Jesper Sørensen (born 10 June 1973) is a Danish professional

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coach and former player. He is currently manager of the

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team

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Career

Sørensen previously played football as a

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for FC Copenhagen,

Ikast FS Ikast FC is an association football club based in the town of Ikast, Denmark, that competes in the Series 1, the sixth tier of the Danish football league system and the second tier of the regional DBU Jutland. Founded in 2018 as a superstructur ...

, AB and AGF. In the summer of 2009, he became assistant coach at AGF – a position he held until 2013, when he became head coach of

Silkeborg IF Silkeborg Idrætsforening, (; commonly known as Silkeborg IF or SIF in short) is a professional football club based in Silkeborg, Denmark. The club was founded in 1917, reached the highest level of Danish football in 1987, and afterwards became ...

. However, after registering a record low number of points in the Superliga, Sørensen was sacked on 8 December 2014. On 18 August 2021, he was announced as the new manager of the Danish under-21 national team, although he kept serving as the assistant coach at

until the end of the same year. Under Sørensen's tenure, Denmark reached the qualification play-offs for the

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, even though they eventually lost to

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over two legs. Despite that, in December 2022 the coach (as well as his assistant,

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), renewed his contract with the

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until 2024. Just a month after renewing his contract, Sørensen left the Danish U-21 team to become manager of his former club

in January 2023.

Managerial statistics

References

External links

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Official Danish Superliga stats
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Danish national team profile
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Jesper Sørensen
at Footballdatabase 1973 births Living people Danish men's footballers Denmark men's under-21 international footballers Denmark men's youth international footballers Danish Superliga players F.C. Copenhagen players Ikast FC players Aarhus Gymnastikforening players Akademisk Boldklub players Silkeborg IF managers FC Fredericia managers Men's association football midfielders Danish football managers Brøndby IF non-playing staff Footballers from Aarhus Brøndby IF managers {{Denmark-footy-midfielder-stub