List of international goals scored by Poul Nielsen

Poul Nielsen was a footballer who represented the Denmark national football team as a striker between 1910 and 1925. He scored his first international goal on 2 July 1912 in a 4–1 win over the Netherlands at the 1912 Summer Olympics semi-finals.^[1] Since then, he has become his country's all-time top scorer in international football, with 52 goals in just 38 appearances.^[2]

On 5 October 1913, Nielsen scored his first international hat-trick against Sweden during a friendly match, netting 6 goals in a 10–0 win.^[3] He has scored a national record of eight international hat-tricks (5 of which against Norway), and besides his 6-goal haul against Sweden, he has also netted five international goals in just over 10 minutes in a match against Norway on 7 October 1917.^[4]

Scores and results list Denmark's goal tally first and score column indicates the score after each Nielsen goal.

List of international goals scored by Poul Nielsen^[2][3]

No.	Cap	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition	Ref
1	3	2 July 1912	Stockholm Olympic Stadium, Stockholm, Sweden	Netherlands	3–0	4–1	1912 Summer Olympics semi-finals	[5]
2	4	25 May 1913	Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark	Sweden	5–0	8–0	Friendly	[6]
3	5	5 October 1913	Stockholm Olympic Stadium, Stockholm, Sweden	Sweden	1–0	10–0	Friendly	[7]
4					2–0
5					3–0
6					5–0
7					6–0
8					7–0
9	6	26 October 1913	Stadion Hoheluft, Hamburg, Germany	Germany	1–0	4–1	Friendly	[8]
10					2–0
11					3–0
12					4–1
13	7	17 May 1914	Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark	Netherlands	1–1	4–3	Friendly	[9]
14					2–3
15					4–3
16	8	5 June 1914	Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark	England	3–0	3–0	Friendly	[10]
17	9	6 June 1915	Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark	Sweden	2–0	2–0	Friendly	[11]
18	10	19 September 1915	Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark	Norway	1–1	8–1	Friendly	[12]
19					3–1
20					6–1
21	11	31 October 1915	Stockholm Olympic Stadium, Stockholm, Sweden	Sweden	1–0	2–0	Friendly	[13]
22	12	4 June 1916	Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark	Sweden	1–0	2–0	Friendly	[14]
23					2–0
24	14	15 October 1916	Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark	Norway	4–0	8–0	Friendly	[15]
25					5–0
26					6–0
27					8–0
28	16	7 October 1917	Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark	Norway	7–0	12–0	Friendly	[16]
29					8–0
30					9–0
31					10–0
32					11–0
33	18	6 October 1918	Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark	Norway	4–0	4–0	Friendly	[17]
34	19	5 June 1919	Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark	Sweden	1–0	4–0	Friendly	[18]
35					3–0
36	20	12 June 1919	Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark	Norway	3–2	5–1	Friendly	[19]
37					4–1
38					5–1
39	21	21 September 1919	Gressbanen, Christiania, Norway	Norway	1–1	3–2	Friendly	[20]
40					2–1
41	23	2 October 1921	Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark	Norway	1–0	3–1	Friendly	[21]
42					2–0
43					3–1
44	28	10 September 1922	Old Fredrikstad Stadion, Fredrikstad, Norway	Norway	2–1	3–3	Friendly	[22]
45					3–2
46	29	1 October 1922	Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark	Sweden	1–1	1–2	Friendly	[23]
47	34	14 September 1924	Gressbanen, Christiania, Norway	Norway	2–1	3–1	1924–28 Nordic Football Championship	[24]
48					3–1
49	35	5 October 1924	Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark	Belgium	1–0	2–1	Friendly	[25]
50					2–0
51	36	14 June 1925	Stockholm Olympic Stadium, Stockholm, Sweden	Sweden	2–0	2–0	1924–28 Nordic Football Championship	[26]
52	37	21 June 1925	Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark	Norway	2–0	5–1		[27]

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Goals	Result	Competition	Ref.
1	5 October 1913	Stockholm Olympic Stadium, Stockholm, Sweden	Sweden	6 – (5', 10', 29', 47', 50', 53')	10–0	Friendly	[28]
2	26 October 1913	Stadion Hoheluft, Hamburg, Germany	Germany	4 – (5', 7', 42', 87')	4–1		[29]
3	17 May 1914	Idrætspark, Copenhagen, Denmark	Netherlands	3 – (20' , 63', 69')	4–3		[30]
4	19 September 1915		Norway	3 – (23', 37', 71')	8–1		[31]
5	15 October 1916			4 – (25', 40', 47', 70')	8–0		[32]
6	7 October 1917			5 – (71', 75', 77', 78', 81')	12–0		[4]
7	12 June 1919			3 – (24', 42', 59')	5–1		[33]
8	2 October 1921			3 – (7', 51', 75')	3–1		[34]

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