Leena Puranen

Leena Puranen

Personal information
Full name	Leena Puranen
Date of birth	(1986-10-18) 18 October 1986
Place of birth	Tampere, Finland
Height
Position(s)	Forward Winger
Team information
Current team	Kungsbacka DFF
Number	15
Youth career
	TPV
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Ilves
	Pietarsaari
2006–2007	HJK
2008	Örebro	21	(3)
2009–2011	Hammarby	45	(7)
2012–2013	Jitex	41	(2)
2014–	Kungsbacka DFF
International career‡
2007–	Finland	55	(6)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:23, 31 August 2014 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14:23, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Leena Puranen (born 18 October 1986) is a Finnish football forward who plays for Swedish lower division team Kungsbacka DFF. In 2012 and 2013 she played for Jitex BK in Sweden's Damallsvenskan. She previously played for FC Ilves, United Pietarsaari and HJK in the Naisten Liiga, and KIF Örebro and Hammarby IF in the Swedish league.

Puranen made her senior Finland women's national football team debut in a 4–0 friendly defeat to the United States in Carson, California on 25 August 2007. In May 2009 Puranen suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury, which ruled her out of UEFA Women's Euro 2009 in Finland.

National coach Andrée Jeglertz selected Puranen in Finland's squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013, but she did not play in any of their three games at the tournament.

When Jitex let several players go for financial reasons after the 2013 season, Puranen moved to Division 1 Kungsbacka DFF. By the mid season break she had scored 16 goals at the lower level.

External links

• Leena Puranen – FIFA competition record