoki in 2002.

### FC Haka

Toni signed for FC Haka in 2003. He won the Veikkausliiga in 2004 and finished runners up in 2007. He finished as the second highest scorer in the Veikkausliiga in 2004, 2007 and 2008 with 11 league goals in each of those seasons. He won the Veikkausliiga Rookie of the Year award in 2004. He won the Finnish Cup in 2005.

### Levadiakos FC, FC Aarau

He joined the Greek club Levadiakos FC in the Super League Greece in January 2009, and joined FC Aarau in the Swiss Super League later that year after the Greek season had ended.

### Return to Finland

He returned to FC Haka after the 09/10 season with FC Aarau had finished. Signed for IFK Mariehamn in January 2011.
After only one season with IFK, he left the Mariehamn-based club and signed a five-year contract with SJK in Ykkönen.

## International career

Toni made his debut for the Finnish national team against Bahrain in December 2004. He has made 3 appearances for his country.

## Coaching career

The last years of his playing career, Lehtinen was in SJK Akatemia squad on a player-coach contract. He worked as an assistant coach and youth coach in SJK organisation, before he was named the head coach of JJK Jyväskylä in August 2021.
On 12 January 2024, Lehtinen returned to Seinäjoki after he was named the manager of SJK first team.

## Career statistics

    As of 15 May 2024.
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition :
| Club | Season | League | League | League | National cup | National cup | League Cup | League Cup | Continental | Continental | Total | Total |
| Club | Season | Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| TP-Seinäjoki | 2002 | Ykkönen | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | | |
| Haka | 2003 | Veikkausliiga | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| Haka | 2004 | Veikkausliiga | 26 | 11 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 3 | 0 | 29 | 11 |
| Haka | 2005 | Veikkausliiga | 23 | 8 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 3 | 1 | 27 | 9 |
| Haka | 2006 | Veikkausliiga | 23 | 9 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 2 | 0 | 25 | 9 |
| Haka | 2007 | Veikkausliiga | 25 | 11 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 4 | 1 | 29 | 12 |
| Haka | 2008 | Veikkausliiga | 26 | 11 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 4 | 1 | 32 | 12 |
| Haka | Total | Total | 130 | 50 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 150 | 53 |
| Levadiakos | 2008–09 | Super League Greece | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 9 | 0 |
| Aarau | 2009–10 | Swiss Super League | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 10 | 1 |
| Aarau II | 2009–10 | 2. Liga Interregional | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 1 |
| Haka | 2010 | Veikkausliiga | 6 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6 | 1 |
| IFK Mariehamn | 2011 | Veikkausliiga | 30 | 7 | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 32 | 9 |
| SJK | 2012 | Ykkönen | 21 | 13 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 22 | 14 |
| SJK | 2013 | Ykkönen | 25 | 10 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 25 | 10 |
| SJK | 2014 | Veikkausliiga | 30 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | – | 33 | 8 |
| SJK | 2015 | Veikkausliiga | 23 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 29 | 6 |
| SJK | 2016 | Veikkausliiga | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
| SJK | Total | Total | 107 | 41 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 52 | 10 |
| SJK II | 2015 | Kakkonen | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 0 |
| SJK II | 2016 | Kolmonen | 3 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 2 |
| SJK II | 2017 | Kolmonen | 6 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6 | 3 |
| SJK II | Total | Total | 10 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10 | 5 |
| Career total | Career total | Career total | 321 | 108 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 356 | 115 |
* ↑ Includes Suomen Cup and Iranian Hazfi Cup
* ↑ Includes Finnish League Cup
* 1 2 3 4 Includes UEFA Cup
* ↑ Includes UEFA Champions League
* 1 2 Includes Finnish League Cup
* ↑ Includes UEFA Europa League

### International

    As of match played 21 March 2024
Finland :
| Year | Apps | Goals |
| 2004 | 2 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 | 2 | 0 |
| Total | 4 | 0 |

## Honours

As a player Haka
* Veikkausliiga: 2004
* Finnish Cup: 2005
SJK
* Veikkausliiga: 2015
* Finnish Cup: 2016
* Finnish League Cup: 2014
Individual
* Veikkausliiga Manager of the Month: April 2024