







The Most Famous
Soccer Players from Denmark
Trending Soccer Players from Denmark This Week
The top 10 Soccer Players from Denmark trending on Wikipedia in the past 7 days, with a quick note on what drove the spike.
- #1

Kenneth Perez
b. 1974
Trending in Dutch (#68) Wikipedia (582 views, on Mar 22).
- #2

Martin Braithwaite
b. 1991
Trending in Portuguese (#141) Wikipedia (673 views, on Mar 22).
- #3

Kasper Dolberg
b. 1997
Trending in Dutch (#242) Wikipedia (235 views, on Mar 22).
This page contains a list of the greatest Danish Soccer Players. The pantheon dataset contains 21,273 Soccer Players, 272 of which were born in Denmark. This makes Denmark the birth place of the 15th most number of Soccer Players behind Belgium and Serbia.
Top 10 Soccer Players
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Danish Soccer Players of all time. This list of famous Danish Soccer Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Danish Soccer Players.
- #1

Peter Schmeichel
b. 1963
HPI 70.2961 langsPeter Schmeichel is most famous for his time as a goalkeeper for Manchester United from 1991 to 1999. He won the Champions League, five...Read moreShow less
Peter Schmeichel is most famous for his time as a goalkeeper for Manchester United from 1991 to 1999. He won the Champions League, five Premier League titles, three FA Cups, and two League Cups with Manchester United.
- #2

Allan Simonsen
b. 1952
HPI 69.7846 langsAllan Simonsen is most famous for his work on the "Boeing 747" and the "Boeing 757."
- #3

Richard Møller Nielsen
1937 - 2014
HPI 67.1133 langsRichard Møller Nielsen was a Danish football player and coach. He is most famous for leading the Denmark national football team to victory...Read moreShow less
Richard Møller Nielsen was a Danish football player and coach. He is most famous for leading the Denmark national football team to victory in the 1992 European Championship, and then to the final of the 1998 World Cup, where they lost to Brazil.
- #4

Preben Elkjær
b. 1957
HPI 64.2236 langsDanish footballer
- #5

Poul Nielsen
1891 - 1962
HPI 63.4825 langsDanish footballer
- #6

Søren Lerby
b. 1958
HPI 62.3531 langsDanish footballer
- #7

Henning Jensen
1949 - 2017
HPI 61.7824 langsDanish footballer
- #8

Harald Nielsen
1941 - 2015
HPI 61.3327 langsDanish footballer
- #9

Sophus Nielsen
1888 - 1963
HPI 60.7823 langsDanish footballer and manager
- #10

Jon Dahl Tomasson
b. 1976
HPI 60.2845 langsDanish footballer
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Danish Soccer Players grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.
2000s(24)
1990s(91)
1980s(50)
1970s(37)
1960s(31)
1950s(17)
1930s(7)
1890s(1)
Overlapping Lives
Which Soccer Players were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 17 most globally memorable Soccer Players since 1700.






































































