Soccer World Cup 1986 / Denmark
This article covers the Danish national team at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico .
qualification
After a successful European football championship in 1984 with reaching the semi-finals, Denmark was able to qualify for a football world championship for the first time .
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8th | 5 | 1 | 2 | 17: 6 | 11: 5 |
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8th | 4th | 2 | 2 | 13: 8 | 10: 6 |
3. |
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8th | 2 | 4th | 2 | 5:10 | 8: 8 |
4th |
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8th | 2 | 2 | 4th | 5:10 | 6:10 |
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8th | 1 | 3 | 4th | 4:10 | 5:11 |
Denmark | - | Norway | 1: 0 (0: 0) |
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Switzerland | - | Denmark | 1: 0 (1: 0) |
Denmark | - | Ireland | 3: 0 (1: 0) |
Denmark | - | Soviet Union | 4: 2 (2: 1) |
Soviet Union | - | Denmark | 1: 0 (0: 0) |
Denmark | - | Switzerland | 0-0 |
Norway | - | Denmark | 1: 5 (1: 0) |
Ireland | - | Denmark | 1: 4 (1: 1) |
Denmark qualified as group first in Group 6 before the Soviet Union , which also qualified. In the qualifying game Ireland against Denmark on November 13, 1985 in Dublin, Søren Lerby was substituted in the 59th minute when the score was 1: 3 for Denmark and flew back to Germany, where he was on a DFB- Cup match of his club Bayern Munich against VfL Bochum .
Squad
No. | player | former club | Date of birth | World Cup 1986 games / goals |
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goalkeeper | |||||||
1 | Troels Rasmussen |
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April 7, 1961 | 2 | - | - | - |
16 | Ole Qvist |
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February 25, 1950 | - | - | - | - |
22nd | Lars Høgh |
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January 14, 1959 | 2 | - | - | - |
Defense | |||||||
2 | John Sivebæk |
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October 25, 1961 | 2 | - | - | - |
3 | Søren Busk |
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April 10, 1953 | 4th | - | - | - |
4th |
Morten Olsen ![]() |
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August 14, 1949 | 4th | - | - | - |
5 | Ivan Nielsen |
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October 9, 1956 | 3 | - | 1 | - |
17th | Kent Nielsen |
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December 28, 1961 | - | - | - | - |
20th | Jan Bartram |
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March 6, 1962 | 2 | - | - | - |
21st | Henrik Andersen |
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May 7, 1965 | 3 | - | 1 | - |
midfield | |||||||
6th | Søren Lerby |
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February 1, 1958 | 4th | 1 | - | - |
7th | Jan Mølby |
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4th July 1963 | 4th | - | - | - |
8th | Jesper Olsen |
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March 20, 1961 | 4th | 3 | - | - |
9 | Klaus Berggreen |
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3rd February 1958 | 3 | - | 1 | - |
12 | Jens Jørn Bertelsen |
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February 15, 1952 | 3 | - | - | - |
13 | Per Frimann |
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4th June 1962 | - | - | - | - |
15th | Frank Arnesen |
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September 30, 1956 | 3 | - | - | 1 |
18th | Flemming Christensen |
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April 10, 1958 | - | - | - | - |
attack | |||||||
10 | Preben Elkjær Larsen |
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September 11, 1957 | 4th | 4th | - | - |
11 | Michael Laudrup |
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June 15, 1964 | 4th | 1 | - | - |
14th | Allan Simonsen |
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December 15, 1952 | 1 | - | - | - |
19th | John Eriksen |
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November 20, 1957 | 2 | 1 | - | - |
Trainer | |||||||
Josef Piontek ![]() |
March 5, 1940 |
Danish games at the 1986 World Cup
Preliminary round ( Group E )
- Denmark 1-0 Scotland - Goal: 1-0 Elkjær Larsen (58th min.)
- Denmark 6-1 Uruguay - Goals: 1-0 Elkjær Larsen (10th min.), 2-0 Lerby (41st min.), 2-1 Francescoli (45th minute from a penalty kick ), 3-1 Laudrup ( 52nd min.), 4: 1 Elkjær Larsen (68th min.), 5: 1 Elkjær Larsen (80th min.), 6: 1 J. Olsen (88th min.)
- Denmark 2-0 Germany goals: 1-0 J. Olsen (43rd minute from a penalty kick), 2-0 Eriksen (63rd minute)
Denmark was group winners ahead of Germany .
Round of 16
- Denmark 1: 5 Spain - goals: 1: 0 J. Olsen (33rd minute from a penalty kick), 1: 1 (43rd minute), 1: 2 (56th minute) butragueño , 1: 3 Goikoetxea (69th minute per foul penalty), 1: 4 (80th minute), 1: 5 (90th minute per foul penalty) butragueño each
Individual evidence
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- Hardy Greens : Football World Cup Encyclopedia. 1930-2006. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2002, ISBN 3-89784-205-X .
- FUWO: Born 1986, Sportverlag Berlin, ISSN 0323-8407
- Soccer World Cup Mexico 1986, Sportverlag Berlin, ISBN 3-328-00099-2