Kimmo Lipponen (born 9 December 1962) is a Finnish

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coach and a former professional footballer who played as a

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. He was capped six times for the Finland national team between 1983 and 1984. Lipponen made 301 appearances in Finnish top-tiers

Mestaruussarja Mestaruussarja (Championship series) was the top division of Finnish football from 1930 to 1989. It was replaced by Veikkausliiga in 1990. In 1930 league format was used for the first time to decide the Finnish champion. Before that (1908-1929) ...

and

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 ...

, scoring 49 goals. He spent the majority of his career with his former youth club

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. Besides in his native Finland, Lipponen played for

First Vienna First Vienna FC is an Austrian football club based in the Döbling district of Vienna. Established on 22 August 1894, it is the country's oldest team and has played a notable role in the history of the game there. It is familiarly known to Aust ...

Austrian Bundesliga The Bundesliga ( , "Federal League"), also known as Admiral Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Austria and the highest level of the Austrian football league system. The competition decides the A ...

and

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in Sweden. After his playing career, Lipponen worked as a coach. In 1999, he briefly served as the manager of VPS in Veikkausliiga after the dismissal of

Sören Cratz Carl Sören Harry Cratz (born 28 September 1948) is a Swedish former football manager. As a manager of Hammarby IF, he won the 2001 Allsvenskan Allsvenskan 2001, part of the 2001 Swedish football season, was the 77th Allsvenskan season played. ...

. Later he has worked for the

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and coached various Finnish youth national teams.Palloliitto reagoi: Kimmo Lipposelle kenkää U19-kotikisojen alla
mtvuutiset.fi,

MTV Oy MTV Osakeyhtiö, Oy (formerly Oy Mainos-TV-Reklam Ab) is a Finnish media company owned by Telia Company through TV4 Media (formerly known as Bonnier Broadcasting). The company owns the largest commercial television channel in Finland, MTV3. On ...

, 3 March 2018 His brother

Mika Lipponen Mika Lipponen (born 9 May 1964) is a Finnish former association football, footballer. Playing career Lipponen played in Finland for Turun Palloseura, TPS, in Spain for RCD Mallorca, Real Mallorca, in the Netherlands for FC Twente and FC Emmen, B ...

is also a former Finnish international footballer.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lipponen Kimmo Living people 1962 births People from Sipoo Finnish men's footballers 21st-century Finnish sportsmen Men's association football midfielders Mestaruussarja players Veikkausliiga players Austrian Football Bundesliga players Finnish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Austria Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Austria Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Turun Palloseura footballers Vaasan Palloseura players Ilves (football) players First Vienna FC players Åbo IFK players Salon Palloilijat players Finland men's youth international footballers Finland men's under-21 international footballers Finland men's international footballers Finnish football coaches Finnish football managers Veikkausliiga managers Vaasan Palloseura managers Vaasan Palloseura non-playing staff Littoisten Työväen Urheilijat players