Claus Madsen (born March 11, 1975) is a former

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player who played as a

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and current assistant coach of Næsby Boldklub. In his active career, Madsen played for

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clubs

FC Midtjylland FC Midtjylland (, "Central Jutland") is a Danish professional football club based in Herning and Ikast in the western part of Jutland. The club is the result of a merger between Ikast FS and Herning Fremad. Midtjylland competes in the Danish Su ...

and

Odense BK Odense Boldklub (; also known as Odense BK or the more commonly used OB) is a Danish professional football club based in the city Odense. The club has won three Danish championships and five Danish Cup trophies. OB play in the Danish Superliga ...

, winning the 2002

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with Odense.

Career

Club career

Madsen made his Superliga debut with Odense BK in July 1999,Nr.21 - Claus Madsen
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and spent three seasons with the club, winning the 2002

. When Odense manager

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moved to league rivals FC Midtjylland (FCM) in the summer 2002, Madsen joined him, and went on to become a mainstay in the FCM. Madsen spent seven seasons with FCM, scoring eight goals in 126 Superliga games for the club.Claus Madsen
at DanskFodbold.com Known for a good technique, he suffered from an increasing number of injuries, and decided to end his career in January 2010.

Coaching and later career

He went on to coach second-tier club

Skive IK Skive Idræts Klub, commonly known as Skive IK, SIK (especially locally) or simply Skive, is a Danish professional football club based in Skive, Central Denmark Region. Founded in 1901, the club is affiliated with the DBU Jutland association ...

, with former FCM teammate Michael Hansen as manager. On June 24, 2013 got promoted and was assigned lead manager of Skive IK, as the club got relegated and the former manager left the club, leaving the manager seat empty. The club had many candidates but found that Claus Madsen was the perfect choice and the right manager to lead Skive IK to win the division and earn promotion to move back up to the

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. On 5 March 2014 he resigned as manager of Skive due to personal reasons. In July 2021 46-year old Madsen revealed, that he would play for Danish amateur club Bording IF, where his former

teammate,

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, also was playing. In February 2022 it was confirmed, that Madsen had left Bording, as he had been appointed assistant coach of Næsby Boldklub.Tidl. Superliga-spiller får job i divisionsklub
bold.dk, 3 February 2022

Honours

*2002

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Madsen, Claus 1975 births Living people Danish men's footballers Odense Boldklub players FC Midtjylland players Danish Superliga players Footballers from Odense Men's association football midfielders Boldklubben 1913 players Danish football managers Skive IK managers