Lars Friis

Lars Friis was born on 7 May 1976 in Feldborg, Denmark. He started playing youth football for local club, Feldborg-Haderup IF. Known for his technical ability and dedication, he often played as a centre-back or midfielder, despite not being particularly fast or physically imposing.^[1]

After a year at a nearby efterskole, where he played for Aulum IF, Friis joined Ikast FS, competing at the top youth levels before the formation of Midtjylland.^[1]

He later returned to FHIF to start his senior career but was forced to retire at age 23 due to a cruciate ligament injury.^[1]

Friis began his coaching career in 1999 at Midtjylland, where he was until 2015, when he also left the club shortly after Glen Riddersholm's departure.^[2] Soon after, he accompanied Riddersholm to AGF as an assistant. In the spring of 2018, he was offered to join Brentford as a development coach, ^[3] but after a year he returned to AGF as an assistant, now for David Nielsen.^[4]

In January 2021, he took up his first head coaching position when he joined Viborg.^[5]

In January 2022 he was signed by AaB, but was unable to get out of his contract until compensation was paid to Viborg by AaB. He officially became AaB manager on 9 March 2022.^[6] Following a poor start to the 2022–23 Danish Superliga season Friis was sacked by AaB on 15 September 2022.^[7] On 16 December 2022, Friis was hired as an assistant coach to Sparta Prague manager Brian Priske.^[8] On 12 June 2024, Friis was appointed as the manager of Sparta Prague, replacing Priske, who became the manager of Feyenoord.^[9] On 15 May 2025, one day after a 1–3 loss in the Czech Cup final against Sigma Olomouc, Friis was sacked as head coach with team on the 4th place in the league table and four losses in a row.^[10]

As of match played 14 May 2025