Ole Tobiasen (born 8 July 1975) is a Danish
football manager and former player. He is an assistant manager with the Dutch club
Heerenven.
As a player, Tobiasen played as a
right-back
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or
centre-back for a number of clubs in Denmark, the Netherlands, and Norway. He most prominently won the
Eredivisie
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championship with
Ajax
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and the
Danish Superliga
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championship with
F.C. Copenhagen. Tobiasen was
capped
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six times for the
Denmark national team.
Club career
Tobiasen started his career with lower-league clubs
B 1908,
Fremad Amager
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, and
KB in the
Copenhagen
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area,
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(in Danish) ''E ...
, 14 September 1997 before joining
Danish Superliga
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club
F.C. Copenhagen (FCK) in 1992.
He made his senior debut for FCK in a June 1993 match against
Pogoń Szczecin
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in the
1993 Intertoto Cup In the 1993 Intertoto Cup no knock-out rounds were contested, and therefore no winner was declared.
Group stage
The teams were divided into 8 groups of 5 teams each. Opponents played each other once.
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
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, and made his Superliga debut in April 1994. He was praised for his marking of
Mark Strudal in FCK's 2–1 victory against
Brøndby IF on 24 April, and Tobiasen established himself as a central defender in the
3–5–2 formation of manager
Benny Johansen.
In February 1996, Tobiasen moved on to the Dutch
Eredivisie
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club
SC Heerenveen
Sportclub Heerenveen (; West Frisian: Sportklub It Hearrenfean) is a Dutch football club from Heerenveen. They currently play in the Eredivisie, the top level of football in the Netherlands.
History
Sportclub Heerenveen was founded on 20 July ...
, as he hoped to emulate the success of fellow Dane
Jon Dahl Tomasson.
Tobiasen had initially agreed a
free transfer move effective from his contract expiry in summer 1996. Following FCK director
Karsten Aabrink's public outrage that FCK was not informed of the deal beforehand, FCK and Heerenveen agreed a
transfer fee
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...
in excess of
DKK500,000 to allow Tobiasen an immediate transfer. At Heerenveen, he adapted to a new position as a right full back. After one-and-a-half years and 34 matches for Heerenveen, fellow Eredivisie team
Ajax Amsterdam spotted his talent.
Ajax' Danish manager
Morten Olsen
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brought Tobiasen into his squad for the
1997–98 Eredivisie
The 1997–98 Eredivisie season was contested by 18 teams. Ajax won the championship.
League standings
Results
Promotion/relegation play-offs
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season. He joined the club in June 1997, as Ajax reportedly paid a DKK7.5 million transfer fee. Having immediately established himself in the starting line-up, Tobiasen suffered a knee injury in November 1997, and did not return to fitness until July 1998. He managed to play 13 games and score two goals as Ajax won the 1997–98 Eredivisie championship that season. He also won the 1998 and 1999
Dutch Cup trophies with the club. In November 1998, Tobiasen suffered another knee injury, and following several recurring knee problems, he would not play another Eredivisie game for Ajax.
Tobiasen underwent a long period of injury lay-off, sitting in the stands for three full seasons, from 1999 to 2002. When his contract ran out in summer 2002, Tobiasen moved to Eredivisie rivals
AZ Alkmaar
Alkmaar Zaanstreek (), better known as AZ Alkmaar or simply AZ (), is a Dutch professional football club from Alkmaar and the Zaan district. The club plays in the Eredivisie, the highest professional football league in the Netherlands, and host ...
on a one-year contract. He established himself in the right back position,
[ Viggo Lepoutre Ravn, "Holland: Tobiasen sletter nullerne", ]Jyllands-Posten
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, 27 September 2002 and played 13 matches in the first half of the
2002–03 Eredivisie
The Dutch Eredivisie in the 2002–03 season was contested by 18 teams. PSV won the championship.
League standings
Results
Promotion/relegation play-offs
Top scorers
See also
* 2002–03 Eerste Divisie
* 2002–03 KNVB Cup
...
season. In January 2003, he returned to his former club F.C. Copenhagen.
Back at FCK, he was set to compete with
Swedish international Tomas Antonelius
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for the right back position. Following new injury problems, Tobiasen eventually found centre back
Bo Svensson
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He has played three games for the Denmark national football team.
Playing career
Svensson was born in Skørp ...
had taken over the right back position for the remaining
2002–03 Danish Superliga
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The Danish c ...
season, as FCK won the championship. For the following season, Tobiasen reclaimed the right back position, but as FCK brought in new right back
Lars Jacobsen in January 2004, Tobiasen eventually settled as a central defender. Tobiasen played 26 of 33 games as FCK won the
2003–04 Danish Superliga championship, and he also helped the club win the
2004 Danish Cup Final by beating
AaB 1–0.
In the summer 2005
transfer window
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, Tobiasen was loaned out to
AaB for six months, where he played regularly in the central defender position through the first half of the
2005–06 Danish Superliga
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FC Københ ...
season. When his FCK contract expired in January 2006, Tobiasen signed a one-year contract with newly promoted
Norwegian Premier League
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team
Sandefjord
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. He played 24 games, as Sandefjord finished the
2006 Norwegian Premier League season in 9th place. Tobiasen left Sandefjord as his contract ran out in December 2006.
In February 2007, Tobiasen returned to the Netherlands and joined
MVV Maastricht
Maatschappelijke Voetbal Vereniging Maastricht (), commonly known as MVV Maastricht (, ) or simply as MVV, is a Dutch professional football club from the city of Maastricht. Founded on 2 April 1902, MVV Maastricht currently compete in the Eerst ...
in the second-tier
Eerste Divisie
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league. In September 2009, Tobiasen had a dispute with MVV coach
Fuat Çapa
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Career
Çapa coached in Belgium before moving on to Turkey. His career in Belgium spanned four years as he held positions with K.V. Turnhout, K. Patro Maasmechelen, K. Beringen-Heu ...
, as he had arranged a vote of confidence in Çapa amongst the players, and Tobiasen was suspended from the team. Even as Çapa was later fired, Tobiasen did not return to the first team. MVV was contractually obligated to offer him a position in the technical staff upon the expiry of his playing contract in summer 2010, but did not honor the obligation. Instead, Tobiasen agreed to become youth team coach at
Roda JC
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and played in the 2010–11 season at
Hoofdklasse side
EHC Hoensbroek
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The Vierde Divisie, ...
before retiring from the game.
International career
Following his breakthrough for FCK, Tobiasen was called up for the
Denmark U21 national team in July 1994. He played a total 24 games for under-19 and under-21 teams, and also represented the
Denmark XI for a single game in April 1996.
After his move to Ajax, Tobiasen was called up for the
Denmark senior national team. He made his international debut against
Croatia
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in September 1997, earning him rave reviews.
He featured in the Danish qualification campaigns for the
1998 FIFA World Cup and
Euro 2000
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, but due to injury he missed out on both final tournaments. He was often seen raiding up the sideline from his right back position. He scored his only international goal in the 1–1 draw with
Switzerland in October 1998, which was to be his last game for Denmark. Tobiasen earned a total six caps for his country, before his persisting injury problems saw him dropped from the team.
Coaching career
In the 2021–22 season, he started as the assistant manager at
Heerenveen
Heerenveen (, fry, It Hearrenfean ) is a town and municipality in the province of Friesland (Fryslân), in the Northern Netherlands. In 2021, the town had a population of 29,790 (1 January) while the municipality had a population 50,859 (1 July). ...
and was appointed interim manager for the remainder of the season on 4 February 2022, after the dismissal of Manager
Johnny Jansen.
[ Tobiasen maakt seizoen af als interim-hoofdtrainer]
Heerenveen
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, 4 February 2022 He returned to the assistant position for the 2022–23 season.
Honours
Copenhagen
*
Superliga:
1992–93
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,
2002–03,
2003–04
*
Danish Cup
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The winner will quali ...
:
1994–95,
2003–04
Ajax
*
Eredivisie
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:
1997–98
*
KNVB Cup:
1997–98,
1998–99
References
External links
Danish national team profileF.C. Copenhagen statisticsAaB profile*
Official Danish Superliga statistics
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1975 births
Living people
Danish men's footballers
Association football fullbacks
Association football central defenders
Danish Superliga players
Eredivisie players
Eerste Divisie players
Eliteserien players
F.C. Copenhagen players
SC Heerenveen players
AFC Ajax players
AZ Alkmaar players
AaB Fodbold players
Sandefjord Fotball players
MVV Maastricht players
EHC Hoensbroek players
Denmark international footballers
Denmark under-21 international footballers
Denmark youth international footballers
Danish football managers
Eredivisie managers
Eerste Divisie managers
Almere City FC managers
Danish expatriate men's footballers
Danish expatriate football managers
Danish expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands
Expatriate football managers in the Netherlands
Danish expatriate sportspeople in Norway
Expatriate footballers in Norway