Jakob Andreasen

Jakob Andreasen
Personal information
Full name Jakob Andreasen
Born (1976-01-16) 16 January 1976 (age 48)
Silkeborg, Denmark
Nationality Danish
Height 178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Club information
Current club Silkeborg-Voel KFUM (director)
Teams managed
Years Team
2006-2023
Silkeborg-Voel KFUM
2007-2011
Greenland (men)
2011-2016
Greenland (women)

Jakob Andreasen (born 16 January 1976) is a Danish team handball coach and sports director.[1] He was the head coach for Silkeborg-Voel KFUM from 2006 to 2023.[2] In the fall of 2022 he became the director of the club as well as head coach. In February 2023 he stopped as coach of to focus on being the director at the club full time.[3] When he finished his tenure, he was the longest sitting head coach in the Danish women's handball league. When he took over the position, the club was midtable in the Danish first division, and he managed to guide them to promotion to the highest tier in 2014.[3][4]

He formerly coached the Greenlandic women's national team and Greenlandic men's national team.[5]

His father, Morten Andreassen, was the chairperson at Silkeborg-Voel for 19 years.[3]

  1. ^ "Voel-træner frygter for skadet profil". Midtjyllands Avis (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Silkeborg-Voel - Stab". silkeborgvoel.dk. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  3. ^ a b c https://www.silkeborgvoel.dk/pressemeddelelse-jakob-andreasen-stopper-som-traener/
  4. ^ https://www.silkeborgvoel.dk/om-svk/voel-kfum-igennem-tiden/
  5. ^ Jakobsen, John (11 February 2012). "Første samling under ny træner". Sermitsiaq.AG (in Danish). Archived from the original on 8 May 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2021.