Thomas Thomasberg

Thomas Thomasberg (born 15 October 1974) is a Danish professional football manager and former player, who is the current head coach of Danish Superliga club Randers FC.

Thomas Thomasberg
Thomasberg with FC Fredericia in 2013
Personal information
Date of birth (1974-10-15) 15 October 1974
Place of birth Haverslev, Rebild, Denmark[1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Randers (head coach)
Youth career
Haverslev IF
Aars IK
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1991–1999 AaB 173 (20)
1999–2004 Midtjylland 108 (8)
National team
1990 Denmark U16 4 (0)
Teams managed
2004–2008 Midtjylland (assistant)
2008–2009 Midtjylland
2010 Hjørring
2010–2013 Fredericia
2013–2017 Randers (assistant)
2017–2018 Hobro
2018– Randers
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Playing career

As a youth player, Thomasberg played for hometown club Haverslev IF as well as Aars IK,[1] before joining AaB in 1991. He made his debut for the first team only in 1994, after having played for the reserves in the fourth-tier Denmark Series for a number of seasons.[2] Thomasberg played for AaB until 1999, after which he moved to FC Midtjylland. He won the Danish Superliga championship as a player with AaB in both the 1994–95 and 1998–99 seasons.[3] In 1990, he also gained four caps for the Denmark under-16 team.[4]

Managerial career

In 2004, Thomasberg announced his retirement and became assistant coach to Erik Rasmussen at FC Midtjylland. He later became Rasmussen's successor as the head coach. He remained in that position for a year before being dismissed on 11 August 2009 and replaced by Allan Kuhn after to a poor start to the season.[5]

Later that year, it was confirmed that Thomasberg would take over as head coach of FC Hjørring from 1 January 2010.[6] He held that position for half a year, during which he managed to lead the club to promotion the second-tier 1st Division. Thomasberg then became the head coach of FC Fredericia, who, however, discontinued their collaboration with Thomasberg on 8 April 2013.[7]

After being an assistant at Randers FC in the period 2013–16,[8] Thomasberg was presented as the new head coach for Hobro IK in the 1st Division on 5 January 2017 on a contract running until the summer of 2018.[9]

Thomasberg since took over as head coach of Randers FC. He was originally supposed to have stepped into the role on 1 October 2018,[10] but Randers and Hobro reached an agreement that enabled Thomasberg to take over with immediate effect in his new club as of 16 June 2018.[11]

Honours

Player

AaB[3]

References
  1. Abildgaard, Lars (9 June 2018). "Rundt om Thomas Thomasberg: Nærmest irriterende Mr. Perfect". Randers Amtsavis (in Danish). Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  2. "Tæt på Thomas Thomasberg i Randers FC". Dansk Træner Union (in Danish). Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  3. "Det bedste AaB-hold nogensinde er..." Tipsbladet (in Danish). Retrieved 25 October 2020. Bl.a. også Allan Gaarde, Torben Boye og Thomas Thomasberg havde andel i dette mesterskab med tre gengangere fra 1995.
  4. "Thomas Thomasberg - DBU". dbu.dk. Danish Football Association. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  5. Helmin, Jesper (11 August 2009). "Thomasberg fyret i FC Midtjylland". bold.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  6. Akbal, Ejder (18 October 2009). "Thomas Thomasberg præsenteret i Hjørring". bold.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  7. Blond, Mikael (8 April 2013). "Fredericia fyrer Thomasberg". bold.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  8. Nielsen, Allan (11 May 2013). "Thomasberg bliver assistent i Randers FC". Politiken (in Danish). Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  9. Jensen, Kenneth (4 January 2017). "Thomas Thomasberg præsenteret som Hobro-træner". Tipsbladet (in Danish). Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  10. Nørgård Dupont, Tobias (24 May 2018). "Officielt: Thomas Thomasberg er ny cheftræner i Randers FC". Randers Amtsavis (in Danish). Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  11. Albrechtsen, Martin (16 June 2018). "Thomasberg tiltræder øjeblikkeligt i Randers FC". Randers FC (in Danish). Retrieved 25 October 2020.
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