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Tomi Maanoja
Maanoja with HIFK in 2017
Personal information
Full name Tomi Antero Maanoja
Date of birth (1986-09-12) 12 September 1986 (age 38)
Place of birth Espoo, Finland
Height 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
VJS
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005 Allianssi 2 (0)
2006–2008 Honka 37 (0)
2008–2011 AIK 26 (0)
2011 Honka 23 (0)
2012 Sandefjord 1 (0)
2013 RoPS 25 (0)
2014–2015 KuPS 64 (0)
2016–2017 Lahti 12 (0)
2016–2017HIFK (loan) 13 (0)
2017–2018 HIFK 30 (0)
2020 IF Gnistan 13 (0)
2021 VJS 13 (0)
2022 PK-35 1 (0)
International career
Finland U21
2009 Finland 2 (0)
Managerial career
2022 PK-35 (goalkeeping coach)
2023 HIFK (goalkeeping coach)
2024 KäPa (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Maanoja with Honka in 2011

Tomi Antero Maanoja (born 12 September 1986) is a Finnish football coach and a former professional goalkeeper.[1] Maanoja has been capped twice for Finland.

Career

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Maanoja made his first appearance in the Veikkausliiga with AC Allianssi from Vantaa in 2005. He completed a move to the neighbouring city's (Espoo) most notable football club, FC Honka, the following season. Maanoja was regarded as one of the best Finnish young goalkeepers and attracted interest from several foreign clubs before his move to AIK on 29 July 2008. He signed a three-and-a-half-year deal with the club for a fee of €450,000.[2]

On 28 February 2009, Maanoja became seriously injured in a pre-season game against Assyriska Föreningen. He broke his leg in two places, rushing out to stop an Assyriska attack. The injury made him miss the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, hosted in Sweden, in the summer.[3] He also missed the whole 2009 Allsvenskan season, when AIK won the double. He moved back to Honka in 2011, and on 21 February 2012 he signed a contract with the Norwegian First Division club Sandefjord Fotball as a free agent.[4] Sandefjord's head coach Arne Sandstø let Maanoja play the match against Alta in May 2012 instead of Iven Austbø,[5] but Maanoja spent the rest of the season as the reserve goalkeeper. After one season in Norway, he moved back to Finland and signed for RoPS.[6]

During the season spent with Rovaniemen Palloseura (RoPS), he was selected the Veikkausliiga Player of the Month in July 2013 after showing impressive form and going through the whole month without conceding a goal.

In 2014, He moved to Kuopion Palloseura (KuPS), signing a two-year contract. During the 2014 season Maanoja made a new club record by keeping 13 clean sheets in the league while featuring in all of the competitive matches playing every minute during that season.

In 2020, he joined IF Gnistan.[7]

Coaching career

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Maanoja has worked as a goalkeeping coach of PK-35[8] and HIFK.[9] Since February 2024, he was the assistant coach of KäPa in Ykkösliiga until the end of July.[10]

Career statistics

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As of 1 September 2024.
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup[a] League cup[b] Europe Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
AC Allianssi 2005 Veikkausliiga 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Honka 2006 Veikkausliiga 3 0 0 0 3 0
2007 Veikkausliiga 14 0 1 0 15 0
2008 Veikkausliiga 14 0 0 0 2[c] 0 16 0
Total 31 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 34 0
AIK 2008 Allsvenskan 12 0 0 0 12 0
2009 Allsvenskan 0 0 1 0 1 0
2010 Allsvenskan 14 0 1 0 15 0
Total 26 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 28 0
Honka 2011 Veikkausliiga 24 0 0 0 2 0 4[d] 0 30 0
Sandefjord 2012 1. divisjon 1 0 2 0 3 0
Sandefjord 2 2012 3. divisjon 12 0 12 0
RoPS 2013 Veikkausliiga 25 0 2 0 3 0 30 0
KuPS 2014 Veikkausliiga 33 0 3 0 5 0 41 0
2015 Veikkausliiga 31 0 5 0 3 0 39 0
Total 64 0 8 0 8 0 0 0 80 0
Lahti 2016 Veikkausliiga 12 0 4 0 4 0 20 0
HIFK (loan) 2016 Veikkausliiga 13 0 13 0
HIFK 2017 Veikkausliiga 17 0 1 0 18 0
2018 Ykkönen 13 0 13 0
Total 30 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 31 0
HIFK II 2018 Kakkonen 1 0 1 0
Gnistan 2020 Ykkönen 13 0 2 0 15 0
VJS 2021 Kakkonen 13 0 13 0
PK-35 2022 Ykkönen 1 0 1 0
Career total 268 0 22 0 17 0 6 0 313 0
  1. ^ Includes Suomen Cup, Svenska Cupen and Norwegian Cup
  2. ^ Includes Finnish League Cup
  3. ^ Appearances in UEFA Cup
  4. ^ Appearances in UEFA Europa League

Honours

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AC Allianssi

AIK

Honka

RoPS

Individual

References

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  1. ^ Tomi Maanojasta piti tulla Suomen ykkösmaalivahti, mutta katkennut sääri suisti uran raiteiltaan – nyt hänen jalkapallotarinansa saa onnellisen lopun, Yle, 18 June 2021
  2. ^ Hongan maalivahti Tomi Maanoja siirtyy AIK:hon, Ilta-Sanomat, 29 July 2008
  3. ^ "Finland's Maanoja Suffers Double Leg Break". uefa.com. 1 March 2009. Archived from the original on 4 March 2009. Retrieved 3 March 2009.
  4. ^ "Tomi Maanoja till Norge". Svenska YLE (in Swedish). YLE. 21 February 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  5. ^ Hasle, Anders Mehlum (30 May 2012). "Iven rasende etter å ha blitt vraket" (in Norwegian). Sandefjords Blad. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
  6. ^ "Maanoja RoPSin maalille". Lapin Kansa (in Finnish). 4 February 2013. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
  7. ^ Urheilutoimenjohtaja lähti HIFK:sta – ”Ei dramatiikkaa”‚ iltasanomat.fi, 3 January 2017
  8. ^ Kim Raimi jatkaa PK-35:n päävalmentajana – valmennustiimiin liittyvät Aapi Helvelahti sekä Tomi Maanoja, pk-35.fi
  9. ^ Tomi Maanoja HIFK:n valmennustiimiin, hifkfotboll.fi, 21 December 2022
  10. ^ Tomi Maanoja mukaan KäPan valmennukseen, kapylanpalloedustus.fi, 10 February 2024
  11. ^ Tomi Maanoja Veikkausliigan heinäkuun pelaaja Archived 2013-08-03 at archive.today (in Finnish)
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