Nicolai Mick Jørgensen (; born 15 January 1991) is a Danish professional

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who plays as a

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. He is currently a

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Club career

Akademisk Boldklub

Nicolai Jørgensen began his career at Grantoften IF, he later joined

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and joined

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afterwards, where he played for nine years apart from half a year as a U-15 player in

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Bayer Leverkusen

Jørgensen joined German team

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for their pre-season training camp in July scoring four goals in his first 45-minute appearance, and was subsequently signed for a five-year contract with Leverkusen on 12 July 2010. He made his

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debut in a 3–6 defeat to

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on 29 August 2010 being introduced as a substitute after 63 minutes.

F.C. Copenhagen

In July 2012, Jørgensen returned to his native Denmark joining

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on a one-year loan. In September, the club announced to have had exercised a purchase option, making the deal permanent with Jørgensen signing a contract until 2016.

Feyenoord

During the summer of 2016, Jørgensen joined

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for €3.5 million signing a five-year deal. In his first season at the club he became the Eredivisie's top scorer with 21 goals, helping Feyenoord to win their first title since 1999. On 22 April 2018, he scored the opening goal as Feyenoord won the 2017–18

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final 3–0 against AZ Alkmaar. On 14 June 2019, Feyenoord announced that they had reached principle agreement with Jørgensen to extend his contract until 2022.

Return to Copenhagen

After terminating his contract with Turkish club Kasımpaşa, Jørgensen returned to his former club

on 31 January 2022, signing a deal for the rest of the season. After a disappointing season with one goal in nine games, Jørgensen left the club in June 2022, as his contract came to an end.

International career

On 4 October 2010, Jørgensen was called up for the Denmark's national football team, for the matches against Portugal and Cyprus in the

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. He scored the winning goal in the 70th minute against Belarus on 14 June 2011 in the

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. On 14 November 2015, he scored his first international goal for Denmark national football team in the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying Playoffs against Sweden. Denmark had lost 1–2 to Sweden but it was a crucial away goal for Denmark. In June 2018 he was named in Denmark's

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for the

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Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list Denmark's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Jørgensen goal.''

Honours

Copenhagen *

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, 2015–16 * Danish Cup: 2014–15, 2015–16 Feyenoord *

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: 2016–17 *

: 2017–18 *

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Individual * Eredivisie top scorer: 2016–17

References

External links

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Interview in Metro

Landsholdsudtagelse

F.C. Copenhagen profile
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