Aleksi Heino

Aleksi Heino (born 25 July 2004) is a Finnish professional footballer currently playing as a forward for SJK Akatemia.

Aleksi Heino
Personal information
Date of birth (2004-07-25) 25 July 2004
Place of birth Turku, Finland[1]
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[2]
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 SJK Akatemia
Youth career
Turun Nappulaliiga
TPS
Inter Turku
2020–2021 Chelsea
2021–2022 VfL Wolfsburg
2022 SJK
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2022– SJK Akatemia 4 (1)
International career‡
2019 Finland U15 3 (2)
2022 Finland U18 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19 May 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 28 December 2022

Club career

Born in Turku, Heino began his career in the youth team of Turun Nappulaliiga, later continued in the academies of TPS and Inter Turku, before trialling with German side VfL Wolfsburg and English side Chelsea in 2020.[3][4] He signed with the latter in September of the same year.[3][5][6]

After a season with Chelsea, in which he only appeared once for the under-18 side, he moved to Germany to join VfL Wolfsburg.[4][7] However, he also failed to settle in Germany, again notching only one appearance for Wolfsburg's youth side, before a return to Finland with SJK in August 2022.[2][8]

He scored his first goal for SJK's reserve team, SJK Akatemia, in a 4–3 loss to PK-35 in the 2022 Ykkönen relegation group.[9]

International career

Heino has represented Finland at under-15 and under-18 level.[1]

Career statistics

Club
As of match played 30 January 2023[9]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
SJK Akatemia 2022 Ykkönen 2100000021
2023 00001[lower-alpha 1]00010
Career total 2100100031
  1. Appearances in the Ykkönen Cup

References
  1. Aleksi Heino at WorldFootball.net
  2. "Hyökkääjä Aleksi Heino Wolfsburgista Kerhoon" [Striker Aleksi Heino from Wolfsburg to Kerho]. sjk.fi (in Finnish). 17 August 2022. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  3. "FC Interin Aleksi Heino siirtyy Chelseaan" [FC Inter's Aleksi Heino is moving to Chelsea]. fcinter.fi (in Finnish). 25 September 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  4. Hirvonen, Juho (29 July 2021). "Vasta 17-vuotias lupaava suomalaishyökkääjä siirtyi Chelseasta Wolfsburgiin" [Only 17 years old, the promising Finnish striker moved from Chelsea to Wolfsburg]. suomifutis.com. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  5. Tsepkovskiy, Georgy (24 September 2020). "Tall, powerful, left-footed: Chelsea add 16-year-old Aleksi Heino to their talented Northern group (+video)". tribuna.com. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  6. Ahola, Harri (25 September 2020). "Interin nuori lupaus siirtyy suurseura Chelsean paitaan" [Inter's young promise moves to the shirt of the big club Chelsea]. ts.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  7. Westermann, Marcel (29 July 2021). "Ein Pole, ein Däne und ein Finne von Chelsea: Wolfsburg holt drei Talente für den Nachwuchs" [A Pole, a Dane and a Finn from Chelsea: Wolfsburg brings three talents for the youngsters]. sportbuzzer.de (in German). Archived from the original on 28 December 2022. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  8. "Suomalaishyökkääjä palaa Saksasta kotimaahan – "Maajoukkueeseen myös tietenkin"" [The Finnish striker returns home from Germany - "To the national team too, of course"]. mtvuutiset.fi (in Finnish). 17 August 2022. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  9. Aleksi Heino at Soccerway
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