Lise Munk

Lise Munk

Personal information
Full name	Lise Overgaard-Munk
Date of birth	(1989-05-26) 26 May 1989 (age 35)
Place of birth	Frederikshavn, Denmark
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	1.FFC Frankfurt
Number	24
Youth career
1994–2002	Frederikshavn fI
2002–2006	Fortuna Hjørring
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2006–2011	Fortuna Hjørring
2011–2012	Brøndby IF
2012–2014	1.FFC Frankfurt	6	(2)
2014–2016	1.FC Köln	10	(16)
2016–	1.FFC Frankfurt	35[1]	(6)
International career^‡
2009–	Denmark	39	(5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:04, 7 December 2014 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21 May 2017

Lise Overgaard-Munk (born 26 May 1989) is a Danish football striker who plays for 1.FFC Frankfurt of the German Frauen-Bundesliga. She has previously played in the top Bundesliga with 1.FFC Frankfurt and for Danish Elitedivisionen teams Fortuna Hjørring and Brøndby IF.^[2] She has also represented the Denmark women's national football team.

Club career

In the early part of her career Munk represented both Fortuna Hjørring and Brøndby in the UEFA Women's Champions League.^[3]

After scoring 28 goals for Brøndby during the 2012 calendar year, Munk secured a transfer to 1.FFC Frankfurt in January 2013.^[4] She scored two goals in six appearances but missed the entire 2013–14 season through injury and asked to be released from her contract a year early before 2014–15. By then she had recovered her fitness and was in search of regular first team football.^[5] The following day she was unveiled as a 1. FC Köln player.^[6]

International career

Munk scored a hat-trick in her senior Danish national team debut, a crushing 15–0 home win over Georgia in October 2009.

References

1. "Lise Overgaard-Munk". soccerway. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
2. Lise Munk til Brøndby IF Archived 25 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine Brøndby's website
3. Saffer, Paul (13 March 2012). "Munk bidding for Brøndby shock at Lyon". Uefa.com. UEFA. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
4. "Frankfurt verpflichtet Dänin Overgaard Munk" (in German). Focus (German magazine). 22 January 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
5. "Vertragsauflösung: Lise Munk verlässt den 1. FFC Frankfurt" (in German). Framba.de. 27 August 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
6. "Lise Munk verstärkt die FC-Frauen" (in German). Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. 28 August 2014. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2014.

External links

• Lise Munk national team profile at the Danish Football Association (in Danish)
• Lise Munk at Soccerway