Aapo Halme

Aapo Ilmari Halme (born 22 May 1998) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for English EFL Championship club Barnsley. He also represents the Finland national under-21 football team. Halme was born in Helsinki, Finland. He began his senior club career playing for Honka, before signing with HJK Helsinki at age 17 in 2015.

Formerly an international at under-16, under-17, under-18, under-19, under-20 and under-21 level. Halme was nominated to Finland´s preliminary UEFA Euro 2020 team but he did not make it to the final squad.

Club Career

Early career

Halme started his youth career at FC Honka, making 1 senior appearance before joining Klubi-04, where he made 15 appearances and scored 1 goal.

HJK Helsinki

The winners of the 2015 Finnish League Cup HJK Helsinki brought in Halme from Klubi-04 on a 3-year deal expiring at the end of the 2018 season as stated in his contractual obligation. He made 29 league appearances, over three seasons with the club, scoring 1 goal.

Leeds United

On 3 January 2018, Halme signed for Leeds United from Finnish side HJK Helsinki on a four-year contract for an unknown fee, reported to be less than £500,000. He became the fourth Finnish player to sign for Leeds after Sebastian Sorsa, Mika Vayrynen and Mikael Forssell.

However, Halme picked up a serious foot injury during one of his first training sessions at Leeds in January, the injury ruled him out for the remainder of the season. After nearly nine months out injured, on 27 August 2018, Halme made his first appearance for the club representing Leeds Under 23's against Queens Park Rangers' Development squad.

On 23 November 2018, Leeds First Team Head Coach Marcelo Bielsa gave Halme special praise after returning from his long injury layoff. He made his debut on 24 November 2018 in the EFL Championship against Bristol City in a 2–0 win, after being named in the starting lineup after an injury to

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