Kimmo Tauriainen

Kimmo Tauriainen
Personal information
Date of birth (1972-03-16)16 March 1972
Place of birth Rovaniemi, Finland[1]
Date of death 22 January 2025(2025-01-22) (aged 52)
Place of death Finland
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position Midfielder
Youth career
1983–1989 RoPS
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989–1992 RoPS 21 (0)
1993–1996 Kontu 75 (11)
1996 KePS 21 (2)
1997 GBK 5 (0)
1998–2001 Atlantis 103 (16)
2002 Start 23 (4)
2003 Jokerit 22 (0)
2004–2005 MyPa 15 (3)
2006 Atlantis 24 (9)
Total 309 (45)
International career
1991 Finland U21 1 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kimmo Tauriainen (16 March 1972 – 22 January 2025) was a Finnish footballer who played as a midfielder.

Club career

Tauriainen played for Rovaniemen Palloseura, Kemin Palloseura, Kontu, Jokerit, MyPa and Atlantis in Finland. He also played one season for IK Start in Norwegian top tier Tippeligaen. Tauriainen won the Finnish championship title in 2005 with MyPa. He also won the Finnish Cup with Atlantis in 2001 and with MyPa in 2004.

Tauriainen returned to Atlantis from MyPa in 2006. He had to end his professional career due to knee injury after the 2006 season, in the second tier Ykkönen. During his career, Tauriainen made 88 appearances in Finnish top tier Veikkausliiga, scoring seven goals.[2]

International career

Tauriainen represented Finland at the under-21 international level. He also played two games for the Finland national futsal team.[3]

Personal life and death

Tauriainen was the brother of fellow professional footballers Pasi Tauriainen and Vesa Tauriainen, and the uncle of Jimi Tauriainen and Julius Tauriainen.[4]

Later he worked as a sales person in Duosport. He married in summer 2009.

Tauriainen was diagnosed with lymphoma in 2023. He died on 22 January 2025, at the age of 52.[3]

Career statistics

[5]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup[a] Europe Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
RoPS 1989 Mestaruussarja 1[b]010
1990 Veikkausliiga
1991 Veikkausliiga 100100
1992 Veikkausliiga 100100
Total 2100010210
Kontu 1993 Ykkönen –
1994 Ykkönen –
1995 Ykkönen –
Total 751100007511
KePS 1996 Ykkönen 212––212
GBK Kokkola 1997 Ykkönen 50––50
Atlantis 1998 Ykkönen ––
1999 Ykkönen ––
2000 Ykkönen ––
2001 Veikkausliiga 31410–324
Total 10316100010416
Start 2002 Tippeligaen 234––234
Jokerit 2003 Veikkausliiga 220––220
MYPA 2004 Veikkausliiga 0010–10
2005 Veikkausliiga 153005[b]0203
Total 1531050213
Atlantis 2006 Ykkönen 249––249
Career total 30945206031745
  1. ↑ Includes Suomen Cup
  2. 1 2 Appearances in UEFA Cup

Honours

MYPA[2]

Atlantis

References

  1. 1 2 Kimmo Tauriainen at WorldFootball.net
  2. 1 2 Jalkapallon Suomen mestari Kimmo Tauriainen on kuollut, Yle, 22 January 2025
  3. 1 2 Kimmo Tauriainen on kuollut, Ilta-Sanomat, 22 January 2025
  4. ↑ "Suomalainen futislupaus solmi ammattilaissopimuksen Chelsean kanssa" [The Finnish football star signed a professional contract with Chelsea]. mtvuutiset.fi (in Finnish). 9 March 2021.
  5. ↑ ref


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