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 Norway, Norwegian professional association football, 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 sub ...

Club career

Pedersen started his youth career at Aabybro IF, before moving to

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– 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, team handball, handball, and baske ...

(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 Rasmus Thelander, 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 Association football, football club based in Esbjerg, West Jutland, Jylland, that plays in the Danish 1st Division, 1st division, the sec ...

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 Men's association football defenders People from Jammerbugt Municipality Jammerbugt FC players Esbjerg fB players Stabæk Fotball players Danish expatriate sportspeople in Norway Expatriate men's footballers in Norway Footballers from the North Jutland Region 21st-century Danish sportsmen {{Denmark-footy-defender-stub