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Since 1921 to 1995, Verner Eklöf held Finland's record for international goals

Football player Verner Eklöf

Werner Edmund Eklöf

Verner Eklöf

Born on 8 March 1897, Helsingfors
Died on 2 December 1955 (aged 58)

National team appearances of Verner Eklöf

Team	Period	Caps	Capt.	Sub. in	Sub. off	Goals	Pen.	Goals/ Caps
Finland	1919 - 1926	32	14		1	17	2	0.531
Total:		32	14		1	17	2	0.531

refereeing career of the player

Player stats by club

Clubs of footballer	Period	Caps	Capt.	Sub. in	Sub. off	Goals	Pen.	Goals/ Caps
HIFK, Helsinki	29 May 1919 - 30 May 1920	3
HJK, Helsinki	19 Sep 1920 - 06 Jun 1926	29	14		1	17	2	0.586

Player stats by competition

Competition

Played

Capt.

Sub. off

Goals

Pen.

Goals/ Caps

Friendly matches and other tournaments

0.531

Total:

0.531

Career highlights

Match date	Opponent team	Event	Age
29 May 1919	Sweden	debut	22 years 2 months 21 days
17 Oct 1920	Estonia	first goal	23 years 7 months 9 days
28 Aug 1921	Estonia	record for goal scoring (held up to 11 Aug 1922)	24 years 5 months 20 days
15 Aug 1923	Austria	record for goal scoring (held up to 11 Aug 1922) (held up to 8 Mar 1995)	26 years 5 months 7 days
19 Aug 1923	Hungary	first cap as captain	26 years 5 months 11 days
6 Jun 1926	Norway	last appearance	29 years 2 months 29 days

Record of Verner Eklöf's goals by opponent team

Opponent team	Goals	Pen.	Matches with goals	Matches by goals in a match				Goals/Matches with goals	Caps	Goals/Caps
Opponent team	Goals	Pen.	Matches with goals	1	2	3	>3	Goals/Matches with goals	Caps	Goals/Caps
Estonia	5	1	3	1	2			1.667	4	1.250
Denmark	2		1		1			2.000	1	2.000
Austria	2	1	2	2				1.000	3	0.667
Poland	2		1		1			2.000	3	0.667
Norway	2		2	2				1.000	6	0.333
Sweden	2		2	2				1.000	9	0.222
Germany	1		1	1				1.000	2	0.500
Latvia	1		1	1				1.000	2	0.500
(+) other teams									2
Total:	17	2	13	9	4	0	0	1.308	32	0.531

Record of national team matches played by Verner Eklöf

National team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals For	Goals Against	Winning Percentage
Finland national team	32	11	4	17	73	74	40.7

Verner Eklöf's international caps

as player of HIFK, Helsinki:

debut age - 22 years 2 months 21 days

29 May 1919 13:30 (+1:00)

Stockholm, Stockholms Olympiastadion

1-0

Sweden vs Finland

Friendly International

28 Sep 1919 13:00 (+1:40)

Helsinki, Töölön Pallokenttä

3-3

Finland vs Sweden

Friendly International

30 May 1920 14:00 (+1:00)

Stockholm, Stockholms Olympiastadion

4-0

Sweden vs Finland

Friendly International

as player of HJK, Helsinki:

19 Sep 1920 14:00 (+1:40)

Helsinki, Töölön Pallokenttä

1-0

Finland vs Sweden

Friendly International

age when scoring first goal - 23 years 7 months 9 days

17 Oct 1920 13:00 (+1:40)

Helsinki, Töölön Pallokenttä

6-0

Finland vs Estonia

Friendly International

2х

25 May 1921 19:00 (+1:00)

Kristiania, Gressbanen ved Holmen i Aker

3-2

Norway vs Finland

Friendly International

1х

29 May 1921 13:30 (+1:00)

Stockholm, Stockholms Olympiastadion

0-3

Sweden vs Finland

Friendly International

31 Jul 1921 13:00 (+2:00)

Helsinki, Töölön Pallokenttä

2-3

Finland vs Austria

Friendly International

28 Aug 1921 18:00 (+2:00)

Tallinn, Tiigiveski Spordiplats

0-3

Estonia vs Finland

Friendly International

1(1p.)х

18 Sep 1921 13:00 (+2:00)

Helsinki, Töölön Pallokenttä

3-3

Finland vs Germany

Friendly International

1х

05 Jun 1922 18:00 (+2:00)

Helsinki, Töölön Pallokenttä

1-4

Finland vs Sweden

Friendly International

13 Jul 1922 18:30 (+2:00)

Helsinki, Töölön Pallokenttä

1-5

Finland vs Hungary

Friendly International

11 Aug 1922 18:30 (+2:00)

Helsinki, Töölön Pallokenttä

10-2

Finland vs Estonia

Friendly International

2х

26 Aug 1922 17:30 (+2:00)

Helsinki, Töölön Pallokenttä

1-3

Finland vs Norway

Friendly International

1х

17 Jun 1923 12:30 (+1:00)

Kristiania, Gressbanen ved Holmen i Aker

3-0

Norway vs Finland

Friendly International

20 Jun 1923 19:15 (+1:00)

Gävle, Strömvallen

5-4

Sweden vs Finland

Friendly International

1х

12 Aug 1923 16:00 (+1:00)

Dresden, Ilgen Kampfbahn

1-2

Germany vs Finland

Friendly International

15 Aug 1923 17:00 (+1:00)

Vienna, Hohe Warte

2-1

Austria vs Finland

Friendly International

1х

19 Aug 1923 17:00 (+1:00)

Budapest, Üllői út

3-1

Hungary vs Finland

Friendly International

23 Sep 1923 12:00 (+2:00)

Helsinki, Töölön Pallokenttä

5-3

Finland vs Poland

Friendly International

2х

28 Jul 1924 19:00 (+2:00)

Helsinki, Töölön Pallokenttä

5-7

Finland vs Sweden

Friendly International

1х

10 Aug 1924 17:00 (+1:00)

Warsaw, Stadion Agrykola

1-0

Poland vs Finland

Friendly International

14 Aug 1924 18:00 (+1:37)

Rīga, L.S.B. Stadions

0-2

Latvia vs Finland

Friendly International

23 Aug 1924 17:30 (+2:00)

Helsinki, Töölön Pallokenttä

2-0

Finland vs Norway

Friendly International

14 Sep 1924 13:30 (+2:00)

Helsinki, Töölön Pallokenttä

4-0

Finland vs Estonia

Friendly International

07 Jun 1925 12:30 (+1:00)

Oslo, Gressbanen ved Holmen i Aker

1-0

Norway vs Finland

Friendly International

09 Jun 1925 19:15 (+1:00)

Gothenburg, Slottsskogsvallen

4-0

Sweden vs Finland

Friendly International

10 Jul 1925 19:00 (+2:00)

Helsinki, Töölön Pallokenttä

1-2

Finland vs Austria

Friendly International

1(1p.)х

09 Aug 1925 18:00 (+2:00)

Helsinki, Töölön Pallokenttä

3-1

Finland vs Latvia

Friendly International

1х

30 Aug 1925 13:00 (+2:00)

Helsinki, Töölön Pallokenttä

2-2

Finland vs Poland

Friendly International

27 Sep 1925 14:00 (+1:00)

Aarhus, Aarhus Stadion

3-3

Denmark vs Finland

Friendly International

2х

06 Jun 1926 18:00 (+2:00)

Helsinki, Töölön Pallokenttä

2-5

Finland vs Norway

Friendly International

Comments

Milosh1983 Serbia - Error report posted on 13 February 2020 at 18:00:33

full name is Verner Edmund Eklöf
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db Ukraine - Other notes posted on 13 February 2020 at 19:26:53

In May 1920, he was still in HIFK (link:

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Finland football fixtures

Verner Eklöf's most often teammates

Eino Soinio (1919 - 1925) - 28 games
Hjalmar Kelin (1920 - 1926) - 26 games
Niilo Tammisalo (1919 - 1926) - 25 games
Sven Lydman (1921 - 1926) - 21 games
Kalle Fallström (1923 - 1926) - 15 games
Hugo Mantila (1919 - 1923) - 15 games

Finland players born on 19 April

Hugo Kuhlberg (1902) - 2 caps
Sulo Saario (1906) - 9 caps, 3 goals
Juhani Himanka (1956) - 22 caps, 3 goals
Anders Eriksson (1965) - 15 caps, 1 goal
Jussi Jääskeläinen (1975) - 56 caps
Ville Väisänen (1977) - 5 caps, 1 goal
Ville Jalasto (1986) - 8 caps