Didis Lutumba-Pitah (born 13 November 1998) is a Finnish professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

playing as a winger. Besides his native Finland, Lutumba-Pitah has played in Lithuania and Bulgaria.

Club career

Lutumba-Pitah played in the youth sectors of PK-35 and

FC Honka FC Honka is a Finland, Finnish Association football, football club based in Espoo. It was founded in 1957 as Tapion Honka, and changed its name to FC Honka in 1975. The club will play in Kakkonen in the 2024 season, after Esport Honka filed for ...

, before debuting at a senior level with Honka's reserve team in 2015 in lower divisions. He went on to join

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 ...

and continued with the club's reserve team

Klubi 04 Klubi 04 is a Finnish football club based in Helsinki. It is the reserve team of HJK Helsinki for whom a number of the players are also registered. History Klubi 04 was founded in 2004 when HJK bought FC Jokerit. Initially Klubi 04 played in K ...

in the third-tier

Kakkonen Kakkonen or II divisioona is the fourth level in the league system of Finnish football and comprises 36 Finnish football teams. Until the end of 2023, ''Kakkonen'' was the third-highest level in Finland, but after the creation of new second-t ...

and in the second-tier

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 5 February 2021, he signed with Ykkönen club

Rovaniemen Palloseura Rovaniemen Palloseura (RoPS) is a football club founded in 1950 and based in Rovaniemi, Finland. RoPS played in the Finnish Premier Division, (''Veikkausliiga'') for 32 years, from 1981 to 2021. In 2021, RoPS withdrew from professional football ...

(RoPS) and joined his former Klubi 04 coach

Mikko Mannila Mikko Mannila (born 2 March 1975) is a Finnish football manager of Ykkönen club OLS and a former player. Coaching career Mannila started coaching his home town clubs Porin Palloilijat and FC Jazz in 2001–2010. In 2011, he coached a local wo ...

. On 23 February 2022, Lutumba-Pitah joined

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 ...

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 ...

, and made his league debut in the 2022 season. After the relegation at the end of the season, Lutumba-Pitah left HIFK. In January 2023, he moved to Lithuania after signing with

FC Hegelmann Futbolo klubas Hegelmann, commonly known as Hegelmann, is a Lithuanian professional football club located in Raudondvaris in Kaunas district. Before January 2022, the club was named FC Hegelmann Litauen. They play in the A Lyga, the first tier ...

in the country's top-tier

A Lyga The A Lyga is the top division of professional football in Lithuania. It is organized by Lithuanian Football Federation (LFF) (). History The first football league was established in Lithuania in 1924, and in various forms existed until 1939. ...

. During the season, he also represented the club in the

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qualifiers. In January 2024, Lutumba-Pitah joined

Etar Veliko Tarnovo Etar () is a Bulgarian sports football club based in Veliko Tarnovo, that plays in the Bulgarian Second League, the second level of Bulgarian football. Etar was established in 2013, shortly after the folding of Etar 1924, which was dissolved ...

Bulgarian First League The First Professional Football League (), commonly known as Parva Liga or Bulgarian First League (currently known as the efbet League for sponsorship reasons), is a professional association football league in Bulgaria and the highest level of t ...

. He contributed in 15 league appearances and scored two goals during the latter half of the season, but eventually the club were relegated to

Bulgarian Second League The Bulgarian Second Professional Football League (), also known as Second League () or Vtora liga, is the second level of the Bulgarian football league system, below First League and above the Third League. Twenty teams take part in the league ...

Personal life

Lutumba-Pitah is of

Congolese Congolese or Kongolese may refer to: African peoples * Congolese people (disambiguation) * Kongo people, a Bantu ethnic group who live along the Atlantic coast of Africa from Pointe-Noire (Republic of Congo) to Luanda, Angola, primarily defined by ...

descent. His younger brother Joslyn Luyeye-Lutumba is also a professional footballer for

club

KuPS Kuopion Palloseura, commonly referred to as KuPS, is a Finnish professional football club based in Kuopio. KuPS competes in Veikkausliiga, the top flight of Finnish football. The team plays its home matches at Kuopio Football Stadium. KuPS ha ...

.Mikkelin Palloilijat: «Mon objectif ici est de franchir une nouvelle étape dans ma carrière et d’aider l’équipe à aller de l’avant» (Joslyn Luyeye Lutumba)
foot.cd, 7 January 2022

Career statistics

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Didis Lutumba-Pitah
at Finnish FA {{DEFAULTSORT:Lutumba-Pitah, Didis Living people 1998 births Finnish men's footballers 21st-century Finnish sportsmen Men's association football midfielders Kakkonen players Ykkönen players Veikkausliiga players A Lyga players Rovaniemen Palloseura players FC Honka players Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi players Klubi 04 players AC Kajaani players HIFK Fotboll players FC Hegelmann players Finnish people of Democratic Republic of the Congo descent Expatriate men's footballers in Lithuania Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Lithuania Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria SFC Etar Veliko Tarnovo players PK-35 (men) players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Second Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Kolmonen players