Anna Koivunen
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Anna Aurora Koivunen | ||
| Date of birth | 6 November 2001 | ||
| Place of birth | Turku, Finland | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Charlton Athletic | ||
| Number | 35 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| TPS | |||
| KaaPo | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2014–2015 | Pyrkivä Turku | 6 | (0) |
| 2018 | TPS | 6 | (0) |
| 2019–2020 | HJK | 38 | (0) |
| 2021–2022 | Linköping | 9 | (0) |
| 2023 | IFK Kalmar | 14 | (0) |
| 2023–2024 | Brommapojkarna | 35 | (0) |
| 2025–2026 | Djurgården | 36 | (0) |
| 2026– | Charlton Athletic | 0 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2018 | Finland U17 | 1 | (0) |
| 2019 | Finland U18 | 1 | (0) |
| 2019 | Finland U19 | 1 | (0) |
| 2021–2024 | Finland U23 | 5 | (0) |
| 2024– | Finland | 6 | (0) |
|
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 23 July 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 23 July 2026 | |||
Anna Aurora Koivunen (born 6 November 2001) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Women's Super League club Charlton Athletic and the Finland national team.[1][2][3]
Career
Koivunen started football with Pyrkivä Turku, aged 10. Prior to that, she played also volleyball. She made her senior debut in 2014 with Pyrkivä Turku in the third-tier Naisten Kakkonen, aged 13. Later she joined TPS.[4]
After winning the Finnish championship title and the Finnish Women's Cup with HJK Helsinki in 2019, she left the club after the 2020 season and joined Damallsvenskan club Linköping.[5]
During 2023 and 2024, she played for IFK Kalmar and Brommapojkarna.
On 16 December 2024, Koivunen joined Djurgården from BP.[6]
On 22 July 2026, it was announced that Koivunen had joined Women's Super League club Charlton Athletic. After the signing, she said "I've always wanted to wanted to play in England ... I have many friends playing here, and I have only heard good stories about the league, and obviously all the best players play here, so it’s going to be a huge challenge."[1]
International career
Koivunen played for the Finland U17 national team at the 2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, where she was named in the Team of the Tournament. Finland finished 3rd in the tournament. She also represented Finland U17 at the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Uruguay.
She debuted with the Finland national team on 21 February 2024, in a friendly match against the Philippines.
On 19 June 2025, Koivunen was called up to the Finland squad for the UEFA Women's Euro 2025.[7] She kept a clean sheet in the tournament's opening match, in a 1–0 win against Iceland.
Career statistics
Club
- As of 3 July 2025
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Pyrkivä Turku | 2014 | Naisten Kakkonen | 4 | 0 | – | – | – | 4 | 0 | |||
| 2015 | Naisten Kakkonen | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||
| TPS II | 2016 | Naisten Kolmonen | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | |||
| TPS | 2018 | Naisten Liiga | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 7 | 0 | ||
| HJK | 2019 | Naisten Liiga | 20 | 0 | 4 | 1 | – | – | 24 | 1 | ||
| 2020 | Kansallinen Liiga | 18 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1[b] | 0 | – | 22 | 0 | ||
| Total | 38 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 1 | ||
| Linköping | 2021 | Damallsvenskan | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 10 | 0 | ||
| 2022 | Damallsvenskan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 0 | |||
| Total | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | ||
| IFK Kalmar | 2023 | Damallsvenskan | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 14 | 0 | ||
| Brommapojkarna | 2023 | Damallsvenskan | 9 | 0 | – | – | 2[c] | 0 | 11 | 0 | ||
| 2024 | Damallsvenskan | 26 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 27 | 0 | |||
| Total | 35 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 38 | 0 | ||
| Djurgården | 2025 | Damallsvenskan | 25 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | – | 28 | 0 | ||
| 2026 | Damallsvenskan | 11 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | – | 15 | 0 | |||
| Total | 36 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 0 | ||
| Charlton Athletic | 2026–27 | WSL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Career total | 145 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 166 | 1 | ||
- ↑ Includes Finnish Women's Cup and Svenska Cupen women
- ↑ Appearance(s) in UEFA Women's Champions League
- ↑ Appearances in Damallsvenskan relegationa play-offs
International
- As of 23 July 2026[8]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland | 2024 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 5 | 0 | |
| Total | 6 | 0 | |
Honours
HJK
- Naisten Liiga: 2019
- Finnish Women's Cup: 2019
Individual
- Football Association of Finland Girl Player of the Year: 2018
References
- 1 2 "Anna Koivunen is an Addick! | Charlton Athletic Football Club". www.cafc.co.uk. 22 July 2026. Retrieved 2026-07-23.
- ↑ "Anna Koivunen siirtyy Djurgårdeniin pitkällä sopimuksella". Yle Urheilu. December 16, 2024.
- ↑ "Maalivahti Anna Koivunen vaihtaa Kalmarin Tukholmaan". Yle Urheilu. January 17, 2023.
- ↑ "Pelaajalta Pelaajalle: Anna Koivunen vs. Minna Kauppinen (os.Meriluoto)". Jpy.fi. July 24, 2024.
- ↑ Annala, Heli (December 10, 2020). "Anna Koivusen ura jatkuu Ruotsissa". HJK Helsinki.
- ↑ "Officiellt: Djurgården trippelvärvar - plockar in Jonasson, Svensson och Koivunen".
- ↑ "Helmarit nimetty EM-lopputurnaukseen" [Helmarit named for the European Championship finals] (in Finnish). Football Association of Finland. 19 June 2025. Archived from the original on 20 June 2025. Retrieved 23 June 2025.
- ↑ "Tulospalvelu". tulospalvelu.palloliitto.fi.
External links
- Anna Koivunen at Soccerway
- Anna Koivunen stats at Football Association of Finland
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- 2001 births
- Living people
- Finnish women's footballers
- Women's association football goalkeepers
- Turun Palloseura (women's football) players
- Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi (women) players
- Kaarinan Pojat players
- Linköpings FC players
- IFK Kalmar players
- IF Brommapojkarna (women) players
- Djurgårdens IF Fotboll (women) players
- Pyrkivä Turku players
- Kansallinen Liiga players
- Damallsvenskan players
- Finland women's youth international footballers
- Finland women's international footballers
- UEFA Women's Euro 2025 players
- Finnish expatriate women's footballers
- Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
- Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden
- 21st-century Finnish sportswomen
- 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup players
- Finnish women's football biography stubs