The 2023 season was

Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi (), commonly known as HJK Helsinki, or simply as HJK, is a professional football club based in Helsinki, Finland. The club competes in the Finnish Veikkausliiga. Founded in 1907, the club has spent most of its history i ...

's 115th competitive season. HJK entered the Veikkausliiga season as three time defending champions. In Europe, HJK qualified for the UEFA Europa Conference League group stage. After four years at the helm, Manager

Toni Koskela Toni Koskela (born 16 February 1983) is a Finland, Finnish Association football, football coach and a former player. He is currently managing Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi, HJK where he followed Mika Lehkosuo. Before that he was head coach of Rovani ...

was replaced by

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mid-season.

Season Events

On 27 December 2022,

Anthony Olusanya Anthony Olusanya (born 1 February 2000) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Veikkausliiga club Haka, on loan from HJK. Club career On 30 September 2021, in a UEFA Europa Conference League group phase game against ...

extended his contract with HJK until the end of the 2025 season. On 4 January,

David Ezeh David Ezeh (born 13 February 2006) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a centre-forward for Ekstraklasa club Raków Częstochowa, on loan from HJK. Early life Ezeh was born in Helsinki to Finnish mother and Nigerian father from ...

signed a new contract with HJK until the end of the 2025 season. On 10 January, Francis Etu signed a three-year contract with HJK. On 12 January, HJK extended the loan-deal with Helsingborgs for

Lucas Lingman Lucas Lingman (born 25 January 1998) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for HJK. Career HJK Lingman began his career as a youth with Honka before joining HJK in 2011. He was promoted to the first team in 2015, and m ...

until the end of the season. On 14 January, HJK announced the singing of Georgios Kanellopoulos to a two-year contract, with an option of a third year, from

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. On 8 February, free-agent

Dejan Iliev Dejan Iliev ( mk, Дејан Илиев; born 25 February 1995) is a Macedonian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for AS Trenčín. Career Early life Iliev was born in Strumica, Macedonia and first played youth club football for ...

signed for HJK on a one-year contract, with the option of a second year. On 10 February, HJK extended their contract with Samuel Anini Junior until the end of the 2024 season, and loaned him out to IFK Mariehamn for the season alongside Elmo Henriksson and

Patrik Raitanen Patrik Raitanen (born 13 June 2001) is a Finland, Finnish professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Defender (association football), defender for IFK Mariehamn. Raitanen was born in Ulvila, Finland. He made his debut on senior l ...

. On 15 February,

Santeri Hostikka Santeri Hostikka (born 30 September 1997) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays for Veikkausliiga club HJK as a midfielder and forward. Club career Hostikka has played for PKKU and Lahti. In December 2018, Hostikka signed with Pol ...

signed a new contract with HJK until the end of the 2024 season. On 16 February, HJK announced the singing of Nils Svensson from

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, to a two-year contract with the option of a third year. On 6 March, Altti Hellemaa extended his contract with HJK until the end of 2025, and then joined SJK on loan for the season. On 4 April, HJK extended their contract with

Kai Meriluoto Kai Meriluoto (born 2 January 2003) is a Finnish footballer who plays as a forward for Veikkausliiga side HJK. Early life Meriluoto was born in Siuntio, Finland, to a Japanese mother and Finnish father. When he was a one-year-old, he moved to ...

until the end of the 2025 season. On 24 July, HJK announced the signings of

Filip Rogić Filip Roberto Rogić (born 14 June 1993) is a Sweden, Swedish professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Midfielder (association football)#Defensive midfielder, defensive midfielder for Veikkausliiga side Helsingin Jalkapalloklu ...

and

Niko Hämäläinen Nicholas Antero "Niko" Hämäläinen (born 5 March 1997) is a professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Belgian club RWDM47 on loan from Queens Park Rangers. Born in the United States, he represents the Finland national team. Born an ...

. On 26 July, HJK announced the loan signing of

Kristopher Da Graca Kristopher Santos Da Graca (born 16 January 1998) is a footballer who plays as a centre back for Veikkausliiga club KuPS, on loan from Sirius. Born in Sweden, he plays for the Cape Verde national team. Club career On 6 January 2021, Da Graca ...

from IK Sirius with the rights to make the move permanent at the end of the season. On 3 August, HJK extended their contract with

Aaro Toivonen Aaro Toivonen (born 19 April 2005) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Meistriliiga club Tallinna Kalev, on loan from HJK Helsinki. Career Toivonen joined HJK youth academy in 2020 from FC Espoo. He made his ...

until the end of the 2025 season. The following day, 4 August, HJK announced the signing of

Niki Mäenpää Niki Emil Antonio Mäenpää (; born 23 January 1985) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Veikkausliiga club HJK. He began his senior club career playing for Lens Reserves, before signing with Den Bosch at age ...

on a contract until the end of the season as cover for the injured

. On 11 August, HJK announced the signing of Hassane Bandé from Amiens until the end of June 2025. On 5 November, HJK exercised a clause in their contract with

Jesse Öst Jesse Öst (born 20 October 1990) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Veikkausliiga club HJK. International career Öst has represented Finland at under-21 level and was once on the bench for the senior team in a ...

to extend his contract with the club until the end of the 2024 season. The following day, 6 November, Kevin Kouassivi-Benissan extended his contract with the club until the end of the 2025 season. On 28 November,

Atomu Tanaka is a Japanese professional footballer who plays for Veikkausliiga club HJK Helsinki. He was a participant at 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Canada and scored 1 goal in 3 appearances. Club career Tanaka was educated at and played for Maebashi ...

extended his contract with the club for another season, until the end of 2024.

Squad

Transfers and contracts

Released

Transfers in

Transfers out

Loans in

Loans out

Friendlies

Competitions

Overall record

Veikkausliiga

Regular season

=Results summary

=Results

=Table

Championship round

=Results summary

=Results

=Table

Finnish Cup

League Cup

Group Stage

Knockout Stage

Final

UEFA Champions League

Qualifying rounds

UEFA Europa League

Qualifying rounds

UEFA Europa Conference League

Qualifying rounds

Group stage

Squad statistics

Appearances and goals

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Goal scorers

Clean sheets

Disciplinary record

References

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