Pauli Jørgensen

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Pauli Jørgensen

Full name	Pauli Jørgensen
Date of birth	December 4, 1905
Place of birth	Frederiksberg, Denmark
Date of death	October 3, 1993 (aged 87)
Playing position	Centre forward
Youth clubs
1916-1917 1918-1919	B 1908 Boldklubben Frem
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1920-1923 1924-1942	Boldklubben Fix Boldklubben Frem	283
National team
1925-1939	Denmark	47 (44)
Teams managed
1943-1944	Boldklubben Frem
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Pauli Jørgensen (December 4, 1905 in Frederiksberg - October 30, 1993) was a Danish national and international football centre forward and club manager.

Jørgensen played 283 matches for Boldklubben Frem between 1924 and 1942 and became Danish champion with Frem in 1931, 1933, 1936, and 1941. In the 1936-37 season he topped the score table with 19 goals. He won the Danish championship as a manager for Frem in 1944. He played 47 international matches for Denmark, including 12 as captain and scored 44 goals between 1925 and 1939. Furthermore Jørgensen played around 75 matches for the Copenhagen representative team Stævnet.

Pauli Jørgensen was honoured as the Danish football player who had meant the most for the game of football in Denmark during the first 50 years of Dansk Boldspil Union (DBU). In his eighties he made the Guinness book of records as the oldest active football player in Denmark.