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 .

Europe - Group 6

	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1.	Denmark	8th	5	1	2	17: 6	11: 5
2.	Soviet Union	8th	4th	2	2	13: 8	10: 6
3.	Switzerland	8th	2	4th	2	5:10	8: 8
4th	Ireland	8th	2	2	4th	5:10	6:10
5.	Norway	8th	1	3	4th	4:10	5:11

Denmark	-	Norway	1: 0 (0: 0)
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
goalkeeper
1	Troels Rasmussen	Aarhus GF	April 7, 1961	2	-	-	-
16	Ole Qvist	Kjøbenhavns Boldklub	February 25, 1950	-	-	-	-
22nd	Lars Høgh	Odense BK	January 14, 1959	2	-	-	-
Defense
2	John Sivebæk	Manchester United	October 25, 1961	2	-	-	-
3	Søren Busk	MVV Maastricht	April 10, 1953	4th	-	-	-
4th	Morten Olsen	RSC Anderlecht	August 14, 1949	4th	-	-	-
5	Ivan Nielsen	Feyenoord Rotterdam	October 9, 1956	3	-	1	-
17th	Kent Nielsen	Brøndby IF	December 28, 1961	-	-	-	-
20th	Jan Bartram	Aarhus GF	March 6, 1962	2	-	-	-
21st	Henrik Andersen	RSC Anderlecht	May 7, 1965	3	-	1	-
midfield
6th	Søren Lerby	FC Bayern Munich	February 1, 1958	4th	1	-	-
7th	Jan Mølby	Liverpool FC	4th July 1963	4th	-	-	-
8th	Jesper Olsen	Manchester United	March 20, 1961	4th	3	-	-
9	Klaus Berggreen	AC Pisa	3rd February 1958	3	-	1	-
12	Jens Jørn Bertelsen	FC Aarau	February 15, 1952	3	-	-	-
13	Per Frimann	RSC Anderlecht	4th June 1962	-	-	-	-
15th	Frank Arnesen	PSV Eindhoven	September 30, 1956	3	-	-	1
18th	Flemming Christensen	Lyngby BK	April 10, 1958	-	-	-	-
attack
10	Preben Elkjær Larsen	Hellas Verona	September 11, 1957	4th	4th	-	-
11	Michael Laudrup	Juventus Turin	June 15, 1964	4th	1	-	-
14th	Allan Simonsen	Vejle BK	December 15, 1952	1	-	-	-
19th	John Eriksen	Feyenoord Rotterdam	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

1. ↑ http://www.11freunde.de/artikel/dfb-pokal-1985-bayern-bochum-20

swell

• 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