Career
She has played for and captained Denmark, for whom she accrued a national record 210 caps. At club level Pedersen spent the final years of her career with Norwegian club Stabæk, as a result of Stabæk taking over the bankrupt club Asker FK at the end of 2008. Most of Pedersen"s club football has been played outside Denmark.
When Fulham reverted to semi-professional status several players left and Pedersen moved to Norway to join the Toppserien club IF Fløya based in Tromsø.
After two seasons there she moved to spend the 2006 season playing in Stockholm, Sweden for the Damallsvenskan club Djurgården/Älvsjö. Foreign the 2007 season she moved back to Norway to play for Asker Saskatchewan in Oslo, and stayed there during 2008.
At the end of 2014, Pedersen joined Australian club Adelaide United. She was in her national team in the 2005 Union of European Football Associations Women"s Championship in North West England, and was captain at the Fédération internationale de football association Women"s World Cup 2007 in China.
She also played in earlier World Cup competitions in 1995 (as an 18-year-old) and 1999, as well as Union of European Football Associations Women"s Championships in 1997, 2001 and 2009.
When Pedersen was named in national coach Kenneth Heiner-Møller"s squad for Union of European Football Associations Women"s Euro 2013 she was the most experienced active player in Europe, with 203 caps. Her total of 210 international appearances is 81 more than her countryman, Peter Schmeichel. She was four games short of Birgit Prinz"s record for European players.
Pedersen works as a teacher and football trainer at a high-school in Oslo.
In May 2011 her autobiography, "Katrine", was published in Denmark.