Tero Mäntylä

Tero Mäntylä
Personal information
Date of birth	18 April 1991 (age 33)
Place of birth	Seinäjoki, Finland
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Centre back
Team information
Current team	SJK
Number	5
Youth career
	TP-Seinäjoki
Senior career*
Years	Team
2007	TP-Seinäjoki
2008	SJK
2008–2010	Portsmouth
2010–2011	Inter Turku
2012–2014	Ludogorets Razgrad
2014–2017	Aalesund
2017–2018	Inter Turku
2019	HIFK
2020–	SJK
International career‡
2010–2012	Finland U-21
2014–	Finland
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 28 September 2019 (UTC); ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Tero Mäntylä (born 18 April 1991) is a Finnish footballer who plays as a defender for SJK.^[3]

Career

A product of his local club TP-Seinäjoki, Mäntylä joined Premier League club Portsmouth on February 2008, only at the age of 16, signing a three-year contract.^[4]

However, during his time in England, he never got any chance to prove his merit and only managed to play in two reserve league matches. After his link with Portsmouth expired, he signed with Inter Turku on August 2010. After the 2011 season his contract with Inter expired and he signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with Ludogorets.^[5] Mäntylä left the team from Razgrad in the summer of 2014 and moved back to Scandinavia. He made his debut in the national team in Helsinki in a friendly game against Czech Republic on May 21, 2014 (2−2).

Career statistics

As of 22 November 2018

Club	Season	Division	League		Cup		Europe		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Inter Turku	2010	Veikkausliiga	9	0	0	0	0	0	9	0
	2011	Veikkausliiga	24	0	7	0	—		31	0
	Total		33	0	7	0	0	0	40	0
Ludogorets Razgrad	2011–12	A Group	3	0	1	0	—		4	0
	2012–13		5	0	1	0	0	0	6	0
	2013–14		17	0	1	0	8	1	26	1
	2014–15		2	0	2	0	1	0	5	0
	Total		27	0	5	0	9	1	41	1
Aalesunds FK	2015	Tippeligaen	16	0	1	0	—		17	0
	2016	Tippeligaen	3	0	1	0	—		4	0
	2017	Eliteserien	0	0	2	1	—		2	1
	Total		19	0	4	1	0	0	23	1
Inter Turku	2017	Veikkausliiga	12	0	0	0	—		12	0
	2018	Veikkausliiga	26	0	5	1	—		31	1
	Total		38	0	5	1	0	0	43	1

Honours

Club

Ludogorets

Bulgarian A Group: 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14
Bulgarian Cup: 2011–12, 2013–14
Bulgarian Supercup: 2012, 2014

References

^ TP-Seinäjoki
^ Suomen Palloliitto^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Tero Mäntylä palaa Seinäjoelle". sjk.fi. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
^ Tero Mäntylä joins Portsmouth (in Finnish)
^ Mäntylä to Bulgaria (in Finnish)

External links

Tero Mäntylä at Soccerway

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[1] TP-Seinäjoki

[2] Suomen Palloliitto^{[permanent dead link]}

[3] "Tero Mäntylä palaa Seinäjoelle". sjk.fi. Retrieved 29 November 2019.

[4] Tero Mäntylä joins Portsmouth (in Finnish)

[5] Mäntylä to Bulgaria (in Finnish)

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