HJK Helsinki

**Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi** (translation: _The Football Club of Helsinki_), commonly known as **HJK Helsinki**, or simply as **HJK**, is a professional football club based in Helsinki, Finland. The club competes in the Finnish Veikkausliiga. The club's home stadium is the Bolt Arena, with a capacity of 10,770.

### UEFA club competition record

_As of 6 August 2019._
||Competition||Pld||W||D||L||GF||GA|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**UEFA Champions League**|71|25|12|34|89|110||||||||
|**UEFA Cup Winners' Cup**|12|6|1|5|18|24||||||||
|**UEFA Cup** / **UEFA Europa League**|61|18|9|34|62|124||||||||
|**UEFA Intertoto Cup**|4|1|2|1|6|6||||||||
|**Total**|**148**|**50**|**24**|**74**|**175**|**264**||||||||

|Season|Competition|Round|width=195|Opposing team|Home|Away|Aggregate|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1965–66|European Cup|PR|Manchester United|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|2–3|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–6|style="text-align:center;|**2–9**|||
|1967–68|UEFA Cup Winners' Cup|1R|Wisla Kraków|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–4|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–4|style="text-align:center;|**1–8**|||
|rowspan=2|1974–75|rowspan=2|European Cup|1R|Valletta|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|4–1|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–1|style="text-align:center;|**4–2**|
|2R|Åtvidabergs FF|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–3|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–1|style="text-align:center;|**0–4**|||||
|1975–76|UEFA Cup|PR|Hertha Berlin|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–2|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–4|style="text-align:center;|**2–6**|||
|1979–80|European Cup|1R|Ajax Amsterdam|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–8|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–8|style="text-align:center;|**2–16**|||
|rowspan=2|1982–83|rowspan=2|European Cup|1R|Omonia|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|3–0|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–2|style="text-align:center;|**3–2**|
|2R|Liverpool|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|1–0|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–5|style="text-align:center;|**1–5**|||||
|1983–84|UEFA Cup|1R|Spartak Moscow|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–5|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–2|style="text-align:center;|**0–7**|||
|1984–85|UEFA Cup|PR|Dinamo Minsk|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–6|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–4|style="text-align:center;|**0–10**|||
|rowspan=2|1985–86|rowspan=2|UEFA Cup Winners' Cup|1R|Flamurtari|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|3–2|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|2–1|style="text-align:center;|**5–3**|
|2R|Dynamo Dresden|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|1–0|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|2–7|style="text-align:center;|**3–7**|||||
|1986–87|European Cup|1R|APOEL|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|3–2|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–1|style="text-align:center;|**3–3 (a)**|||
|1988–89|European Cup|1R|FC Porto|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|2–0|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–3|style="text-align:center;|**2–3**|||
|1989–90|European Cup|1R|AC Milan|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–1|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–4|style="text-align:center;|**0–5**|||
|1991–92|European Cup|1R|Dynamo Kyiv|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–1|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–3|style="text-align:center;|**0–4**|||
|rowspan=2|1993–94|rowspan=2|UEFA Champions League|PR|Norma Tallinn|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|1–1|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|1–0|style="text-align:center;|**2–1**|
|1R|Anderlecht|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–3|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–3|style="text-align:center;|**0–6**|||||
|rowspan=2|1994–95|rowspan=2|UEFA Cup Winners' Cup|PR|B71 Sandur|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|2–0|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|5–0|style="text-align:center;|**7–0**|
|1R|Beşiktaş|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|1–1|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–2|style="text-align:center;|**1–3**|||||
|rowspan=4|1995|rowspan=4|UEFA Intertoto Cup|rowspan=4|Group 5|IFK Norrköping||style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|1–1|style="text-align:center;" rowspan=4|**3rd**|
|Bohemians|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|3–2||||||||||
|OB Odense||style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–2|||||||||
|Bordeaux|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|1–1||||||||||
|rowspan=2|1996–97|rowspan=2|UEFA Cup|PR|Pyunik Yerevan|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|5–2 (aet)|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–3|style="text-align:center;|**6–5**|
|QR|Chernomorets Odessa|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|2–2|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–2|style="text-align:center;|**2–4**|||||
|1997–98|UEFA Cup Winners' Cup|QR|Red Star Belgrade|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|1–0|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–3|style="text-align:center;|**1–3**|||
|rowspan=5|1998–99|rowspan=5|UEFA Champions League|1QR|FC Yerevan|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|2–0|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|3–0|style="text-align:center;|**5–0**|
|2QR|FC Metz|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|1–0|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|1–1|style="text-align:center;|**2–1**|||||
|rowspan=3|Group F|PSV Eindhoven|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–3|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–2|style="text-align:center;" rowspan=3|**4th**||||
|1. FC Kaiserslautern|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|0–0|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|2–5||||||||
|Benfica|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|2–0|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|2–2||||||||
|rowspan=2|1999–00|rowspan=2|UEFA Cup|QR|Shirak Gyumri|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|2–0|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–1|style="text-align:center;|**2–1**|
|1R|Lyon|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–1|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–5|style="text-align:center;|**1–6**|||||
|rowspan=2|2000–01|rowspan=2|UEFA Cup|QR|CS Grevenmacher|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|4–1|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–2|style="text-align:center;|**4–3**|
|1R|Celtic|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|2–1 (aet)|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–2|style="text-align:center;|**2–3**|||||
|rowspan=2|2001–02|rowspan=2|UEFA Cup|QR|FK Ventspils|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|2–1|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|1–0|style="text-align:center;|**3–1**|
|1R|Parma|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–2|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–1|style="text-align:center;|**0–3**|||||
|2002–03|UEFA Cup|QR|FC Gomel|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–4|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–1|style="text-align:center;|**0–5**|||
|rowspan=2|2003–04|rowspan=2|UEFA Champions League|1QR|Glentoran|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|1–0|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|0–0|style="text-align:center;|**1–0**|
|2QR|MTK Budapest|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|1–0|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–3|style="text-align:center;|**2–3**|||||
|rowspan=2|2004–05|rowspan=2|UEFA Champions League|1QR|Linfield|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|1–0|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|1–0|style="text-align:center;|**2–0**|
|2QR|Maccabi Tel Aviv|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|0–0|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–1|style="text-align:center;|**0–1**|||||
|2006–07|UEFA Cup|1QR|Drogheda United|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|1–1|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–3 (aet)|style="text-align:center;|**2–4**|||
|rowspan=2|2007–08|rowspan=2|UEFA Cup|1QR|FC Etzella Ettelbruck|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|2–0|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|1–0|style="text-align:center;|**3–0**|
|2QR|Aalborg BK|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|2–1|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–3|style="text-align:center;|**2–4**|||||
|2009–10|UEFA Europa League|2QR|FK Vėtra|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–3|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|1–0|style="text-align:center;|**2–3**|||
|rowspan=3|2010–11|rowspan=2|UEFA Champions League|2QR|FK Ekranas|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|2–0 (aet)|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–1|style="text-align:center;|**2–1**|
|3QR|FK Partizan|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–2|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–3|style="text-align:center;|**1–5**|||||
|UEFA Europa League|PO|Beşiktaş|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–4|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–2|style="text-align:center;|**0–6**||||
|rowspan=3|2011–12|rowspan=2|UEFA Champions League|2QR|Bangor City|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|10–0|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|3–0|style="text-align:center;|**13–0**|
|3QR|Dinamo Zagreb|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–2|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–1|style="text-align:center;|**1–3**|||||
|UEFA Europa League|PO|Schalke 04|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|2–0|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–6|style="text-align:center;|**3–6**||||
|rowspan=3|2012–13|rowspan=2|UEFA Champions League|2QR|KR Reykjavik|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|7–0|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|2–1|style="text-align:center;|**9–1**|
|3QR|Celtic|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–2|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–2|style="text-align:center;|**1–4**|||||
|UEFA Europa League|PO|Athletic Bilbao|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|3–3|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–6|style="text-align:center;|**3–9**||||
|2013–14|UEFA Champions League|2QR|Nõmme Kalju|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|0–0|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–2|style="text-align:center;|**1–2**|||
|rowspan=6|2014–15|rowspan=2|UEFA Champions League|2QR|FK Rabotnički|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|2–1|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|0–0|style="text-align:center;|**2–1**|
|3QR|APOEL|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|2–2|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–2|style="text-align:center;|**2–4**|||||
|rowspan=4|UEFA Europa League|PO|SK Rapid Wien|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|2–1|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|3–3|style="text-align:center;|**5–4**|||
|rowspan=3|Group B|Copenhagen|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|2–1|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–2|style="text-align:center;" rowspan=3|**3rd**||||
|Club Brugge|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–3|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–2||||||||
|Torino|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|2–1|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–2||||||||
|rowspan=3|2015–16|rowspan=2|UEFA Champions League|2QR|FK Ventspils|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|1–0|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|3–1|style="text-align:center;|**4–1**|
|3QR|Astana|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|0–0|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|3–4|style="text-align:center;|**3–4**|||||
|UEFA Europa League|PO|Krasnodar|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|0–0|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–5|style="text-align:center;|**1–5**||||
|rowspan=3|2016–17|rowspan=3|UEFA Europa League|1QR|FK Atlantas|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|1–1|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|2–0|style="text-align:center;|**3–1**|
|2QR|Beroe Stara Zagora|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|1–0|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|1–1|style="text-align:center;|**2–1**|||||
|3QR|IFK Göteborg|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–2|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|2–1|style="text-align:center;|**2–3**|||||
|rowspan=2|2017–18|rowspan=2|UEFA Europa League|1QR|Connah's Quay Nomads|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|3–0|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–1|style="text-align:center;|**3–1**|
|2QR|Shkëndija|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|1–1|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–3|style="text-align:center;|**2–4**|||||
|rowspan=3|2018–19|rowspan=2|UEFA Champions League|1QR|Víkingur Gøta|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|3–1|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|2–1|style="text-align:center;|**5–2**|
|2QR|BATE Borisov|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–2|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|0–0|style="text-align:center;|**1–2**|||||
|UEFA Europa League|3QR|Olimpija Ljubljana|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|1–4|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–3|style="text-align:center;|**1–7**||||
|rowspan=3|2019–20|rowspan=2|UEFA Champions League|1QR|HB Tórshavn|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|3–0|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|2–2|style="text-align:center;|**5−2**|
|2QR|Red Star Belgrade|style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|2–1|style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|0–2|style="text-align:center;|**2−3**|||||
|UEFA Europa League|3QR|Riga FC|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|2–2|style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"|1–1|style="text-align:center;|**3−3 (a)**||||
|2021–22|UEFA Champions League|1QR||style="text-align:center;||style="text-align:center;||style="text-align:center;||||

### UEFA Club Ranking

This is the current UEFA Club Ranking.

_Last update: 8 July 2019_
|Rank|Team|Points|
| --- | --- | --- |
|129|C.D. Nacional|9.646|
|130|Asteras Tripoli F.C.|9.500|
|131|Fehérvár FC|9.000|
|132|FC Dinamo Minsk|9.000|
|**133**|**HJK**|** 9.000 **|
|134|FC Sion|9.000|
|135|FC Slovan Liberec|9.000|
|136|FC Spartak Trnava|8.500|
|137|AEK Larnaca FC|8.000|

## Managers

- Yrjö Larha (1933–1944)
- Eino Nuutinen (1945–1947)
- George Duke (1948–1949)
- Eino Nuutinen (1950)
- János Nagy (1951)
- Eino Nuutinen (1952)
- Niilo Nordman (1953–1955)
- Aatos Lehtonen (1956–1958)
- Aulis Rytkönen (1960–71)
- Raimo Kauppinen (Jan 1, 1972–74)
- Kai Pahlman (1973–74)
- Aulis Rytkönen (July 1, 1975–79)
- Raimo Kauppinen (1975 – Dec 31, 1979)
- Martti Kuusela (Jan 1, 1980 – Dec 31, 1981)
- Raimo Kauppinen (Jan 1, 1981–82)
- Thure Sarnola (1982)

- Miikka Toivola (1983–1984)
- Jyrki Heliskoski (Jan 1, 1985 – Dec 31, 1989)
- Martti Kuusela (Jan 1, 1990 – Dec 31, 1990)
- Jyrki Nieminen (Jan 1, 1991 – Dec 31, 1991)
- Jari-Pekka Keurulainen (Jan 1, 1992 – Dec 31, 1994)
- Bo Johansson (Jan 1, 1995 – Dec 31, 1995)
- Tommy Lindholm (Jan 1, 1996 – July 8, 1996)
- Jari-Pekka Keurulainen,  Martti Kuusela (July 8, 1996 – Dec 31, 1996)
- Antti Muurinen (Jan 1, 1997 – Dec 31, 1999)
- Jyrki Heliskoski (Jan 1, 2000 – Dec 31, 2001)
- Keith Armstrong (Jan 1, 2002 – Sept 5, 2007)
- Aki Hyryläinen (Sept 6, 2007 – Oct 10, 2007)
- Antti Muurinen (Oct 10, 2007 – Dec 31, 2012)
- Sixten Boström (Jan 1, 2013 – April 28, 2014)
- Mika Lehkosuo (April 29, 2014 – May 22, 2019)
- Toni Koskela (May 22, 2019–)

## Honours

- **Veikkausliiga:**
    - **Winners (30):** 1911, 1912, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1923, 1925, 1936, 1938, 1964, 1973, 1978, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2020
    - **Runners-up (14):** 1921, 1933, 1937, 1939, 1956, 1965, 1966, 1982, 1983, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2016
- **Finnish Cup:**
    - **Winners (15):** 1966, 1981, 1984, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2016–17, 2020, 2025
    - **Runners-up (5):** 1975, 1985, 1990, 1994, 2010
- **Finnish League Cup:**
    - **Winners (5):** 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2015
    - **Runners-up (3):** 1995, 2009, 2012

## Other websites

- Official website
- Klubipääty – supporters
- Forza HJK – fan club

## Infobox (football club)

- **clubname**: HJK Helsinki
- **fullname**: Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi
- **nickname**: _Klubi_ (The Club)
- **ground**: Bolt Arena
- **capacity**: 10,770
- **chairman**: Olli-Pekka Lyytikäinen
- **manager**: Toni Koskela
- **league**: Veikkausliiga
- **season**: 2025 Veikkausliiga, 2025
- **position**: 5th
- **website**: http://www.hjk.fi
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