Jeppe Gertsen (born 9 February 1997) is a Danish professional

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who plays as a

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for

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side AB.

Club career

Youth years

Born in

Aarhus Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus municipality, Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and app ...

, Gertsen started out in the youth team of AGF before joining

Silkeborg IF Silkeborg Idrætsforening, (; commonly known as Silkeborg IF or SIF in short) is a professional football club based in Silkeborg, Denmark. The club was founded in 1917, reached the highest level of Danish football in 1987, and afterwards became ...

in 2009, initially with the under-13 team. He gradually ascended up the ranks during his teenage years, while simultaneously studying at Silkeborg Gymnasium, which he completed in 2017. In the summer of 2015, while a part of the under-19 squad, his contract was extended for three more years. It also was around this time that he started training with the first team on occasion. He appeared on the substitution bench for the senior squad a total of eight times during the 2015–16 and 2016–17 seasons.

Professional career

Gertsen made his first-team debut on 19 September 2017, playing the full 90 minutes of a second-round

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match against

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debut on 10 December 2017, replacing Davit Skhirtladze in the final minutes of a 2–1 victory over

Odense Odense ( , , ) is the third largest city in Denmark (after Copenhagen and Aarhus) and the largest city on the island of Funen. As of 1 January 2025, the city proper had a population of 185,480 while Odense Municipality had a population of 210, ...

. The next month, Silkeborg signed him to a three-year contract extension, securing him until the summer of 2021. On 28 January 2021, Gertsen signed a pre-contract with

FC Fredericia Fodbold Club Fredericia af 1991 (), simply known as FC Fredericia, is a professional association football club based in the town of Fredericia, Denmark, that competes in the Danish 1st Division, the second tier of the Danish football league syste ...

, valid from 1 July 2021, where his contract with Silkeborg also expired. On 16 January 2024

confirmed that Geertsen had left the club by mutual agreement, a year and a half early. On 3 February 2024, Gertsen joined Icelandic club Vestri. He left the club again at the end of the year. On March 19, 2025, Gertsen joined

side

Næstved Boldklub Næstved Boldklub is a Danish association football team based in Næstved in the South of Zealand. Næstved Boldklub is the professional superstructure of the parent club Næstved Idræts Forening (Næstved IF) and currently plays in the Danish ...

. At the end of June, Gertsen moved to fellow league club AB on a deal until June 2028.AB signs Jeppe Gertsen on contract until 2028
ab-fodbold.dk, 26 June 2025

References

External links

Superliga profile

Silkeborg profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gertsen, Jeppe Living people 1997 births Danish men's footballers Danish expatriate men's footballers Men's association football defenders Aarhus Gymnastikforening players Silkeborg IF players FC Fredericia players Vestri (men's football) players Næstved Boldklub players Akademisk Boldklub players Danish Superliga players Danish 1st Division players Footballers from Aarhus Danish expatriate sportspeople in Iceland Expatriate men's footballers in Iceland 21st-century Danish sportsmen