Johnny Bjerregaard

Jørn "Johnny" Bjerregaard (born 19 January 1943 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a Danish retired footballer^[1] and football coach.

Jørn "Johnny" Bjerregaard

Personal information
Full name	Jørn Bjerregaard
Date of birth	(1943-01-19) 19 January 1943 (age 82)
Place of birth	Aarhus, Denmark
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
	Hasle BK
1954–1962	AGF
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1962–1966	AGF	89	(61)
1966–1972	Rapid Wien	151	(96)
1971–1972	SC Eisenstadt	84	(25)
International career
1961	Denmark U19	3	(0)
1962–1966	Denmark U21	5	(2)
Managerial career
1976–1977	AGF
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

He never played for the Danish national team, as it had a 'no profesional players' policy at the time. He did however play for various Danish youth national teams.

Career

AGF

Bjerregaard played for AGF between 1962 and 1966, where he was a dangerous striker in the Danish 1. Division. He was most often paired with Henning Enoksen. He won silver medals in the Danish cup in 1964, and bronze medals in 1962..^[2] In the 1965 season he was joint top scorer, shared with Per Petersen, who played for B 1903.

Rapid Vienna

In 1966 he joined Austrian Rapid Vienna, where he turned profesional. He won the Austrian championship twice and the Austrian cup three times. In 1968 he was the topscorer in the Austrian Bundesliga, and in 1968 and 1970 he was named as the player of the year in Austrian football.^[3]

His grand achievement was an equalising goal against Real Madrid on November 20th 1968 at Estadio Santiago Bernabéu. The Austrians had won the first match 1-0 and was trailing away. Even though Real Madrid won the match, Rapid Vienna advanced on the away goals rule.^[4]

Behind Josef Uridil, Franz Binder and Hans Krankl he is the 4th most scoring player in Rapid Vienna history.

Eisenstadt

In 1971 Jørn Bjerregaard switched to league rivals SC Eisenstadt, where he scored 23 in his first season.

With time he would transition to be a midfielder and then a central defender.

He retired in 1972, supposedly because injuries caused him to lose the interest in continuing to play.

Coaching career

In 1976 Bjerregaard had a short stint as the head coach of his former club, AGF. In the Danish 2nd Division (at the time the 2nd highest level) he led the team to promotion. Despite success he quit the job, and moved back to Austria.^[5]