Stephan Petersen (born 15 November 1985) is a Danish retired professional
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 played as a
winger.
Career
Born in
Frederiksberg, Petersen made his senior debut for
Køge Boldklub
Køge Boldklub is a Danish football club from Køge, Zealand.
History
In 1954, the club became the first outside Copenhagen to win the Danish Championship.
The club declared bankruptcy in February 2009, but continued as an amateur side in the ...
in 2003 before moving to
Nordsjælland
North Zealand, also North Sealand ( da, Nordsjælland), refers to the northern part of the Danish island of Zealand which is not clearly defined but generally covers the area north of Copenhagen. The Danish tourist authorities have recently in ...
two years later, on 9 July 2005, at the age of 19. He made his debut shortly after, on 20 July, in a match against
SønderjyskE
SønderjyskE is a Danish sport corporation. They have a football team (SønderjyskE Fodbold, based in Haderslev), two handball teams (SønderjyskE Håndbold, one male based in Sønderborg, one female based in Aabenraa) and an ice hockey team (S ...
. Already after half a year in Nordsjælland, Petersen signed a four-year contract extension with the club until the end of 2009.
Petersen signed with
AGF on a free transfer on 1 January 2010. He played at AGF for seven years, in which he totalled 235 appearances and scored 35 goals.
Petersen joined
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 ...
on 1 July 2017. He left the club at the end of the 2018–19 season to join
HB Køge
HB Køge () is a professional Danish football club based primarily in the town of Herfølge, and secondly in the town of Køge, both in the Køge Municipality, part of 'Region of Zealand', in the eastern part of Zealand, south of Copenhagen. It w ...
.
On 4 January 2021, Petersen signed with amateur club
Karlslunde IF
Karlslunde IF is a Football in Denmark, Danish association football club from Karlslunde, Greve Municipality. The football team is part of a sports club with approximately 900 members, and departments for badminton, table tennis, gymnastics, and ...
competing in the fourth-tier
Denmark Series
The Denmark Series ( da, Danmarksserien) is the fifth tier in the Danish football league system. Teams are divided into four groups of ten. The top team in each group is promoted to the Danish 3rd Division. The bottom three teams in each group are ...
, effectively retiring from professional football. At the end of May 2021, in a game against
Allerød FK
Allerød Fodbold Klub is an association football club based in Lillerød, Denmark, that competes in the Denmark Series, the fourth tier of the Danish football league system. Founded in 1922, it is affiliated to the regional DBU Zealand football ...
, Petersen was badly injured in the knee and in July 2021 it was confirmed, that he had torn his
cruciate ligament and therefore had retired for the last time.
Stephan Petersen om grim skade: Er færdig
ligabold.dk, 13 July 2021
References
External links
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Official Superliga statistics
1985 births
Living people
Danish men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Ishøj IF players
Køge Boldklub players
FC Nordsjælland players
Silkeborg IF players
HB Køge players
Aarhus Gymnastikforening players
Danish Superliga players
Danish 1st Division players
Footballers from Frederiksberg
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