Jump to content

Finland women's national futsal team

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Finland
AssociationFootball Association of Finland
(Suomen Palloliitto)
ConfederationUEFA (Europe)
Head coachJaakko Laitinen
CaptainSini Lauermaa
FIFA codeFIN
FIFA ranking17 Increase 1 (11 October 2024)[1]
Highest FIFA ranking17 (October 2024)
Lowest FIFA ranking18 (May 2024)
Home colours
Away colours
First international
 Poland 1–2 Finland 
(Lubawa, Poland; 18 November 2017)
Biggest win
 Moldova 0–12 Finland 
(Ciorescu, Moldova; 19 October 2024)
Biggest defeat
 Finland 2–7 Spain 
(Vantaa, Finland; 22 October 2022)

The Finland women's national futsal team represents Finland in international futsal competitions and is controlled by the Football Association of Finland.

History

[edit]

The Finland women's national futsal team played their first ever match against Poland on 18 November 2017 which they won 2–1.[2]

They entered the UEFA qualifiers for the 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup in October 2024.[3] Finland topped their group to advance from the main round to the Elite round.[4]

Results and fixtures

[edit]
  • The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.
Legend

  Win   Draw   Lose   Fixture

2024

[edit]
20 February Friendly Finland  2–5  Italy Salo, Finland
18:30 Hannula Goal 5:2039:07 Report
  • Berte' Goal 4:28
  • Grieco Goal 6:3425:29
  • Pratico' Goal 15:23
  • Coppari Goal 20:47
Stadium: Salohalli [fi]
22 February Friendly Sweden  1–5  Finland Salo, Finland
18:30 Roll Goal 15:37 Report
  • Hannula Goal 1:09
  • Juntikka Goal 16:5824:2539:45
  • Halonen Goal 35:05
Stadium: Salohalli [fi]
11 June 2024 Futsal Week June Cup Morocco  2–4  Finland Poreč, Croatia
17:00
  • Laftah Goal 11:27
  • El Aoufi Goal 17:53
Report
  • Lehtonen Goal 03:31
  • Herranen Goal 07:43
  • Viren Goal 35:05
  • Jokisalo Goal 36:13
Stadium: Finida hall
Referee: Marijana Orešić (Croatia)
13 June 2024 Futsal Week June Cup Croatia  1–3  Finland Poreč, Croatia
17:00 Goal 37:28 (o.g.) Report
  • Jokisalo Goal 22:28
  • Lauermaa Goal 23:10
  • Juntikka Goal 26:14
Stadium: Finida hall
Referee: Simone Zanfino (Italy)
15 June 2024 Futsal Week June Cup Finland  2–4  Poland Poreč, Croatia
19:15
  • Halonen Goal 08:34
  • Jokisalo Goal 16:40
Report
  • Szostak Goal 07:46
  • Moskała Goal 14:21
  • Bała Goal 31:32
  • Moskała Goal 32:17
Stadium: Finida hall
Referee: Simone Zanfino (Italy)
16 June 2024 Futsal Week June Cup Croatia  0–4  Finland Poreč, Croatia
17:00 Report
  • Mäntylä Goal 02:00
  • Ylikraka Goal 23:26
  • Lehtonen Goal 24:51
  • Ropanen Goal 27:17
Stadium: Finida hall
Referee: Simone Zanfino (Italy)
16 October 2025 FIFA World Cup qualification Finland  5–2  England Ciorescu, Moldova
15:00
  • Halonen Goal 10:37
  • Herranen Goal 16:3627:48
  • Viren Goal 17:11
  • Jokisalo Goal 27:20
Report
  • Halonen Goal 20:40 (o.g.)
  • Scotland Goal 39:44
Stadium: FMF Futsal Arena
Attendance: 40
Referee: Mariia Myslovska (Ukraine)
17 October 2025 FIFA World Cup qualification Slovenia  0–4  Finland Ciorescu, Moldova
15:00 Report
  • Jokisalo Goal 3:0927:49
  • Lind Goal 23:1926:40
Stadium: FMF Futsal Arena
Attendance: 10
Referee: Filipa Prata (Portugal)
19 October 2025 FIFA World Cup qualification Moldova  0–12  Finland Ciorescu, Moldova
18:00 Report
  • Juntikka Goal 1:01
  • Mäntylä Goal 5:53
  • Viren Goal 17:0320:39
  • Herranen Goal 18:01
  • Hannula Goal 25:0833:13
  • Luotonen Goal 28:5132:11
  • Lind Goal 34:1838:53
  • Halonen Goal 39:56
Stadium: FMF Futsal Arena
Attendance: 110
Referee: Mariia Myslovska (Ukraine)

2025

[edit]
14 January Friendly Morocco  1–5  Finland Rabat, Morocco
18:00
Report
  • Hannula Goal 11:30
  • Lind Goal 15:1226:28
  • Luotonen Goal 24:22
  • Heikkilä Goal 36:24
Stadium: Complexe Mohammed VI de Football
Attendance: 30
Referee: Khalid Hnich (Morocco)
15 January Friendly Morocco  4–3  Finland Rabat, Morocco
18:00
  • Laftah Goal 06:47
  • Knaidi Goal 07:42
  • Zaid Alkilani Goal 23:13
  • El Aoufi Goal 32:16
Report
  • Heikkilä Goal 04:39
  • Herranen Goal 11:42
  • Enwena Goal 30:41
Stadium: Complexe Mohammed VI de Football
11 February Friendly Finland  v  Brazil Tampere, Finland
18:00 Report Stadium: Kauppi Sports Center 1
12 February Friendly Finland  v  Brazil Vantaa, Finland
19:00 Report Stadium: Energy Arena 1

Players

[edit]

The following players were called up for the Friendly matches against Morocco on 14 and 15 January 2025.[5]

Current squad

[edit]
No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Club
1 1GK Emiilia Syvänen (1990-10-28) 28 October 1990 (age 34) Finland FC Nokia
12 1GK Tiia Ropanen (1991-04-07) 7 April 1991 (age 33) Finland Ilves FS
1GK Helena Unkuri Finland Futsal Mad Max

2 FP Anna-Kaisa Hannuksela (1991-01-14) 14 January 1991 (age 34) Finland KaDy
3 FP Sandra Lind (1996-09-03) 3 September 1996 (age 28) Finland HIFK FS
4 FP Anni-Elina Luotonen (2000-01-16) 16 January 2000 (age 25) Italy CF Scandicci
5 FP Stella Enwena Finland RaiFu
6 FP Tiiu Lehtonen Finland RaiFu
7 FP Rosa-Maria Sirén (1999-12-23) 23 December 1999 (age 25) Finland Ilves FS
9 FP Iina Heikkilä (2004-03-05) 5 March 2004 (age 20) Finland Ilves FS
8 FP Hanna Halonen (1995-12-02) 2 December 1995 (age 29) Finland HIFK FS
11 FP Netta Hannula (1993-10-08) 8 October 1993 (age 31) Finland Ilves FS
13 FP Emilia Jokisalo (1998-08-25) 25 August 1998 (age 26) Italy Lazio
14 FP Sini Lauermaa (1997-08-08) 8 August 1997 (age 27) Finland KaDy
16 FP Senni Viren (1999-11-22) 22 November 1999 (age 25) Finland Mad Max
17 FP Matilda Herranen (1999-06-18) 18 June 1999 (age 25) Finland Ilves FS
19 FP Maria Mäntylä (1989-02-28) 28 February 1989 (age 35) Italy Cagliari

Tournament records

[edit]

FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup

[edit]
FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup record
Year Round Position GP W D L GS GA
Philippines 2025 To be determined
Total 0/1 0 0 0 0 0 0

UEFA European Championship

[edit]
UEFA European Championship Qualification record
Year Round Pld W D L GF GA Pld W D L GF GA
Portugal 2019 Did not qualify 5 4 0 1 28 9
Portugal 2022 3 2 0 1 7 5
Hungary 2023 3 1 0 2 13 10
Total 0/3 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 7 0 4 48 24

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "FIFA Futsal World Ranking". FIFA. 11 October 2024. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  2. ^ "Naisten futsalmaajoukkue avasi hienosti voitolla". Finnish Football Association. 19 November 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  3. ^ "Futsal Women's World Cup qualifying main round: Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Sweden through". UEFA.com. 19 October 2024. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Sextet complete elite-round line-up". FIFA. 20 October 2024. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  5. ^ "Naisten futsalmaajoukkue tuplamaaotteluihin Marokkoon". palloliitto.fi (in Finnish). Football Association of Finland. 29 December 2024. Retrieved 14 January 2025.