Hansen made his first-team debut as a 16-year-old, and would go on to play continuously for the club's first team for more than 22 years and achieve the unusual feat of playing alongside his son, Jørgen Peter Hansen, who made 37 appearances for the club between in the period 1964 and 1969.
Hansen experienced helping to bring home the club's first Danish Championship in 1961, where at age 34 he was ten years older than the team's second oldest player.
Køge took the 1–0 lead, but Hansen later scored directly from a corner kick, and Esbjerg ended up winning 2–1.
[note 1][4] After ending his active career, he joined Esbjerg's veteran team on several occasions to play matches in Canada, where a Danish emigrant who had seen Hansen play in his heyday, invited the team – with everything paid for – to come to his new homeland, provided that Jens Peder Hansen joined.
In 1962, Hansen was apparently bored during a match against AB, and suddenly he left the pitch to buy a sausage by the hot dog stand, whereupon he came back and played on – to the great amusement of the audience and the coach's corresponding anger.