Jani Petteri Forsell (born 16 October 1990) is a Finnish professional

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who plays as an

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for

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 ...

club KTP. He made twelve appearances scoring one goal for the Finland national team between 2013 and 2019.

Career

After starting his career with the local KPV, Forsell was signed by a near

side VPS in 2009. After struggling to make it in the match squads at Vaasa, he left after only one season, switching to a fellow Veikkausliiga side,

IFK Mariehamn IFK Mariehamn is a Finnish football club based in Mariehamn, the capital of the Åland Islands. It plays in the Finnish Premier Division (''Veikkausliiga''), winning their first title in 2016. The club is managed by Gary Williams, and it plays ...

. At Mariehamn, he began appear more regularly and soon attracted the attention of much bigger clubs in and outside of Finland. On 9 August 2012, he was selected as the player of the month, for July. On 5 August 2012, it was announced that Forsell had signed with

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club

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for a transfer fee of €500,000. He was handed the number #7 shirt for the upcoming season. Forsell made his debut for Bursaspor as a substitute on 23 August in a Europa League qualifying match against

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. Forsell was selected as the

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Player of the Month for September 2018. Forsell was the first ever player from

Miedź Legnica Miedź Legnica () is a professional football club based in Legnica, Poland, that competes in the I liga, following relegation in 2023. Miedź was founded in 1971. In 2018, Miedź Legnica achieved promotion to the top flight for the first time ...

to win the award and the first player to win it in his rookie year. On 10 August 2019, Forsell scored one and gave two assists in a 4–0 win against

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on his league debut for HJK as a loan player. After stints with

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and

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, Forsell returned to Finland and signed with Inter Turku for the 2021 season. On 21 February 2022, Forsell extended his deal with Inter. After leaving Inter at the end of 2023, Forsell remained a free agent until 30 March 2024 before rejoining

club Korona Kielce, whom he previously represented in 2020. He made his return to Polish football two days later as a second-half substitute in a 3–1 away loss to

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. He left the club at the end of June. On 9 July 2024, Forsell signed with Turkish TFF 1. Lig club Şanlıurfaspor. He terminated his contract in January due to unpaid salaries. On 18 February 2025, Forsell signed a three-year deal with newly promoted Veikkausliiga club KTP.

International career

A former youth international, Forsell debuted with the Finland senior national team on 6 February 2013 against

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, scoring a goal in his first appearance.

Career statistics

Club

International

International goals

:''Scores and results list Finland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Forsell goal.''

Honours

IFK Mariehamn *

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2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

Miedź Legnica *

I liga I liga (, ), currently named Betclic I liga due to its sponsorship by Betclic, is the men's second professional association football division of the Polish football league system, below the Ekstraklasa and above the II liga via promotion/rel ...

: 2017–18 Korona Kielce II * IV liga Świętokrzyskie: 2023–24 Inter Turku *Finnish Cup runner-up:

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

Finnish League Cup The Finnish League Cup (in Finnish: ''Liigacup''), is a knock-out football competition contested annually during the pre-season in winter by teams from Veikkausliiga. The competition is notably the only football competition in Europe which is most ...

runner-up: 2022 Individual *

Player of the Month: July 2012, April 2013, August 2014, September 2021 * Veikkausliiga top assist provider:

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* Veikkausliiga Team of the Year:

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

Player of the Month: September 2018

References

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Forsell, Petteri 1990 births Living people Sportspeople from Kokkola Footballers from Central Ostrobothnia Finnish men's footballers 21st-century Finnish sportsmen Men's association football midfielders Finland men's international footballers Finland men's under-21 international footballers Vaasan Palloseura players IFK Mariehamn players Bursaspor footballers Miedź Legnica players Korona Kielce players Kokkolan Palloveikot players Örebro SK players Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi players Stal Mielec players FC Inter Turku players Şanlıurfaspor footballers Kotkan Työväen Palloilijat players Veikkausliiga players Ykkönen players Süper Lig players TFF 1. Lig players Ekstraklasa players I liga players III liga players IV liga players Allsvenskan players Finnish expatriate men's footballers Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Poland Expatriate men's footballers in Poland Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden