| Kasper Dolberg | |
| Fullname: | Kasper Dolberg Rasmussen[1] |
| Birth Date: | 1997 10, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Silkeborg, Denmark |
| Height: | 1.87 m |
| Position: | Striker |
| Youthyears1: | 2005–2010 |
| Youthclubs1: | GFG Voel |
| Youthyears2: | 2010–2014 |
| Youthclubs2: | Silkeborg IF |
| Currentclub: | Anderlecht |
| Clubnumber: | 12 |
| Years1: | 2014–2015 |
| Clubs1: | Silkeborg IF |
| Caps1: | 3 |
| Goals1: | 0 |
| Years2: | 2015–2019 |
| Clubs2: | Ajax |
| Caps2: | 78 |
| Goals2: | 33 |
| Years3: | 2019–2023 |
| Clubs3: | Nice |
| Caps3: | 74 |
| Goals3: | 23 |
| Years5: | 2022 |
| Clubs5: | → Sevilla (loan) |
| Caps5: | 4 |
| Goals5: | 0 |
| Years6: | 2023 |
| Clubs6: | → TSG Hoffenheim (loan) |
| Caps6: | 13 |
| Goals6: | 1 |
| Years7: | 2023– |
| Clubs7: | Anderlecht |
| Caps7: | 45 |
| Goals7: | 16 |
| Nationalyears1: | 2013 |
| Nationalteam1: | Denmark U16 |
| Nationalcaps1: | 7 |
| Nationalgoals1: | 1 |
| Nationalyears2: | 2013–2014 |
| Nationalteam2: | Denmark U17 |
| Nationalcaps2: | 8 |
| Nationalgoals2: | 5 |
| Nationalyears3: | 2015 |
| Nationalteam3: | Denmark U19 |
| Nationalcaps3: | 8 |
| Nationalgoals3: | 2 |
| Nationalyears4: | 2016 |
| Nationalteam4: | Denmark U21 |
| Nationalcaps4: | 1 |
| Nationalgoals4: | 1 |
| Nationalyears5: | 2016– |
| Nationalteam5: | Denmark |
| Nationalcaps5: | 49 |
| Nationalgoals5: | 11 |
| Club-Update: | 23:50, 10 August 2024 (UTC) |
| Nationalteam-Update: | 23:49, 25 June 2024 (UTC) |
Kasper Dolberg Rasmussen (in Danish pronounced as /ˈkʰæspɐ ˈtʌlˌpɛɐ̯ˀ/; born 6 October 1997) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Belgian Pro League club Anderlecht and the Denmark national team.[2]
Dolberg made his senior debut at Silkeborg IF in May 2015. He joined Ajax in July 2015 and made his debut for the club in July 2016. He represented Denmark at under-16, under-17, under-19 and under-21 level before making his senior international debut in November 2016.
In May 2020, Dolberg was voted as player of the year by the fans of his club OGC Nice. While at Ajax, he was named Dutch Football Talent of the year after his first season in the Eredivisie in 2017.
On 17 May 2015, he made his senior debut for Silkeborg IF in a Danish Superliga game against Brøndby IF, replacing Adeola Lanre Runsewe after 63 minutes in a 0-2 loss.[3]
On 5 January 2015, Ajax announced that 17-year-old Dolberg would join from Silkeborg IF in the summer, signing a three-year contract valid from summer 2015 until summer 2018.[4] He had been spotted by Danish scout John Steen Olsen, the same scout who discovered players such as Zlatan Ibrahimović, Viktor Fischer, and Christian Eriksen for the Dutch capital club.[5] On 13 May 2016, Dolberg agreed to have his contract extended until 2021.[6]
On 26 July 2016, Dolberg scored his first goal in European competition on his competitive debut for Ajax, in a 1–1 Champions League qualification match against PAOK.[7] He made his Eredivisie debut for the club on 7 August 2016 in a match against Sparta Rotterdam, coming on as a substitute for Mateo Cassierra.[8] The following week he was in the starting line-up for the league match against Roda JC and he scored both of Ajax's goals in the 2–2 draw, his first goals in the Eredivisie.[9] On 29 September 2016, Dolberg scored the only goal in a 1–0 victory over Standard Liège in a Europa League match.[10] He scored another goal in his first Klassieker against Ajax's great rival Feyenoord on 23 October 2016, securing a 1–1 draw away in Rotterdam.[11] On 20 November 2016, he scored a first-half hat-trick in an Eredivisie match against NEC.[12] This made him the youngest non-Dutch player ever to score a hattrick for Ajax.[13] On 9 March 2017, Dolberg scored the equalizer in what ended in a 2–1 loss to F.C. Copenhagen in the round of 16 of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League campaign, thus ending a club record eight-month period in which Copenhagen had not conceded any goals at their home ground at Parken Stadium since 20 August 2016.[14]
Dolberg signed for Nice in Ligue 1 on 29 August 2019 for a fee of 20.5 million euros.[15] He finished his first season in France as the club's top scorer with 11 goals and was named the club's player of the season, as Nice finished in fifth place, securing a spot in the group stage for next season's UEFA Europa League.
Dolberg started the 2020–21 season with a brace on 29 August 2020 against Strasbourg, securing his team a 2–0 away win.[16]
Dolberg joined La Liga club Sevilla on loan on 1 September 2022, initially planned to last for a season.[17] However, the loan was terminated prematurely on 2 January 2023, with Dolberg only making eight appearances for the Spanish club.[18]
On 2 January 2023, Dolberg was loaned to Bundesliga side TSG Hoffenheim for the remainder of the 2022–23 season.[19]
On 7 July 2023, Belgian Pro League club Anderlecht announced the signing of Dolberg from Nice on a four-year contract.[2] Dolberg scored his first goal for Anderlecht on 6 August 2023, the winner in a 1–0 victory over Royal Antwerp.[20]
In November 2016, Dolberg received his first call-up to the senior Denmark squad for matches against Kazakhstan and Czech Republic.[21] On 11 November 2016, he made his senior international debut, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 4–1 victory for Denmark over Kazakhstan.[22] On 10 June 2017, in a 1–3 away win against Kazakhstan in the qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup, he came on as a substitute for Yussuf Poulsen after 68 minutes and scored his first international goal in the 81st minute.[23]
In June 2018 he was named in Denmark's squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.[24]
In May 2021, he was selected in the final 26-man squad for the postponed UEFA Euro 2020 tournament.[25] Dolberg made his first start in the tournament, replacing the injured Yussuf Poulsen, in Denmark's round of 16 tie against Wales on 26 June and scored twice in a 4–0 win.[26] He scored his third goal of the tournament in the quarter-finals against Czech Republic after a spectacular cross from Joakim Mæhle.[27] [28]
On 16 September 2019, Dolberg reported to the police that his luxury watch at an estimated value of €70,000 was stolen. Following a police investigation, in which the police recovered a surveillance video showing the culprit stealing the watch, his teammate Lamine Diaby-Fadiga confessed to the crime ten days later.[29] Diaby was later sacked by the club.[30]
On 8 November 2021, Dolberg announced that he had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.[31]
| Season | League | National cup | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Silkeborg IF | 2014–15 | Danish Superliga | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 3 | 0 | |||
| Ajax | 2016–17 | Eredivisie | 29 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 7 | — | 48 | 23 | ||
| 2017–18 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | — | 30 | 9 | ||||
| 2018–19 | 25 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 0 | — | 38 | 12 | ||||
| 2019–20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||
| Total | 78 | 33 | 9 | 4 | 31 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 119 | 45 | |||
| Nice | 2019–20 | Ligue 1 | 23 | 11 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 26 | 11 | |||
| 2020–21 | 25 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 29 | 6 | ||||
| 2021–22 | 26 | 6 | 4 | 1 | — | — | 30 | 7 | |||||
| Total | 74 | 23 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | 85 | 24 | ||||
| Sevilla (loan) | 2022–23 | La Liga | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | 8 | 0 | ||
| TSG Hoffenheim (loan) | 2022–23 | Bundesliga | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 14 | 2 | |||
| Anderlecht | 2023–24 | Belgian Pro League | 39 | 15 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 42 | 15 | |||
| 2024–25 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 42 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 45 | 16 | ||||
| Career total | 214 | 73 | 21 | 6 | 38 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 274 | 87 | |||
| Denmark | 2016 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2017 | 3 | 1 | ||
| 2018 | 6 | 0 | ||
| 2019 | 7 | 4 | ||
| 2020 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 2021 | 10 | 5 | ||
| 2022 | 8 | 1 | ||
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 2024 | 6 | 0 | ||
| Total | 49 | 11 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
As of match played 25 September 2022. Denmark score listed first, score column indicates score after each Dolberg goal.[34]
| Date | scope=col | Venue | scope=col | Cap | scope=col | Opponent | scope=col | Score | scope=col | Result | scope=col | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row style=text-align:center | 1 | 10 June 2017 | Almaty Central Stadium, Almaty, Kazakhstan | 3 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification | |||||
| scope=row style=text-align:center | 2 | 10 June 2019 | Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark | 13 | 1–0 | 5–1 | UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying | |||||
| scope=row style=text-align:center | 3 | 3–1 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style=text-align:center | 4 | 15 October 2019 | Aalborg Stadium, Aalborg, Denmark | 15 | 2–0 | 4–0 | Friendly | |||||
| scope=row style=text-align:center | 5 | 3–0 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style=text-align:center | 6 | 28 March 2021 | MCH Arena, Herning, Denmark | 23 | 1–0 | 8–0 | 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification | |||||
| scope=row style=text-align:center | 7 | 6–0 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style=text-align:center | 8 | 26 June 2021 | Johan Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands | 28 | 1–0 | 4–0 | UEFA Euro 2020 | |||||
| scope=row style=text-align:center | 9 | 2–0 | ||||||||||
| scope=row style=text-align:center | 10 | 3 July 2021 | Olympic Stadium, Baku, Azerbaijan | 29 | 2–0 | 2–1 | ||||||
| scope=row style=text-align:center | 11 | 25 September 2022 | Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark | 37 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2022–23 UEFA Nations League A |
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2017[38]
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