Mika Sankala (born 16 November 1964) 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 and a former footballer. He is currently the assistant coach for

Finland women's national football team The Finland women's national football team (, ), also known as nickname The Boreal Owls (), represents Finland in international Women's association football, women's football. The team, controlled by the Football Association of Finland (SPL/FB ...

. He played three seasons in the Finnish premier league

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) ...

for

Sepsi-78 Sepsi-78 is a Finnish association football club from Seinäjoki. The club was founded in 1978 after bankruptcy of its predecessor, Seinäjoen Palloseura (SePS). The first teams of Sepsi-78 and TP-Seinäjoki merged into Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho ...

and PPT Pori and three seasons in Swedish

Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; ), also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan (, ) is a professional association football league in Sweden and the highest level of the Swedish football league system. Founded in 1924, it operates on a system of promotion and relegatio ...

for

GIF Sundsvall Gymnastik- och Idrottsföreningen Sundsvall, more commonly known as GIF Sundsvall (), Giffarna or simply Sundsvall, is a Swedish professional association football, football club based in Sundsvall. The club is affiliated with Medelpads Fotbollf� ...

. Sankala has coached GIF Sundsvall in Allsvenskan and

Superettan Superettan (; ) is an association football league and the second highest league in the Swedish football league system, league system of Swedish football, Swedish men's football. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and rel ...

and

Umeå IK Umeå IK () is a women's professional association football club based in the city of Umeå, in northern Sweden, and currently playing Damallsvenskan, the first tier of women's football in Sweden. They were one of the most successful football cl ...

in women's

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. January 2013 he joined the coaching staff of Finland women's national team.

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1964 births Finnish men's footballers Finnish football managers Swedish football managers Finnish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden Expatriate football managers in Sweden Mestaruussarja players Allsvenskan players FC Jazz players GIF Sundsvall players Footballers from Kemi Living people Men's association football midfielders Finnish expatriate football managers 20th-century Finnish sportsmen {{Sweden-footy-midfielder-stub