Sofie Junge Pedersen
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Junge Pedersen with Denmark in July 2017 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Sofie Junge Pedersen | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 24 April 1992 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Aarhus, Denmark | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Defensive midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Badalona | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 24 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1999–2006 | BMI | ||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2009 | IK Skovbakken | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | IK Skovbakken | ||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2015 | Fortuna Hjørring | 95 | |||||||||||||||
| 2015–2017 | FC Rosengård | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Levante UD | 24 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Vittsjö GIK | 11 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2023 | Juventus | 74 | (13) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023–2025 | Internazionale | 22 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025– | Badalona | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Denmark U16 | 3 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Denmark U17 | 19 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2012 | Denmark U19 | 25 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Denmark U23 | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011– | Denmark | 89 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 16 November 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 03 March 2026 | |||||||||||||||||
Sofie Junge Pedersen (born 24 April 1992) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Liga F club Badalona and the Denmark national team. Junge previously played for Serie A sides Inter Milan and Juventus FC, Danish A-Liga sides IK Skovbakken and Fortuna Hjørring, the latter of which she captained, and Swedish Damallsvenskan side FC Rosengård. In 2024 Junge was named Footballer of the Year by English newspaper The Guardian for her climate and human rights activism in football.