Mille Gejl

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Mille Gejl
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Gejl with the North Carolina Courage in 2023
Personal information
Full name Mille Gejl Jensen
Date of birth (1999-09-23) 23 September 1999 (age 24)
Place of birth Denmark
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Crystal Palace
Number 22
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2017–2018 KoldingQ 19 (9)
2018–2021 Brøndby IF 62 (27)
2021–2023 BK Häcken 49 (15)
2023–2024 North Carolina Courage 18 (3)
2024 → Montpellier (loan) 7 (0)
2024– Crystal Palace 0 (0)
International career‡
2015–2016 Denmark U17 11 (3)
2017–2018 Denmark U19 15 (6)
2019– Denmark 32 (7)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 3 August 2024 [1]
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 3 August 2024 [2]

Mille Gejl Jensen (born 23 September 1999) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for English Women's Super League club Crystal Palace [3] and the Denmark national team.

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Club career

Gejl started her football career in Varde IF. In 2015, she switched to the bigger league club KoldingQ, with whom she also reached the final of DBU's National Cup tournament in 2018. In August of the same year, she moved to the top club Brøndby IF. [4] With the club, she helped win the Elite division 2018-19 and the cup final again twice. The following year she extended until the summer of 2020.  She made her official debut in the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League with Brøndby, where she also scored 2–2 against the Italian giants Juventus in the round of 16. In the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League Gejl was among the selected penalty takers in the round of 16 final against Vålerenga, which was won by Brøndby. [5]

She then switched in June 2021 to Swedish BK Häcken in the Damallsvenskan. Here she was also a regular part of the team's line-up in the group stage at the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League.

In January 2023, Gejl signed a two-year deal with the North Carolina Courage. [6] She scored her first goal for the Courage on 25 March 2023 in a 1–0 win over the Kansas City Current. [7]

Gejl was loaned to Montpellier HSC on 31 January 2024. [8] After the 2023–24 Division 1 Féminine season, she was not signed by Montpellier and was released by the Courage on 3 July. [9]

International career

Gejl appeared several times on several of the youth national teams. She scored several times for the U17 national teams in the qualifiers for the U17 European Championship. [10] She was also selected for the 2018 U19 European Championship in Switzerland, where Denmark historically reached the semi-finals. [11]

On 21 January 2019, she made her official debut for the senior Danish national team in a friendly match against Finland in Larnaca, Cyprus. In this match, she scored her first national team goal. [12]

She appeared several times in the qualification for the European Championship in England 2022, the World Cup qualification and the Algarve Cup in Portugal. [13]  In the European Championship qualifier against Georgia on 8 October 2019, Mille Gejl scored Denmark's first goal, but later had to leave with an injury. [14] In June 2022, she was selected for the first time for the final squad at the European Football Championship 2022 in England. [15]

Ahead of the European Championship finals in England, Gejl scored the 2–1 goal, four minutes into extra time in the historic record match against Brazil. [16] Gejl had a chorus dedicated to her, in the official EC song for the national team, with the stanza: "You need to Gejl out". [17]

International goals

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.21 January 2019 GSZ Stadium, Larnaca, Cyprus Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1–01–0 Friendly
2.29 August 2019 Viborg Stadium, Viborg, Denmark Flag of Malta.svg  Malta 6–08–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
3.8 October 2019 Mikheil Meskhi Stadium-2, Tbilisi, Georgia Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia 1–02–0
4.21 September 2021 ASK Arena, Baku, Azerbaijan Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan 7–08–0 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
5.21 October 2021Viborg Stadium, Viborg, DenmarkFlag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Bosnia and Herzegovina 6–08–0
6.30 November 2021Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 3–03–1
7.24 June 2022 Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, DenmarkFlag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 2–12–1Friendly

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References

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  2. ↑ DBU. "Mille Gejl – Landsholdsdatabasen". DBU (in Danish). Retrieved 3 August 2024.
  3. ↑ "Crystal Palace sign Denmark International Mille Gejl". Crystal Palace . Retrieved 15 August 2024.
  4. ↑ Andrea Trolle (8 August 2018). "Mille Gejl skifter til Brøndby IF". Fodbold for piger (in Danish). Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  5. ↑ "Brøndbys kvinder er videre i Champions League efter straffegyser". Politiken (in Danish). 11 February 2021. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  6. ↑ "Courage sign Danish forward Mille Gejl Jensen". North Carolina Courage. 20 January 2023. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
  7. ↑ "Gejl's strike lifts Courage over Kansas City in season opener". WRAL Sports News . 25 March 2023. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  8. ↑ White, Herbert L. (31 January 2024). "North Carolina Courage loans forward Mille Gejl". The Charlotte Post . Retrieved 16 July 2024.
  9. ↑ "Courage, Mille Gejl agree to contract termination". North Carolina Courage. 3 July 2024. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
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  11. ↑ Andrea Trolle (23 June 2018). "U19-landsholdstruppen til EM er udtaget". Fodbold for piger (in Danish). Retrieved 10 January 2023.
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  13. ↑ "Kvindelandsholdet lammetævede Malta i EM-kvalifikationen". Jyllands-Posten (in Danish). 29 August 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
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