Michael Laudrup

**Michael Laudrup** (born 15 June 1964) is a former Danish football player. He has played for Denmark national team.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National cup|colspan="2"|League cup|colspan="2"|Continental|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|KB|1981|Danish 1st Division|14|3|||–|2|0|–|16|3||||
|rowspan="3"|Brøndby|1982|Danish 1st Division|24|15|||–|–|–|24|15||||
|1983|Danish 1st Division|14|8|||–|–|–|14|8||||||
|rowspan="3"|Lazio|1983–84|Serie A|30|8|5|0|–|–|–|35|8||||
|1984–85|Serie A|30|1|5|3|–|–|–|35|4||||||
|rowspan="5"|Juventus|1985–86|Serie A|29|7|6|2|–|6|2|1|1|42|12||
|1986–87|Serie A|20|3|6|1|–|4|5|–|30|9|||||
|1987–88|Serie A|28|0|7|2|–|4|2|–|39|4|||||
|1988–89|Serie A|26|6|7|2|–|8|3|–|41|11|||||
|rowspan="6"|Barcelona|1989–90|La Liga|33|3|7|2|–|3|1|1|0|44|6||
|1990–91|La Liga|30|9|5|2|–|7|0|1|0|43|11||||
|1991–92|La Liga|36|13|2|2|–|11|3|1|0|50|18||||
|1992–93|La Liga|37|10|4|4|–|4|0|4|0|49|14||||
|1993–94|La Liga|31|5|1|0|–|6|1|2|0|40|6||||
|rowspan="3"|Real Madrid|1994–95|La Liga|33|4|2|1|–|5|2|–|40|7|||
|1995–96|La Liga|29|8|0|0|–|7|0|1|0|36|8||||
|rowspan="3"|Vissel Kobe|1996|Football League|12|5|3|2|–|–|–|15|7||||
|1997|J1 League|3|0|0|0|6|1|–|–|9|1|||||
|Ajax|1997–98|Eredivisie|21|11|4|0|–|5|2|–|30|13||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="17"|Denmark|1982|3|2|
|1983|5|7|||
|1984|13|2|||
|1985|6|6|||
|1986|10|1|||
|1987|4|0|||
|1988|9|1|||
|1989|8|4|||
|1990|6|3|||
|1991|0|0|||
|1992|0|0|||
|1993|4|0|||
|1994|8|3|||
|1995|9|5|||
|1996|8|1|||
|1997|2|1|||
|1998|9|1|||

- _Scores and results list Denmark's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Laudrup goal._

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="center"|1|15 June 1982|Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway||align="center"|1–2|align="center"|1–2|1981–85 Nordic Football Championship|||||
|align="center"|2|27 October 1982|Københavns Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark||align="center"|1–2|align="center"|1–3|Friendly|||||
|align="center"|3|rowspan="2"|22 June 1983|rowspan="2"|Aarhus Idrætspark, Aarhus, Denmark|rowspan="2"||align="center"|2–0|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center"|3–0|rowspan="2"|1984 Summer Olympics qualification|
|align="center"|4|align="center"|3–0|||||||||||
|align="center"|5|rowspan="2"|7 September 1983|rowspan="2"|Københavns Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark|rowspan="2"||align="center"|1–0|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center"|3–1|rowspan="2"|Friendly|
|align="center"|6|align="center"|3–1|||||||||||
|align="center"|7|rowspan="3"|12 October 1983|rowspan="3"|Københavns Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark|rowspan="3"||align="center"|1–0|rowspan="3" style="text-align:center"|6–0|rowspan="3"|UEFA Euro 1984 qualifying|
|align="center"|8|align="center"|2–0|||||||||||
|align="center"|9|align="center"|6–0|||||||||||
|align="center"|10|8 June 1984|Københavns Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|1–1|Friendly|||||
|align="center"|11|12 September 1984|Københavns Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|3–1|Friendly|||||
|align="center"|12|rowspan="2"|8 May 1985|rowspan="2"|Københavns Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark|rowspan="2"||align="center"|1–0|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center"|4–1|rowspan="2"|Friendly|
|align="center"|13|align="center"|2–0|||||||||||
|align="center"|14|rowspan="2"|5 June 1985|rowspan="2"|Københavns Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark|rowspan="2"||align="center"|3–1|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center"|4–2|rowspan="2"|1986 FIFA World Cup qualification|
|align="center"|15|align="center"|4–1|||||||||||
|align="center"|16|16 October 1985|Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo, Norway||align="center"|1–1|align="center"|5–1|1986 FIFA World Cup qualification|||||
|align="center"|17|13 November 1985|Lansdowne Road, Dublin, Republic of Ireland||align="center"|2–1|align="center"|4–1|1986 FIFA World Cup qualification|||||
|align="center"|18|8 June 1986|Estadio Neza 86, Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico||align="center"|3–1|align="center"|6–1|1986 FIFA World Cup|||||
|align="center"|19|11 June 1988|Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover, West Germany||align="center"|1–1|align="center"|2–3|UEFA Euro 1988|||||
|align="center"|20|17 May 1989|Københavns Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark||align="center"|7–1|align="center"|7–1|1990 FIFA World Cup qualification|||||
|align="center"|21|14 June 1989|Københavns Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark||align="center"|6–0|align="center"|6–0|1989 Tri Tournament|||||
|align="center"|22|rowspan="2"|18 June 1989|rowspan="2"|Københavns Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark|rowspan="2"||align="center"|2–0|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center"|4–0|rowspan="2"|1989 Tri Tournament|
|align="center"|23|align="center"|3–0|||||||||||
|align="center"|24|6 June 1990|Lerkendal Stadion, Trondheim, Norway||align="center"|2–0|align="center"|2–1|Friendly|||||
|align="center"|25|rowspan="2"|10 October 1990|rowspan="2"|Københavns Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark|rowspan="2"||align="center"|1–0|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center"|4–1|rowspan="2"|UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying|
|align="center"|26|align="center"|3–1|||||||||||
|align="center"|27|rowspan="2"|20 April 1994|rowspan="2"|Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark|rowspan="2"||align="center"|1–1|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center"|3–1|rowspan="2"|Friendly|
|align="center"|28|align="center"|2–1|||||||||||
|align="center"|29|26 May 1994|Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|1–0|Friendly|||||
|align="center"|30|13 January 1995|King Fahd II Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|2–0|1995 King Fahd Cup|||||
|align="center"|31|7 June 1995|Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark||align="center"|4–0|align="center"|4–0|UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying|||||
|align="center"|32|16 August 1995|Hrazdan Stadium, Yerevan, Armenia||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|2–0|UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying|||||
|align="center"|33|6 September 1995|King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|3–1|UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying|||||
|align="center"|34|15 November 1995|Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark||align="center"|3–1|align="center"|3–1|UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying|||||
|align="center"|35|24 April 1996|Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark||align="center"|1–0|align="center"|2–0|Friendly|||||
|align="center"|36|10 September 1997|Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark||align="center"|2–0|align="center"|3–1|1998 FIFA World Cup qualification|||||
|align="center"|37|24 June 1998|Stade de Gerland, Lyon, France||align="center"|1–1|align="center"|1–2|1998 FIFA World Cup|||||

## Managerial statistics

|rowspan=2 style="width:120px;"|Team|rowspan=2 style="width:10px;"|Nat|rowspan=2 style="width:130px;"|From|rowspan=2 style="width:130px;"|To|colspan=8|Record|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="text-align:left;"|Brøndby||style="text-align:left;"|July 2002|align="left"|June 2006||||
|style="text-align:left;"|Getafe||style="text-align:left;"|July 2007|align="left"|June 2008||||
|style="text-align:left;"|Spartak Moscow||style="text-align:left;"|September 2008|align="left"|April 2009||||
|style="text-align:left;"|Mallorca||style="text-align:left;"|July 2010|align="left"|September 2011||||
|style="text-align:left;"|Swansea City||style="text-align:left;"|June 2012|style="text-align:left;"|February 2014||||
|style="text-align:left;"|Lekhwiya||style="text-align:left;"|July 2014|style="text-align:left;"|July 2015||||
|style="text-align:left;"|Al Rayyan||style="text-align:left;"|October 2016|style="text-align:left;"|July 2018||||
|colspan=4|**Total**|||||||||

### Player

**Juventus**
- Serie A: 1985–86
- Intercontinental Cup: 1985

**Barcelona**
- La Liga: 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94
- Copa del Rey: 1989–90
- Supercopa de España: 1991, 1992
- European Cup: 1991–92
- UEFA Super Cup: 1992

**Real Madrid**
- La Liga: 1994–95

**Ajax**
- Eredivisie: 1997–98
- KNVB Cup: 1997–98

**Denmark**
- FIFA Confederations Cup: 1995

**Individual**
- Danish Player of the Year (2): 1982, 1985
- Don Balón Award – La Liga Best Foreign Player of the Year: 1991–92
- ESM Team of the Year: 1994–95
- FIFA XI (Reserve): 1996
- FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 1998
- Best Foreign Player in Spanish Football in the last 25 years: 1974–1999
- UEFA Golden Player (Greatest Danish Footballer of the last 50 Years): 2003
- FIFA 100
- Denmark's Best Player of All Time: 2006
- Scandinavia Best Player Ever: 2015
- Danish Football Hall of Fame
- World Soccer The Greatest Players of the 20th century: The 100 Greatest Footballers of All Time

### Manager

**Brøndby**
- Danish Superliga: 2004–05
- Danish Cup: 2002–03, 2004–05
- Danish League Cup: 2005
- Danish Supercup: 2002

**Swansea City**
- Football League Cup: 2012–13

**Lekhwiya**
- Qatar Stars League: 2014–15
- Crown Prince Cup: 2014–15

**Individual**
- Danish Manager of the Year: 2002–03, 2004–05
- Qatar Stars League Manager of the Month: August 2014, December 2014

### Orders

- Order of the Dannebrog: 2000

## Films

- Jørgen Leth, "_Michael Laudrup – en fodboldspiller_", Denmark, 1993

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Michael Laudrup
- **image**: Michael Laudrup 2016c (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Laudrup in 2016
- **fullname**: Michael Laudrup
- **birth place**: Frederiksberg, Denmark
- **height**: 1.83 m
- **position**: Attacking midfielder, Forward (association football), forward
- **youthyears1**: 1971–1973
- **youthclubs1**: Vanløse IF, Vanløse
- **youthyears2**: 1973–1974
- **youthclubs2**: Brøndby IF, Brøndby
- **youthyears3**: 1974–1980
- **youthclubs3**: Kjøbenhavns Boldklub, KB
- **years1**: 1981
- **clubs1**: Kjøbenhavns Boldklub, KB
- **caps1**: 14
- **goals1**: 3
- **years2**: 1982–1983
- **clubs2**: Brøndby IF, Brøndby
- **caps2**: 38
- **goals2**: 24
- **years3**: 1983–1985
- **clubs3**: SS Lazio, Lazio
- **caps3**: 60
- **goals3**: 9
- **years4**: 1985–1989
- **clubs4**: Juventus FC, Juventus
- **caps4**: 103
- **goals4**: 16
- **years5**: 1989–1994
- **clubs5**: FC Barcelona, Barcelona
- **caps5**: 166
- **goals5**: 41
- **years6**: 1994–1996
- **clubs6**: Real Madrid CF, Real Madrid
- **caps6**: 62
- **goals6**: 12
- **years7**: 1996–1997
- **clubs7**: Vissel Kobe
- **caps7**: 15
- **goals7**: 5
- **years9**: 1997–1998
- **clubs9**: AFC Ajax, Ajax
- **caps9**: 21
- **goals9**: 11
- **totalcaps**: 478
- **totalgoals**: 119
- **nationalyears1**: 1982–1998
- **nationalteam1**: Denmark national football team, Denmark
- **nationalcaps1**: 104
- **nationalgoals1**: 37
- **manageryears1**: 2000–2002
- **manageryears2**: 2002–2006
- **manageryears3**: 2007–2008
- **manageryears4**: 2008–2009
- **manageryears5**: 2010–2011
- **manageryears6**: 2012–2014
- **manageryears7**: 2014–2015
- **manageryears8**: 2016–2018
- **managerclubs1**: Denmark national football team, Denmark (assistant manager)
- **managerclubs2**: Brøndby IF, Brøndby
- **managerclubs3**: Getafe CF, Getafe
- **managerclubs4**: FC Spartak Moscow, Spartak Moscow
- **managerclubs5**: RCD Mallorca, Mallorca
- **managerclubs6**: Swansea City A.F.C., Swansea City
- **managerclubs7**: Lekhwiya SC, Lekhwiya
- **managerclubs8**: Al-Rayyan SC, Al Rayyan