Niels Frederiksen - Football Coach

Niels Frederiksen (Danish pronunciation: ; born 5 November 1970) is a Danish professional football manager who is currently in charge of Polish Ekstraklasa club Lech Poznań. Frederiksen began his career as a head coach at Lyngby Boldklub in 2009 after having spent almost two decades as a youth coach in B 1913, B.93, and Lyngby. He remained in the post as head coach, and later manager, for the club for nearly four years. He then coached Esbjerg, leading them to a fifth place in the domestic league as well as their best European result ever: the Europa League round of 32 where the club was knocked out by Fiorentina. He was relieved of his duties in 2015. He was later put in charge of the Denmark national under-21 team, before being appointed head coach of Brøndby in June 2019, replacing Alexander Zorniger. He would go on to lead the club to their first Danish Superliga title in 16 years in the 2020–21 season. Frederiksen is noted for his exceptional work with young talents, developing players such as Andreas Christensen, Andreas Bjelland, Yussuf Poulsen and Christian Nørgaard in Lyngby, and Martin Braithwaite at Esbjerg. He has furthermore shown flexibility in regards to formations, employing a 3–4–3 formation at Denmark U21, but also utilising a classic 4–4–2. In Brøndby, Frederiksen started out employing a 4–3–3, but since adjusted this to a dynamic 3–5–2 with attacking wingbacks, Andreas Maxsø as the anchor in defense and a fast and more stationary centre forward as the main forwards. Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License - Full article

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Lyngby BK	09/13
DK 1. Division 08/09	13
Danish Cup 09/10	3
DK 1. Division 09/10	30
DK Superliga 10/11	33
Danish Cup 10/11	4
DK Superliga 11/12	33
Danish Cup 11/12	1
Danish Cup 12/13	5

Esbjerg fB	13/15
Europa Qualif 13/14	2
DK Superliga 13/14	33
Danish Cup 13/14	2
Europa League 13/14	8
Europa Qualif 14/15	4
DK Superliga 14/15	33
Danish Cup 14/15	6
DK Superliga 15/16	4

Denmark U23	15/19
Olympics 16	4

Denmark U21	15/19
UEFA U21 Qual 17	10
UEFA U21 Qual 19	10
UEFA U-21 17	3
UEFA U-21 19	3

Brøndby IF	19/22
Europa Qualif 19/20	6
DK Superliga 19/20	36
DK Superliga 20/21	32
Champ Qualif 21/22	2
DK Superliga 21/22	32
Europa League 21/22	6
ECL Qual 22/23	4
DK Superliga 22/23	17

Lech Poznań	24/now
Ekstraklasa 24/25	28