Jacob Neestrup

Jacob Neestrup was appointed as the new head coach at F.C. Copenhagen on 20 September 2022.

He returned to F.C. Copenhagen on 1 January 2021 as assistant coach, after he left the club in the summer of 2019 to become head coach of Viborg FF.

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Neestrup has a past played for F.C. Copenhagen, where he came up through the youth ranks and made his first-team debut as an 18-year-old in a Danish Cup match against Thisted in the autumn of 2006.

It was a debut he would soon want forget, because after he came on, it took only two minutes before he had to withdraw with a serious injury. At first everyone thought it was a knee injury, but it turned out to be an ankle injury, which later caused Neestrup many problems.

Eight months later he was fit again, and in the summer of 2007 he got the chance as a permanent member of the first-team squad on a two-year contract. He then continued his career at Norwegian side Stavanger IF and FH Hafnarfjördur in Iceland, but unfortunately had to cut short his stay and retire from playing as a professional footballer due to the injury.

He played a couple of months in Fremad Amager, but but after he was contacted by F.C. Copenhagen's established School of Excellence, he decided to become a coach and was initially assigned to the U19 team, where in the spring of 2011 he became assistant coach to Brian Riemer.

When Riemer became assistant coach for Ariël Jacobs at the Superliga team, Neestrup became U17 assistant coach for Klavs Rasmussen and took over the U17 head coaching job himself in the summer of 2014. Among other things he lead the team undefeated to the U17 Championship in the 2015/16 season.

He had the U17 job for four years, until in the summer of 2018 he was appointed as assistant to Ståle Solbakken at the Superliga team, where he replaced Mikael Antonsson.

From the 2018-19 season Neestrup was appointed as head coach at Viborg FF, and he left the club in first place in the 1st division when he chose to move back to Copenhagen at the turn of the year 2020/21 for family reasons.