Ilkka Mäkelä (born 25 June 1963, in
Elimäki) is a
Finnish football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
manager, former player, and current club president of
Mikkelin Palloilijat
Mikkelin Palloilijat (or MP) is a Finnish professional football club, based in Mikkeli, that competes in the Ykkönen, the third tier in Finnish football league system. The club was founded in 1929 and also included volleyball, bandy and ice h ...
(MP).
Coaching career
He was sacked after the
2010 season as FC Lahti were relegated to
Ykkönen
''Ykkönen'' (Finnish language, Finnish for 'Number One'; , previously I divisioona) is the third highest level of the Finnish football league system (after the Veikkausliiga and Ykkösliiga), managed by the Football Association of Finland. Until ...
. On 20 December 2010 he signed a three-year contract with Finnish FA, taking the Finland's U15, U16 and U17 teams under his management.
On 19 November 2019
MyPa confirmed, that Mäkelä would return as the club's manager for the 2020 season.
Ilkka Mäkelä on MYPAn uusi päävalmentaja
mypa.fi, 19 November 2019
References
External links
1963 births
Living people
Finnish men's footballers
Finnish football managers
Veikkausliiga players
Finnish expatriate men's footballers
Finland men's international footballers
FC Haka players
Rovaniemen Palloseura players
FC Lahti players
Myllykosken Pallo −47 players
Men's association football defenders
Myllykosken Pallo −47 managers
People from Elimäki
Sportspeople from Kouvola
Footballers from Kymenlaakso
Veikkausliiga managers
Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
20th-century Finnish sportsmen
FC Kuusankoski players
FC Wettingen players
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