Antti Ulmanen (born 17 May 1999) 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 ...

player. He plays as a

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for

Kolmonen Kolmonen or III divisioona is the fifth level in the Finnish football league system, league system of Finnish football and comprises 108 Finland, Finnish football (soccer), football teams. The III divisioona was introduced in 1973 and in the mi ...

side

HIFK HIFK, the Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna, Helsingfors (IFK, Helsingfors) rf (officially abbreviated IFK Helsingfors, colloquially often Helsingfors IFK or Helsingin IFK) is a multi-sport association based in Helsinki, Finland. Formed in 1897 on ...

Early career

Ulmanen played in the youth sector of

HJK Helsinki Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi (), commonly known as HJK Helsinki (), or simply as HJK (), is a Finnish football club based in Helsinki. The club competes in Veikkausliiga, the top division of the Finnish football league system. Founded in 1907, the ...

. He also represented HJK youth team in the

UEFA Youth League The UEFA Youth League is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) since 2013. In its current format, it is contested by the under-19 teams of the clubs competing in the UEFA Champions Le ...

in 2015–16 and 2016–17.

Club career

He made his

Veikkausliiga Veikkausliiga () is a professional association football league in Finland and the highest level of the Finnish football league system. The league comprises the top 12 clubs of the country. Its main sponsor is the Finnish national betting agenc ...

debut for

on 21 June 2017 in a game against JJK. Ulmanen signed with

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) for the 2021 season. On 10 January 2022, he signed with JäPS. On 14 December 2022, Ulmanen signed a contract with

, returning to the club for the 2023 season. Ulmanen was named the Ykkönen Player of the Month for July 2023, after having scored seven goals in a 30-day span.Antti Ulmanen äänestettiin Ykkösen kuukauden pelaajaksi
Finnish FA, 6 August 2023Heinäkuun kuukauden pelaajaksi valittu Antti Ulmanen palkitaan huomisessa HIFK – EIF –ottelussa
hifkfotboll.fi, 17 August 2023 On 4 January 2024, Ulmanen moved to

Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

and joined Greek Super League 2 club Tilikratis Lefkada. In April 2024, Ulmanen returned to Finland and signed with

Turun Palloseura Turun Palloseura, commonly known as TPS, is a professional association football, football club based in Turku, Finland. Since 2024, the men's team competes in Ykkösliiga, the second highest tier. Nicknamed "''Tepsi''", the club was founded i ...

(TPS) in the second-tier

Ykkösliiga ''Ykkösliiga'' (English language, English: ''"League One"''; ) is the second highest level of the Finnish football league system (after the Veikkausliiga), managed by the Football Association of Finland. The teams in Ykkösliiga also play a pre-s ...

. On 24 December 2024, Ulmanen signed with

and returned to his former club. Since his last stint, HIFK was demoted to the fifth-tier

due to bankruptcy.

Career statistics

Antti Ulmanen stats
Finnish FA

Honours

HIFK *

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 ...

Player of the Month: July 2023

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ulmanen, Antti 1999 births Living people Finnish men's footballers 21st-century Finnish sportsmen Finland men's youth international footballers Men's association football forwards Klubi 04 players HIFK Fotboll players IF Gnistan players Ekenäs IF players Mikkelin Palloilijat players Järvenpään Palloseura players Veikkausliiga players Ykkönen players Kakkonen players Ykkösliiga players Tilikratis F.C. players Super League Greece 2 players Turun Palloseura footballers Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Greece Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Finnish expatriate men's footballers Kolmonen players