Stockholm 1912

A great view of Stockholm Olympic Stadium during the Great Britain v Denmark match  (04.07.12). Great Britain (aka England Amateurs) won 4-2 to take the Olympic Gold Medal.  

Nils Middelboe

Before joining Chelsea in 1913 Middleboe represented Kjøbenhavns Boldklub, Frederiksberg. He made 15 appearances for Denmark (7 goals), and played at 3 Olympic tournaments (winning 2 silver medals).

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Poul "Tist" Nielsen

 In the history of international football 95 players have scored 40 goals or more for their country.
Of those only 5 have averaged more than a goal a game. And the greatest average, 1.37 goals per game, belongs to Poul Nielsen of Denmark.
In an international career lasting from 1910 until 1925 Nielsen scored 52 goals in 38 matches. He scored in 60% of the international matches he played (23).

							Goals
1	05.05.10	Denmark	2	1	England Amateur	Copenhagen
2	21.10.11	England Amateur	3	0	Denmark	London
3	02.07.12	Denmark	4	1	Netherlands	Stockholm	1
4	25. 05.13	Denmark	8	0	Sweden	Copenhagen	2
5	05.10.13	Sweden	0	10	Denmark	Stockholm	8
6	26.10.13	Germany	1	4	Denmark	Hamburg	12
7	17.05.14	Denmark	4	3	Netherlands	Copenhagen	15
8	05.06.14	Denmark	3	0	England Amateur	Copenhagen	16
9	06.06.15	Denmark	2	0	Sweden	Copenhagen	17
10	19.09.15	Denmark	8	1	Norway	Copenhagen	20
11	31.10.15	Sweden	0	2	Denmark	Stockholm	21
12	04.06.16	Denmark	2	0	Sweden	Copenhagen	23
13	08.10.16	Sweden	4	0	Denmark	Stockholm
14	15.10.16	Denmark	8	0	Norway	Copenhagen	27
15	03.06.17	Denmark	1	1	Sweden	Copenhagen
16	07.10.17	Denmark	12	0	Norway	Copenhagen	32
17	14.10.17	Sweden	2	1	Denmark	Stockholm
18	06.10.18	Denmark	4	0	Norway	Copenhagen	33
19	05.06.19	Denmark	3	0	Sweden	Copenhagen	35
20	12.06.19	Denmark	5	1	Norway	Copenhagen	38
21	21. 09.19	Norway	3	2	Denmark	Kristiania (Oslo)
22	12.10.19	Sweden	3	0	Denmark	Stockholm	40
23	02.10.21	Denmark	3	1	Norway	Copenhagen	43
24	09.10.21	Sweden	0	0	Denmark	Stockholm
25	15. 04.22	Belgium	0	0	Denmark	Liège
26	17.04.22	Netherlands	2	0	Denmark	Amsterdam
27	11. 06.22	Denmark	0	3	Czechoslovakia	Copenhagen
28	10. 09.22	Norway	3	3	Denmark	Fredrikstad	44
29	01.10.22	Denmark	1	2	Sweden	Copenhagen	45
30	06. 05.23	Czechoslovakia	2	0	Denmark	Prague
31	30.09.23	Denmark	2	1	Norway	Copenhagen
32	14.10.23	Sweden	3	1	Denmark	Stockholm
33	15.06.24	Denmark	2	3	Sweden	Copenhagen
34	14. 09.24	Norway	1	3	Denmark	Kristiania (Oslo)	47
35	05.10.24	Denmark	2	1	Belgium	Copenhagen	49
36	14.06.25	Sweden	0	2	Denmark	Stockholm	50
37	21.06.25	Denmark	5	1	Norway	Copenhagen	51
38	27.09.25	Denmark	3	3	Finland	Aarhus	52

His goals were inflicted on the following opponents:

Norway	23
Sweden	17
Germany	4
Netherlands	4
Belgium	2
England amateur	1
Finland	1

Nielsen played his club football for Kjøbenhavns Boldklub (KB), winning the Danish Championship 6 times (1913, 1914, 1917, 1918, 1922, 1925).

Remarkably he played 201 championship games and scored 276 goals, giving him an average of 1.37 goals per game in club football as well.