| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Toni-Pekka Lehtinen | ||
| Date of birth | (1984-05-05)5 May 1984 (age 40) | ||
| Place of birth | Helsinki,Finland[1] | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft11+1⁄2 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | SJK (manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2000 | TP-Seinäjoki | ||
| 2000–2002 | Peterborough | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2002–2003 | TP-Seinäjoki | 19 | (3) |
| 2003–2008 | Haka | 130 | (50) |
| 2009 | Levadiakos | 9 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | Aarau | 8 | (0) |
| 2010 | Haka | 6 | (1) |
| 2011 | IFK Mariehamn | 30 | (7) |
| 2012−2016 | SJK | 117 | (39) |
| 2015–2017 | SJK II | 10 | (5) |
| Total | 329 | (105) | |
| International career | |||
| 2004–2008 | Finland | 4 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2017 | SJK Akatemia (player-coach) | ||
| 2017-2018 | SJK (assistant) | ||
| 2018-2019 | SJK Akatemia (assistant) | ||
| 2020 | SJK U19 | ||
| 2021 | SJK Akatemia | ||
| 2021 | SJK (assistant) | ||
| 2021–2023 | JJK | ||
| 2024 | SJK | ||
| 2024– | SJK (assistant) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Toni-Pekka Lehtinen (born 5 May 1984) is a Finnish football manager and former player. He is currently an assistant coach ofSeinäjoen Jalkapallokerho (SJK).[2][3] Lehtinen was previously the manager ofJJK Jyväskylä.
Lehtinen has previously played forTP-Seinäjoki and was a youth player at English clubPeterborough United. He returned to TP-Seinäjoki in 2002.
Toni signed forFC Haka in 2003. He won theVeikkausliiga in 2004 and finished runners up in 2007. He finished as the second highest scorer in the Veikkausliiga in 2004, 2007 and 2008 with 11 league goals in each of those seasons. He won the Veikkausliiga Rookie of the Year award in 2004. He won theFinnish Cup in 2005.
He joined the Greek clubLevadiakos FC in theSuper League Greece in January 2009,[4] and joinedFC Aarau in theSwiss Super League later that year after the Greek season had ended.
He returned to FC Haka after the 09/10 season with FC Aarau had finished. Signed for IFK Mariehamn in January 2011.
After only one season with IFK, he left the Mariehamn-based club and signed a five-year contract withSJK inYkkönen.
Toni made his debut for theFinnish national team againstBahrain in December 2004. He has made 3 appearances for his country.
The last years of his playing career, Lehtinen was inSJK Akatemia squad on a player-coach contract. He worked as an assistant coach and youth coach in SJK organisation, before he was named the head coach ofJJK Jyväskylä in August 2021.[5]
On 12 January 2024, Lehtinen returned toSeinäjoki after he was named the manager ofSJK first team.[6][7]
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | League Cup[b] | Continental | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| TP-Seinäjoki | 2002 | Ykkönen | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | – | ||||
| Haka | 2003 | Veikkausliiga | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 1[c] | 0 | 8 | 0 | |
| 2004 | Veikkausliiga | 26 | 11 | 0 | 0 | – | 3[c] | 0 | 29 | 11 | ||
| 2005 | Veikkausliiga | 23 | 8 | 1 | 0 | – | 3[d] | 1 | 27 | 9 | ||
| 2006 | Veikkausliiga | 23 | 9 | 0 | 0 | – | 2 | 0 | 25 | 9 | ||
| 2007 | Veikkausliiga | 25 | 11 | 0 | 0 | – | 4[c] | 1 | 29 | 12 | ||
| 2008 | Veikkausliiga | 26 | 11 | 2 | 0 | – | 4[c] | 1 | 32 | 12 | ||
| Total | 130 | 50 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 150 | 53 | ||
| Levadiakos | 2008–09 | Super League Greece | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 9 | 0 | ||
| Aarau | 2009–10 | Swiss Super League | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 10 | 1 | ||
| Aarau II | 2009–10 | 2. Liga Interregional | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | |||
| Haka | 2010 | Veikkausliiga | 6 | 1 | – | – | – | 6 | 1 | |||
| IFK Mariehamn | 2011 | Veikkausliiga | 30 | 7 | 2 | 2 | – | – | 32 | 9 | ||
| SJK | 2012 | Ykkönen | 21 | 13 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 22 | 14 | ||
| 2013 | Ykkönen | 25 | 10 | – | – | – | 25 | 10 | ||||
| 2014 | Veikkausliiga | 30 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 3[e] | 0 | – | 33 | 8 | ||
| 2015 | Veikkausliiga | 23 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 3[e] | 0 | 2[f] | 0 | 29 | 6 | |
| 2016 | Veikkausliiga | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | |
| Total | 107 | 41 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 52 | 10 | ||
| SJK II | 2015 | Kakkonen | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | |||
| 2016 | Kolmonen | 3 | 2 | – | – | – | 3 | 2 | ||||
| 2017 | Kolmonen | 6 | 3 | – | – | – | 6 | 3 | ||||
| Total | 10 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10 | 5 | ||
| Career total | 321 | 108 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 356 | 115 | ||
| Finland | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Apps | Goals | |
| 2004 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2008 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 4 | 0 | |
As a player
Haka
SJK
Individual