Aleksi Heino

Aleksi Heino

Personal information
Date of birth	(2004-07-25) 25 July 2004 (age 20)
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	6	(1)
International career^‡
2019	Finland U15	3	(2)
2022	Finland U18	1	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 5 November 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 28 December 2022

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

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
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
SJK Akatemia	2022	Ykkönen	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
	2023		0	0	0	0	1[a]	0	0	0	1	0
Career total			2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	1

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]. Turun Sanomat (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