# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jukka-santala
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:35:07.243Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jukka-santala"
name: "Jukka Santala"
slug: "jukka-santala"
description: "Jukka Santala is a Finnish former footballer who played as a striker. He returned to Finland after few years playing abroad. He had a trial with the Finnish Veikkausliiga side HJK Helsinki., but he chose to take a contract from FC Haka. While contracted to Rangers in Scotland he spent a short period at Partick Thistle. He left Rangers in January 2006 to join Nordsjælland."
tagline: "Finnish footballer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jukka_Santala_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1985-09-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.28
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.268430666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukka_Santala"
    title: "Jukka Santala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "چوكا سانتالا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukka_Santala"
    title: "Jukka Santala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukka_Santala"
    title: "Jukka Santala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukka_Santala"
    title: "Jukka Santala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukka_Santala"
    title: "Jukka Santala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3292591"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump