After his playing career Jensen became the head coach of the
Vejen EH women's team in 2013. He coached them for a single season until switching to
Aalborg Håndbold. In March 2016 he was fired due to disappointing results. The club was in 7th place at the time. In 2017 he became the assistant coach at
Team Esbjerg. When the club fired head coach
Lars Frederiksen in May 2017, Jesper Jensen was promoted to head coach. Jensen has announced, that he does not intend to continue, when his contract expired in the summer 2024. He was replaced by Swedish coach
Tomas Axnér. During his time with Team Esbjerg he won the Danish Women's Coach Award 5 times; in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2024.
Danish women's coach In 2020, he was named head coach of the
Danish women's national team, a position he has held simultaneously with the position at
Team Esbjerg. He coached Denmark at the
2020 European Women's Handball Championship. He won silver with the
Danish women's national team at the
2022 European Women's Handball Championship and, the next year, bronze at the
World Championship. Following the
2024 European Championship, where Denmark won silver medals, he announced his intention to retire from the position in the summer of 2025. A week later he announced that he will join Hungarian top club
Ferencvaros. He will be replaced by
Helle Thomsen who takes over in the summer of 2025. ==References==