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_80_(cropped2).jpg) Rale with Finland U21 in 2022 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Matias Johan Erik Rale | ||
| Date of birth | 4 March 2001[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Vantaa, Finland | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position | Left back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Ilves | ||
| Number | 3 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2014 | TiPS | ||
| 2015–2019 | Honka | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2016–2022 | Honka II | 35 | (1) |
| 2021–2023 | Honka | 61 | (3) |
| 2024 | Kauno Žalgiris | 24 | (0) |
| 2025– | Ilves | 47 | (4) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2016–2017 | Finland U16 | 4 | (0) |
| 2018 | Finland U17 | 7 | (0) |
| 2018 | Finland U18 | 2 | (0) |
| 2021–2022 | Finland U21 | 4 | (0) |
Medal record | |||
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 27 July 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 7 June 2022 | |||
Matias Johan Erik Rale (born 4 March 2001) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a left back for Ilves.
Club career
[edit]Rale was born in Vantaa, and started playing football with a local club TiPS in Tikkurila.
He joined the Espoo-based FC Honka organisation when aged 14,[2] and made his Veikkausliiga debut with the Honka first team in 2021.[3] For the 2023 season, Rale was named one of the team captains of Honka.[4][5]
On 15 January 2024, after a surprising bankruptcy of Honka, Rale joined Lithuanian club Kauno Žalgiris in A Lyga.[6] He left the club after the season, after finishing 3rd in the league.
On 23 January 2025, Rale signed a two-year deal with Ilves.[7]
Career statistics
[edit]| Club | Season | League | Cup[a] | League cup | Europe | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Honka Akatemia | 2016 | Kolmonen | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | |||
| 2017 | Kolmonen | 4 | 0 | – | – | – | 4 | 0 | ||||
| 2018 | Kakkonen | 11 | 0 | – | – | – | 11 | 0 | ||||
| 2019 | Kakkonen | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 2020 | Kakkonen | 15 | 1 | 3 | 0 | – | – | 18 | 1 | |||
| 2021 | Kakkonen | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 2022 | Kakkonen | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 35 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 1 | ||
| Honka | 2021 | Veikkausliiga | 13 | 1 | 4 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 | |
| 2022 | Veikkausliiga | 21 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | – | 27 | 2 | ||
| 2023 | Veikkausliiga | 27 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2[b] | 0 | 38 | 0 | |
| Total | 61 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 82 | 3 | ||
| Kauno Žalgiris | 2024 | A Lyga | 24 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | – | 27 | 0 | ||
| Ilves | 2025 | Veikkausliiga | 24 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3[c] | 0 | 33 | 4 |
| 2026 | Veikkausliiga | 15 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3[b] | 0 | 28 | 0 | |
| Total | 39 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 61 | 4 | ||
| Career total | 167 | 8 | 21 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 216 | 8 | ||
- ↑ Includes Suomen Cup and Lithuanian Cup
- 1 2 Includes UEFA Europa Conference League
- ↑ One appearance in UEFA Europa League, two appearances in UEFA Conference League
Honours
[edit]Honka
- Finnish League Cup: 2022
- Finnish Cup runner-up: 2023
References
[edit]- 1 2 Matias Rale at WorldFootball.net
- ↑ 14-vuotiaana Matias Rale matkusti kolme tuntia päivässä saavuttaakseen liigapaikan Espoon Hongan riveissä ja nyt hän tähtää korkealle myös kentän ulkopuolella – "Käytin sen ajan tehden läksyjä", Länsiväylä, Jari Kostiainen, 4 June 2022
- ↑ Matias Ralen debyyttiosuma toi Hongalle kirivoiton ennätysyleisön edessä, Etelä-Suomen Sanomat, Tomi Siren, 24 June 2021
- ↑ "Nuorten pelaajien ääni esille" - Matias Rale on ylpeänä osa Hongan kapteenistoa, Veikkausliiga, 15 April 2023
- ↑ "Itseluottamus pitää nyt korjata" - Hongan Matias Rale kaipaa ryhtiliikettä loppukauteen, Veikkausliiga, 8 October 2023
- ↑ ""Kauno Žalgirio" gynybos liniją papildė 22-ejų suomis". zalgiris.lt (in Lithuanian). Kauno Žalgiris. 15 January 2024.
- ↑ Matias Rale Ilvekseen kaksivuotisella sopimuksella, ilvesfootball.com, 23 January 2025
- ↑ Matias Rale, Finnish FA
External links
[edit]- Matias Rale at Soccerway
- Matias Rale at WorldFootball.net
Categories:
- Living people
- 2001 births
- Finnish men's footballers
- 21st-century Finnish sportsmen
- Men's association football defenders
- Finland men's youth international footballers
- Finland men's under-21 international footballers
- Kolmonen players
- Kakkonen players
- FC Honka players
- Veikkausliiga players
- FK Kauno Žalgiris players
- Toplyga players
- Ilves (football) players
- Finnish expatriate men's footballers
- Finnish expatriates in Lithuania
- Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Lithuania
- Expatriate men's footballers in Lithuania
- Tikkurilan Palloseura players