Lars Bastrup

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Lars Bastrup
Full name	Lars Bastrup Jørgensen
Date of birth	July 31, 1955 (1955-07-31) (age 52)
Place of birth	Levring, Denmark
Playing position	Striker
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1973-1974 1974-1975 1975-1977 1977-1979 1979-1981 1981-1983 1983-1980 1980-1986	Silkeborg IF IHF Aarhus Offenbacher Kickers IHF Aarhus AGF Aarhus Hamburger SV Skovbakken Ik Ikast fS	25 (11) 49 (13) 44 (28) 59 (18) 45 (33)
National team
1975-1983	Denmark	30 (10)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Lars Bastrup Jørgensen (born July 31, 1955) is a Danish former professional football (soccer) player, who most prominently played as a striker for German club Hamburger SV. He played 30 matches and scored 10 goals for the Danish national team. He won the 1980 Danish Player of the Year award.

Bastrup made his debut for the Danish national team in June 1975, while playing for IHF Aarhus. In December 1975, at the age of 20, Bastrup joined German team Offenbacher Kickers in the German Bundesliga. He scored two goals in 18 matches, as Offenbach were relegated to the German 2nd Bundesliga. Bastrup chose to stay with Offenbach, and eventually lost his place in the Danish national team. In the following season, he scored 11 goals in 27 matches as Offenbach finished 3rd in the division and thus barely missed promotion to the Bundesliga. He moved back to IHF Aarhus in 1977, and later went on to play for AGF Aarhus. While at AGF, he rejoined the national team and he was voted the 1980 Danish Player of the Year.

In 1981, he was brought back to Germany to play for Hamburger SV (HSV). With German striker Horst Hrubesch, Bastrup made up the attacking duo of the strong HSV team. Alongside prolific players like Uli Stein and Felix Magath, Bastrup won two Bundesliga championships in 1982 and 1983. On the European scene, HSV reached the 1982 UEFA Cup final, where they lost to Swedish team IFK Göteborg, as well as the 1983 European Cup final. Bastrup played in the European Cup final, which HSV won 1-0 against Italian team Juventus FC. In his first year at the club, Bastrup scored 13 goals in 34 Bundesliga games, but he only scored five goals in 25 matches during his second year. He moved back to Denmark in 1983, signing for Skovbakken Ik. He finished his career at Ikast fS in 1986, having earned the Danish top-scorer award with 20 goals in the 1985 Danish 1st Division.