| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Luka Valtteri Kuittinen [1] | ||
| Date of birth | 29 March 2003 | ||
| Place of birth | Rovaniemi, Finland | ||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Position | Centre back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Inter Turku | ||
| Number | 22 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| RoPS | |||
| TP-47 | |||
| –2020 | RoPS | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2020 | RoPS II | 11 | (1) |
| 2021 | RoPS | 29 | (3) |
| 2022– | Inter Turku | 83 | (7) |
| 2022–2024 | Inter Turku II | 11 | (2) |
| 2023 | → SalPa (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2021 | Finland U19 | 1 | (0) |
| 2025 | Finland U21 | 2 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 19 November 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 25 March 2024 | |||
Luka Valtteri Kuittinen (born 29 March 2003) is a Finnish professional football defender for Veikkausliiga club Inter Turku. [2]
Born in Rovaniemi, Kuittinen started football in a youth sector of a local club Rovaniemen Palloseura (RoPS). He made a senior debut with the club's reserve team in third-tier Kakkonen in the 2020 season. Next season, he played for RoPS first team in the second-tier Ykkönen, but was released after the season among other players due to club's financial problems which caused RoPS to be demoted to Kakkonen. [3]
On 26 December 2021, he signed a three-year deal with Veikkausliiga club Inter Turku. Kuittinen debuted in the league in the 2022 season, and scored his first league goal on 7 June 2024, in a 2–0 away win against Lahti. [4] He was named in the Veikkausliiga Team of the Month in June 2024. [5] On 12 September 2024, he signed a two-year contract extension with Inter. [6]
Kuittinen has represented Finland U19 national team on one occasion in 2021. [7]
In the late August 2024, Kuittinen received his first call-up to the Finland U21 national team. [8]
| Club | Season | League | Cup [a] | League cup | Europe | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| RoPS II | 2020 | Kakkonen | 11 | 1 | 3 | 1 | – | – | 14 | 2 | ||
| RoPS | 2021 | Ykkönen | 29 | 3 | 4 | 0 | – | – | 33 | 3 | ||
| Inter Turku II | 2022 | Kolmonen | 4 | 0 | – | – | – | 4 | 0 | |||
| 2023 | Kolmonen | 5 | 1 | – | – | – | 5 | 1 | ||||
| 2024 | Kakkonen | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | ||
| Inter Turku | 2022 | Veikkausliiga | 18 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 [b] | 0 | 24 | 0 |
| 2023 | Veikkausliiga | 13 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | – | 22 | 2 | ||
| 2024 | Veikkausliiga | 23 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | 33 | 3 | ||
| 2025 | Veikkausliiga | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | – | 14 | 1 | ||
| Total | 61 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 92 | 6 | ||
| SalPa (loan) | 2023 | Ykkönen | 4 | 0 | – | – | – | 4 | 0 | |||
| Career total | 121 | 10 | 20 | 2 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 160 | 13 | ||
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