Jörn Bjerregaard

Jörn Bjerregaard (born 19 January 1943) is a retired Danish footballer and coach.
Career
He started his career  at Aarhus GF at the age of 12. Aarhus  was Denmark's top team in the 1950s. In addition to football, he began studying economics, which he ended prematurely in the mid-1960s in favor of sports. In 1962 he made his debut for Aarhus in the first Danish league. He scored 13 goals in his first season. This made him to the club's second-best goalscorer. In 1965, Bjerregaard won his first title  by winning the cup. 

1966 he went to Austria and signed a contract with SK Rapid Wien. This was his first professional contract, since a professional league was not introduced in Denmark until 1978. In his first game for Rapid he scored three goals against Kapfenberger SV and three in the first round of the European Cup against Galatasaray Istanbul.

In the 1971/72 season he had problems with the new coach Ernst Hlozek. So he went to SC Eisenstadt. After 23 goals  in his first season for Eisenstadt, he played as  midfielder the following year . At the age of 32 he ended his career as defender. The reason for the end of his career was physical problems.
International career
Between 1962 and 1966 he played five matches for the Danish U-21 national team. Bjerregaard never played in an official game for the Danish national football team.National team matches He became a professional player when he switched to Rapid and Denmark was an amateur team.
Managing career
In 1976, Bjerregaard became  coach of his first club Aarhus GF. In this season Aarhus was promoted to the 1st division After this resigned and returned to Austria. 
Personal
Bjerregaard's son, Carsten Bjerregaard, was also a professional footballer. He played for Vienna and Admira Wacker in the Austrian Bundesliga between 1990 and 1995.
Honours
Austrian champion: 1967, 1968
Austrian Cup: 1968, 1969, 1972
Austrian footballer of the year: 1968, 1970
Austrian top scorer: 1968
Danish Cup: 1965
References

Other websites
 Rapid Archiv 
 Sturm Archiv

Category:1943 births
Category:Living people
Category:Association football forwards
Category:SK Rapid Wien players
Category:Danish football managers
Category:Austrian Football Bundesliga top scorers
Category:Austrian football champions