Mathias Kvistgaarden

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Mathias Kvistgaarden
Kvistgaarden in 2021
Personal information
Full name Mathias Damm Kvistgaarden[1]
Date of birth (2002-04-15) 15 April 2002
Place of birth Birkerød, Denmark[2]
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[3]
Position Forward
Team information
Current team
 Norwich City
Number 30
Youth career
2008–2013 Skjold Birkerød
2013–2015 Lyngby
2015–2020 Brøndby
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2020–2025 Brøndby 102 (37)
2025– Norwich City 41 (8)
International career‡
2019–2020 Denmark U18 6 (3)
2020 Denmark U19 1 (1)
2022 Denmark U20 2 (1)
2022–2024 Denmark U21 21 (7)
2025– Denmark 2 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 07:25, 4 October 2026 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals as of 18:40, 5 October 2026 (UTC)

Mathias Damm Kvistgaarden (Danish pronunciation: [ˈkʰve̝stˌkɒˀn̩]; born 15 April 2002) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a forward for EFL Championship club Norwich City and the Denmark national team.[4]

Club career

Brøndby

Youth

Kvistgaarden was born in Birkerød and began playing at his hometown club IF Skjold Birkerød.[2] He joined the Lyngby Boldklub academy in 2013 and moved to Brøndby IF at under-13 level two years later, a move he attributed in part to his family's relationship with the Brøndby head coach, Thomas Frank.[5][2] He found the Brøndby youth set-up considerably more competitive than those he had known at Skjold and Lyngby.[5] Promoted to the under-19 team in the summer of 2019, he scored nine goals in 14 league matches at that level.[6]

Senior

On 5 July 2020, Kvistgaarden was included in the senior squad for the first time ahead of an away Danish Superliga match against AaB, the regular strikers Simon Hedlund and Samuel Mráz having tested positive for COVID-19.[7] He made his debut in that match, a 2–0 defeat, replacing Mikael Uhre after 73 minutes.[8]

Kvistgaarden scored his first goal for Brøndby on 6 March 2022, the winner in a 1–0 away victory over Silkeborg,[9] and made his first start on 14 April. He signed a contract extension to 2025 at the end of that month,[10] and scored four goals in three league matches in May, including his first brace on the final day against Silkeborg. He had been named the Superliga's Young Player of the Month for May shortly before that match.[11]

He extended his contract again on 26 May 2023, to 2027,[12] and scored his first senior hat-trick three days later in a 5–1 win over Nordsjælland.[13]

The 2024–25 season was the most productive of his career. He scored 17 league goals, finishing as the Superliga's leading scorer in the championship round, and 23 in 38 matches in all competitions as Brøndby finished third, and his fellow professionals voted him the division's player of the year.[14] He left the club having scored 47 goals in 126 appearances.[15]

Norwich City

Kvistgaarden signed for EFL Championship club Norwich City on 8 July 2025 on an initial four-year deal, for a fee of £6.9 million.[16] He scored his first goal for the club on 13 September in a 1–1 draw at Coventry City.[17] He finished his first season in England with six goals in 36 league appearances, most of them from the bench, having started only twelve matches; local reporting noted that his six goals came from an expected goals figure of 5.14 and that he had led the division's forwards for goals per 90 minutes for much of the campaign.[18]

International career

Kvistgaarden has earned six appearances for Denmark at under-18 level, in which he has scored three goals.[1] On 8 October 2020, he made his debut with a goal for the Denmark under-19 team in a 3–1 friendly victory against Poland.[19]

On 4 June 2022, Kvistgaarden debuted for the Denmark under-21 in a 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification against Kazakhstan.[20] He started with 63 minutes on the pitch before being replaced by Rasmus Højlund in a 3–0 victory at Vejle Stadium.[21] He scored his first goal for the under-21 team ten days later against Turkey, poking in the ball at the far post after an assist by Gustav Isaksen.[22]

Kvistgaarden made his debut for the Denmark national team in a 2–1 friendly victory against Northern Ireland, coming on as a substitute in the 65th minute to Mikkel Damsgaard.[23]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 17 September 2026[4]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] League cup[b] Europe Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Brøndby 2019–20 Danish Superliga 10———10
2020–21 Danish Superliga 2020——40
2021–22 Danish Superliga 16520—1[c]0195
2022–23 Danish Superliga 30710—4[d]2359
2023–24 Danish Superliga 24842——2810
2024–25 Danish Superliga 291764—3[e]23823
Total 10237156—8412547
Norwich City 2025–26[24] EFL Championship 3663010—406
2026–27[25] EFL Championship 520031—83
Total 4183041—489
Career total 14345186418417356
  1. Includes Danish Cup, FA Cup
  2. Includes EFL Cup
  3. Appearances in UEFA Europa League
  4. Appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League
  5. Appearances in UEFA Conference League

International

As of match played 4 October 2026
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Denmark 202510
202610
Total20

Honours

Brøndby

Individual

References

  1. "Landsholdsdatabasen". Danish Football Association. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  2. Rossman Thejsen, Anna (20 January 2020). "Efterskolen fjernede et pres" [The efterskole removed a pressure]. Efterskolerne (in Danish). Archived from the original on 24 May 2021. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  3. "Mathias Kvistgaarden". Eurosport (in Danish). Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  4. Mathias Kvistgaarden at Soccerway. Retrieved 19 August 2026.
  5. Møller Karlsen, Nanna (17 August 2020). "Stort interview med Kvistgaarden" [Big interview with Kvistgaarden]. 3point (in Danish). Archived from the original on 1 October 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  6. "Mathias Kvistgaarden spillerprofil" [Mathias Kvistgaarden player profile]. 3point (in Danish). Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  7. Risager, Victor (5 July 2020). "Ung Brøndby-spiller kan få debut mod AaB" [Young Brøndby player could make his debut against AaB]. Tipsbladet (in Danish). Retrieved 29 July 2025.
  8. "Debutant Kvistgaarden: Et helt andet tempo" [Debutant Kvistgaarden: a completely different tempo] (in Danish). Brøndby IF. 6 July 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  9. "19-årig sikrer Brøndby vital sejr" [19-year-old secures a vital win for Brøndby]. TV2 Sport (in Danish). 6 March 2022. Archived from the original on 6 March 2022.
  10. "Brøndby forlænger med talent" [Brøndby extend with talent]. TV2 Sport (in Danish). 29 April 2022. Archived from the original on 22 May 2022. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  11. "Kvistgaarden er månedens unge spiller i 3F Superligaen" [Kvistgaarden is young player of the month in the 3F Superliga]. bold.dk (in Danish). 22 May 2022. Archived from the original on 22 May 2022. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  12. Hoffskov, Ole (26 May 2023). "Brøndby IF forlænger med Mathias Kvistgaarden" [Brøndby IF extend with Mathias Kvistgaarden]. Tipsbladet (in Danish). Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  13. "Det var noget, jeg havde ventet på, siger Brøndbys hattrickhelt" ['It was something I had waited for', says Brøndby's hat-trick hero]. TV2 (in Danish). 29 May 2023. Retrieved 8 April 2025.
  14. "Brøndby-topscorer udtaget til landsholdet for første gang" [Brøndby top scorer called up to the national team for the first time]. DR (in Danish). June 2025. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
  15. "Brøndby IF siger farvel til Mathias Kvistgaarden" [Brøndby IF say goodbye to Mathias Kvistgaarden] (in Danish). Brøndby IF. 8 July 2025. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
  16. Butler, Rob (8 July 2025). "Norwich sign Denmark striker Kvistgaarden". BBC Sport. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
  17. "Coventry 1–1 Norwich City". ESPN. 13 September 2025. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
  18. "Mathias Kvistgaarden's Norwich City report card after 25/26". Pink Un. June 2026. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
  19. Møller Karlsen, Nanna (9 October 2020). "Mathias Kvistgaarden scorede i U/19-landsholdets sejr over Polen". 3point.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  20. "U21-landshold tættere på EM efter storsejr". TV2 Sport (in Danish). 4 June 2022. Archived from the original on 4 June 2022. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  21. "Danmark – Kasakhstan 3–0" (in Danish). Danish Football Union. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  22. "U21-holdet misser direkte kval: Nu venter playoff". Tipsbladet (in Danish). 14 June 2022. Archived from the original on 14 June 2022. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  23. Thane, Kasper Aleksander (7 June 2025). "Debutanten Kvistgaarden delte rørende øjeblik med sin far: 'Jeg er virkelig stolt'" (in Danish). DR. Retrieved 29 July 2025.
  24. "Games played by Mathias Kvistgaarden in 2025/2026". Soccerbase. Centurycomm.
  25. "Games played by Mathias Kvistgaarden in 2026/2027". Soccerbase. Centurycomm.
  26. "Soccer-Brondby beat Nordsjaelland to clinch Danish league title". Reuters. 24 May 2021. Archived from the original on 22 May 2022. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  27. Hviid, Magnus (19 May 2025). "Mathias Kvistgaarden er Årets Profil i Superligaen" [Mathias Kvistgaarden is the Superliga Player of the Year]. SPFO — Spillerforeningen (in Danish). Retrieved 12 October 2026.
  28. "Serginho på Årets Hold i 3F Superligaen" [Serginho on the Team of the Year in the 3F Superliga]. Viborg FF (in Danish). 2 June 2025. Retrieved 29 July 2025.
  29. "Kåringer". superliga.dk. Danish Superliga. Retrieved 5 May 2025.