Poul Nielsen was a footballer who represented the Denmark national football team as a striker between 1910 and 1925. He scored his first international goal on 2 July 1912 in a 4–1 win over the Netherlands at the 1912 Summer Olympics semi-finals.[1] Since then, he has become his country's all-time top scorer in international football, with 52 goals in just 38 appearances.[2]
On 5 October 1913, Nielsen scored his first international hat-trick against Sweden during a friendly match, netting 6 goals in a 10–0 win.[3] He has scored a national record of eight international hat-tricks (5 of which against Norway), and besides his 6-goal haul against Sweden, he has also netted five international goals in just over 10 minutes in a match against Norway on 7 October 1917.[4]
Scores and results list Denmark's goal tally first and score column indicates the score after each Nielsen goal.
| No. | Cap | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | scope=col class=unsortable | |
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| 1 | 3 | 2 July 1912 | Stockholm Olympic Stadium, Stockholm, Sweden | 4–1 | |||||
| 2 | 4 | 25 May 1913 | Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark | 8–0 | |||||
| 3 | 5 | 5 October 1913 | Stockholm Olympic Stadium, Stockholm, Sweden | 10–0 | Friendly | ||||
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| 9 | 6 | 26 October 1913 | Stadion Hoheluft, Hamburg, Germany | 4–1 | Friendly | ||||
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| 13 | 7 | 17 May 1914 | Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark | 4–3 | Friendly | ||||
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| 16 | 8 | 5 June 1914 | Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark | 3–0 | Friendly | ||||
| 17 | 9 | 6 June 1915 | Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark | 2–0 | Friendly | ||||
| 18 | 10 | 19 September 1915 | Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark | 8–1 | Friendly | ||||
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| 21 | 11 | 31 October 1915 | Stockholm Olympic Stadium, Stockholm, Sweden | 2–0 | Friendly | ||||
| 22 | 12 | 4 June 1916 | Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark | 2–0 | Friendly | ||||
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| 24 | 14 | 15 October 1916 | Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark | 8–0 | Friendly | ||||
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| 28 | 16 | 7 October 1917 | Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark | 12–0 | Friendly | ||||
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| 33 | 18 | 6 October 1918 | Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark | 4–0 | Friendly | ||||
| 34 | 19 | 5 June 1919 | Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark | 4–0 | Friendly | ||||
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| 36 | 20 | 12 June 1919 | Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark | 5–1 | Friendly | ||||
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| 39 | 21 | 21 September 1919 | Gressbanen, Christiania, Norway | 3–2 | Friendly | ||||
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| 41 | 23 | 2 October 1921 | Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark | 3–1 | Friendly | ||||
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| 44 | 28 | 10 September 1922 | Old Fredrikstad Stadion, Fredrikstad, Norway | 3–3 | Friendly | ||||
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| 46 | 29 | 1 October 1922 | Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark | 1–2 | Friendly | ||||
| 47 | 34 | 14 September 1924 | Gressbanen, Christiania, Norway | 3–1 | |||||
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| 49 | 35 | 5 October 1924 | Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark | 2–1 | Friendly | ||||
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| 51 | 36 | 14 June 1925 | Stockholm Olympic Stadium, Stockholm, Sweden | 2–0 | 1924–28 Nordic Football Championship | ||||
| 52 | 37 | 21 June 1925 | Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark | 5–1 |
See also: List of Denmark national football team hat-tricks.
| Date | Venue | Opponent | Goals | Result | Competition | ||||
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| 1 | Stockholm Olympic Stadium, Stockholm, Sweden | data-sort-value="Sweden" | data-sort-value="15" | 6 – (5', 10', 29', 47', 50', 53') | 10–0 | Friendly | [5] | ||
| 2 | Stadion Hoheluft, Hamburg, Germany | data-sort-value="Germany" | data-sort-value="29" | 4 – (5', 7', 42', 87') | 4–1 | [6] | |||
| 3 | Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark | data-sort-value="Netherlands" | data-sort-value="29" | 3 – (20', 63', 69') | 4–3 | [7] | |||
| 4 | data-sort-value="45" | 3 – (23', 37', 71') | 8–1 | [8] | |||||
| 5 | data-sort-value="62" | 4 – (25', 40', 47', 70') | 8–0 | [9] | |||||
| 6 | data-sort-value="62" | 5 – (71', 75', 77', 78', 81') | 12–0 | ||||||
| 7 | data-sort-value="62" | 3 – (24', 42', 59') | 5–1 | [10] | |||||
| 8 | data-sort-value="62" | 3 – (7', 51', 75') | 3–1 | [11] | |||||
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| Year | Apps | Goals | |
| 1910 | 1 | 0 | |
| 1911 | 1 | 0 | |
| 1912 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1913 | 3 | 11 | |
| 1914 | 2 | 4 | |
| 1915 | 3 | 5 | |
| 1916 | 3 | 6 | |
| 1917 | 3 | 5 | |
| 1918 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1919 | 4 | 7 | |
| 1921 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1922 | 5 | 3 | |
| 1923 | 3 | 0 | |
| 1924 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1925 | 3 | 2 | |
| Total | 38 | 52 | |
| Competition | Goals | |
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| Friendlies | 47 | |
| 1912 Summer Olympics | 1 | |
| 1924–28 Nordic Football Championship | 4 | |
| Total | 52 |