Trine Nielsen grev up in
Hjortshøj, Denmark where she started playing at the local club
Hjortshøj Egå IF, before moving to another Aarhus based club,
Brabrand IF while playing for the U16 team. Here she started playing senior handball. She moved to
Ikast-Bording EH at the age of 20, where she played for 4 years. Here she won the
Danish Women's Handball Cup in 2001, the
EHF European League in 2002 and
EHF Cup Winners' Cup in 2004. She moved to
Aalborg DH at the age of 23, but did not even play for 6 months before she was fired. The club believed she had breached the contract. Nielsen did not agree and took the club to court, where she won 500.000 DKK in compensation. She quickly found a new club in
GOG Svendborg TGI, where she under
Jan Pytlick won the
Danish Women's Handball Cup in 2005. ==References==