Bo Svensson (born 4 August 1979) is a Danish professional football coach and a former defender. He is currently managing

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. He has played three games for the Denmark national football team.

Playing career

Svensson was born in Skørping, Northern Jutland. He started playing youth football with

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club

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(KB), the

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of F.C. Copenhagen (FCK). He was moved from KB into the FCK squad in June 1999, and got his FCK debut in September 1999, under FCK manager

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. He was soon a FCK regular team member, and was called up for the Danish under-21 national team in March 2000. With FCK, he won the 2001

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championship under manager Roy Hodgson, and the 2003 Superliga under manager

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. When FCK

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Peter Nielsen retired in winter 2003, Bo Svensson was given the captain's armband. He went on to captain FCK when they won the Double, of both 2004 Superliga and

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titles. The 2004–05 season was less successful, but FCK managed to win the inaugural 2005

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tournament. In the summer break 2005, Hans Backe demoted Svensson to vice-captain, as the captain status was given to the Swedish international midfielder

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. With his FCK contract running out one year later, in the summer 2006, Svensson looked for a new club, and left FCK in the winter break 2005. He played a total of 196 official games for FCK. He moved abroad when he was sold to German team Borussia Mönchengladbach (M'gladbach) in January 2006. He debuted for Mönchengladbach in February 2006 and finished the season playing 13 of Mönchengladbach's last 15 games, under manager

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. He was called up for the Danish national team, and made his debut in May 2006, under national manager

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. In summer 2007 he was transferred to

. After the 2013–14 season he retired from professional football.

Coaching career

After retiring from professional football, Svensson started his coaching career as an assistant coach for his old club, Mainz 05. In June 2015 he became a youth coach for the club. In 2017 Svensson took over the under 19 squad of Mainz. In 2019, he became the head coach of

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in the 2. Liga in Austria. The team is known for being a

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for Austrian side FC Red Bull Salzburg. Under his leadership, the young team finished the 2019–20 season in third place. They also, were successful in the beginning of the 2020–21 season, being in second place after 13 games. On 4 January 2021 Svensson became the new head coach of his former club Mainz 05 in the

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Managerial statistics

Honours

: 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2006 *

: 2004 *

: 2005 and 2006

References

External links

Danish national team profile
*
Complete League statistics
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