Lassi Lappalainen


Lassi Lappalainen is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a winger for Canadian club Montreal Impact on loan from Italian club Bologna.

Club career

Early career

Born in Espoo in 1998, Lappalainen started his football career with Espoon palloseura and later moved to HJK youth team. Lappalainen played in Klubi 04, the reserve team of HJK.

HJK

In 2016, Lappalainen was called up for HJK's first team. On 2 April 2016, he made his Veikkausliiga debut against IFK Mariehamn at Sonera Stadium, being substituted on by coach Mika Lehkosuo in place of Nnamdi Oduamadi in the 90th minute.
On 21 July 2017, Lappalainen was loaned to RoPS for remainder of the Veikkausliiga season. Two days later, he scored his first league goal for RoPS just five minutes into his debut after coming on as a substitute.

Bologna

On 19 July 2019, Lappalainen signed to Italian Serie A club Bologna. HJK Helsinki stated it received "significant compensation" and that economically, the transfer was in the "top 7 of HJK's club history".

Montreal

On 25 July 2019, it was announced that Lappalainen was loaned to Major League Soccer club Montreal Impact for the remainder of the 2019 season using Targeted Allocation Money. The Impact have options to extend the loan until 30 June 2020, as well as until 31 December 2020. On 27 July 2019, he contributed two goals to Montreal Impact's 4–0 victory over the first-place Philadelphia Union on his Major League Soccer debut.

International career

Lappalainen made his debut for the Finland national football team on 8 January 2019 in a friendly against Sweden, as a starter.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Club

Montreal Impact