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Maja Bay Østergaard

Danish association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ67283116 ↗
Source-derived summary

Maja Bay Østergaard (born 28 March 1998) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Damallsvenskan club Växjö DFF and the Denmark national team.

Club career

Østergaard was the winner of the Danish Women's Cup with FC Thy-Thisted Q in 2020/2021. She was the runner up of the Danish Women's Cup with FC Thy-Thisted Q in 2021/2022 and 2019/2020.

International career

Østergaard has represented Denmark at youth level. She received her first call-up to the Denmark national team in March 2022. She made her debut on 18 February 2023 in a 2–0 win against Norway.

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The public source identifies “Maja Bay Østergaard” as danish association football player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Maja, Østergaard and Danish.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 2020, 2021, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Maja, Østergaard and Danish providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q67283116. The first chronological checks are 1998, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Maja Bay Østergaard” 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.