Mathias Jørgensen

FC Copenhagen

Born to a Danish mother and a Gambian father, Jørgensen moved to FC Copenhagen from neighbouring club B.93, where he had played in first-team matches even at the young age of 16. He signed a three-year contract with FCK on 26 June 2007. Before signing with the Danish champions, he had visited Arsenal for a one-week trial. On 21 July 2007, Jørgensen strained the inner ligament in the left knee in a reserve team match – less than a month after he moved to the club. On 9 September, he played again for the reserve team. His first team debut came on 26 September 2007 in a cup match against FC Fredericia. He substituted Oscar Wendt five minutes before full-time, in the match FCK won 3–1. Three days later he got his Superliga debut, this time replacing Hjalte Nørregaard about 15 minutes before full-time. Only eight days after his first team debut, Jørgensen was thrown on pitch in the extra time of the UEFA Cup first round second leg at Parken Stadium against RC Lens, after captain Michael Gravgaard had received a red card. He was substituted for Marcus Allbäck and played in the central defence together with Brede Hangeland, and they prevented any more goals for Lens, despite being down a man. On 19 November 2008, he made his debut for the Denmark national football team in a friendly against Wales. After Roland Nilsson became manager for Copenhagen he became captain for "The Lions". 22 February 2012 it was announced that Jørgensen would join Dutch club PSV…

Club

As of match played 21 May 2026

International

As of match played 5 June 2024

Scores and results list Denmark's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Jørgensen goal.

In May 2018 he was named in Denmark's preliminary 35-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. In the round of 16 against Croatia, he scored the opening goal in the first minute of the match. In the 116th minute, he commit a professional foul in the penalty area to prevent Croatia from scoring a late winning goal, and was subsequently yellow carded. His tackle temporarily paid off as Danish goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel saved Luka Modrić's penalty kick, maintaining the 1–1 draw and forcing the match into a penalty shootout. However, Denmark would go on to lose the shootout 3–2. In May 2021, he was named in Denmark's 26-man squad for the UEFA Euro 2020, where Denmark reached the semi-finals, and was selected again for UEFA Euro 2024, where Denmark went out in the last 16.

Jørgensen previously dated Hungarian model Enikő Mihalik. Jørgensen wrote an article against homophobia in football for the Danish Football Players Association in 2016. In February 2017, following the monetary settlement that the players association had with the Denmark national team, Jørgensen donated the 667,000 Danish kroner ($94,380) to help fund a new pro-LGBT+ campaign called 'Fodbold for alle' or 'Football for all' and visited schools to talk about the problem of homophobia. Jørgensen married Nanna Ottosen in April 2022 in Chelsea, London. They have a son, born 31 October 2021.