Kasper Pedersen (born 13 January 1993) is a Danish professional

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who plays as a defender for

Stabæk Fotball Stabæk Fotball is a Norwegian professional football club based in Bærum, a suburb of Oslo. It is part of the multi-sport organization Stabæk IF. Founded in 1912, the club's name is an archaic spelling of the suburban area Stabekk, from w ...

Club career

Pedersen started his youth career at

Aabybro IF Aabybro or Åbybro is a town in North Jutland, Denmark. The town is the seat of Jammerbugt Municipality, and is the biggest town in the municipality. Aabybro is located 17 km southwest of Brønderslev, 16 km northwest of Aalborg and 30 km nor ...

, before moving to

Jetsmark IF Jammerbugt Fodbold Club is a Danish association football club currently playing in the Danish 2nd Division. They play at Jetsmark Stadion in Pandrup, North Jutland, which has a capacity of 6,000. The club was former known as Jetsmark IF, which ...

– a club affiliated with

Aalborg Boldspilklub Aalborg Boldspilklub is a Danish sports club based in the city of Aalborg. The club is also known as AaB for short (cf. logo) or Aalborg BK. Through time the club has had branches in cricket, tennis, ice hockey, handball, and basketball, but c ...

(AaB). At the age of 12 he joined the AaB youth team. He made his senior debut for the reserve team in the

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, the fourth tier of Danish football. In the spring of 2013, he made his first team debut in the

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where he also scored his first official goal as a senior. In the 2015–16 pre-season Kasper signed a 4-year contract with AaB in which he was considered a permanent replacement for defender

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, who was sold to Greek Panathinaikos on the same day. On 15 January 2021, Pedersen joined

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club

Esbjerg fB Esbjerg forenede Boldklubber (; commonly known as Esbjerg fB or EfB in short) is a Danish professional football club based in Esbjerg, West Jutland, that plays in the 2nd division, the third-tier of the Danish football league system. Found ...

on a deal until June 2023. On 26 July 2021, his contract was terminated by mutual agreement. The following day, Pedersen signed with Norwegian club

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Club statistics

Honours

Club

AaB *

(1): 2013–14 *

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(1): 2013–14

References

1993 births Living people Danish men's footballers Danish expatriate men's footballers AaB Fodbold players Danish Superliga players Association football defenders People from Jammerbugt Municipality Jammerbugt FC players Esbjerg fB players Stabæk Fotball players Danish expatriate sportspeople in Norway Expatriate footballers in Norway Sportspeople from the North Jutland Region {{Denmark-footy-defender-stub