Mikkel Jespersen

Mikkel Jespersen (born 11 June 1991) is a retired Danish footballer who played as a midfielder, and current assistant coach of German Bundesliga club 1. FSV Mainz 05.

Skive
Jespersen came to Skive IK in January 2011. He played 127 games in total for the club, scoring 25 goals, before leaving the club in 2015.

Horsens
On 29 June 2015 it was announced, that Jespersen had signed for Horsens on a one-year deal. After playing one year in the Danish 1st Division, Jespersen and Horsens won promotion to the Danish Superliga. His contract got extended in May 2016 with further one year.

Later career
While playing for Skive which he returned to in the summer 2018, Jespersen announced in the beginning of July 2019 that he was helping Horsens manager Bo Henriksen scouting players in the Danish football divisions. On 31 July 2019, Horsens officially confirmed, that they had hired Jespersen as responsible for the recruitment and individual coach for the first team of the club alongside his playing career at Skive.

In June 2021, Jespersen joined Kolding IF as a player. Alongside this, Jespersen was also assigned to the club's academy, where he was going to be responsible for recruitment and individual development. In January 2023, Jespersen was given a new position as playing assistant coach of the first team; a position that Niki Zimling had just left.

On May 1, 2024, it was confirmed that Mikkel Jespersen would retire as a player, but would continue as an assistant coach in Kolding. But on July 17, 2024, Kolding confirmed that they had sold Jespersen to the German Bundesliga club Mainz 05, where he would be assistant coach to Danish Bo Henriksen.