Daniel Wass

Brøndby

Wass made his Superliga debut for Brøndby on 28 October 2007, away to OB under manager Tom Køhlert. A knee injury cut his first season short, but he established himself as Brøndby's first-choice right-back in 2008–09, making 28 of a possible 33 league appearances as the club finished third in the Superliga. In August 2009, Wass was loaned to the Norwegian top-flight side Fredrikstad. He made his debut on 21 August in a 4–1 defeat to Rosenborg and scored in a 5–0 win over Lyn on 1 November, but featured only three times before being recalled in December after the appointment of Tom Nordlie as manager; Nordlie favoured a more defensive profile at right-back. Wass returned to Brøndby's starting line-up for the remainder of 2009–10 and held it for the opening 19 fixtures of 2010–11. In February 2011, he announced he would not be renewing his contract amid speculation of a summer transfer to Benfica. In March, manager Henrik Jensen moved him forward to right midfielder, in which role he scored three goals as Brøndby finished third for a third consecutive season.

Transfer to Benfica and loan to Évian

On 20 May 2011, Wass announced that he had signed a five-year contract with Benfica. However, on 22 July 2011, he was loaned out to Evian Thonon Gaillard F.C. without taking part in any official games for Benfica. Upon moving to Evian, Wass joined Danish countrymen Stephan Andersen, Christian Poulsen and Thomas Kahlenberg. In the four months after joining…

Wass made his Danish international debut against England on 9 February 2011. In May 2018, Wass was named in Denmark's preliminary 35-man squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. However, he did not make the final 23. In October 2016, Wass declined a call up to the Danish national team due to a supposed injury, but still played in the following match against Celta Vigo, which led Danish coach Åge Hareide to drop him from the national team. In May 2019 the two put their disagreements behind them, and Wass was once again called up to the Danish national team. In November 2022, Wass was included in Denmark's 26-man squad for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. However, he didn't start in any games as Denmark went on to be eliminated in the group stages without registering a single win.

Wass was born and grew up in Brøndby, in the western suburbs of Copenhagen. He started playing football aged four for Avarta in neighbouring Rødovre, its Espelunden ground being closer to his childhood home than Brøndby Stadium, and remained at the club for around ten years. On the recommendation of his Brøndby neighbour, the defender Pierre Kanstrup, he attended a trial at Brøndby IF and joined the club's academy in 2006, also attending Brøndby Gymnasium before graduating in 2008.

Wass and his wife, Mie (née Jensen), have been together since 2007 and have two daughters. Mie, herself a former sportswoman, gave up her own athletic career to follow Wass abroad through his moves to France and Spain. Wass' father was treated for cancer during the early years of his professional career; Wass has described the experience as formative in his 2025 autobiography Bolden og basen. He is a first cousin of the former Denmark international footballer Nicki Bille Nielsen. In October 2020, while playing for Valencia, Wass invested in InchByInch, a Danish digital platform that connects young footballers with established professionals for paid mentorship. In May 2024, he became a co-owner of the Danish ice hockey club Rødovre Mighty Bulls alongside the Brøndby chairman Jan Bech Andersen, the former Brøndby captain Andreas Maxsø and the Stanley Cup-winning Lars Eller, among others. The new ownership cleared the club's debt after a season in which it had come close to bankruptcy. Wass' autobiography Bolden og basen, co-written with the journalist Gitte Søby Madsen, was published by Grønningen 1 in October 2025.