Denmark national football team statistics

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The Denmark national football team statistics show the accomplishments of the players and coaches of the Denmark national football team managers ever since the controlling organ of the team, the Danish Football Association (DBU), started registering official games at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

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[edit] Most capped

Main article: List of Denmark international footballers

As of March 24, 2007, the ten players with the most caps for Denmark are:

# Name Career Caps Goals
1 Peter Schmeichel* 1987-2001 129 1
2 Michael Laudrup 1982-1998 104 37
= Thomas Helveg 1994- 104 2
4 Morten Olsen 1970-1989 102 4
5 John Sivebæk* 1982-1992 87 1
= Jon Dahl Tomasson 1997- 87 45
7 Jan Heintze 1987-2002 86 4
8 Lars Olsen* 1986-1996 84 4
9 Brian Laudrup* 1987-1998 82 21
10 Martin Jørgensen 1998- 78 12

Players still playing or available for selection are in bold. * denotes members of the 1992 European Championship-winning team.

[edit] Goalscorers

As of March 24, 2007, the goalscoring statistics are:

[edit] Most goals

# Player Career Goals Caps Goals/cap
1 Poul "Tist" Nielsen 1910-1925 52 38 1.37
2 Jon Dahl Tomasson 1997- 45 86 0.52
3 Pauli Jørgensen 1925-1939 44 47 0.94
4 Ole Madsen 1958-1969 42 50 0.84
5 Preben Elkjær 1977-1988 38 69 0.55
6 Michael Laudrup 1982-1998 37 104 0.36
7 Henning Enoksen 1958-1966 29 54 0.54
8 Ebbe Sand 1998-2004 22 66 0.33
= Michael Rohde 1915-1931 22 40 0.55
10 Brian Laudrup* 1987-1998 21 82 0.27
= Flemming Povlsen* 1987-1994 21 62 0.34

Players still playing or available for selection are in bold. * denotes members of the 1992 European Championship-winning team.

[edit] Highest coefficient

Only people with at least five goals have been included.

# Player Career Goals/cap Goals Caps
1 Poul "Tist" Nielsen 1910-1925 1.37 52 38
2 Erik Dyreborg 1967 1.33 8 6
3 John Hansen 1948 1.25 10 8
4 Kaj Christiansen 1943-1948 1.20 6 5
5 Harald Nielsen 1959-1960 1.07 15 14
6 Iver Schriver 1971 1.00 5 5
7 Pauli Jørgensen 1925-1939 0.94 44 47
8 Anthon Olsen 1912-1927 0.88 14 16
9 Ole Madsen 1958-1969 0.84 42 50
10 Sophus "Krølben" Nielsen 1908-1919 0.80 16 20

[edit] Team captains

As of March 24, 2007, the ten players with the most caps as Danish team captains are:

# Player Captain years Caps (Total) Coefficient
1 Lars Olsen* 1987-1994 69 (84) 82.1%
2 Morten Olsen 1980-1989 50 (102) 49.0%
3 Per Røntved 1972-1982 38 (75) 50.7%
4 Peter Schmeichel* 1996-2001 30 (129) 23.3%
5 Ole Madsen 1962-1969 28 (51) 54.9%
= Michael Laudrup 1994-1998 28 (104) 25.7%
7 Knud Lundberg 1947-1956 27 (39) 69.2%
8 Fritz Tarp 1923-1934 26 (44) 59.1%
9 René Henriksen 2002-2004 25 (66) 37.9%
10 Henning Munk Jensen 1975-1978 24 (62) 38.7%

Players still playing or available for selection are in bold. * denotes members of the 1992 European Championship-winning team.

[edit] Managers

As of March 24, 2007, the management statistics are:

Note that not all matches played by the Denmark national football team have had a manager assigned.

Name Years Played Won Drawn Lost GF[1] GA[2] Win %
Charles Williams 1908-1910 4 3 0 1 28 4 75.0%
Axel Andersen Byrval 1913-1915
1917-1918		 16 14 1 1 68 12 87.5%
John Carr (caretaker) 1920 1 0 0 1 0 1 0.0%
Edward Magner (caretaker) 1939 2 2 0 0 11 3 100.0%
Sophus Nielsen (caretaker) 1940 2 0 2 0 4 4 0.0%
J.D. Butler (caretaker) 1946 2 1 0 1 4 3 50.0%
Axel Bjerregaard & Ove Bøje (caretakers) 1948 3 2 0 1 12 2 66.7%
Robert Mountford (caretaker) 1948 4 3 0 1 15 11 75.0%
Axel Bjerregaard (caretaker) 1952 3 2 0 1 7 6 66.7%
Alf Young (caretaker) 1956 1 0 0 1 1 2 0.0%
Lajos Szendrödi (caretaker) 1956 1 0 1 0 1 1 0.0%
Arne Sørensen 1956-1961 41 20 8 13 94 78 48.8%
Poul Petersen 1962-1966 47 17 8 22 85 94 36.2%
Erik Hansen & Ernst Netuka (caretaker) 1967 8 4 2 2 29 11 50.0%
Erik Hansen & Henry From (caretaker) 1968-1969 11 4 1 6 21 17 36.4%
John Hansen & Henry From (caretaker) 1969 9 5 1 3 20 12 55.6%
Rudi Strittich 1970-1975 61 20 11 30 80 102 32.8%
Kurt "Nikkelaj" Nielsen 1976-1979 31 13 6 12 55 45 41.9%
Sepp Piontek 1979-1990 115 52 24 39 167 123 45.2%
Richard Møller Nielsen 1987-1988[3]
1990-1996		 73 40 18 15 116 55 54.8%
Bo Johansson 1996-2000 40 17 9 14 51 43 42.5%
Morten Olsen[4] 2000-present 73 42 20 11 133 67 57.5%
Managers total 1908-present 548 261 112 175 1002 696 47.6%
no manager various[5] 169 73 25 71 366 331 43.2%
Grand total 1908-present 717 334 137 246 1368 1027 46.6%

[edit] Matches

Main article: List of Denmark national football team results

Note that Average points per game is calculated by using 3 points for a win and 1 point for a draw.

Decade Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Diff %Won %Drawn %Lost Average Points
per game
1900s 3 2 0 1 26 3 +23 67% 0% 33% 2.0
1910s 30 23 1 6 108 33 +75 77% 3% 20% 2.3
1920s 40 17 9 14 75 61 +14 43% 23% 35% 1.5
1930s 46 21 5 20 119 99 +20 46% 11% 43% 1.5
1940s 42 21 7 14 105 76 +29 50% 17% 33% 1.7
1950s 72
1960s 91
1970s 97
1980s 115
1990s 102
2000s 77
Total 715

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^  GF = Goals for
  2. ^  GA = Goals against
  3. ^  Richard Møller Nielsen coached 8 games in the 1988 Summer Olympics qualifications campaign, winning 6, drawing 1 and losing 1, with the combined score 25-3.
  4. ^  [6] Last updated March 24, 2007.
  5. ^  In all 169 matches, played through 1911-12 (5 matches), 1916 (4), 1919-20 (6), 1920-38 (77), 1939 (4), 1940-45 (12), 1946-47 (10), 1948-52 (24), 1952-56 (24), 1957 (1), 1959 (1) and 1961 (1).

[edit] External links

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