Tero Mäntylä

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

Tero Mäntylä
Personal information
Date of birth (1991-04-18) 18 April 1991
Place of birth Seinäjoki, Finland[1]
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Centre back
Youth career
TP-Seinäjoki
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007 TP-Seinäjoki 24 (0)
2008 SJK 1 (0)
2008–2010 Portsmouth 0 (0)
2010–2011 Inter Turku 33 (0)
2012–2014 Ludogorets Razgrad 27 (0)
2014–2017 Aalesund 19 (0)
2017–2018 Inter Turku 38 (0)
2019 HIFK 23 (0)
2020–2021 SJK 26 (0)
International career‡
2010–2012 Finland U-21[2] 12 (1)
2014– Finland 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 5 October 2021 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Career

A product of his local club TP-Seinäjoki, Mäntylä joined Premier League club Portsmouth in 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 in 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 21 May 2014 (2−2).

Career statistics
As of 22 November 2018
Club Season Division League Cup Europe Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Inter Turku 2010 Veikkausliiga 90000090
2011 24070—310
Total 3307000400
Ludogorets Razgrad 2011–12 A Group 3010—40
2012–13 50100060
2013–14 1701081261
2014–15 20201050
Total 2705091411
Aalesunds FK 2015 Tippeligaen 16010—170
2016 3010—40
2017 Eliteserien 0021—21
Total 1904100231
Inter Turku 2017 Veikkausliiga 12000—120
2018 26051—311
Total 3805100431

Honours

Club

Ludogorets

References
  1. TP-Seinäjoki
  2. Suomen Palloliitto
  3. "Kiitos Tero Mäntylä ja Nikko Boxall!". 6 January 2022.
  4. Tero Mäntylä joins Portsmouth (in Finnish)
  5. Mäntylä to Bulgaria (in Finnish)
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