He has served as assistant coach to Hokiklub Budapest in the German Women's Ice Hockey League (DFEL) since 2024.
Väärälä was previously head coach of KalPa Naiset in the Naisten Liiga (NSML) during the 2022–23 and 2023–24 seasons.
Moving to Austria in 2013, he helmed the Austrian national under-18 team for two seasons, achieving promotion to Division I in the 2014 IIHF Women's U18 World Championship.
[3] During the 2018–19 season, Väärälä made his first foray into coaching men as head coach of the representative ice hockey team of Kapfenberger SV (KSV) in the Österreichische Amateur Hockey Liga (ÖAEL) and won the 2019 ÖAEL Championship.
[5] His wife, Esther Väärälä (née Kantor), holds the record for most games played with the Austrian women's national ice hockey team.