Lars Bastrup Jørgensen (born 31 July 1955) is a Danish former professional

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player, who most prominently played as a striker for

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, winning two

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titles and the 1983 European Cup with the club. He played 30 matches and scored ten goals for the Danish national team, and won the 1980 Danish ''Player of the Year'' award.

Career

Born in Levring between Viborg and

Silkeborg Silkeborg () is a Denmark, Danish town with a population of 52,571 (1 January 2025). Bastrup started his senior career with

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 1973. He made his debut for the Danish national team in June 1975, while playing for IHF Aarhus. In December 1975, at the age of 20, Bastrup joined German team Offenbacher Kickers in the

. He scored two goals in 18 matches in the

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season, as Offenbach were

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to the 2. Bundesliga. Bastrup chose to stay with Offenbach, and eventually lost his place in the Danish national team. In the

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season, he scored 11 goals in 27 matches as Offenbach finished third in the division and thus barely missed

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to the Bundesliga. He moved back to IHF Aarhus in 1977, and later went on to play for local rivals

AGF Aarhus Aarhus Gymnastikforening (; commonly known as AGF ) is a professional sports club based in Aarhus, Jutland, Denmark. Founded in 1880, it is one of the oldest clubs in the country where gymnastics and fencing were featured as its main sports. How ...

in 1979. While at AGF, he rejoined the national team in May 1980, and he was voted the 1980 Danish ''Player of the Year''. In 1981, he was brought back to Germany to play for Hamburger SV (HSV). With German striker

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, Bastrup made up the attacking duo of the strong HSV team. Alongside prolific players like

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and

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, Bastrup won two Bundesliga championships in 1982 and 1983. On the European scene, HSV reached the 1982 UEFA Cup final, where they lost to

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team

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, as well as the

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. Bastrup played in the European Cup final, which HSV won 1–0 against Italian team

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. During the match, he collided with Italian defender

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, suffering a broken jaw. In his first year at the club, Bastrup scored 13 goals in 34 Bundesliga games, but he only scored five goals in 25 matches during his second year. He moved back to Denmark in 1983, signing for

IK Skovbakken Vejlby Skovbakken Aarhus (; commonly known as VSK Aarhus) is a Danish football club based in Risskov, a neighbourhood in Aarhus. The club was founded in 2016 when the football departments of Vejlby IK Fodbold and Idrætsklubben Skovbakken decid ...

. He finished his career at

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in 1986, having earned the Danish top-scorer award with 20 goals in the 1985

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Honours

Hamburger SV *

: 1981–82, 1982–83 *

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: 1982–83 Individual *

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: 1980 * Danish League top scorer: 1985 * ''

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Team of the Season: 1981–82

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bastrup, Lars 1955 births Living people Danish men's footballers Silkeborg IF players Kickers Offenbach players Aarhus Gymnastikforening players Hamburger SV players UEFA Champions League–winning players VSK Aarhus players Fuglebakken KFUM Århus players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players Denmark men's international footballers Denmark men's under-21 international footballers Ikast FC players Men's association football forwards Danish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in West Germany Danish expatriate sportspeople in West Germany People from Silkeborg Municipality Footballers from the Central Denmark Region 20th-century Danish sportsmen