page_title: Pernille Harder (footballer)
section_title: Club career
hierarchical_section_title: Pernille Harder (footballer) / Club career
caption_attribution_description: English: Pernille Harder Danish international football player. Hungary-Denmark 0-4 Magyar: Pernille Harder dán válogatott labdarúgó. Magyarország-Dánia 0-4
context_page_description: Pernille Mosegaard Harder is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a Midfielder or striker for VfL Wolfsburg and in 2018 was named Europe's best female footballer.
  She also plays for Danish national team and she was on the team that won silver at the UEFA Women's Euro 2017. She was only 23 years old when she was named the national team leader in March 2016 and she made her debut for the national team in 2009.
context_section_description: Before signing for Linköpings in June 2012 Harder played for Team Viborg and IK Skovbakken in her country's Elitedivisionen. Skovbakken had made Harder and her contemporary Sofie Junge Pedersen contracted players in April 2010, in recognition of their exception potential.
  Harder chose a Swedish club for her next destination because she wanted a new challenge, but also because she wanted to remain in Scandinavia. In September 2013 she scored all four goals in Linköpings' 4–1 win at relegation-bound Sunnanå SK.
  In the 2015 Damallsvenskan season Harder scored 17 goals in 22 appearances for Linköping, winning a series of national awards including Årets Anfallare (English: Forward of the Year) and Årets Allsvenska Spelare (English: League Player of the Year). At the annual awards gala she shared the stage with male winner Zlatan Ibrahimović and was described as "hyper-talented" and "world class" by Swedish national coach Pia Sundhage. Harder was also voted Danish Football Player of the Year in 2015. In June 2016, Harder was among 30 local worthies to be named in a Wall of Fame by Linköping Municipality.
  Harder enjoyed further success in the 2016 Damallsvenskan season, retaining the League Player of the Year award. Her 23 league goals secured the Top Goalscorer award and helped Linköping win the Damallsvenskan title. By now a transfer target for the biggest clubs in women's football, Harder's agent announced in November 2016 that she would be leaving Linköping for a new challenge. In December 2016, it was announced that Harder had signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with VfL Wolfsburg running from January 2017.
caption: Pernille Harder in 2013
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