Kari Virtanen (born 15 September 1958) is a Finnish football manager and former player.
Virtanen represented Team Finland in the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow, Soviet Union.
As a manager Virtanen has been working with teams in different tiers of Finnish football league system.
In the following season RoPS also won Finnish Cup for the second time in their history.
IFK Mariehamn won Veikkausliiga for the first time in history that season.