The Finland women's national football team (, ), also known as nickname The Boreal Owls (), Finland hosted the 2009 European Championship.

The Finnish team has had a few players that are considered to be among the best in women's football, such as Laura Österberg Kalmari, Sanna Valkonen and Anne Mäkinen.

As of April 2026, the team is ranked 26th in the FIFA world ranking.

History

The beginning

The Finland women's national football team played its first international match in 1973 against Sweden. The game was played in Mariehamn, Åland.

Team image

Nicknames

The Finland women's national football team has been known or nicknamed as the "Helmarit (the Boreal Owls)".

  • Head coach: Marko Saloranta
  • Assistant coaches: Jari Väisänen, Liisa-Maija Rautio
  • Goalkeeping coach: Tommy Nordenswan
  • Fitness coach: Eero Savolainen
  • Psychological coach: Vacant
  • Doctor: Pippa Laukka
  • Physiotherapists: Markus Rosenblad, Sannakaisa Vastamäki
  • Kit managers: Piia Karonen, Alban Saliko
  • Video Analyst: Jouko Kylmäoja
  • Team managers: Outi Saarinen, Sanna Pirhonen
  • Press officers: Eveliina Parikka, Jyri Sulander
  • Media officer: Taru Nyholm

Manager history

{| class=wikitable style=text-align:center

!rowspan=2! width=90|Tenure

!rowspan=2! width=165|Coach

!colspan=8|Record

|-

!width=40|G

!width=40|W

!width=40|D

!width=40|L

!width=50|Win %

|-

|1973–77||align=left| Juhani Nirkkonen

|-

|1978||align=left| Simo Syrjävaara

|-

|1979–89||align=left| Kaj Österberg

|-

|1989–92||align=left| Jyrki Nieminen

|-

|1993–96||align=left| Nils Suomalainen

|-

|1996–00||align=left| Reima Kokko

|-

|2001–09||align=left| Michael Käld

|-

|2010–16||align=left| Andrée Jeglertz

|-

|2017||align=left| Marko Saloranta

|-

|2017–2022||align=left| Anna Signeul

|-

|2022–||align=left| Marko Saloranta

|}

Players

Current squad

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The following players were called up for the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification matches against Slovakia and Portugal on 5 and 9 June 2026, respectively.

:Caps and goals correct as of 18 April 2026, after the match against Latvia.

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Recent call-ups

The following players have also been called up to the squad within the past 12 months.

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;Notes <!-- Please append to Name -->

  • <sup></sup> = Alternate
  • <sup></sup> = Withdrew due to injury

<!-- *<sup></sup> = Withdrew due to medical reasons -->

  • <sup></sup> = Preliminary squad / standby
  • <sup></sup> = Retired from the national team

<!-- *<sup></sup> = Serving suspension -->

<!-- *<sup></sup> = Unavailable for selection -->

<!-- *<sup></sup> = Player withdrew from the squad due to non-injury issue -->

Records

:Players in bold are still active with the national team.

Most capped players

thumb|right|[[Linda Sällström currently holds the records for both the most appearances and the most goals for the Finland women's national football team.]]

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"

|-

!#

!Player

!Career

!Caps

!Goals

|-

|1

|align=left|Linda Sällström

| 2007–2025

| 157

| 64

|-

|2

|align=left|Anna Westerlund

| 2008–2022

| 147

| 4

|-

|3

|align=left|Laura Österberg Kalmari

| 1996–2011

| 130

| 41

|-

|4

|align=left|Tinja-Riikka Korpela

| 2007–2025

| 128

| 0

|-

|5

|align=left|Tuija Hyyrynen

| 2007–2022

| 121

| 3

|-

|6

|align=left|Sanna Valkonen

| 1995–2009

| 120

| 7

|-

|7

|align=left|Emma Koivisto

| 2012–present

| 119

| 8

|-

|rowspan=2|8

|align=left|Anne Mäkinen

| 1991–2009

|rowspan=2| 118

| 16

|-

|align=left|Jessica Julin

| 1997–2009

| 4

|-

|10

|align=left|Emmi Alanen

| 2010–2025

| 109

| 22

|}

Top goalscorers

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"

|-

!#

!Player

!Career

!Goals

!Caps

!Avg.

|-

| 1

|align=left| Linda Sällström

| 2007–2025

| 64

| 157

|

|-

| 2

|align=left| Laura Österberg Kalmari

| 1996–2011

| 41

| 130

|

|-

| 3

|align=left| Sanna Talonen

| 2004–2014

| 36

| 103

|

|-

| 4

|align=left| Emmi Alanen

| 2010–2025

| 22

| 109

|

|-

| 5

|align=left| Annica Sjölund

| 2006–2014

| 17

| 69

|

|-

| 6

|align=left| Anne Mäkinen

| 1991–2009

| 16

| 118

|

|-

| 7

|align=left| Eveliina Summanen

| 2017–present

| 14

| 84

|

|-

| rowspan=2|8

|align=left| Adelina Engman

| 2012–present

| 13

| 101

|

|-

|align=left| Ria Öling

| 2015–present

| 13

| 102

|

|-

| 10

|align=left| Heidi Kackur

| 1999–2005

| 12

| 48

|

|}

Competitive record

FIFA Women's World Cup

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"

|-

!colspan=9|FIFA Women's World Cup record

|rowspan=15|

!colspan=8|Qualification record

|-

!Year

!Result

!GP

!W

!D*

!L

!GF

!GA

!GD

!Round

!GP

!W

!D*

!L

!GF

!GA

!GD

|-

|| 1991||colspan="8" rowspan="9" | Did not qualify

|colspan=8|UEFA Euro 1991

|-

|| 1995

|colspan=8|UEFA Euro 1995

|-

|| 1999

||Play-offs||8||3||1||4||8||9||−1

|-

|| 2003

||Group 2||6||1||0||5||4||24||−20

|-

|| 2007

||Group 3||8||5||1||2||16||5||+11

|-

|| 2011

||Group 7||8||6||1||1||25||6||+19

|-

|| 2015

||Group 7||10||7||0||3||27||9||+18

|-

|| 2019

||Group 7||8||3||1||4||9||13||−4

|-

|| 2023

||Group A||8||3||1||4||14||12||−10

|-

|| 2027||colspan="8" | To be determined

|colspan=8|To be determined

|-

|| 2031||colspan="8" | To be determined

|colspan=8|To be determined

|-

|| 2035||colspan="8" | To be determined

|colspan=8|To be determined

|-

!Total||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-

!Round||56||28||5||23||103||78||+13

|}

:*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Olympic Games

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"

|-

!colspan=8|Summer Olympics record

|-

!Year

!Result

!GP

!W

!D

!L

!GF

!GA

|-

| 1996||colspan=7 rowspan=7|Did not qualify

|-

| 2000

|-

| 2004

|-

| 2008

|-

| 2012

|-

| 2016

|-

| 2020

|-

| 2024||colspan=7 |Unable to qualify

|-

| 2028||colspan=7 rowspan=2|To be determined

|-

| 2032

|-

!Total||-||-||-||-||-||-||-

|}

UEFA Women's Championship

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"

|-

!colspan=9|UEFA Women's Championship record

|rowspan=99|

!colspan=10|Qualifying record

|-

!Year

!Result

!

!W

!D*

!L

!GF

!GA

!GD

<!-- Qualifying -->

!Round

!

!W

!D*

!L

!GF

!GA

!GD

!

!

|-

|| 1984||rowspan="8" colspan="8"|Did not qualify

||Group 1||6||2||0||4||5||17||−12

|rowspan=8 colspan=2| –

|-

|| 1987

||Group 1||6||1||2||3||2||6||−4

|-

|| 1989

||Group 1||6||1||2||3||9||11||−2

|-

|| 1991

||Group 3||6||1||2||3||3||6||−3

|-

|| 1993

||Group 2||4||0||2||2||3||12||−9

|-

|| 1995

||Group 1||6||2||3||1||8||7||+1

|-

|| 1997

||Play-offs||8||1||1||6||2||24||−22

|-

|| 2001

||Play-offs||8||2||0||6||8||21||−13

|- style="background:#9acdff;"

|| 2005||Semi-finals||4||1||1||2||5||8||−3

||Play-offs||10||4||4||2||16||7||+9

|colspan=2| –

|-

|style="border: 3px solid red"| 2009||Quarter-finals||4||2||0||2||5||5||0

|colspan=10| Qualified as host

|-

|| 2013||Group stage||3||0||2||1||1||6||−5

||Group 5||8||6||1||1||22||4||+18

|rowspan=3 colspan=2| –

|-

|| 2017||colspan=8|Did not qualify

||Group 2||8||4||1||3||17||12||+5

|-

|| 2022||Group stage||3||0||0||3||1||8||−7

||Group E||8||7||1||0||24||2||+22

|-

|| 2025

|Group stage

|3

|1

|1

|1

|3

|3

|0

||Play-offs||10||4||3||3||12||12||0||||13th

|-

| 2029

|colspan=8|To be determined

|colspan=10|To be determined

|-

!Total||5/14||17||4||4||9||15||30||−15

!Total||94||35||22||37||131||141||−10|| colspan=2| 13th

|}

:*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

UEFA Women's Nations League

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"

!colspan=13|UEFA Women's Nations League record

|-

!Season

!Division

!Group

!width=28|

!width=28|

!width=28|

!width=28|

!width=28|

!width=28|

!width=28|

!width=35|

!width=28|

|-

|2023–24

|B

|2

||1st||6||5||1||0||18||2||||18th

|-

|2025

|B

|3

||2nd||8||3||2||3||9||10||*||23rd

|-

!colspan=4|Total

! 14 || 8 || 1 || 3 || 27 || 12 || colspan=2| 18th and 23rd

|}

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%"

|-

!

| Promoted at end of season

|-

!

| No movement at end of season

|-

!

| Relegated at end of season

|-

! *

| Participated in promotion/relegation play-offs

|}

Pinatar Cup

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; width:50%;"

|-

!colspan=9|Pinatar Cup record

|-

!Year

!Result

!GP

!W

!D

!L

!GF

!GA

!GD

|-

||2024|| Champions || 2 || 1 || 1 || 0 || 2 || 1 || +1

|-

!Total|||| 2 || 1 || 1 || 0 || 2 || 1 || +1

|}

Cyprus Women's Cup

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; width:50%;"

|-

!colspan=9|Cyprus Women's Cup record

|-

!Year

!Result

!GP

!W

!D

!L

!GF

!GA

!GD

|-

||2012||7th place||4||1||1||2||6||7||−1

|-

||2013||7th place||4||1||1||2||5||6||−1

|-

||2014||12th place||4||0||1||3||1||8||−7

|-

||2015||9th place||4||1||1||2||3||7||−4

|-

||2016||8th place||4||0||1||3||3||8||−5

|-

||2018||11th place||4||1||1||2||4||7||−3

|-

||2019||9th place||4||1||1||2||3||6||−3

|-

||2020||Runners-up||3||1||1||1||7||6||+1

|-

||2023||Champions||3||3||0||0||16||1||+15

|-

!Total||||34||9||8||17||48||56||−8

|}

Algarve Cup

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; width:50%;"

|-

!colspan=18|Algarve Cup record

|-

!Year

!Result

!GP

!W

!D

!L

!GF

!GA

!GD

|-

||1994||6th place||3||0||0||3||0||9||−9

|-

||1995||6th place||4||1||0||3||3||6||−3

|-

||1996||8th place||4||0||0||4||1||15||−14

|-

||1997||6th place||4||1||0||3||3||8||−5

|-

||1998||8th place||4||0||0||4||2||6||−4

|-

||1999||8th place||4||0||1||3||1||7||−6

|-

||2000||7th place||4||1||0||3||5||8||−3

|-

||2001||7th place||4||1||0||3||4||15||−11

|-

||2002||7th place||4||1||0||3||4||8||−5

|-

||2003||6th place||4||0||2||2||0||6||−6

|-

||2004||9th place||4||1||0||3||6||10||−4

|-

||2005||10th place||4||0||0||4||3||10||−7

|-

||2006||7th place||4||1||1||2||5||12||−7

|-

||2007||6th place||4||1||0||3||2||6||−4

|-

||2008||8th place||4||0||0||4||1||10||−9

|-

||2009||7th place||4||1||0||3||1||5||−4

|-

||2010||8th place||4||0||1||3||2||11||−9

|-

||2011||10th place||4||0||0||4||2||13||−11

|-

!Total||||||||||||||||

|}

Nordic Football Championship

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; width:50%;"

|-

!colspan=9|Women's Nordic Football Championship record

|-

!Year

!Result

!GP

!W

!D

!L

!GF

!GA

!GD

|-

|| 1974||Third place||2||0||0||2||0||6||−6

|-

|| 1975||Third place||2||0||0||2||0||13||−13

|-

|| 1976||Third place||2||0||0||2||1||5||−4

|-

|| 1977||Third place||2||0||0||2||0||5||−5

|-

|| 1978||Third place||3||1||1||1||1||4||−3

|-

|| 1979||Third place||3||1||1||1||2||5||−3

|-

|| 1980||Fourth place||3||0||2||1||1||8||−7

|-

|| 1981||Runners-up||3||1||1||1||3||4||−1

|-

|| 1982||Fourth place||3||0||1||2||1||6||−5

|-

!Total||9/9||23||3||6||14||9||56||−47

|}

See also

  • Sports in Finland
  • Football in Finland
  • Football Association of Finland (SPL)
  • Finland women's national under-20 football team
  • Finland women's national under-17 football team
  • Finland national football team

Notes

References

  • Official website
  • FIFA profile