Leicester City goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel has won the Danish Footballer of the Year award. Schmeichel has won the award for the third time, taking him to within one of the record.
Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Christian Eriksen and former Rangers forward Brian Laudrup currently hold the record with four wins.
Schmeichel’s previous two wins came back-to-back in 2016 after lifting the Premier League title with City, and again the following year.
Eriksen won the award for a fourth time last year after playing a key role in Denmark’s World Cup campaign in Russia, as well as impressing for Tottenham both in the Premier League and Champions League.
This year, Schmeichel has beaten Eriksen to the award, as well as other impressive Danish talents such as Chelsea’s Andreas Christensen, Atalanta’s Simon Kjaer, Borussia Dortmund’s Thomas Delaney and Leipzig’s Yussuf Poulsen among others.
