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«Danish Dynamite»

77 Matches
44 wins
14 draws
19 losses
146–69 Goals
+77 Difference
1.9 Scored per game
Form W 26 Mar · Home North Macedonia · 4:0 D 31 Mar · Away Czech Republic · 1:1 D 3 Jun · Home Congo DR · 0:0 W 7 Jun · Home Ukraine · 2:1 L 24 Sep · Away Norway · 2:3 W 27 Sep · Home Wales · 2:0

Denmark had no team to send until the Olympic football tournament in London needed one, and on 19 October 1908 that scratch side beat France's reserve team 9–0. The Danish Football Association had existed since 1889, but that afternoon is the one the national team counts as its start, and the silver medal that followed in the same tournament set a pattern that would repeat in 1912 and again in 1960, with a bronze added in 1948.

The step came instead at a tournament Denmark had not qualified for. In 1992 Yugoslavia was expelled from the European Championship over the war in the Balkans, and Denmark, runners-up in its qualifying group, took the vacant place with barely two weeks' notice. Some players had already booked their summer holidays. The team went on to beat Germany 2–0 in the final in Gothenburg, and the run is still spoken of as the Euro 92 miracle. It gave Denmark its only European title, and three years later a Confederations Cup was won by beating Argentina.

Both results sat on the back of a side already known as Danish Dynamite, the attacking team built under Sepp Piontek through the 1980s that reached the semi-finals of Euro 1984 with players such as Preben Elkjær and Michael Laudrup. Laudrup would go on to win 104 caps; Christian Eriksen has since taken the appearance record past that mark, and Peter Schmeichel was named the world's best goalkeeper in the early 1990s while marshalling the same defence that shut out Germany in Gothenburg.

Home matches are played in front of just over 38,000 at Parken in Copenhagen, in the red shirts that gave the team its older nickname, De Rød-Hvide. The Nordic derby against Sweden and Norway carries its own weight, and Germany has never quite lost its edge as an opponent since 1992. A second major trophy, though, is still the one thing that has not followed the first.

Latest results

Fixtures and results
27 Sep UEFA Nations League Wales H 2:0 W
24 Sep UEFA Nations League Norway A 2:3 L
7 Jun Friendlies Ukraine H 2:1 W
3 Jun Friendlies Congo DR H 0:0 D
31 Mar World Cup - Qualification Europe Czech Republic A 1:1 D
26 Mar World Cup - Qualification Europe North Macedonia H 4:0 W

Standing

UEFA Nations League

Group stage · Group 4

# Team M W L Goals Pts
1 Portugal 2 2 0 3:1 6
2 Norway 2 1 1 4:4 3
3 Denmark 2 1 1 4:3 3
4 Wales 2 0 2 0:3 0
Full table

Team statistics

matches counted in total: 77
77 Matches
44 wins
14 draws
19 losses
146–69 Goals
+77 Difference
1.9 Scored per game
Match outcomes matches counted in total: 77
44wins: 44 · 57% 14draws: 14 · 18% 19losses: 19 · 24%
wins losses
Scored and conceded last matches
26 Mar · Home North Macedonia · 4:0
31 Mar · Away Czech Republic · 1:1
3 Jun · Home Congo DR · 0:0
7 Jun · Home Ukraine · 2:1
24 Sep · Away Norway · 2:3
27 Sep · Home Wales · 2:0
scored — above the line conceded — below the line
Metric Total Home Away
Matches 77 42 35
Scored 146 84 62
Conceded 69 21 48
Scored per game 1.9 2.0 1.8
Conceded per game 0.9 0.5 1.4
Difference +77 +63 +14

Key players

by appearances over the last year
Oliver Provstgaard Nielsen Defender 5 Matches Rasmus Højlund Forward 5 Matches L. Hogsbjerg Defender 5 Matches Kasper Waarts Thenza Høgh Forward 5 Matches Pierre-Emile Højbjerg Midfielder 5 Matches Andreas Jungdal Goalkeeper 5 Matches Viktor Fröhholdt Midfielder 5 Matches Mads Hermansen Goalkeeper 5 Matches

Squad of Denmark

by appearances over the last year
Number Player Position Age Matches
3 Oliver Provstgaard Nielsen Defender 5
9 Rasmus Højlund Forward 5
4 L. Hogsbjerg Defender 5
19 DK Kasper Waarts Thenza Høgh Forward 25 5
23 Pierre-Emile Højbjerg Midfielder 5
1 DK Andreas Jungdal Goalkeeper 24 5
7 DK Viktor Fröhholdt Midfielder 20 5
16 DK Mads Hermansen Goalkeeper 26 5
5 Joakim Mæhle Pedersen Defender 5
2 Joachim Christian Andersen Defender 4
8 Gustav Isaksen Midfielder 4
14 Mikkel Damsgaard Midfielder 4
21 DK Morten Blom Due Hjulmand Midfielder 27 4
6 Victor Enok Nelsson Defender 4
22 Filip Jörgensen Goalkeeper 3
15 Victor Bak Jensen Defender 3
17 DK P. Dorgu Midfielder 21 3
10 T. Jorgensen Midfielder 3
13 Rasmus Nissen Kristensen Defender 3
11 Adam Dagim Forward 3
18 DK Alexander Hartmann Bah Defender 28 3
11 DK William Idamudia Daugaard Osula Midfielder 23 3
10 Christian Dannemann Eriksen Midfielder 3
12 Mads Bidstrup Midfielder 2
18 DK Anton Gaaei Defender 23 2
20 Albert Grønbæk Erlykke Midfielder 2
20 DK Anders Laustrup Dreyer Midfielder 28 2
19 Noah Nartey Midfielder 2
6 DK Nikolas Terkelsen Nartey Midfielder 26 2
22 Frederik Riis Rønnow Goalkeeper 2
7 Mathias Jensen Midfielder 2
15 Christian Nørgaard Midfielder 2
20 DK Mohamed Daramy Forward 24 1
6 Andreas Bødtker Christensen Defender 1
15 DK Jacob Bennedsen Trenskow Forward 25 1
14 Jens Dalsgaard Stage Midfielder 1
13 Jesper Grænge Lindstrøm Midfielder 1

Fixtures of Denmark

  • 1 Oct · 19:45 Portugal H UEFA Nations League
  • 4 Oct · 19:45 Wales A UEFA Nations League

Honours of Denmark

  • FIFA Confederations Cup 1995 1
  • UEFA European Championship 1992 1
  • Olympic Games Silver Medal 1908, 1912, 1960 3
  • Olympic Games Bronze Medal 1948 1

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