Tommy Løvenkrands (born 30 May 1974) is a Danish former professional

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player. He most recently played as a winger for Danish club

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. He is the older brother of Danish international winger

Peter Løvenkrands Peter Rosenkrands Løvenkrands (born 29 January 1980) is a Danish professional football manager and former player. He played mainly as a striker or as a winger, and was known for his pace. Løvenkrands began his career in his native Denmark, w ...

Career

Løvenkrands began his career at

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(AB) in the top-flight

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in 1998, playing alongside his brother Peter Løvenkrands. He joined

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club

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in May 2000, after impressing then-manager

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during a testimonial match for veteran Saints forward Roddy Grant. His brother Peter joined

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the following month. The brothers faced each other for the first time when Rangers faced Saints at

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in October 2000. After the

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club was relegated from the SPL in 2002, they could no longer offer Løvenkrands a similar pay deal, leading to his departure from the club in the summer of 2003. He returned to Denmark to join Superliga club

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. Struggling to win a place in the starting line-up, he left the club in the summer 2006 to join league rivals

. In December 2007 he decided to end his career. Since returning from professional football, Løvenkrads played in the Danish eighth division, for

's second team in the

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and later also in the Danish

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for Sædding/G IF, where he - among others - played for former professional Jesper Lange and his own son, Christian Løvenkrands. As of January 2021, 46-year old Løvenkrads was still active as a player for Sædding/G IF.Serie-stjerner: Forlod EfB grundet Troels Bech
bold.dk, 10 January 2021

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* * 1974 births Living people Danish men's footballers Danish Superliga players Akademisk Boldklub players St Johnstone F.C. players Esbjerg fB players Sønderjyske Fodbold players Scottish Premier League players Danish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Scotland Men's association football wingers Sportspeople from Hørsholm Municipality Allerød FK players IF Skjold Birkerød players Footballers from the Capital Region of Denmark Danish expatriate sportspeople in Scotland {{Denmark-footy-midfielder-stub