Lasse Schöne

Lasse Schöne

Schöne training with Denmark in 2014
Personal information
Full name	Lasse Schöne
Date of birth	(1986-05-27) 27 May 1986
Place of birth	Glostrup, Denmark
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Ajax
Number	20
Youth career
	Lyngby
2002–2006	Heerenveen
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2006–2008	De Graafschap	70	(12)
2008–2012	NEC	107	(24)
2012–	Ajax	171	(44)
International career‡
2001	Denmark U16	3	(1)
2002–2003	Denmark U17	6	(0)
2003–2004	Denmark U18	4	(1)
2007–2008	Denmark U21	9	(1)
2009–	Denmark	32	(3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 March 2018 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 25 October 2017

Lasse Schöne (born 27 May 1986) is a Danish professional footballer currently playing for Dutch club Ajax and the Denmark national team as a midfielder or winger.

Schöne has spent his entire professional career in the Netherlands, with De Graafschap, NEC and Ajax, scoring over 60 league goals.

Schöne scored on his full international debut in 2009 and was part of the Danish squad at UEFA Euro 2012.

Club career

De Graafschap

Born in Glostrup, Schöne began playing youth football with Himmelev-Veddelev BK and moved on to B70 and then Lyngby. In 2002, he moved to the youth team of Eredivisie club Heerenveen. He spent four years with the team without playing any league matches, and moved to Eerste Divisie club De Graafschap in 2006. In his first season, he helped De Graafschap win promotion to the Eredivisie. In his two seasons with De Graafschap, he scored 12 goals in 70 matches.

N.E.C.

Schöne signed for NEC in the summer of 2008. He scored the winning goal for NEC away at Spartak Moscow in December 2008, which sent the team through to the next round of the UEFA Cup. The club and the fans picked him as NEC's player of the year, a title he also won at his previous club, De Graafschap.

Ajax

On 18 April 2012, Schöne joined Ajax on a contract valid until 2015. In so doing, Schöne joined the ranks of a number of Danish players to play for Ajax, including Michael Laudrup, who had been a role model for him throughout his career. The club and the fans picked him as the player of the year in 2014. On 2 March 2015, he signed a new contract lasting until summer 2017. On 22 February 2017, he signed a new contract lasting until summer 2019.

International career

Youth

Schöne began his international career with the Denmark national under-16 team, scoring a goal on his debut in August 2001. He played a total of ten matches and scored one goal for the under-17 and under-18 teams from July 2002 to March 2004. After he joined De Graafschap, Schöne made his debut for the under-21 team in March 2007. He played a total nine matches and scored one goal for the under-21s until October 2008.

Senior

On 12 August 2009, Schöne made an immediate impact on his debut for the Denmark senior team in a friendly against Chile, when he scored less than a minute after being put into action in the second half. The goal was the equaliser in an eventual 1–2 loss at the Brøndby Stadium.

In May 2018 he was named in Denmark’s preliminary 35-man squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Career statistics

Club

As of 18 March 2018

Schöne lining up for Ajax in March 2015

Club	Season	League			KNVB Cup		Continental1		Other2		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Heerenveen	2005–06	Eredivisie	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
De Graafschap	2006–07	Eerste Divisie	36	5	2	1	-	-	-	-	38	6
	2007–08	Eredivisie	34	7	2	3	-	-	-	-	36	10
	Total		70	12	4	4	0	0	0	0	74	16
NEC	2008–09	Eredivisie	34	6	4	4	7	1	-	-	45	11
	2009–10		5	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	5	0
	2010–11		34	7	1	1	-	-	-	-	35	8
	2011–12		34	11	4	2	-	-	2	1	40	14
	Total		107	24	9	7	7	1	2	1	125	33
Ajax	2012–13	Eredivisie	32	6	4	1	7	0	1	0	44	7
	2013–14		29	9	5	3	6	2	1	0	41	14
	2014–15		29	8	0	0	8	3	1	0	36	11
	2015–16		24	4	2	0	7	1	0	0	33	5
	2016–17		27	7	2	1	14	1	0	0	40	9
	2017–18		24	10	2	0	3	1	0	0	29	11
	Total		165	44	15	5	45	8	3	0	228	57
Career total			342	80	28	16	52	9	5	1	427	106

¹ Includes UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League matches.

² Includes Johan Cruyff Shield matches.

Reserves performance

Club performance			League		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Netherlands			League		Total
2014–15	Jong Ajax	Eerste Divisie	1	0	1	0
Total	Netherlands		1	0	1	0
Career total			1	0	1	0

International

Schöne playing for Denmark in 2012

Denmark national team
Year	Apps	Goals
2009	1	1
2010	1	0
2011	6	1
2012	5	0
2013	3	0
2014	4	1
2015	2	0
2016	5	0
2017	5	0
Total	32	3

As of 25 Oktober 2017

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	12 August 2009	Brøndby Stadion, Copenhagen, Denmark	Chile	1–1	1–2	Friendly match
2.	4 June 2011	Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík, Iceland	Iceland	0–1	0–2	UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying Group H
3.	22 May 2014	Nagyerdei Stadion, Debrecen, Hungary	Hungary	2–2	2–2	Friendly match

Honours

Club

De Graafschap

• Eerste Divisie (1): 2006–07

Ajax

• Eredivisie (2): 2012–13, 2013–14
• Johan Cruyff Shield (1): 2013
• Eusébio Cup (1): 2014
• UEFA Europa League: runners-up 2016–17

Individual

• De Graafschap Player of the Year: 2007–08
• NEC Player of the Year: 2008–09
• AFC Ajax Player of the Year: 2014

External links

• Official Instagram
• National team profile
• Voetbal International profile Template:Nl icon
• De Graafschap profile