Juha Malinen (born 16 July 1958) is a Finnish football coach with a total of 20 seasons at the highest level.

He was coming to the end of his short career as a football player in 1978 when he decided to enroll as a student at the University of Oulu Department of Education.

In 1986 Malinen found a job at Kastelli Sports Gymnasium (secondary education) as the school's football coach.

Ville Nylund and Aarno Turpeinen, who later became core players of top team in Finland, HJK Helsinki, were also at Kastelli.

The Kastelli football team was unexpectedly successful in 1989 when it qualified for the School World Championships 1989, held in Florence, Italy.

Malinen's "brickwall" -tactic was a good match with inexperienced Finns, which didn't lose any games, but were still knocked out in second stage by France (Auxerre academy) with penalties.

After about four years of coaching the national teams Malinen wanted to get back into more rapid life of club football.

With emerging talents such as Berat Sadik, Pyry Kärkkäinen, Medo and Patrick Bantamoi, KuPS won their first Finnish League Cup in 2006, but ended the year with relegation, which saw the departure of Malinen.