David Nielsen

David Nielsen
Nielsen in 2008
Personal information
Full name David Jean Nielsen
Date of birth (1976-12-01) 1 December 1976 (age 47)
Place of birth Skagen, Denmark
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
1982–1992 Skagen
1992–1993 Frederikshavn
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–1996 OB 9 (2)
1996Lyngby (loan) 13 (10)
1996–1997 Fortuna Düsseldorf 13 (1)
1997–2001 Copenhagen 108 (36)
2000–2001Grimsby Town (loan) 16 (5)
2001–2002 Wimbledon 23 (4)
2001–2002Norwich City (loan) 5 (5)
2002–2003 Norwich City 21 (3)
2003–2005 AaB 40 (17)
2005–2006 Midtjylland 30 (8)
2006–2007 Start 13 (5)
2007 OB 14 (3)
2008Strømsgodset (loan) 23 (9)
2009–2010 Brann 33 (4)
2011 Fyllingen 0 (0)
Total 361 (112)
International career
1992 Denmark U16 3 (3)
1991–1992 Denmark U17 21 (14)
1993–1995 Denmark U19 18 (13)
1996–1997 Denmark U21 8 (3)
Managerial career
2011 Løv-Ham (assistant)
2011–2013 Nest-Sotra
2014 Strømsgodset (assistant)
2014–2015 Strømsgodset
2015–2017 Lyngby
2017–2022 AGF
2023–2024 Kifisia
2024 Lyngby
2024– Lillestrøm (interim)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

David Jean Nielsen (born 1 December 1976) is a Danish professional football manager, most recently in charge of Lyngby, and former player.

He played for a number of Danish clubs, as well as Fortuna Düsseldorf in Germany and English clubs Grimsby Town, Wimbledon and Norwich City. His greatest triumph was the 1997 Danish Cup victory, which he won with Danish club Copenhagen. He played 46 matches and scored 33 goals for various Danish youth national teams between 1992 and 1997, including eight games and three goals for the Denmark U21 national team.

Nielsen has attracted controversy at various times in his career for falling into serious gambling debt, assaulting a teammate and then, in November 2008, admitting matchfixing in a Danish game played in 2004.


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