Petri Vuorinen (born 31 August 1972) is a Finnish football manager and a former player. He is currently working as the sporting director of Veikkausliiga club HJK Helsinki.
 Vuorinen with VPS in 2018. | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 31 August 1972 | ||
| Place of birth | Sweden | ||
| Position(s) | Defensive midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | HJK (sporting director) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1989 | Wasa-88 | 22 | (3) |
| 1991–1999 | BK-IFK | 128 | (4) |
| 2000 | Närpes Kraft | 22 | (0) |
| 2001 | Jaro | 17 | (1) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2004–2007 | VIFK (assistant)[1] | ||
| 2008–2009 | VPS (assistant) | ||
| 2009 | VPS | ||
| 2010–2011 | VPS (assistant) | ||
| 2011 | VPS | ||
| 2012–2015 | VPS (assistant) | ||
| 2015–2019 | VPS | ||
| 2020 | Honka II (assistant) | ||
| 2021–2023 | Honka (sporting director) | ||
| 2024 | VPS (sporting director) | ||
| 2024– | HJK (sporting director) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Early and personal life
editVuorinen was born in Sweden to Finnish parents, who had emigrated to Trollhättan for work. Vuorinen's father suffered from alcoholism. His parents divorced when he was 12 years old, and Vuorinen first moved to Sundsvall with his mother and siblings. A year-and-a-half later they moved back to Vaasa.
Later Vuorinen worked in a school, in a hospital and as a fire officer.[2]
Playing career
editAs a player, Vuorinen played as a defensive midfielder in second-tier Ykkönen for BK-IFK, Närpes Kraft and Jaro. With Jaro, they won the promotion to Veikkausliiga, but Vuorinen did not make any appearances in the league due to knee injury. He also played for Wasa-88, Korsholm and Vasa IFK in the lower divisions in the Finnish football league system.
Coaching career
editVuorinen started his senior coaching career as an assistant of his hometown club Vasa IFK in 2004. After three years, he first joined Vaasan Palloseura (VPS) as an assistant coach. He worked as assistant to Tomi Kärkkäinen, Tommi Pikkarainen and Olli Huttunen. Vuorinen worked also as a caretaker manager of VPS twice, in 2009 accompanied by sporting director Juha Reini, and in 2011 solely. During 2015–2019, Vuorinen served as the VPS first team head coach in Veikkausliiga.[3][4]
In 2020, Vuorinen joined fellow Veikkausliiga club FC Honka, first as a coach. In 2021, he was named the club's sporting director.[5]
For the 2024 season, Vuorinen returned to Vaasa and was appointed a sporting director of his former club VPS.[6]
On 22 October 2024, he was named the new sporting director of HJK Helsinki, starting in the beginning of November.[7][8]
Managerial statistics
edit- As of 9 July 2023[9]
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||||||
| VPS | 
|
15 May 2009 | 31 December 2009 | 21 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 47.62 | |||
| VPS |
|
28 July 2011 | 31 December 2011 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 35.29 | |||
| VPS |
|
29 June 2015 | 7 July 2019 | 163 | 56 | 48 | 59 | 34.36 | |||
| Total | 201 | 72 | 58 | 71 | 35.82 | ||||||
Honours
editIndividual
- Veikkausliiga Coach of the Month: July 2016[10]
References
edit- ^ Petri Vuorinen VPS:n apuvalmentajaksi Archived 11 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jääräpää yhä vain, Helsingin Sanomat, Ari Virtanen, 12 December 2024
- ^ Pikkarainen ja VPS purkivat sopimuksen – Vuorinen vetovastuuseen Archived 11 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ VPS on irtisanonut päävalmentajansa Archived 15 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Urheilutoimenjohtajana aloittanut Petri Vuorinen uskoo nuorten pelaajien kehitysmahdollisuuksiin" (in Finnish). Honka. 15 March 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ^ Petri Vuorinen on VPS:n uusi urheilujohtaja, vps.fi, 14 December 2023
- ^ Petri Vuorinen on HJK:n uusi urheilujohtaja, hjk.fi, 22 October 2024
- ^ HJK vahvisti uuden urheilujohtajansa nimen, Helsingin Sanomat, 22 October 2024
- ^ Petri Vuorinen coaching stats, veikkausliiga.com
- ^ Pyry Soiri kuukauden pelaajaksi (in Finnish)
