Lars Elstrup
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Lars Dahl Elstrup | ||
| Date of birth | 24 March 1963 | ||
| Place of birth | Råby, Denmark | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –1980 | IF Fjorden i Havndal | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1981–1985 | Randers Freja | 136 | (59) |
| 1986 | Brøndby IF | 7 | (2) |
| 1986–1988 | Feyenoord | 65 | (9) |
| 1988–1989 | Odense BK | 28 | (17) |
| 1989–1991 | Luton Town | 60 | (19) |
| 1991–1993 | Odense BK | 44 | (24) |
| Total | 340 | (130) | |
| National team | |||
| 1988–1993 | Denmark | 34 | (13) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Lars Dahl Elstrup (born 24 March 1963 in Råby) is a Danish former professional footballer, who played for a number of Danish clubs, as well as Dutch club Feyenoord and Luton Town in England. He played 34 matches and scored 13 goals for the Denmark national football team, and was part of the Denmark team which won the 1992 European Championship.
Born in the village of Råby, 20 km NE of Randers, Lars Elstrup made his senior debut for local club Randers Sportsklub Freja in 1982. Over the next four seasons, he became a proven goalscorer in Danish football's mostly 2nd highest divisions, and before the 1986 season Elstrup moved to the defending champions Brøndby IF. He played just seven league games for Brøndby, scoring twice, before he moved abroad to play for Dutch club Feyenoord. He played there for two years, but only scored nine goals for the Rotterdam outfit.
In 1988, Elstrup moved back to Denmark to play for Odense BK. He scored 14 goals in 16 games in his first season at Odense, and was called up for the Danish national team by national manager Sepp Piontek.
The 1989 Danish 1st Division saw Elstrup score three times in 12 league games, before he left to try his hand at English football. Elstrup signed for English First Division club Luton Town on 21 August 1989 in a £850,000 transfer deal, setting a club transfer record. Playing at Kenilworth Road for two seasons, he soon settled and scored a total of 18 goals to keep Luton up in 1990–91.
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