Nickolai Lund
Nickolai Kønig Lund is a Danish football manager currently serving as head coach of Danish Superliga club Viborg. In addition to various assistant roles, he also led between 2012 and 2015.
Career
Lund grew up in Sminge, a village near Silkeborg, and started his coaching career at Silkeborg IF. In 2012, he became head coach of, a team competing in the Danish Women's 1st Division at the time. He guided the club back to the Elitedivision in 2015, the top division of women's football in Denmark. However, in his final match in charge, Team Viborg lost 2–1 to Vejle and were relegated back to the 1st Division.After serving as a youth coach with Randers and later Silkeborg, Lund moved back to Viborg to join the men's first team under head coach Jacob Neestrup. He joined as the club's under-15 team while also serving as an analyst for the first team. He was named as assistant coach, as well as a transition coach, on 10July 2019.
While working to acquire his UEFA Pro Licence, Lund left Viborg to join Copenhagen as assistant on 7 June 2023, reuniting with Neestrup who had become the club's head coach in 2022. He was later fired from Copenhagen in January 2025 due to problems with the team's set pieces.
After the 2024–25season ended, Lund returned to Viborg under head coach Jakob Poulsen as an assistant. By June2025, he was promoted alongside fellow assistants Pål Fjelde and Ralf Pedersen to take charge of Viborg's first team after Poulsen departed Viborg to fill a vacant head coaching role at fellow Superliga club AGF. On 16July, after Viborg sports director Mads Agesen stated the club was unlikely to find a permanent head coach before the opening game of the club's 2025–26season, Lund was promoted to interim head coach for the club's match against Copenhagen. His debut as interim head coach resulted in a 3–2loss.
Viborg announced on 24July 2025 that Lund had been promoted to head coach, no longer being an interim. He signed a three-year deal with the club. His first competitive win for the club came on 3 August with a 2–0 win against Brøndby.