Karl Niklas Schulz (born 10 October 2005) 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 ...

who plays as a

goalkeeper In many team sports that involve scoring goal (sport), goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie, or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or i ...

for

AC Oulu AC Oulu is a Finnish professional football club based in Oulu, currently playing in Finland's premier division, ''Veikkausliiga''. Formed in 2002, the club have played six seasons in Finland's highest football league Veikkausliiga and 16 seasons ...

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 ...

Career

Schulz has played in the youth sectors of

Käpylän Pallo Käpylän Pallo, commonly referred to as KäPa for short, is a football (soccer) club from the Käpylä district of Helsinki. The club currently plays in the Ykkösliiga, the new second tier of the Finnish league system. Their home arena is Max ...

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 PKKU, before making his senior debut with

Järvenpään Palloseura Järvenpään Palloseura (abbreviated JäPS) is a football club from Järvenpää, Finland. It was formed in 1947 and is based at the Järvenpää keskuskenttä. The club currently competes in Ykkösliiga, the new second-tier level of Finnish fo ...

(JäPS) 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 ...

in 2023. For the 2023–24 season, Schulz joined Italian

Serie D The Serie D () is the highest level of semi-professional football in Italy, and the fourth tier of the Italian national league system. It sits beneath the third and lowest fully professional league, Serie C, and feeds in to it through promotion ...

club Gravina. On 6 November 2024, Schulz signed with

club

for the 2025 season, with an option for 2026.NIKLAS SCHULZ SAAPUU AC OULUN MAALIVAHTIOSASTOLLE
acoulu.fi, 6 November 2024

Personal life

His older brother

Lasse Schulz Lasse Schulz (born 29 March 2003) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Danish club Vendsyssel FF and the Finland under-21 national team. Club career Schulz started football in Finland, playing in the youth sectors ...

is also a football goalkeeper, playing for

Vendsyssel FF Vendsyssel Forenede Fodboldklubber is a professional football club based in Hjørring, Denmark. The team competes in the Danish 1st Division, the second tier of the Danish football league system. The club plays home matches at Nord Energi Arena ...

. They hold a dual citizenship of Finland and

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

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Niklas Schulz
stats at Finnish FA {{AC Oulu squad Living people 2005 births Finnish men's footballers 21st-century Finnish sportsmen Finnish expatriate men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers Kolmonen players Ykkönen players Veikkausliiga players Serie D players Käpylän Pallo players Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi players Pallokerho Keski-Uusimaa players Järvenpään Palloseura players AC Oulu players Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Finnish people of German descent Finland men's youth international footballers Hyvinkään Palloseura players Oulun Luistinseura players