Mikkel Jespersen (born 11 June 1991) is a Danish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a

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for

Danish 1st Division The 1st Division (''1. Division'') is the second-highest football league in Denmark, also known as NordicBet Liga for sponsorship reasons. From 1945 to 1991 the 1. Division was the name of the highest level of football in Denmark. With the forma ...

club

Kolding IF Kolding IF is an association football club based in Kolding, Denmark. The team competes in the Danish 2nd Division, the third tier of Danish football, after suffering relegation at the end of the 2020–21 season. Founded in 1895, Kolding IF pl ...

Club career

Skive

Jespersen came to Skive IK in January 2011. He played 127 games in total for the club, scoring 25 goals, before leaving the club in 2015.AC Horsens skriver kontrakt med Mikkel Jespersen
achorsens.dk, 29 June 2015

Horsens

On 29 June 2015 it was announced, that Jespersen had signed for

Horsens Horsens () is a city on the east coast of Jutland region of Denmark. It is the seat of the Horsens municipality. The city's population is 61,074 (1 January 2022) and the municipality's population is 94,443 (), making it the 8th largest city in De ...

on a one-year deal. After playing one year in the

, Jespersen and Horsens won promotion to the

Danish Superliga The Danish Superliga ( da, Superligaen, ) is the current Danish football championship tournament, and administered by the Danish Football Association. It is the highest football league in Denmark and is currently contested by 12 teams each yea ...

. His contract got extended in May 2016 with further one year.

Later career

While playing for Skive which he returned to in the summer 2018, Jespersen announced in the beginning of July 2019 that he was helping Horsens manager

Bo Henriksen Bo Henriksen (born 7 February 1975) is a Danish football coach and former player. He is the current head coach of Swiss Super League side FC Zürich. Henriksen rose to prominence as a striker in both his home country, where he won the 1999– ...

scouting players in the Danish football divisions. On 31 July 2019, Horsens officially confirmed, that they had hired Jespersen as responsible for the recruitment and individual coach for the first team of the club alongside his playing career at Skive. In June 2021, Jespersen joined

as a player. Alongside this, Jespersen was also assigned to the club's academy, where he was going to be responsible for recruitment and individual development. In January 2023, Jespersen was given a new position as playing assistant coach of the first team; a position that

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had just left.Mikkel Jespersen i ny rolle som spillende assistent
kif-fodbold.dk, 13 January 2023

References

1991 births Living people People from Herning Municipality Footballers from the Central Denmark Region Danish men's footballers Danish 1st Division players Danish Superliga players Skive IK players AC Horsens players Viborg FF players Men's association football midfielders Silkeborg IF players Kolding IF players {{Denmark-bio-stub