Tommi Tiilikainen

Tommi Tiilikainen (born in 1987) is a Finnish volleyball coach and former volleyball player. Despite his young age, he is regarded by a number of players, coaches, and commentators as one of the greatest and most successful managers in Finnish volleyball. In 2016 Tiilikainen won his third Finnish volleyball league championships and led club Tiikerit to the third Finnish Cup gold.

In four years coaching the Tigers of Kokkola, he won Finnish volleyball league champion three times (2013, 2014, and 2016) and Finnish volleyball Cup three times. At the age of 25 Tiilikainen was the youngest coach ever to manage the Finnish volleyball league team. He was only 25 years old when he led Tigers to the Finnish championship, which made him the youngest coach ever in any Finnish national sports league history who has coached a club to the championship.

Tiilikainen started his coaching career in Kuortane sports training center at the age of 23. Tiikerit made a huge winning streak by winning 35 games in a row. They did not lose a singlene game in the playoffs in the 2014–15 and 2015-16 seasons.

At 2017/18season Tiilikainen move to the Toyoda Gosei Trefuerza as the first coach.

Playing career

Tiilikainen was a talented volleyball player. His junior career was successful. Tiilikainen played on the Finnish boys' national team and was elected at the age of 19 to the Finnish men's volleyball team. Unfortunately at the same time a back injury interrupted his career. Doctors did not find any kind of conclusions to improve his back and Tiilikainen was forced to end his playing career in 2006. All-time record at earned points in Finnish volleyball league during a season 2015-16 All-time record without losing a single game in playoffs seasons 2014-15 and 2015-16

Coaching career 2010-12 Finnish boys' national team 2012-16 Kokkolan Tiikerit (i.e. Tigers of Kokkola) 2016-17 SW Duren 2017-21 Toyoda Gosei Trefuerza 2021- Incheon Korean Air Jumbos