Teemu Pukki calls it a career

Pukki's name will forever be tied to Norwich City. According to BBC Sport, he arrived at Carrow Road in 2018 as a relative unknown after a modest Championship stint at Brøndby, and within a year he'd scored 29 league goals to fire the Canaries to the Premier League title. That tally remains the stuff of club legend, and it set up a Premier League run that nobody outside Norwich gave him much chance of surviving.

He did more than survive it. Pukki became one of the most reliable finishers English football's top flight saw in that era of yo-yo Norwich seasons, a striker who thrived on scraps and half-chances in a side that spent most of its time defending. BBC Sport also reports a later spell at Celtic, adding a Scottish chapter to a CV that already spanned Denmark and England.

The international record that tells the real story

While English fans knew him as Norwich's unlikely saviour, Finland fans knew him as something closer to a national institution. Pukki won 111 caps for his country, according to BBC Sport, a number that puts him among the most durable international careers in European football, let alone Finnish football. He was the face of a Finland side that spent decades on the outside of major tournaments before finally breaking through, and he carried that weight for the best part of two decades.

There was never anything flashy about how he did it. No stepovers, no viral skills reel. Just a striker who knew where the ball was going to end up before anyone else in the box did, and who kept doing it well into his thirties.

A cult figure built on substance, not noise

What made Pukki a cult figure at Norwich wasn't charisma or controversy, it was consistency in a club that rarely offered any. Supporters built chants around him, pubs near Carrow Road still have his name on the walls, and for a club that has bounced between divisions for most of the last decade, he was the one constant worth turning up for.

His final club numbers and what comes next haven't been detailed, but the shape of the story is already clear: a late bloomer who became a Premier League folk hero at Norwich, added a spell at Celtic, and went home to Finland as its record appearance-maker.