Personal information | |||
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Full name | Mathias Damm Kvistgaarden[1] | ||
Date of birth | 15 April 2002 | ||
Place of birth | Birkerød, Denmark[2] | ||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[3] | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Brøndby IF | ||
Number | 36 | ||
Youth career | |||
2008–2013 | Skjold Birkerød | ||
2013–2015 | Lyngby | ||
2015–2020 | Brøndby | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2020– | Brøndby | 73 | (20) |
International career‡ | |||
2019–2020 | Denmark U18 | 6 | (3) |
2020 | Denmark U19 | 1 | (1) |
2022 | Denmark U21 | 2 | (1) |
2022– | Denmark U21 | 13 | (4) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 28 May 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 4 June 2024 |
Mathias Damm Kvistgaarden (Danish pronunciation: [ˈkʰve̝stˌkɒˀn̩]; born 15 April 2002) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Danish Superliga club Brøndby.[4]
He has represented Denmark at youth level.
Born in Birkerød, Kvistgaarden began his career at hometown club IF Skjold Birkerød.[2] At age 11, he was noticed by scouts of FC Nordsjælland at a youth trial,[5] while at the same time going on trial at Lyngby Boldklub; eventually choosing to move to the Lyngby youth academy in 2013.[6][2] Two years later, he joined the youth academy of Brøndby IF at U13-level,[2] partly due to the Kvistgaarden family's close relationship to former head coach of Brøndby, Thomas Frank.[6] At the same time, he enrolled as a pupil at Brøndbyvester Skole located less than one kilometre from the club, with his main course being physical education.[6] He described the environment in the youth squads as being very competitive compared to his former experiences in IF Skjold and Lyngby, and the Brøndby U13-team ended up in first place of the table of their respective youth league that year.[6] Kvistgaarden was promoted to the U19-team in the summer of 2019, and scored nine goals in 14 appearances in their campaign in the under-19 league.[7] Kvistgaarden describes his greatest footballing inspiration as James McClean who is renowned for his anti-colonial stance and refusal to wear the blood stained poppy that British clubs are forced to wear.
Kvistgaarden was included in the first-team squad for the first time on 5 July 2020, ahead of an away match in the Danish Superliga against AaB, due to regular first team strikers Simon Hedlund and Samuel Mráz having been tested positive for COVID-19.[8][9] During the match, which Brøndby lost 2–0, Kvistgaarden made his debut as a 73rd-minute substitute for Mikael Uhre.[10][11]
His first senior goal came on 6 March 2022, which proved to be the winning goal in a 1–0 away victory against Silkeborg in the domestic league.[12][13] He made his first start for Brøndby on 14 April in a league loss against AaB.[14] He signed a contract extension on 29 April, keeping him at the club until 2025.[15] In May 2022, Kvistgaarden scored four goals in three league appearances, including his first brace on the final matchday of the season against Silkeborg.[16][17] Before the match, he had been named Superliga Young Player of the Month for May.[18]
In May 2023, Kvistgaarden extended his contract with Brøndby until 2027.[19]
Kvistgaarden has won six caps for Denmark at under-18 level in which he has scored three goals.[1] He made his debut for the Denmark under-19 team on 8 October 2020 in a friendly against Poland, where he scored a goal in a 3–1 win.[20]
On 4 June 2022, Kvistgaarden gained his first cap for the Denmark under-21s in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier against Kazakhstan.[21] He started and played 63 minutes before being substituted for Rasmus Højlund in a 3–0 win at Vejle Stadium.[22] He scored his first goal for the under-21 team ten days later against Turkey, poking in the ball at the far post after an assist by Gustav Isaksen.[23]
Club | Season | League | National cup | Europe | Total | |||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Brøndby | 2019–20 | Superliga | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
2020–21 | Superliga | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 4 | 0 | ||
2021–22 | Superliga | 16 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1[a] | 0 | 19 | 5 | |
2022–23 | Superliga | 30 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 4[b] | 2 | 35 | 9 | |
2023–24 | Superliga | 20 | 7 | 4 | 2 | — | 24 | 9 | ||
Career total | 69 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 83 | 23 |
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