Mixu Paatelainen

**Mika-Matti "Mixu" Paatelainen** (born 3 February 1967 in Helsinki) is a retired Finnish football player and is the current manager of Hibernian. Mixu is the oldest of three brothers, all of whom have played professional football. He scored 18 goals in 70 appearances for the Finnish national team, which makes him Finland's all time twelfth most capped player and fifth top goalscorer.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National Cup|colspan="2"|League Cup|colspan="2"|Continental|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|FC Haka|1985|Mestaruussarja|11|5|*|*|—|—|11|5||||
|1986|Mestaruussarja|19|6|*|*|—|—|19|6|||||
|1987|Mestaruussarja|18|7|*|*|—|—|18|7|||||
|Dundee United|1987–88|Scottish Premier Division|19|9|6|2|0|0|—|25|11|||
|1988–89|Scottish Premier Division|33|10|6|4|3|3|3|0|45|17|||
|1989–90|Scottish Premier Division|31|7|2|1|2|0|3|1|38|9|||
|1990–91|Scottish Premier Division|20|1|1|0|2|0|3|0|26|1|||
|1991–92|Scottish Premier Division|30|6|2|1|3|2|0|0|35|9|||
|Aberdeen|1991–92|Scottish Premier Division|6|1|0|0|0|0|—|6|1|||
|1992–93|Scottish Premier Division|33|16|6|1|2|3|—|41|20||||
|1993–94|Scottish Premier Division|36|6|3|0|2|0|3|1|44|7|||
|Bolton Wanderers|1994–95|First Division|44|12|1|0|8|2|—|53|14|||
|1995–96|Premier League|15|1|1|0|1|0|—|17|1||||
|1996–97|First Division|10|2|0|0|0|0|—|10|2||||
|Wolverhampton Wanderers|1997–98|First Division|23|0|5|4|5|1|—|33|5|||
|Hibernian|1998–99|Scottish First Division|26|12|2|0|0|0|—|28|12|||
|1999–2000|Scottish Premier League|31|9|4|1|0|0|—|35|10||||
|2000–01|Scottish Premier League|36|11|5|1|2|0|—|43|12||||
|Strasbourg|2001–02|Division 2|7|0|*|*|*|*|1|0|8|0||
|Hibernian|2002–03|Scottish Premier League|24|7|3|0|2|0|—|29|7|||
|St Johnstone|2003–04|Scottish First Division|33|11|1|0|3|2|—|37|13|||
|St Mirren|2004–05|Scottish First Division|16|4|0|0|1|1|—|17|5|||

- Asterisk (*) indicates that more matches and goals may yet emerge as cup records are investigated.

### International goals

|width=30|No.|width=70|Date|width=110|Home team|width=110|Visiting team|width=105|Goals|width=75|Score|width=70|Result|width=260|Venue|width=170|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=center|** 1.**|11 January 1988|||1–0 (pen.)|**2–0**|Loss|Estadio Insular, Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain|Friendly|||||||||
|align=center|** 2.**|19 October 1988|||2–2|**2–2**|Draw|Vetch Field, Swansea, Wales|FIFA World Cup 1990 qualification|||||||||
|align=center|** 3.**|11 January 1989|||1–1|**2–1**|Loss|El-Mahalla El-Kubra, Egypt|Friendly|||||||||
|align=center|** 4.**|11 November 1991|||0–1|**1–2**|Win|Tunis, Tunisia|Friendly|||||||||
|align=center|** 5.**|13 March 1991|||1–1|**1–1**|Draw|Stadion Wojska Polskiego, Warsaw, Poland|Friendly|||||||||
|align=center|** 6.**|13 May 1993|||1–0|**3–1**|Win|Urheilupuisto, Turku, Finland|FIFA World Cup 1994 qualification|||||||||
|align=center|** 7.**|16 November 1994|||4–0|**5–0**|Win|Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Finland|UEFA Euro 1996 qualification|||||||||
|align=center|** 8.**|do.|do.|do.|5–0|do.|Win|do.|do.|||||||||
|align=center|** 9.**|14 December 1994|||1–0|**4–1**|Win|Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Finland|UEFA Euro 1996 qualification|||||||||
|align=center|** 10.**|do|do.|do.|2–0|do.|Win|do.|do.|||||||||
|align=center|** 11.**|do.|do.|do.|3–1|do.|Win|do.|do.|||||||||
|align=center|** 12.**|do.|do.|do.|4–1|do.|Win|do.|do.|||||||||
|align=center|** 13.**|26 April 1995|||0–2|**0–4**|Win|Svangaskarð, Toftir, Faroese Islands|UEFA Euro 1996 qualification|||||||||
|align=center|** 14.**|2 April 1997|||0–2|**1–2**|Win|Tofik Bakhramov Stadium, Baku, Azerbaijan|FIFA World Cup 1998 qualification|||||||||
|align=center|** 15.**|5 September 1998|||3–2|**3–2**|Win|Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Finland|UEFA Euro 2000 qualification|||||||||
|align=center|** 16.**|14 October 1998|||0–1|**1–3**|Win|Ali Sami Yen Stadium, Istanbul, Turkey|UEFA Euro 2000 qualification|||||||||
|align=center|** 17.**|28 April 1999|||0–1 (pen.)|**1–1**|Draw|Bežigrad Central Stadium, Ljubljana, Slovenia|Friendly|||||||||
|align=center|** 18.**|5 June 1999|||2–0|**2–4**|Loss|Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Finland|UEFA Euro 2000 qualification|||||||||

## Managerial statistics

|rowspan=2|Team|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|From|rowspan=2|To|colspan=8|Record|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Cowdenbeath||1 July 2005|1 October 2006|||||||
|TPS||1 October 2006|10 January 2008|||||||
|Hibernian||10 January 2008|29 May 2009|||||||
|Kilmarnock||23 June 2010|31 March 2011|||||||
|Finland||31 March 2011|15 June 2015|||||||
|Dundee United||14 October 2015|4 May 2016|||||||
|Ubon UMT United||13 January 2018|22 April 2018|||||||
|Latvia||10 May 2018|4 December 2018|||||||
|Hong Kong||9 April 2019|30 June 2021|||||||
|HIFK||17 April 2022|5 October 2022|||||||

### Player

**Valkeakosken Haka**
- Finnish Cup: 1985

**Bolton Wanderers**
- Football League First Division: 1996–97; play-offs: 1995
- Football League Cup runner-up: 1994–95

**Hibernian**
- Scottish First Division: 1998–99

### Manager

**Cowdenbeath**
- Scottish Third Division: 2005–06

**Latvia**
- Baltic Cup: 2018

**Individual**
- Scottish Premier League Player of the Month: October 2000
- Scottish Premier League Manager of the Month: February 2008, March 2009, December 2010
- Scottish Premier League Manager of the Season: 2010–11

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Mixu Paatelainen
- **image**: Mixu Paatelainen.jpg
- **image size**: 250px
- **caption**: Mixu Paatelainen
- **fullname**: Mika-Matti Petteri Paatelainen
- **height**: 1.83 m
- **birth place**: Helsinki, Finland
- **position**: Striker (association football), Striker
- **years1**: 1985–1987
- **caps1**: 48
- **goals1**: 18
- **clubs1**: FC Haka, Valkeakosken Haka
- **years2**: 1987–1992
- **caps2**: 133
- **goals2**: 33
- **clubs2**: Dundee United F.C., Dundee United
- **years3**: 1992–1994
- **caps3**: 75
- **goals3**: 23
- **clubs3**: Aberdeen F.C., Aberdeen
- **years4**: 1994–1997
- **caps4**: 69
- **goals4**: 15
- **clubs4**: Bolton Wanderers F.C., Bolton Wanderers
- **years5**: 1997–1998
- **caps5**: 23
- **goals5**: 0
- **clubs5**: Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C., Wolverhampton Wanderers
- **years6**: 1998–2001
- **caps6**: 93
- **goals6**: 32
- **clubs6**: Hibernian F.C., Hibernian
- **years7**: 2001–2002
- **caps7**: 7
- **goals7**: 0
- **clubs7**: RC Strasbourg
- **years8**: 2002–2003
- **caps8**: 24
- **goals8**: 7
- **clubs8**: Hibernian F.C., Hibernian
- **years9**: 2003–2004
- **caps9**: 33
- **goals9**: 11
- **clubs9**: St Johnstone F.C., St Johnstone
- **years10**: 2004–2005
- **caps10**: 16
- **goals10**: 4
- **clubs10**: St Mirren F.C., St Mirren
- **years11**: 2005
- **caps11**: 1
- **goals11**: 0
- **clubs11**: Cowdenbeath F.C., Cowdenbeath
- **totalcaps**: 522
- **totalgoals**: 143
- **nationalyears1**: 1989–2000
- **nationalteam1**: Finland national football team, Finland
- **nationalcaps1**: 70
- **nationalgoals1**: 18
- **manageryears1**: 2005–2006
- **managerclubs1**: Cowdenbeath F.C., Cowdenbeath
- **manageryears2**: 2006–2007
- **managerclubs2**: Turun Palloseura, TPS
- **manageryears3**: 2008–2009
- **managerclubs3**: Hibernian F.C., Hibernian
- **manageryears4**: 2010–2011
- **managerclubs4**: Kilmarnock F.C., Kilmarnock
- **manageryears5**: 2011–2015
- **managerclubs5**: Finland national football team, Finland
- **manageryears6**: 2015–2016
- **managerclubs6**: Dundee United F.C., Dundee United
- **manageryears7**: 2018
- **managerclubs7**: Ubon UMT United F.C., Ubon UMT United
- **manageryears8**: 2018
- **managerclubs8**: Latvia national football team, Latvia
- **manageryears9**: 2019–2021
- **managerclubs9**: Hong Kong national football team, Hong Kong
- **manageryears10**: 2022
- **managerclubs10**: HIFK Fotboll, HIFK