Hans Vilhelm Aabech (1 November 1948 – 8 January 2018) was a Danish

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

player. He played for a number of clubs, including

Hvidovre IF Hvidovre Idrætsforening, more commonly known as Hvidovre IF () is a Danish association football club from Hvidovre, Capital Region of Denmark. The club competes in the Danish 1st Division, the second tier of Danish football, and plays its ...

Kjøbenhavns Boldklub Kjøbenhavns Boldklub (known simply as KB) was a Danish professional multi-sports club based in Copenhagen. The club was founded on 26 April 1876 on the grassy fields in outer Copenhagen which later became Fælledparken. Tennis has been played s ...

and

Lyngby Boldklub Lyngby Boldklub () is a professional Football (soccer), football club based in Kongens Lyngby, Lyngby, Denmark, founded in 1921. It is based at Lyngby Stadion. The club play in the Danish Superliga. From 1994 to 2001 the club was known as Lyngby ...

in Denmark,

Club Brugge (), known simply as Club Brugge (in English also: ''Club Bruges''), is a Belgian professional football club based in Bruges, Belgium. It was founded in 1891 and its home ground is the Jan Breydel Stadium, which has a capacity of 29,042. They pl ...

and

K.V. Oostende Koninklijke Voetbalclub Oostende, also called KV Oostende () or KVO, was a Belgian professional association football, football club based in Ostend, West Flanders. The team was founded in 1904 as ''VG Oostende'' and had Football in Belgium#Matr ...

in Belgium, and

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clubs Twente Enschede and

De Graafschap Vereniging Betaald Voetbal De Graafschap, simply known as De Graafschap () is a professional association football club based in Doetinchem, Netherlands. The team competes in the , the second level of the Dutch football league system. Founded o ...

. He played three games for the

Denmark national football team The Denmark national football team ( or ''herrelandsholdet'') represents Denmark and Greenland in men's international Association football, football competitions. It is controlled by the Danish Football Association (DBU), the governing body for ...

. He was twice top scorer in the Danish 1. Division, in 1973 and 1980. He is the father of footballer

Kim Aabech Kim Engel Aabech (; born 31 May 1983) is a Danish footballer who plays for FC Gladsaxe. His father is former Danish international Hans Aabech. Career Lyngby After starting his senior career with lower-tier clubs Virum-Sorgenfri and Gladsaxe H ...

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* * 1948 births 2018 deaths Footballers from Copenhagen Danish men's footballers Danish expatriate men's footballers Denmark men's international footballers Kjøbenhavns Boldklub players Hvidovre IF players FC Twente players De Graafschap players Club Brugge KV players K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen players K.V. Oostende players Lyngby Boldklub players Eredivisie players Belgian Pro League players Challenger Pro League players Danish expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Danish expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands Men's association football forwards Skovshoved IF players 20th-century Danish sportsmen {{Denmark-footy-forward-stub