Who Is Christian Eriksen? 25 Facts

Who is Christian Eriksen? He is a Danish footballer from Middelfart, born on 14 February 1992, and the most capped player in the history of the Denmark men’s team with 151 caps. He has played for Ajax, Tottenham, Inter, Brentford, Manchester United and VfL Wolfsburg, and the world also knows him for the cardiac arrest he suffered at Euro 2020 in 2021. Here are 25 facts about him, each backed by our fact base as of 25 October 2026.

Who is Christian Eriksen? Name, birth and childhood

1. His full name is Christian Dannemann Eriksen. He was born on 14 February 1992 in Middelfart and is 34 years old. The full story is in his biography.
2. He is 1.82 m tall according to the Premier League and Transfermarkt. He is right-footed but strikes the ball well with both feet and is known as a free-kick specialist.
3. He started playing at Middelfart G&BK aged three in 1995. His father, Thomas Eriksen, was one of the youth coaches.
4. In 2005 he moved to OB together with Rasmus Falk. With OB he won the Danish first-year boys’ championship in 2006, scoring the only goal of the final against KB according to Danish Wikipedia.
5. At 16 he had trials with Chelsea, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester United and Milan, but chose Ajax, signing on 17 October 2008.

Facts about his club career

6. At Ajax he won three Dutch titles in a row (2011, 2012 and 2013) and the Dutch Cup in 2010. In 2011 he won the Johan Cruyff Trophy as the best young player in the Netherlands.
7. For Tottenham Hotspur he played 305 games and scored 69 goals between 2013 and 2020, and was voted the club’s Player of the Year in 2013-14 and 2016-17.
8. On 31 January 2018 he scored after about 11 seconds against Manchester United at Wembley – at the time the third-fastest goal in Premier League history, and his 50th for Spurs.
9. He made at least ten Premier League assists in four consecutive seasons, from 2015-16 to 2018-19. Only David Beckham had done that before him.
10. He lost the 2019 Champions League final with Tottenham (0-2 to Liverpool) and the 2020 Europa League final with Inter (2-3 to Sevilla), becoming the first player to lose consecutive finals in the two competitions.
11. With Inter he won Serie A in 2021. A few months earlier he scored a 97th-minute free-kick winner against AC Milan in the Coppa Italia.
12. His comeback after the cardiac arrest came for Brentford against Newcastle on 26 February 2022 – 259 days after the match against Finland.
13. At Manchester United he won the 2024 FA Cup and was part of the squad that won the 2023 League Cup, although he missed the final through injury.
14. At VfL Wolfsburg he played 34 games with 3 goals and 10 assists in 2025-26, a season that ended in relegation. Today he is without a club after his contract with VfL Wolfsburg was terminated on 23 September 2026. See every club in our career overview.

Records with Denmark

15. He made his Denmark debut on 3 March 2010 against Austria in Vienna, aged 18 years and 17 days – the youngest debutant since Michael Laudrup.
16. That summer he was the youngest player at the whole World Cup in South Africa.
17. He took the caps record from Simon Kjær with his 133rd cap, against Serbia at Euro 2024. He now has 151 caps.
18. With 46 goals he is third on Denmark’s all-time men’s scoring list, behind Poul “Tist” Nielsen and Jon Dahl Tomasson with 52 each.
19. On 14 November 2017 he scored a hat-trick as Denmark won 5-1 in Dublin against the Republic of Ireland to qualify for the 2018 World Cup.
20. He has played at six major tournaments – the 2010 World Cup, Euro 2012, the 2018 World Cup, Euro 2020, the 2022 World Cup and Euro 2024 – more than any other Dane.
21. DBU has named him Player of the Year four times: 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2017. More on Eriksen and the Denmark team.

Health and life off the pitch

22. On 12 June 2021 he suffered a cardiac arrest during Denmark’s Euro 2020 match against Finland at Parken and was resuscitated on the pitch. Since then he has had an ICD, an implanted defibrillator. Read about it on our cardiac arrest page.
23. In 2023 he won the Laureus World Sports Award for Comeback of the Year.
24. On 7 June 2026 he collapsed in a friendly against Ukraine in Odense, where his ICD delivered a shock. No official medical explanation has been published. More on the 2026 collapse.
25. He is married to Sabrina Kvist Jensen, has three children and lives in Odense. His younger sister Louise is also a professional footballer. More about his wife and family.

A Christian Eriksen wiki or biography – where to read more

Many people look for a Christian Eriksen wiki page. Both the English and the Danish Wikipedia have long articles about him, but they are not always up to date or consistent with each other – for example on the minute of the 2026 episode and the date he left hospital in 2021. This page is based on a fact base in which every point has a source – official ones such as DBU and the clubs wherever possible – and less certain details are attributed to the outlet that reported them.

There is no authorised autobiography of Christian Eriksen. The Danish book “Christian Eriksens Fald” by Adam Drewes (2024) is about the cardiac arrest and the public debate that followed, and was not written with him. He gave his first major interview after the cardiac arrest to the Danish broadcaster DR in January 2022.

Christian Eriksen in brief