Denmark national under-21 football team

Denmark Under-21
	Shirt badge/Association crest
Association	Danish Football Association; (Dansk Boldspil-Union)
Head coach	Albert Capellas
Captain	Victor Nelsson
Most caps	Jonas Kamper (39)
Top scorer	Marcus Ingvartsen (17)
Home stadium	Aalborg Portland Park, Aalborg
First colours	Second colours
First international
	Denmark 0–2 Norway ; (Holstebro, Denmark; 25 August 1976)
Biggest win
	Denmark 9–0 Luxembourg ; (Farum, Denmark; 11 October 2002)
Biggest defeat
	Bulgaria 6–0 Denmark ; (Sofia, Bulgaria; 25 April 1989)
Olympic Games
Appearances	2 (first in 1992)
Best result	8th (2016)
UEFA U-21 Championship
Appearances	7 (first in 1978)
Best result	Semifinals (1992), (2015)

The Denmark national under-21 football team has played since 1976 and is controlled by the Danish Football Association. Before 1976, the age limit was 23 years.

Tournament record

UEFA European U-21 Championship

UEFA European Under-21 Championship record										UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D *	L	GF	GA	GD	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1978	Quarter-finals	5th	2	1	0	1	4	4	0	4	2	1	1	10	5	5
1980	Did not qualify									4	1	0	3	3	4	1
1982										4	1	2	1	4	4	0
1984										6	1	1	4	6	16	10
1986	Quarter-finals	7th	2	0	1	1	1	2	−1	6	3	2	1	11	7	4
1988	Did not qualify									6	2	2	2	7	6	1
1990	Did not qualify									6	2	1	3	9	14	5
1992	Semi-finals	4th	4	1	1	2	6	4	+2	6	4	2	0	21	4	17
1994	Did not qualify									8	4	0	4	12	9	3
1996										10	6	1	3	31	15	16
1998										8	5	1	2	16	9	7
2000										8	3	1	4	11	13	2
2002										10	4	3	3	18	12	6
2004										10	6	3	1	25	4	21
2006	Group stage	8th	3	0	2	1	5	6	−1	12	9	2	1	30	12	18
2007	Did not qualify									2	1	0	1	3	2	1
2009	Did not qualify									8	5	1	2	13	4	9
2011	Group stage	6th	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2	Qualified as hosts
2013	Did not qualify									8	4	4	0	19	8	11
2015	Semi-finals	3rd	4	2	0	2	5	8	−3	10	8	2	0	37	9	28
2017	Group stage	7th	3	1	0	2	4	7	−3	10	9	1	0	24	3	21
2019	Group stage		3	2	0	1	6	4	+2	10	7	2	1	30	8	22
Total	0 titles	8/22	24	8	4	12	34	40	−6	156	87	41	37	340	168	172

*Denotes draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

**Gold background colour indicates that the tournament was won.

***Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.

Summer Olympics

Year	Round	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
Until 1988	See Denmark national football team
Barcelona 1992	Group stage	3	0	2	1	1	4
Atlanta 1996	Did not qualify
Sydney 2000
Athens 2004
Beijing 2008
London 2012
Rio de Janeiro 2016	Quarter-finals	4	1	1	2	1	6
Tokyo 2020	Did not qualify
Total	2/7	7	1	3	3	2	10

UEFA Euro U-21 qualification

2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification group 8

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Denmark	10	8	2	0	21	9	+12	26	Final tournament	—	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–1	5–1
2	Romania	10	6	2	2	22	7	+15	20	Final tournament	1–1	—	3–0	4–1	3–0	4–1
3	Ukraine	10	5	1	4	17	11	+6	16		2–3	1–0	—	0–2	3–0	4–0
4	Finland	10	4	1	5	14	15	−1	13		0–1	1–3	0–2	—	1–1	4–0
5	Northern Ireland	10	2	3	5	7	13	−6	9		0–1	0–0	1–0	2–3	—	0–0
6	Malta	10	0	1	9	4	30	−26	1		1–3	0–3	1–4	0–1	0–2	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

2019

Results in 2019

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Ground	A	A	H	A	A	A	A	A	H	H	H	A	A	H
Result	W	D	W	W	L	L	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W

Updated to match(es) played on March 2019. Source: dbu.dk
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

16 January 2019 Friendly	Mexico	0–1	Denmark	Mexico City, Mexico
05.30		Report	Sørensen 48'	Stadium: Centro de Alto Rendimiento

19 January 2019 Friendly	Mexico	0–0	Denmark	Mexico City, Mexico
05.30		Report		Stadium: Centro de Alto Rendimiento

20 March 2019 Friendly	Denmark	3–2	Belgium	Slagelse, Denmark
06.30	Sørensen 35' Skov Olsen 47' Wind 90+3' Stage 90+4'	Report	Vanheusden 11' Mini 40' (o.g.) Amuzu 41'	Stadium: Slagelse Stadium

24 March 2019 Friendly	France	0–1	Denmark	Brest, France
06.30		Report	Abildgaard 46'	Stadium: Stade Francis-Le Blé

12 June 2019 Friendly	Croatia	1–0	Denmark	Pula, Croatia
12.00	Bašić 90+2'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Aldo Drosina Attendance: 830

17 June 2019 2019 UEFA EC	Germany	3–1	Denmark	Udine, Italy
21:00	Richter 28', 52' Waldschmidt 65'	Report	Skov 73' (pen.)	Stadium: Stadio Friuli Attendance: 7,131 Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)

20 June 2019 2019 UEFA EC	Denmark	3–1	Austria	Udine, Italy
18:30	Mæhle 33', 77' Olsen 90+3'	Report	Lienhart 47'	Stadium: Dacia Arena Attendance: 7,297 Referee: Georgi Kabakov (Bulgaria)

23 June 2019 2019 UEFA EC	Denmark	2–0	Serbia	Trieste, Italy
21:00	Bruun Larsen 21' Rasmussen 51'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Nereo Rocco Attendance: 4,543 Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)

6 September 2019 Friendly	Denmark	0–0	Hungary	Aalborg, Denmark
18:30	Alves Ibsen 85' Hjulmand 88'	Report		Stadium: Aalborg Stadium

10 September 2019 2021 UEFA EC Qualification	Denmark	2–1	Romania	Aalborg, Denmark
18:30	Skov Olsen 3', 55' Hjulmand 18' Nartey 41'	Report	Coman 55' Coman 82' Velisar 86'	Stadium: Aalborg Stadium Attendance: 1720 Referee: Erez Papir (Israel)

10 October 2019 2021 UEFA EC Qualification	Denmark	2–1	Northern Ireland	Aalborg, Denmark
18:00	Poulsen 30' Bruun Larsen 66' Odgaard 86' Odgaard 92'	Report	J. Dunwoody 57' E. Toal 66' C. Marron 67'	Stadium: Aalborg Stadium Attendance: 647 Referee: Donatas Rumšas (Lithuania)

14 October 2019 2021 UEFA EC Qualification	Finland	0–1	Denmark	Pori, Finland
19:00	Sundman 5' Halme 87'	Report	Nartey 9' Nartey 12'	Stadium: Pori Stadium Attendance: 1527 Referee: Peter Kralovic (Slovakia)

15 November 2019 2021 UEFA EC Qualification	Ukraine	2–3	Denmark	Lviv, Ukraine
17:30	Shaparenko 36' Rusyn 63' Heorhiy Tsitaishvili 73' Korniyenko 79' Rusyn 90'	Report	Skov Olsen 5', 24', 59' Nartey 49' Bech Sørensen 72' Poulsen 74'	Stadium: Arena Lviv Attendance: 17321 Referee: Adrien Jaccottet (Switzerland)

19 November 2019 2021 UEFA EC Qualification	Denmark	5–1	Malta	Aalborg, Denmark
18:00	Bruun Larsen 1', 40' Nelsson 4' Odgaard 15' Skov Olsen 67'	Report	Pulis 44' Guillaumier 40'	Stadium: Aalborg Stadium Attendance: 1051 Referee: Luis Teixeira (Andorra)

2020

Results in 2020

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6
Ground	A	A	H	A	A	H
Result	W

Updated to match(es) played on March 2019. Source: dbu.dk
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

12 January 2020 Friendly	Denmark	3–1	Slovakia	Belek, Turkey
15.00	Lindstrøm 6' Holse 22' Okkels 30'	Report	Baumgartner 74'	Stadium: Calista Sports Center Attendance: 50

31 March 2020 2021 UEFA EC Qualification	Romania	v	Denmark	Romania
		Report

4 September 2020 2021 UEFA EC Qualification	Denmark	v	Ukraine	Aalborg, Denmark
18.00		Report		Stadium: Aalborg Stadium

8 September 2020 2021 UEFA EC Qualification	Northern Ireland	v	Denmark	Northern Ireland
		Report

9 October 2020 2021 UEFA EC Qualification	Malta	v	Denmark	Malta
		Report

13 October 2020 2021 UEFA EC Qualification	Denmark	v	Finland	Aalborg, Denmark
		Report		Stadium: Aalborg Stadium

Current squad

The following players were called up for a friendly game in Turkey against Slovakia in January 2020.

Caps and goals as of 22 February 2020.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Oliver Christensen	(1999-03-22) 22 March 1999 (age 25)	5	0	OB
16	1GK	Peter Vindahl Jensen	(1998-02-16) 16 February 1998 (age 26)	3	0	Nordsjælland

	2DF	Daniel Anyembe	(1998-07-22) 22 July 1998 (age 25)	6	0	Esbjerg
	2DF	Frederik Alves Ibsen	(1999-11-08) 8 November 1999 (age 24)	2	0	Silkeborg
	2DF	Japhet Sery	(2000-04-10) 10 April 2000 (age 24)	2	0	Brentford
	2DF	Kasper Jørgensen	(1999-11-07) 7 November 1999 (age 24)	1	0	Lyngby BK
	2DF	Luka Racic	(1999-05-08) 8 May 1999 (age 25)	1	0	Brentford
	2DF	Lukas Klitten	(2000-05-01) 1 May 2000 (age 24)	1	0	AaB
	2DF	Nikolas Dyhr	(2001-06-16) 16 June 2001 (age 22)	1	0	FC Midtjylland

	3MF	Emil Frederiksen	(2000-09-05) 5 September 2000 (age 23)	1	0	SC Heerenveen
	3MF	Jakob Sørensen	(1998-03-03) 3 March 1998 (age 26)	7	0	Esbjerg fB
	3MF	Jesper Lindstrøm	(2000-02-29) 29 February 2000 (age 24)	1	1	Brøndby IF
	3MF	Mads Emil Madsen	(1998-01-14) 14 January 1998 (age 26)	5	0	Silkeborg
	3MF	Magnus Kofod Andersen	(1999-05-10) 10 May 1999 (age 25)	15	0	FC Nordsjælland
	3MF	Søren Tengstedt	(2000-06-30) 30 June 2000 (age 23)	1	0	AaB
	3MF	Mads Frøkjær-Jensen	(1999-07-29) 29 July 1999 (age 24)	1	0	OB

	4FW	Carlo Holse	(1999-06-02) 2 June 1999 (age 24)	8	1	Rosenborg
	4FW	Emil Riis Jakobsen	(1998-06-24) 24 June 1998 (age 25)	1	0	Randers FC
	4FW	Gustav Marcussen	(1998-06-12) 12 June 1998 (age 25)	3	0	Lyngby BK
	4FW	Jeppe Okkels	(1999-07-27) 27 July 1999 (age 24)	1	1	Silkeborg IF
	4FW	Mathias Jørgensen	(2000-09-20) 20 September 2000 (age 23)	1	0	New York Red Bulls

Most appearances

Because of the age restriction, a player can't be in the team for very long and the most promising young players spend little time with the under-21 team before making their senior national team debut.

Rank	Player	Club(s)	U-21 Caps	U-21 Goals	Year(s)
1	Jonas Kamper	Brøndby	39	3	2002–2006
2	Lasse Vigen Christensen	Fulham	37	5	2013–2017
=3	Michael Jakobsen	AaB	31	4	2005–2008
=3	Martin Jørgensen	AGF, Udinese	31	9	1994–1997
4	Rasmus Würtz	Skive, AaB	29	1	2002–2006
5	Martin Pedersen	AaB, SønderjyskE	28	0	2002–2006
6	Jannik Vestergaard	1899 Hoffenheim, Werder Bremen, Borussia Mönchengladbach	28	4	2011–2015
7	Mike Jensen	Brøndby IF, Malmö FF	27	3	2011–2015
8	Mads Albæk	FC Midtjylland	26	5	2009–2012
9	Thomas Kahlenberg	Brøndby, Auxerre	26	10	2002–2006

Note: Club(s) represents the permanent clubs during the player's time in the under-21 national team. Players in bold have played at least one game for the senior Danish national team.

Most goals

Rank	Player	Club(s)	U-21 Goals	U-21 Caps	Year(s)
1	Marcus Ingvartsen	Nordsjælland, Genk	17	24	2015–2019
2	Peter Møller	AaB	16	22	1990–1993
3	Nicki Bille	Reggina, Martina, Nordsjælland, Villarreal	15	24	2007–2011
4	Tommy Bechmann	Esbjerg	11	15	2002–2003
5	Thomas Kahlenberg	Brøndby, Auxerre	10	26	2002–2006
=6	Preben Elkjær	Vanløse, 1. FC Köln, Lokeren	9	9	1976–1979
=6	Morten Rasmussen	AGF	9	21	2004–2006
=6	Martin Jørgensen	AGF, Udinese	9	31	1994–1997
=9	Bent Jensen	B 1913	8	10	1966–1968
=9	Per Frandsen	B 1903, Lille	8	21	1989–1992
=9	Miklos Molnar	Frem, Standard Liège, Lyngby	8	21	1989–1992

Note: Club(s) represents the permanent clubs represented in the games in which the player's scored for the under-21 national team. Players in bold have played at least one game for the senior Danish national team.

Managers

1976–1980: Tommy Troelsen
1980–1989: Richard Møller Nielsen
1989–1992: Viggo Jensen
1992–1999: Jan B. Poulsen
2000–2006: Flemming Serritslev
2006–2011: Keld Bordinggaard
2011–2013: Morten Wieghorst
2013–2015: Jess Thorup
2015-2019: Niels Frederiksen
2019–present: Albert Capellas

References

External links

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General	Danish Football Union Managers
Venues	Parken Stadium Idrætsparken
Statistics	Results 1908–1929 1930–1949 1950–1959 1960–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–2019 2020–present Records and statistics
Players	Players with 25+ caps 1–24 caps All players
Goals	Poul Nielsen Hat-tricks
World Finals	Summary 1986 1998 2002 2010 2018 2022
European Finals	Summary 1964 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2012 2020 2024
Culture	Rivalry with Sweden abandoned Euro 2008 qualifier Roligan Landsholdet 1960 air crash Notable matches
Other national teams	Men's Under 17s Under 19s Under 21s Danish League XI Women's Under 17s Under 19s