{{short description|Finnish footballer (born 1979)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Tuomas Haapala | fullname = Tuomas Juhani Haapala | image = Lusty looks KuPS HJK 03 08.jpg | image_size = 300 | caption = Haapala (center) at the KuPS vs HJK at Magnum Areena, Kuopio. Finnish League Cup, 11 March 2008 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1979|4|20}} | birth_place = Lahti, Finland | height = 1.78 m | currentclub = | clubnumber = | position = Midfielder | youthyears1 = {{0|0000}}–2000 | youthclubs1 = Pallo-Lahti | youthyears2 = | youthclubs2 = Lahden Reipas | youthyears3 = | youthclubs3 = Kuusysi | years1 = 2000–2003 | years2 = 2004–2005 | years3 = 2005–2006 | years4 = 2006–2007 | years5 = 2007–2009 | years6 = 2010 | clubs1 = Lahti | clubs2 = MyPa | clubs3 = Manchester City | clubs4 = Sandefjord | clubs5 = HJK | clubs6 = Tampere United | caps1 = 108 | caps2 = 47 | caps3 = 0 | caps4 = 13 | caps5 = 38 | caps6 = 21 | goals1 = 14 | goals2 = 3 | goals3 = 0 | goals4 = 0 | goals5 = 0 | goals6 = 1 | nationalyears1 = 2005–2008 | nationalteam1 = Finland | nationalcaps1 = 4 | nationalgoals1 = 0 | club-update = 8 October 2009 | nationalteam-update = 17 December 2009 }}
'''Tuomas Juhani Haapala''' (born 20 April 1979) is a Finnish former footballer who ended his career after 2010.
Haapala has previously played for FC Lahti (2000–03) and MyPa (2004–05) in the Finnish Veikkausliiga. He won the Finnish Cup with MyPa in 2004, and captained the club to the Finnish championship in 2005. After an excellent 2005 season, Haapala was invited for a trial with Manchester City. After two weeks at the club, manager Stuart Pearce decided to offer him a contract to the end of the 2005–06 season. However, Haapala failed to break into the first team, and made only reserve team appearances. After his long try-out in Manchester he signed for Sandefjord Fotball. In August 2007 he joined HJK Helsinki. After three seasons with HJK, Haapala joined Tampere United for the season 2010, which was his last year as a professional football player.
Haapala played his first game for the Finnish national team on 12 October 2005 against Estonia.
== Career statistics == {{updated|1 September 2024.}}<ref>[https://tulospalvelu.palloliitto.fi/person/390815/player/seasons Tuomas Haapala stats], Finnish FA</ref><ref>[https://www.fotball.no/fotballdata/person/statistikk/?fiksId=2456701 Tuomas Juhani Haapala stats], Norwegian FA</ref> {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition |- !rowspan="2"|Club !rowspan="2"|Season !colspan="3"|League !colspan="2"|Cup{{efn|Includes Suomen Cup and Norwegian Cup}} !colspan="2"|League cup{{efn|Includes Finnish League Cup}} !colspan="2"|Europe !colspan="2"|Total |- !Division!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals |- |Lahti |1998 |Ykkönen |3||0||colspan=2|–||colspan=2|–||colspan=2|–||3||0 |- |RiPS |1999 |Ykkönen |23||2||colspan=2|–||colspan=2|–||colspan=2|–||23||2 |- |rowspan=5|Lahti |2000 |Veikkausliiga |24||1||colspan=2|–||colspan=2|–||colspan=2|–||24||1 |- |2001 |Veikkausliiga |27||5||colspan=2|–||colspan=2|–||colspan=2|–||27||5 |- |2002 |Veikkausliiga |28||3||1||0||colspan=2|–||colspan=2|–||29||3 |- |2003 |Veikkausliiga |26||5||colspan=2|–||colspan=2|–||colspan=2|–||26||5 |- !colspan=2|Total !105!!14!!1!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!106!!14 |- |rowspan=3|MYPA |2004 |Veikkausliiga |24||1||1||0||0||0||2{{efn|Appearances in UEFA Intertoto Cup|name=ui}}||0||27||1 |- |2005 |Veikkausliiga |23||2||0||0||0||0||6{{efn|Appearances in UEFA Cup|name=uc}}||0||29||2 |- !colspan=2|Total !47!!3!!1!!0!!0!!0!!8!!0!!56!!3 |- |Manchester City |2005–06 |Premier League |0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0 |- |rowspan=3|Sandefjord |2006 |Tippeligaen |7||0||1||0||colspan=2|–||colspan=2|–||8||0 |- |2007 |Tippeligaen |6||0||1||0||colspan=2|–||colspan=2|–||6||0 |- !colspan=2|Total !13!!0!!2!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!15!!0 |- |rowspan=3|Sandefjord 2 |2006 |3. divisjon |1||0||colspan=2|–||colspan=2|–||colspan=2|–||1||0 |- |2007 |3. divisjon |2||0||colspan=2|–||colspan=2|–||colspan=2|–||2||0 |- !colspan=2|Total !3!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!3!!0 |- |rowspan=4|HJK Helsinki |2007 |Veikkausliiga |9||0||0||0||0||0||2{{efn|name=uc}}||0||11||0 |- |2008 |Veikkausliiga |23||0||0||0||0||0||colspan=2|–||23||0 |- |2009 |Veikkausliiga |6||0||0||0||7||0||0||0||13||0 |- !colspan=2|Total !38!!0!!0!!0!!7!!0!!2!!0!!47!!0 |- |Klubi 04 |2009 |Ykkönen |1||0||colspan=2|–||colspan=2|–||colspan=2|–||1||0 |- |Tampere United |2010 |Veikkausliiga |21||1||colspan=2|–||colspan=2|–||colspan=2|–||21||1 |- !colspan="3"|Career total !254!!19!!4!!0!!7!!0!!10!!0!!275!!19 |} {{notelist}}
==Honours== * Finnish championship: 2005, 2009 * Finnish Cup: 2004, 2008
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.hjk.fi/joukkue/?J=1&hae=198 Profile] at [http://www.hjk.fi/ HJK.fi] * {{Cite web |url=http://www.veikkausliiga.com/Player.aspx?ID=1400039 |title=Stats at Veikkausliiga.com |access-date=29 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024070533/http://www.veikkausliiga.com/Player.aspx?ID=1400039 |archive-date=24 October 2007 |url-status=dead }} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120919020307/http://guardian.touch-line.com/StatsCentre.asp?Lang=0&CTID=55&CPID=72&pStr=Player&PLID=63210&TEID=1449 Guardian Football] * {{NFT player|12062}}
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