Kristoffer Pallesen
Personal information
Date of birth (1990-04-30) 30 April 1990
Place of birth Aarhus, Denmark
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s) Right-back[2]
Youth career
AGF
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2011 Skovbakken
2011–2013 Hobro 43 (1)
2013–2017 Viborg 84 (0)
2017–2023 AaB 160 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kristoffer Pallesen (born 30 April 1990) is a Danish retired professional footballer who played as a right back.[1]

Career

Early career

Pallesen played as a youth player for AGF, but never broke through to the first team. He therefore moved to another Aarhus club IK Skovbakken,[3][4] where he played until Hobro IK signed him in February 2011, following his coach Jakob Michelsen.[5] Initially, he received a six-month contract with Hobro, but the agreement was soon extended by another year, which meant that it ran until June 2013.[6] Pallesen played primarily as a full-back in the defense. Half a year before his contract expired, in January 2013, Viborg FF announced that they had entered into a three-year agreement with Pallesen from 1 July 2013.[7]

Viborg

After signing his three-year contract with Viborg FF in January 2013,[4] Pallesen had his first practice with the team on 24 June and was assigned jersey number 15. He made his debut for Viborg in the Danish Cup match against Jammerbugt on 28 August 2013 which ended in a 0–1 away win.[8] During his time at Viborg, Pallesen was part of the team which won the 2014–15 Danish 1st Division, achieving promotion to the Danish Superliga.[9]

AaB

On 3 July 2017, Pallesen was officially presented as a new player in AaB, who needed a new full-back after the departure of Joakim Mæhle. The club signed him on a free transfer.[10] According to Ekstra Bladet, Viborg initially rejected a bid of DKK 1.7 million from AaB,[11] after which Viborg a few days later, according to TV3 Sport, accepted a bid of DKK 2.5 million.[12] He made his official debut for AaB in the first round of the 2017–18 Danish Superliga season when he was in the starting lineup and played 90 minutes in the 1–1 away draw against Copenhagen.[13] During his first season at the club, he was mostly a substitute as Patrick Kristensen held the position as starting right back.[14] He finished his first season with 24 appearances.[1]

In the 2018–19 season, Pallesen began as the starting right back,[15] but again lost his spot to Kristensen during the second half of the season.[1] He had 20 appearances that season.[1]

In November 2019, he extended his contract with AaB until 2024.[16] This followed a period, in which Pallesen had grown into a starter at right back.[17] On 13 December 2019, he scored his first goal for the club in a 3–1 home loss to Nordsjælland.[18][19] He ended the season with 37 appearances in which he scored two goals.[1]

Pallesen started the 2021–22 season strong, recording 5 assists in his first 8 games of the season.[20][21]

On 10 October 2023, AaB confirmed that 33-year-old Pallesen had been forced to end his football career after tearing his Achilles tendon in May 2023. At the same time, Pallesen was employed as a legal advisor in AaB's administration with primary connection to the sports department.[22]

Personal life

Pallesen studied law alongside his career as a professional footballer, obtaining his degree in 2020 from Aarhus University.[23] His father is dean at the school's department of Business and Social Sciences.[23]

Honours

Viborg

AaB

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Kristoffer Pallesen at Soccerway. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  2. ↑ Kristoffer Pallesen at WorldFootball.net
  3. ↑ Helmin, Jesper (7 January 2013). "Viborg igen på rov i Hobro". bold.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 Kristensen, Danni (17 July 2013). "»Jeg har aldrig været et talent«". Viborg Folkeblad (in Danish). Archived from the original on 3 January 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  5. ↑ Helmin, Jesper (1 February 2011). "Michelsen hiver profiler med til Hobro". bold.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  6. ↑ Helmin, Jesper (26 April 2011). "Nyindkøb forlænger med Hobro". bold.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  7. ↑ Blond, Mikael (8 January 2013). "Viborg bekræfter Pallesen-kapring". bold.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  8. ↑ "Pallesen fik banket rust af". Viborg Stifts Folkeblad (in Danish). 28 August 2013. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  9. ↑ "Viborg slår Roskilde og er tilbage i Superligaen". Sjællandske Medier (in Danish). 13 May 2015. Archived from the original on 21 February 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  10. ↑ "Officielt: AaB henter Kristoffer Pallesen" (in Danish). Bold.dk. 3 July 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  11. ↑ Møller Karlsen, Nanna (1 July 2017). "Avis: Viborg har afvist AaB-bud på Pallesen". bold.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  12. ↑ Blond, Mikael (3 July 2017). "Medie: VFF og AaB enige om Pallesen". bold.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  13. ↑ "Superligakamp FC København-AaB, 15.07.2017 - SuperStats". superstats.dk. SuperStats. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  14. ↑ Maajen, Anton Græsdal (6 April 2018). "Pallesen om bænkplads: Peger kun på mig selv". bold.dk (in Danish).
  15. ↑ Blond, Mikael (11 September 2018). "Pallesen glad for sine fremskridt i AaB". bold.dk (in Danish).
  16. ↑ Estrup, Rasmus (29 November 2019). "Pallesen og AaB forlænger med fire år". aabsport.dk (in Danish).
  17. ↑ Nøhr, Mikkel (29 November 2019). "AaB forlænger med Kristoffer Pallesen". bold.dk (in Danish).
  18. ↑ "AaB vs. Nordsjælland - 13 December 2019 - Soccerway". int.soccerway.com. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
  19. ↑ Olsson, Søren (13 December 2019). "Pallesen: Jeg er blevet drillet så meget med det manglende mål". nordjyske.dk (in Danish).
  20. ↑ Brandt, Theis Fischer (17 September 2021). "AaB-chef om assistkonge: Tager store skridt". bold.dk (in Danish).
  21. ↑ Okstrøm, Oliver (17 September 2021). "Assist-Pallesen: Vågner om natten og slår indlæg". Tipsbladet.dk (in Danish).
  22. ↑ Pallesen stopper sin aktive karriere – ansættes i AaB’s administration, aabsport.dk, 10 October 2023
  23. 1 2 Hehr, Michael (18 February 2021). "For Pallesen er uddannelse mental restitution". spillerforeningen.dk (in Danish).
  24. ↑ Jensen, Malthe Birger (1 July 2020). "AaB taber pokalfinalen". TV2 Nord (in Danish). Archived from the original on 4 October 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
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