Jacob Rasmussen

Jacob Rasmussen
Jacob Rasmussen (2025)
Personal information
Full name Jacob Vandsø Ryfeldt Rasmussen
Date of birth (1997-05-28) 28 May 1997
Place of birth Odense, Denmark
Height 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
FC Red Bull Salzburg
Number 2
Youth career
- 2014 Odense BK
2014-2016 FC Schalke 04
2016–2017 FC St. Pauli
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016-2017 FC St. Pauli II 17 (1)
2016-2017 FC St. Pauli 0 (0)
2017–2018 Rosenborg BK 20 (0)
2018-2019 FC Empoli 10 (0)
2019-2023 ACF Fiorentina 0 (0)
2019 FC Empoli (loan) 4 (0)
2019 FC Erzgebirge Aue (loan) 14 (0)
2020-2022 Vitesse Arnheim (loan) 55 (2)
2022-2023 Feyenoord Rotterdam (loan) 10 (1)
2023-2025 Bröndby IF 57 (1)
2025- FC Red Bull Salzburg 2 (0)
International career
2012-2013 Denmark U16 9 (0)
2013-2014 Denmark U17 11 (0)
2014 Denmark U18 1 (0)
2015-2016 Denmark U19 10 (1)
2016-2017 Denmark U20 4 (0)
2017-2019 Denmark U21 21 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13 August 2025
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21:14, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Jacob Rasmussen (born May 28, 1997 in Odense) is a Danish football player. He currently plays as defender for FC Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian Bundesliga. He is also a former Danish youth international.

Career

Rasmussen joined Odense BK's youth teams in 2012. In 2014 he moved to FC Schalke 04's youth academy. He played for their U19 team in the UEFA Youth League and the U19 Bundesliga. He won the German U19 championship in 2015. In 2016 he moved to FC St. Pauli. He played 17 matches for their second team in the Regionalliga Nord. At the beginning of 2017 he moved to Rosenborg Trondheim. He won the Norwegian championship with Rosenborg twice. Rasmussen also won the national Supercup and the national cup twice with Trondheim.

The Dane spent the 2018/19 season in the Italian Serie A with FC Empoli. He played 14 league games and was relegated to Serie B at the end of the season. AC Fiorentina had signed the defender during the winter break, but kept him on loan at Empoli. In the 2029-20 season he went back to Germany and played for FC Erzgebirge Aue on loan. [1]After the loan ended, Jacob Rasmussen returned to Florence. He then was loaned to Vitesse Arnhem in the Eredivisie. After being part of the Fiorentina squad again in the 2022/23 season, he was loaned back to the Netherlands. He played for Feyenoord Rotterdam. In July 2023 he returned to Denmark and signed a four-year contract with Brøndby IF. [2]

In June 2025 Rasmussen moved to Austrian Bundesliga club FC Red Bull Salzburg in the special transfer window as part of the 2025 Club World Cup. [3]

International

Rasmussen made nine appearances for the Danish U16 national team, eleven appearances for the U17, one appearance for the U18 national team, ten for the U19 (one goal),four for the U20 and 21 for the U21.

Honours

FC Schalke 04

  • German U19 champion: 2015

Rosenborg Trondheim

  • Norway champion ː2017, 2018
  • Norway Supercup: 2017, 2018
  • Norway Cup: 2018

Feyenoord Rotterdam

  • Championː2023

References

  1. Welt.de
  2. Brondby-if (Danish)
  3. FC Red Bull Salzburg (German)