# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/per-nielsen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:58:37.461Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/per-nielsen"
name: "Per Nielsen"
slug: "per-nielsen"
description: "Per Lundgren Nielsen is a Danish former professional footballer who played in the central defense of Brøndby IF in the Danish Superliga for his entire club career. With Brøndby, Nielsen won five Danish championships and three Danish Cups since his senior debut in 1993. He played 547 official games for Brøndby IF and scored 26 goals, and from 2002 to 2008 he was named team captain. He played 10 matches for the Denmark national football team and is noted for 19 matches for the national under-21 team from 1994 to 1996. Following his retirement, he has worked as first as an assistant coach, later as head coach. He coached Brøndby's women's team from 2015 to 2024."
tagline: "Danish footballer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Per_Nielsen_JM_0286.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1973-10-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.91
  momentum:             2.828947368421052
  historical:           8.940353333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Per Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بير نيلسين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بير نيلسين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Nielsen_(fodboldspiller)"
    title: "Per Nielsen (fodboldspiller)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Nielsen"
    title: "Per Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Nielsen"
    title: "Per Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Nielsen"
    title: "Per Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Nielsen"
    title: "Per Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Nielsen"
    title: "Per Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Nielsen"
    title: "Per Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3175411"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump