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Kevin Stuhr Ellegaard
Personal information
Full name Kevin Stuhr Ellegaard
Date of birth (1983-05-23) 23 May 1983 (age 41)
Place of birth Copenhagen, Denmark
Height 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Helsingør
Number 1
Youth career
Brøndby[1]
Hvidovre[1]
BSV[1]
KB[1]
Farum[1]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2005 Manchester City[2] 4 (0)
2005 → Blackpool (loan)[2] 2 (0)
2005–2007 Hertha BSC[4] 2 (0)
2005–2007 → Hertha BSC II 32 (0)
2007–2010 Randers[5] 95 (0)
2010–2011 Heerenveen 28 (0)
2012–2019 IF Elfsborg 216 (0)
2020– Helsingør 21 (0)
International career
1998–1999 Denmark U16[3] 6 (0)
1999–2000 Denmark U17[3] 17 (0)
2000–2002 Denmark U19[3] 7 (0)
2003–2004 Denmark U20[3] 6 (0)
2004–2006 Denmark U21[3] 20 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 January 2021

Kevin Stuhr Ellegaard (né Kevin Stuhr Larsen,[6] born 23 May 1983) is a Danish professional footballer who plays for FC Helsingør as a goalkeeper.

He has played for Manchester City and Blackpool in England, as well as German club Hertha BSC and Dutch club SC Heerenveen.

Ellegaard has played 56 games for various Danish youth selections, including 20 games for the Denmark national under-21 football team. He has been selected several times for the Denmark national squad, but has not appeared in a match.

Club career

Born in Copenhagen, Ellegaard spent his youth years in various Zealand clubs. In July 2002 he moved from Farum BK to Manchester City.[2] In the 2003–04 season, he made two full appearances and two substitute appearances for the club in the league, replacing David Seaman both times when coming on as a substitute.[2] He was loaned out to Blackpool FC for a month in January 2005, where he played two league matches in Football League One.[2] Stuhr-Ellegaard moved to Germany to play for Hertha BSC in summer 2005. He had a hard time forcing his way into the starting line-up, and only played two Bundesliga games for the team.[4] He moved to Danish club Randers FC as a free agent in the summer 2007.

In his first half season with Randers, Ellegaard only conceded 15 goals in 18 matches. He went on to play all Randers games in his first two seasons with the club, helping Randers finish sixth in the 2007–08 and fifth in the 2008–09 Superliga season.[5] In the 2009–10 Superliga season, Ellegaard conceded 15 goals in the first seven games, and was dropped from the starting line-up by coach John Jensen in August.[5] As Randers' results did not improve with new goalkeeper Nathan Coe, Ellegaard was reinstated in October 2009,[5] and only conceded eight goals in the 16-game unbeaten run that secured Randers FC another season in the top flight. Ellegaard and Randers decided to part their ways in June 2010, as they could not agree on a new contract.

In season 2010–11, the Netherlands top club SC Heerenveen had big problems with their goalkeepers, so they decided that they needed to contract a new goalie for a short period. The first-keeper Brian Vandenbussche got injured during a training session, which left Heerenveen with only one goalie, Kenny Steppe. Heerenveen gave Ellegaard a trial at the club, which led to him signing a one-year contract. In the beginning, Heerenveen saw him as a second-keeper behind Steppe, but Ellegard impressed so much in training that the trainer Ron Jans made him first-choice. Despite Ellegard playing 28 matches and impressing both the audience and the trainers with his play, they decided not to renew his contract, because Vandenbussche was coming back from his injury.

On 23 January 2012, Ellegaard signed a three-year contract with Swedish club IF Elfsborg as a free agent.

On 24 January 2020, Ellegaard returned to Denmark and signed with Danish 2nd Division club FC Helsingør.[7] He reached promotion to the Danish 1st Division in his first six months with the club.[8]

International career

He made his debut for the Danish under-16 youth national team in September 1998, and went on to represent various youth national teams for a combined total of 56 games.[3] He made his debut for the Denmark under-21 national football team in September 2004,[3] and represented the team at the 2006 Under-21 European Championship tournament in May 2006.

While at Manchester City, Ellegaard served as a stand-in for Thomas Sørensen in the initial Denmark national football team training sessions ahead of the 2004 European Championship.[9] He was not a part of the Danish squad at the tournament. In the fall of 2007, while playing for Randers, Ellegaard was called up as the Danish third choice goalkeeper due to the injury of Jesper Christiansen.[10] In August 2008, Ellegaard was called up for the national team again, due to a new Jesper Christiansen injury.[11]

Honours

  • Swedish Allsvenskan champion 2012, IF Elfsborg
  • Swedish Svenska cupen champion 2014, IF Elfsborg
  • Player of the year 2007–08 in Randers FC
  • Eredivisie: ING Fair Play-reward
  • Denmark's best penalty keeper – Recent statistics showed that out of 29 Danish keepers, Ellegaard is the best one in saving penalties, making him a penalty specialist. He is known for his "double save" in a penalty against AFC Ajax. He had a fantastic 45% rate in penalty saves, which made him the best Danish penalty keeper.

Statistics

Season Club Country Competition Apps. Goals
2003–04 Manchester City England Premier League 4 0
2004–05 Manchester City
Blackpool		 England Premier League
Football League One		 0
2		 0
0
2005–06 Hertha BSC Germany Bundesliga 2 0
2006–07 Hertha BSC II Germany Bundesliga 32 0
2007–08 Randers FC Denmark Danish Superliga 33 0
2008–09 Randers FC Denmark Danish Superliga 33 0
2009–10 Randers FC Denmark Danish Superliga 29 0
2010–11 SC Heerenveen Netherlands Eredivisie 28 0
2012 IF Elfsborg Sweden Allsvenskan 19 0
2013 IF Elfsborg Sweden Allsvenskan 29 0
2014 IF Elfsborg Sweden Allsvenskan 28 0
Total 239 0

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Randers FC profile". Archived from the original on 23 November 2007.
  2. ^ a b c d e Kevin Stuhr Ellegaard at Soccerbase
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Kevin Stuhr-Ellegaard - Alle hold (Alle kampe)" (in Danish). Danish Football Association. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  4. ^ a b "Kevin Stuhr-Ellegaard" (in German). fussballdaten.de. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  5. ^ a b c d "Danmarksturneringen, Superligaen, spillerstatistik - Kevin Stuhr-Ellegaard" (in Danish). Danish Football Association. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  6. ^ "Kevin Stuhr-Ellegaard" (in Danish). dbu.dk. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  7. ^ Kevin Stuhr Ellegaard vender hjem til dansk klub, bt.dk, 24 January 2020
  8. ^ Schmidt, Martin (4 July 2020). "Helsingør rykker op efter gyser i Jammerbugt". www.bold.dk. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  9. ^ Berendt, Lars (24 May 2004). "Gæstespil i Vedbæk" (in Danish). Danish Football Association. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  10. ^ Berendt, Lars (8 September 2007). "Thomas Sørensen på mål mod Sverige" (in Danish). Danish Football Association. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  11. ^ Berendt, Lars (31 August 2008). "Resterende otte spillere klar til landsholdet" (in Danish). Danish Football Association. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
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