Nicolai Brock-Madsen

Nicolai Brock-Madsen (born 9 January 1993) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Danish Superliga club AC Horsens.

Nicolai Brock-Madsen
Brock-Madsen with Birmingham City in January 2016
Personal information
Full name Nicolai Brock-Madsen[1]
Date of birth (1993-01-09) 9 January 1993[2]
Place of birth Randers, Denmark
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)[2]
Position(s) Forward
Club information
Current team
 Horsens
Number 44
Youth career
Helsted Fremad IF
2003–2010 Randers Freja
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2015 Randers 90 (16)
2015–2019 Birmingham City 6 (0)
2016–2017 → PEC Zwolle (loan) 23 (7)
2018 → Cracovia (loan) 11 (1)
2018 → St Mirren (loan) 4 (0)
2019– Horsens 33 (3)
National team
2010–2011 Denmark U18 8 (1)
2011–2012 Denmark U19 15 (4)
2012–2013 Denmark U20 6 (1)
2013–2015 Denmark U21 16 (9)
2016 Denmark U23 6 (3)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:45, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

He spent five seasons with Randers FC before joining Birmingham City of the English Championship in 2015. He has also played on loan at Dutch club PEC Zwolle, Polish Ekstraklasa club Cracovia and Scottish Premiership club St Mirren, before his contract with Birmingham was cancelled by mutual consent in January 2019. He has represented Denmark at levels up to under-21 and at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Club career

Randers FC

Brock-Madsen signed a three-year contract with his hometown club, Randers FC, and scored his first goal in a Europa League match against F91 Dudelange which ended 6–1.[2]

In the 2012–13 season Brock-Madsen was a vital part of the Randers team that ended third in the league, playing a total of 28 league games and forming an attacking duo with Randers top-scorer Ronnie Schwartz. Brock-Madsen also helped the team reach the cup final where they lost to 0–1 to Esbjerg FB.

Birmingham City

On 21 August 2015, Brock-Madsen signed a four-year deal with English Football League Championship (second-tier) club Birmingham City. The fee was undisclosed, but was believed by the BBC to be "in the region of £500,000, with possible add-ons taking it up to £1m."[3] He made his debut four days later, as a second-half substitute in Birmingham's 2–0 League Cup win against Gillingham.[4] He made his first appearance in the Football League on 15 September, again as a substitute, playing alongside Clayton Donaldson as Birmingham failed to come back from 1–0 down at home to Nottingham Forest in what was their first defeat of the season.[5]

Brock-Madsen made his first start for Birmingham on 21 November at home to Charlton Athletic, playing as a lone striker in place of Donaldson who was injured while on international duty. Manager Gary Rowett claimed that a penalty should have been awarded when Brock-Madsen's arm was pulled back; Birmingham lost 1–0.[6][7] He started the next two matches, in Donaldson's continued absence, but injury intervened, he gave way to loanee James Vaughan, and after Donaldson regained fitness, Brock-Madsen made no more first-team appearances in the 2015–16 season.[8][9]

International duty at the Rio Olympics meant Brock-Madsen missed the start of Birmingham's 2016–17 season. On the last day of the transfer window, he joined Dutch top-flight club PEC Zwolle on loan for the season.[10] The Dutch club reported that an option to purchase was included in the deal.[11] Brock-Madsen made his Eredivisie debut in the club's next match, in the starting eleven for the visit of Utrecht on 10 September; his side took a one-goal lead which he had chances to extend, but the visitors equalised via a stoppage-time penalty.[12] He scored twice in PEC's 4–1 win in the Dutch Cup first round away to Derde Klasse (fourth-tier) club DVS '33.[13] Injury disrupted the first half of his season,[14] but when the campaign resumed after the winter break, he went on a run of five goals in the next six matches,[15] the last of which was scored on the day his girlfriend gave birth to their son.[16] He finished the season with 10 goals from 25 appearances in all competitions.[15]

Although PEC Zwolle hoped to keep the player,[14] it was reported that he would return to Birmingham to try and impress new manager Harry Redknapp,[14][17] but Redknapp made it clear he had no future at the club. A free-transfer move to a Dutch club fell through,[18] and the player rejected offers to return to Denmark. Redknapp's successor, Steve Cotterill, chose not to select him despite the team's lack of goals.[19]

Cracovia

Brock-Madsen joined Polish Ekstraklasa club KS Cracovia on 18 January 2018, on loan until the end of the 2017–18 season with an option to make the move permanent.[20] He made his debut when the Ekstraklasa resumed after the winter break as a second-half substitute in the 2–1 win at home to Śląsk Wrocław on 10 February, and made eleven appearances during his loan spell, scoring once.[15]

St Mirren

Brock-Madsen returned to Birmingham after his loan with Cracovia, and was then loaned to Scottish Premiership club St Mirren in August 2018.[21] His first appearance came on 11 August in the starting eleven for the visit to Rangers. With half an hour gone and the hosts leading 2–0, Brock-Madsen broke free and was brought down by Ross McCrorie, who was sent off. St Mirren were unable to profit from the numerical advantage, and Brock-Madsen was substituted after 69 minutes.[22] After five appearances without scoring, he was told he was not in the plans of the club's new manager, Oran Kearney. He returned to Birmingham in mid-October to train, but would not be eligible to play for them until the loan expired on 1 January 2019.[23] Birmingham later confirmed that his contract would be cancelled by mutual consent as of that date.[24]

AC Horsens

On 21 January 2019, Brock-Madsen signed a six-month deal with Danish Superliga club AC Horsens.[25]

International career
Brock-Madsen during the 2016 Summer Olympics

Brock-Madsen represented Denmark internationally at levels from under-18 to under-21.[26]

On 10 December 2012, Brock was called up for Denmark's tour of USA in January.

Brock-Madsen was called up to Denmark's Olympic training squad for three friendly matches in June 2016 which formed part of their preparations for the Games in August.[27] After Honduras U23 took a two-goal lead, he scored twice to help his team recover to win the match 4–3,[28] against the Nigeria team he missed an early penalty but Denmark still won 6–2,[29] and in the third match, hosts South Korea led 1–0 until Brock-Madsen equalised in stoppage time.[30] At the Games proper, he played in all three of Denmark's matches in the group stage,[31] from which they qualified in second place, but took no part in the quarter-final defeat against Nigeria.[32]

Career statistics
As of match played 4 October 2020
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Randers FC 2010–11[2][15] Superliga 0000—3[lower-alpha 1]131
2011–12[2] 1st Division14210——152
2012–13[2] Superliga28541——326
2013–14[2][15] Superliga27410—2[lower-alpha 1]0304
2014–15[2] Superliga17441——215
2015–16[2][15] Superliga4100—3[lower-alpha 1]071
Total 9016102—8110819
Birmingham City 2015–16[9] Championship600020—80
2016–17[33] Championship00—00—00
2017–18[34] Championship000000—00
2017–18[35] Championship000000—00
Total 600020—80
PEC Zwolle (loan) 2016–17[15] Eredivisie23723——2510
Cracovia (loan) 2017–18[15] Ekstraklasa111———111
St Mirren (loan) 2018–19[35] Scottish Premiership400010—50
AC Horsens 2018–19[15] Superliga 6000—2[lower-alpha 2]181
2019–20[15] Superliga25310——263
2020–21[15] Superliga2000——20
Total 33310—21364
Career total 167271353010219334
  1. Appearances and goals in UEFA Europa League
  2. Appearances in Danish Superliga relegation playoffs

References
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