Morten Wieghorst

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Morten Wieghorst
Personal information
Full name Morten Wieghorst
Date of birth (1971-02-25) 25 February 1971 (age 53)
Place of birth Glostrup, Denmark
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989–1992
Lyngby FC
 71 (4)
1992–1995 Dundee 90 (11)
1995–2002 Celtic 86 (10)
2002–2005 Brøndby IF 65 (14)
Total 312 (39)
International career
1990–1991 Denmark U-21 6 (0)
1994–2004 Denmark 30 (3)
Managerial career
2005–2006 FC Nordsjælland (assistant coach)
2006–2011 FC Nordsjælland
2011–2013 Denmark U-21
2013–2014 Swansea City (assistant coach)
2014–2015
AGF
2017–2018 AaB
2020– Denmark (assistant coach)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Denmark
FIFA Confederations Cup
Winner 1995 Saudi Arabia
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Morten Wieghorst (born 25 February 1971) is a Danish association football manager and former player. He is currently the assistant coach for the Denmark national football team. He is the former head coach of the Denmark national under-21 football team and FC Nordsjælland in the Danish Superliga whom he guided to the 2010 and 2011 Danish Cup trophy.

During his active career, Wieghorst played as a

Danish Player of the Year, and received a 2003 Olympic Committee fair play award for missing a penalty kick
on purpose.

Playing career

Club

Born in Glostrup, he started his senior career with Lyngby Boldklub in 1989. and he was part of the 1990 Danish Cup winning Lyngby squad.[1] He suffered an ankle injury in the summer of 1991,[2] and returned to the team in September 1991. He played 24 games as Lyngby won the 1991–92 Danish Superliga championship. He took part in the 1992–93 UEFA Champions League qualification games against Scottish team Rangers in September 1992,[3] and moved to play in Scotland shortly thereafter.

He joined

1994 Scottish Challenge Cup Final with Dundee.[4] He made 109 appearances and scored 17 goals in his time with the club.[4]

He moved on to Premier Division team

2001–02 season before he returned to Denmark.[5]

He signed on a

2004–05 season in April 2005, and was a part of the Brøndby team that won The Double of both league championship and cup trophy. In May 2005, less than a month after his rehabilitation, he announced his retirement at the season end on 26 June 2005.[9]

International

Wieghorst made his international debut for the

1995 King Fahd Cup, where he came on as a substitute to replace the injured team captain Michael Laudrup in the 2–0 final win against Argentina.[10]
During his injured first seasons at Celtic, Wieghorst's international career went on a hiatus.

After his return to the Celtic team, Wieghorst became a mainstay in the Denmark national team from October 1997.

2000 European Championship, he scored in the 3–2 victory against Italy which secured Denmark's qualification for the main tournament. Having been brought on as a substitute in the 52nd minute, he scored to level the game at 2–2 in the 57th minute, before he was sent-off for his second yellow card in the 80th minute. This made him the only Denmark national team player to have been sent-off more than once. In October 1999, Wieghorst's national team career came to a halt again,[10]
due to his illness.

Wieghorst re-entered the Denmark national team in August 2002,

Danish Player of the Year. He played his last national team game in April 2004, a 1–0 friendly match win against Scotland.[10]

Coaching career

Nordsjælland

After ending his active career he became assistant coach for

TVMK Tallinn from Estonia and Scottish club Queen of the South,[15] before they were eliminated by Greek side Olympiacos. He managed Nordsjælland to the 2009–10 Danish Cup
trophy, the first title in club history. The following year Wieghorst and Nordsjælland won the trophy again thereby defending the title.

Denmark U21

On 28 February 2011 the

2010-11 Danish Superliga[16] and led Nordsjælland to the 2010–11 Danish Cup trophy in one of his last games in charge of the team.[17]

Assistant to Michael Laudrup at Swansea

On 7 February 2013, it was reported that he would join Swansea City as an assistant to club manager Michael Laudrup.[18] On 4 February 2014, Swansea fired him alongside Michael Laudrup, just three days short of his year anniversary in the job.[19]

AGF

On 30 May 2014, he was appointed as the new head coach of

AGF. He signed a three-year contract.[20] He got the team promoted to the Danish Superliga in his first season. He was sacked on 5 December 2015 due to a series of bad results in the 2015–16 Danish Superliga.[21]

AaB

On 2 January 2017, he became the new manager of AaB in the Danish Superliga.[22] He was sacked on 25 November 2018.[23]

Career statistics

International goals

Scores and results list Denmark's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Wieghorst goal.
List of international goals scored by Morten Wieghorst
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 17 August 1994 Copenhagen, Denmark  Finland 2–1 2–1
Friendly match
2 8 January 1995 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia  Saudi Arabia 2–0 2–0 1995 King Fahd Cup
3 8 September 1999
Napoli
, Italy		  Italy 2–2 3–2 UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying

Managerial

As of 23 November 2018
Team From To Record
G W D L Win %
Nordsjælland 1 July 2006 30 June 2011 195 79 45 71 040.51
Denmark U-21 1 July 2011 7 February 2013 12 5 5 2 041.67
AGF
 1 July 2014 5 December 2015 57 27 17 13 047.37
AaB 2 January 2017 25 November 2018 74 24 25 25 032.43
Total 338 135 92 111 039.94

Honours

Playing career

Lyngby BK

Celtic[5]

Brøndby IF

Denmark

Individual

Coaching career

FC Nordsjælland

References

  1. ^ "www.haslund.info - Pokalturneringen 1989/1990 - Finale". Archived from the original on 16 September 2011. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  2. Berlingske Tidende
    , 22 July 1991, Section 4, p.6
  3. ^ "Lyngby-Boldklub.dk - Mod kilt og verdensstjerner". Archived from the original on 12 July 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  4. ^ a b c "Played both Dundee and Celtic – Morten Wieghorst". Dundee FC. 4 April 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  5. ^ a b c (Celtic player) Wieghorst, Morten, FitbaStats
  6. ^ Morten Wieghorst – Celtic FC at Football-Heroes.net
  7. ^ Denmark v Scotland: Morten Wieghorst on Christian Eriksen, illness & taking on his adopted nation, Thomas Duncan, BBC Sport, 1 September 2021
  8. ^ "brondby.com | Farum nedsablet". brondby.com. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012.
  9. ^ (in Danish) Jacob Panum, Wieghorst takker af, DR.dk, 4 May 2005
  10. ^ a b c d e f Morten Wieghorst – Alle hold (Alle kampe) at Danish Football Association
  11. ^ MatchReport : South Africa – Denmark at FIFAWorldCup.com
  12. ^ Morten Wieghorst – Ligalandshold (Alle uofficielle kampe) at Danish Football Association
  13. ^ (in Danish) Lars Berendt, Fair play: Wieghorst brændte straffe med vilje, DBU.dk, 2 February 2003
  14. ^ Football: Knowledge: have any footballers ever missed a penalty on purpose? | Football | guardian.co.uk
  15. ^ "Club History" on the official Queen of the South website Archived 13 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ^ Wieghorst skal være landstræner for ungdommen
  17. ^ FC Nordsjælland pokalmestre igen
  18. ^ "Swansea City delighted to secure Morten Wieghorst". Wales Online. 7 February 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  19. ^ "Swansea City assistant Morten Wieghorst dismissed". BBC Sport. 5 February 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  20. ^ "AGF Appoint Former Celtic Midfielder Morten Wieghorst as New Boss". Inside Futbol. 30 May 2014. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
  21. ^ "Morten Wieghorst fyret i AGF". bold.dk. 5 December 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  22. ^ "Morten Wieghorst ny cheftræner i AaB". bold.dk. 2 January 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  23. ^ "AaB fyrer Morten Wieghorst" (in Danish). bold.dk. 25 November 2018. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
  24. ^ a b "Morten to be inducted with International Award". Dundee FC. 20 March 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2020.

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