 Jensen in 2013 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mike Lindemann Jensen | ||
| Date of birth | (1988-02-19)19 February 1988 (age 37) | ||
| Place of birth | Herlev, Denmark | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | HB Køge | ||
| Number | 7 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1993–2001 | BK Rødovre | ||
| 2001–2006 | Brøndby | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2006–2013 | Brøndby | 133 | (12) |
| 2008–2009 | →Malmö FF (loan) | 11 | (0) |
| 2013–2020 | Rosenborg | 197 | (36) |
| 2020 | APOEL | 17 | (1) |
| 2021– | HB Køge | 133 | (13) |
| International career | |||
| 2002–2004 | Denmark U16 | 6 | (0) |
| 2003–2005 | Denmark U17 | 27 | (4) |
| 2005–2006 | Denmark U18 | 4 | (0) |
| 2005–2007 | Denmark U19 | 15 | (3) |
| 2008 | Denmark U20 | 4 | (2) |
| 2008–2011 | Denmark U21 | 27 | (3) |
| 2010–2018 | Denmark | 7 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 7 October 2025 | |||
Mike Lindemann Jensen (Danish pronunciation:[ˈmɑjkˈjensn̩]; born 19 February 1988) is a Danish professionalfootballer who plays as amidfielder forDanish 1st Division clubHB Køge. He has also been capped byDenmark.
Jensen joined theBrøndby youth academy at age 13 and made his professional debut for the club in the 2006–07 season as a promising talent. After a loan toMalmö FF, he grew into a key figure on the Brøndby team, making well above 100 appearances for the club. In February 2013, Jensen left for Norway to play for top-tier clubRosenborg. There, he becameteam captain and was part of the squad's winningfour league titles and threeNorwegian Cups.
Jensen made his senior international debut for Denmark in August 2010.
The son of formerBrøndby playerHenrik Jensen, Mike Jensen moved to the Brøndby youth academy at age 13 from BK Rødovre.[1][2] In 2006, he was promoted to the first team.[3] He made his professional debut in theDanish Superliga on 13 August 2006 in a 1–1 draw againstRanders, where he came on forMartin Ericsson in the 85th minute. On 28 September 2006, he made his European debut in the second leg of the first qualifying round of theUEFA Cup against Eintracht Frankfurt (2–2); he came on in the 86th minute forThomas Rasmussen.[4] In the league, he made 11 appearances during the 2006–07 season,[5] as he won the 2006Danish U19 Player of the Year award.[3] He scored his first senior goal in the 3–1 win overSilkeborg. In the following season, he made 13 appearances.[5]
In July 2008, Jensen moved on loan toAllsvenskan clubMalmö FF on a six-month deal and made 10 appearances.[6][5] After the loan deal ended, he returned to Brøndby and found himself on the bench again, but became a regular during the 2009–10 season. With Brøndby, he failed to qualify for the group stage of the2010–11 UEFA Europa League with the team being knocked out by Portuguese clubSporting CP in the play-off round.[7]
After Brøndby and Jensen could not agree on a contract extension in early 2013, he moved to Norwegian clubRosenborg BK in February 2013.[8] On 17 March 2013, he played his first game for theTrondheim club in the away match againstOdd on the first matchday and scored his first goal for his club in the 71st minute, which was also the 1–0 winner.[9] With Rosenborg, Jensen regularly qualified for the Europa League and theChampions League, without advancing from the group stages.
In October 2015, Jensen won the2015 Tippeligaen with Rosenborg. One month later, in November, Rosenborg secured the Norwegian double, when Jensen scored the final goal againstSarpsborg 08 in theNorwegian Football Cup final of 2015. Rosenborg won the match 2–0. He would also go on the win the2016,2017 and2018 editions of the highest Norwegian league. Jensen was appointedteam captain in January 2016,[10] and he signed a five-year contract extension the following month.[11]
Jensen made 285 total appearances for Rosenborg in which he scored 52 goals during his seven years at the club.[5]
On 11 January 2020, Jensen signed a contract with Cypriot clubAPOEL to 2021. On 22 December 2020, Jensen andAPOEL agreed to terminate the contract, making Jensen a free agent.[12]
On 1 February 2021, Jensen signed a three-and-a-half-year contract with second-tierDanish 1st Division clubHB Køge on a free transfer.[13] He made his debut on 13 February in a 1–1 league draw againstHobro IK, playing the full 90 minutes.[14] The following week, Jensen scored his first goal for Køge in a 3–1 away win overSkive IK.[15]
In May 2018 he was named in theDenmark national team’s preliminary 35-man squad for the2018 World Cup in Russia but did not make the final 23.[16]
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | Continental | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Brøndby | 2005–06 | Danish Superliga | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 2 | 0 | |
| 2006–07 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 2 | ||
| 2007–08 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 13 | 0 | |||
| 2008–09 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 6 | 0 | |||
| 2009–10 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6[b] | 0 | 36 | 2 | ||
| 2010–11 | 32 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5[b] | 1 | 37 | 6 | ||
| 2011–12 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1[b] | 0 | 19 | 2 | ||
| 2012–13 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 0 | – | 21 | 2 | |||
| Total | 133 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 149 | 14 | ||
| Malmö (loan) | 2008 | Allsvenskan | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 11 | 0 | |
| Rosenborg | 2013 | Tippeligaen | 27 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4[b] | 0 | 35 | 6 |
| 2014 | 29 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 6[b] | 4 | 36 | 13 | ||
| 2015 | 29 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 13[b] | 2 | 47 | 7 | ||
| 2016 | 28 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 6[c] | 0 | 38 | 8 | ||
| 2017 | Eliteserien | 29 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 11[d] | 0 | 44 | 2 | |
| 2018 | 28 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 14[e] | 1 | 46 | 8 | ||
| 2019 | 27 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 13[f] | 2 | 43 | 8 | ||
| Total | 197 | 36 | 21 | 7 | 67 | 9 | 285 | 52 | ||
| APOEL | 2019–20 | Cypriot First Division | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2[b] | 0 | 10 | 1 |
| 2020–21 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2[b] | 0 | 12 | 0 | ||
| Total | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 22 | 1 | ||
| Køge | 2020–21 | Danish 1st Division | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 13 | 1 | |
| 2021–22 | 28 | 3 | 1 | 0 | – | 29 | 3 | |||
| 2022–23 | 31 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | 31 | 2 | |||
| 2023–24 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 15 | 0 | |||
| Total | 86 | 6 | 2 | 0 | – | 88 | 6 | |||
| Career total | 444 | 56 | 26 | 7 | 85 | 11 | 555 | 73 | ||
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