Allan Gaarde (born 25 January 1975) is a Danish former professional football player in the midfielder position, who played 227 games and scored 48 goals for AaB, and won the 1999 Danish Superliga championship with the club. He also played abroad for Italian club Udinese Calcio and Norwegian club Viking FK, before ending his career with Vejle Boldklub in Denmark.
Gaarde usually played on the left of midfield, and his main assets were his technique, vision, distribution and heading.
Gaarde was sports director in AaB from 2013 to 2019.
Three years later in 2013 Gaarde became sports director in his old club AaB. With Gaarde as sports director AaB won the Danish Superliga and the Danish Cup in 2014. It was first time in history that the club secured The Double. Gaarde was also the man behind the biggest sale in the history of AaB when Christian Bassogog made a transfer from AaB to Chinese Henan Jianye.
2001-2002 |
| Udinese | Appearances | Italian Serie A | 2000-2001 | 8 |