Summary · Question 11 of 14

Danish goalkeepers in the top-9 leagues per million and their age at the first top-9 season, 2025/26

4 Danish goalkeepers played ≥ 450 minutes in the top-9 leagues, 0.67 per million (rank 1 of 9), and their median age at the first top-9 season was 24 (n = 4) against 22.5 for outfield exports (n = 68).

Strip plot of age at first top-9-league appearance, Danish goalkeepers against outfield exports, one dot per player, medians marked.
How to read it: one dot per player at the age of his first season in a top-9 league; goalkeepers in the upper strip, outfield exports in the lower, medians marked. Further left is an earlier first appearance.
Club tier: Danish top-9 goalkeepers, 2025/26
PlayerClub LeagueMinutes Club goals percentile
Andreas JungdalWesterloBEL-Pro League3600 44 %
Frederik RønnowUnion BerlinGER-Bundesliga2640 39 %
Jonathan FischerMetzFRA-Ligue 12354 25 %
Mads HermansenWest HamENG-Premier League1620 30 %
Goalkeeper production: Danish keepers, 2025/26
PlayerClub LeagueMinutes Goals against per 90Saves per 90 Save %Clean-sheet share
Mads HermansenWest HamENG-Premier League1620 1.562.94 65.9 %39 %
Frederik RønnowUnion BerlinGER-Bundesliga2640 1.842.56 64.3 %17 %
Jonathan FischerMetzFRA-Ligue 12354 2.143.52 65.0 %18 %
Andreas JungdalWesterloBEL-Pro League3600 1.432.77 68.8 %35 %
Jesper HansenAGFDEN-Superliga2700 0.973.03 65.4 %30 %
Valdemar ThorsenFC FredericiaDEN-Superliga990 1.732.82 63.9 %0 %
Jonas LösslMidtjyllandDEN-Superliga450 1.802.00 63.8 %20 %
Andreas HansenNordsjællandDEN-Superliga2430 1.223.44 65.2 %33 %
William LykkeNordsjællandDEN-Superliga450 2.601.40 63.4 %0 %
Theo SanderOdenseDEN-Superliga600 2.251.65 63.4 %0 %
Jannich StorchRandersDEN-Superliga540 1.672.33 63.9 %33 %
Nicolai LarsenSilkeborgDEN-Superliga2788 2.104.58 64.9 %10 %
Marcus BundgaardSønderjyskEDEN-Superliga2097 1.332.75 64.4 %29 %
Nicolai FløSønderjyskEDEN-Superliga693 2.083.25 63.9 %22 %
Lucas Lund PedersenViborgDEN-Superliga2880 1.593.03 64.2 %28 %
Peter Vindahl JensenSparta PragueCZE-First League1908 1.082.03 67.3 %36 %
Hans Christian BernatKarlsruherGER-2. Bundesliga2970 1.853.76 67.3 %15 %
Oliver ChristensenSturm GrazAUT-Bundesliga1316 1.232.67 66.2 %33 %
Jonathan FischerFredrikstadNOR-Eliteserien1530 1.183.06 66.7 %29 %
Jakob HaugaardTromsøNOR-Eliteserien2700 1.202.07 65.9 %33 %
Oscar HedvallVålerengaNOR-Eliteserien1260 1.863.57 66.2 %21 %
Goalkeepers per million, by country
DEN Denmark
0.67
CRO Croatia
0.52
SUI Switzerland
0.45
SVK Slovakia
0.37
CZE Czechia
0.37
POL Poland
0.19
NOR Norway
0.18
AUT Austria
0.11
HUN Hungary
0.10
How we know

0.67 per million; first top-9 season at a median age of 24 (n = 4), against 22.5 for outfield exports (n = 68); with this few goalkeepers the two medians cannot be compared.

As an analytics question In numbers: Danish goalkeepers with ≥ 450 minutes in the top-9 leagues, per million inhabitants, against outfield export age.

What we did We counted goalkeepers the same way we counted outfield players, then compared the age each group first reached one of the strongest leagues.

Sources 450-minute floor, 2025/26 rosters; goals against and saves per 90 are shrunk toward the league median with a prior worth 900 minutes, as every rate in the atlas; first season in a fetched top-9 table; players already there in 2020/21 are censored (25 % of the goalkeepers, 19 % of the outfield exports); a comparison of two pathways inside one nation, not a causal claim.

What this means

Denmark had 4 goalkeepers with at least 450 minutes in the top-9 leagues. The age comparison rests on 4 goalkeepers, too few to tell two medians apart, and the per-million rank rests on counts of a few goalkeepers per country, where one player moves a country by several places.

What this does not show

Goalkeepers’ performance separated from their defence, goalkeepers in leagues outside the nine, and back-up goalkeepers below 450 minutes.

Data snapshot: FBref tables fetched 14 September 2026, snapshot commit ef7dbd4 · code: src/goalkeepers.py · status: exploratory, not pre-registered · all limitations