Ville Nylund

Ville Nylund
Personal information
Full name Kaj Wilhelm Nylund
Date of birth (1972-08-14) 14 August 1972
Place of birth Kokkola, Finland
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position Right back
Youth career
1983–1991 OLS
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1991 OLS 14 (0)
1992–1994 FC Oulu 61 (1)
1995–1996 Jaro 49 (2)
1997–2006 HJK 206 (1)
International career
1991–1992 Finland U21 4 (0)
1996–2004 Finland 21 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 14 May 2024

Ville Nylund (born 14 August 1972) is a Finnish former professional footballer, who played as a right back. He was capped 21 times for Finland national football team during 1996–2004.[1]

Career

Nylund started playing football with Oulun Luistinseura (OLS).[2] He has also played for FC Oulu, FF Jaro and HJK Helsinki. While playing with HJK, Nylund won three Finnish championship titles, two Finnish Cups, and historically represented HJK in the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League group stage, the first time for a Finnish club in the UCL.[3][4] Nylund served as the captain of HJK for several seasons.[5]

He ended his professional playing career after the 2006 season, having made a total of 285 appearances in top-tier Veikkausliiga.[6] In March 2008, he started working for the Finnish FA.[7][8]

Personal life

His son Antton Nylund is a footballer for HJK Klubi 04.[9]

Career statistics

Club

As of 1 September 2024.
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup[a] Europe Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
OLS 1991 Kakkonen 140––140
FC Oulu 1992 Veikkausliiga 140––140
1992 Ykkönen 170––170
1993 Veikkausliiga 260––260
Total 5700000570
Jaro 1995 Veikkausliiga 232––232
1996 Veikkausliiga 260–4[b]0300
Total 4920040532
HJK Helsinki 1997 Veikkausliiga 240–2[c]0260
1998 Veikkausliiga 2101010[d]0320
1999 Veikkausliiga 280–4[e]0320
2000 Veikkausliiga 250104[e]0300
2001 Veikkausliiga 231–2[e]0251
2002 Veikkausliiga 260–2[e]0280
2003 Veikkausliiga 220103[d]0260
2004 Veikkausliiga 180–4[d]0220
2005 Veikkausliiga 180––180
2006 Veikkausliiga 10––10
Total 2061303102401
Klubi 04 2006 Ykkönen 40––40
Career total 3303303503683
  1. ↑ Includes Suomen Cup
  2. ↑ Appearances in UEFA Intertoto Cup
  3. ↑ Appearances in UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
  4. 1 2 3 Appearances in UEFA Champions League
  5. 1 2 3 4 Appearances in UEFA Cup

International

As of match played 21 March 2024[10]
Finland
YearAppsGoals
199610
199700
199800
199920
200050
200160
200210
200340
200420
Total210

Honours

HJK

References

  1. ↑ Ville Nylund uskoo maajoukkueeseen, mtvuutiset.fi, MTV Oy, 22 August 2007
  2. ↑ Oulun kasvatti Ville Nylund on Olympiastadionilla kuin kotonaan – puolustaja onnistui myös maalinteossa: "Se oli suoraan sanoen komea maali", Kaleva, Kai Nevala, 13 October 2020
  3. ↑ HJK:n entinen pelaaja Ville Nylund kertaa historiallista Mestarien liiga -kautta, mtvuutiset.fi, MTV Oy
  4. ↑ HJK Hall Of Fame: Ville Nylund, hjk.fi, 19 June 2012
  5. ↑ Erikoishaastattelussa HJK:n ex-kapteeni Ville Nylund – "Mestarien liiga oli hieno kokonaisuus", suomifutis.com, 23 August 2012
  6. ↑ Ville Nylund päättää jalkapallouransa, Ilta-Sanomat, 27 December 2006
  7. ↑ Ville Nylund Palloliiton tuotepäälliköksi, Yle, 13 March 2008
  8. ↑ Ville Nylund, Mika Nurmela ja Antti Niemi ovat tunteneet OLS:n D-juniorijoukkueesta lähtien – EM-kisojen stadioneilla he ovat töissä hyvin lähellä toisiaan: "Lauantain ottelu meni kaikin tavoin tunteisiin", Lapin Kansa, 16 June 2021
  9. ↑ Päämäärätietoinen Antton Nylund ottaa myös palautumisen tosissaan, hjk.fi, 16 August 2024
  10. ↑ "Ville Nylund". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
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