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Lis Lene Nielsen

association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ19702789 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lis Lene Nielsen (born 29 August 1951) is a Danish former footballer from Skamby, who played as a midfielder for Boldklubben 1909 and the Denmark women's national football team. Nielsen was the top goalscorer at the unofficial 1971 Women's World Cup and helped Denmark win the world cup.

International career

Nielsen won five official caps for the Denmark women's national football team between 1974 and 1983, and made four appearances in the 1971 Women's World Cup in Mexico, in which she scored five goals.

Honours

National team

1971 Women's World Cup

References

External links

Lis Lene Nielsen national team profile at the Danish Football Association (in Danish)

"Portræt af fodboldspilleren Lis Lene Nielsen, juli 1971". arkiv.dk (in Danish). 19 July 1971. Retrieved 9 June 2025.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Lis Lene Nielsen” as association football player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1951, 1909, 1971, 1974—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1951-08-29. The account is most persuasive where Lene, Nielsen and association can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as association football player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19702789. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1951, 1909, 1971 and 1974.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lis Lene Nielsen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.