AB Gladsaxe

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Basic data
Surname	Akademisk Gold Club
Seat	Søborg , Gladsaxe Municipality
founding	February 26, 1889
Colours	green white
president	Torben Oldenborg
Board	Peter Rasmussen
Website	ab-fodbold.dk
First soccer team
Head coach	Michael Madsen
Venue	Gladsaxe Stadium
Places	13,507
league	2nd division
2017/18	14th place
home Away

The Akademisk Boldklub Gladsaxe (AB) is a Danish football club . It was founded in 1889 as a merger of the Fredericia Student Cricket Club and the Polyteknisk Club .

General

The club's home jerseys are green and white with vertical stripes. Pants and socks are completely white.

history

The association was founded in 1889 by a group of students. The only requirement for admission was membership at the university. Between 1889 and 1903 the club took part in a competition in which the unofficial championship was held. The new club won a Danish championship in its first season. Seven teams took part at the time; was played once against everyone. With six wins from six matches, AB Gladsaxe was the most successful team and won the title. With 32 goals scored and only four goals conceded, the team had the best goal difference. The following year you had to give up Kjøbenhavns Boldklub , but then won the title again in 1891/92. Out of five teams, three had the same number of points; AB won because of the better goal difference. The title was defended in 1894, 1895 and 1896. It was not until 1896/97 that Kjøbenhavns Boldklub managed to overthrow the university club. In 1898/99 the title was won again. 1903/04 AB Gladsaxe took part in a Copenhagen championship, which was held in the first year with five teams (BK Frem København, Kjøbenhavns Boldklub, B.93 Copenhagen , Østerbros BK and AB Gladsaxe). For the season 1912/13 this was converted into the national championship. Until 1918, AB was less successful there. In 1909, 1911 and 1917 they became runner-up; it was not until 1919 that the team won the championship again for the first time in twenty years. Another success followed in 1921. The club experienced another heyday between 1943 and 1952: Within a few years, AB won four championship titles. Between 1943 and 1957, the team never did worse than fourth place. In 1960 they rose as eleventh (of twelve) in the second division, but returned after a year to relegate again in 1964. Again, the rise lasted only one season and they reported back in 1966 with sixth place.

season	League (level)	space
1945/46	1st division (1st)	3
1946/47	1st division (1st)	1
1947/48	1st division (1st)	3
1948/49	1st division (1st)	2
1949/50	1st division (1st)	2
1950/51	1st division (1st)	1
1951/52	1st division (1st)	1
1952/53	1st division (1st)	4th
1953/54	1st division (1st)	3
1954/55	1st division (1st)	2
1955/56	1st division (1st)	3
1956/57	1st division (1st)	2
1958	1st division (1st)	8th
1959	1st division (1st)	7th
1960	1st division (1st)	11
1961	2nd division (2nd)	2
1962	1st division (1st)	7th
1963	1st division (1st)	9
1964	1st division (1st)	11
1965	2nd division (2nd)	1
1966	1st division (1st)	6th
1967	1st division (1st)	1
1968	1st division (1st)	9
1969	1st division (1st)	6th
1970	1st division (1st)	2
1971	1st division (1st)	12
1972	2nd division (2nd)	1
1973	1st division (1st)	11
1974	2nd division (2nd)	6th
1975	2nd division (2nd)	10
1976	2nd division (2nd)	9
1977	2nd division (2nd)	13
1978	2nd division (2nd)	10
1979	2nd division (2nd)	4th
1980	2nd division (2nd)	5
1981	2nd division (2nd)	8th
1982	2nd division (2nd)	5
1983	2nd division (2nd)	6th
1984	2nd division (2nd)	4th
1985	2nd division (2nd)	13
1986	3rd division (3rd)	3
1987	3rd division (3rd)	7th
1988	3rd division (3rd)	12
1989	3rd division (3rd)	5
1990	3rd division (3rd)	2
1991	3rd division (3rd)	3
1991/92	2nd division (3rd)	5
1992/93	2nd division (3rd)	6th
1993/94	2nd division (3rd)	3
1994/95	1st division (2nd)	7th
1995/96	1st division (2nd)	2
1996/97	Super League (1st)	10
1997/98	Super League (1st)	5
1998/99	Super League (1st)	3
1999/00	Super League (1st)	3
2000/01	Super League (1st)	10
2001/02	Super League (1st)	5
2002/03	Super League (1st)	9
2003/04	Super League (1st)	12
2004/05	1st division (2nd)	11
2005/06	1st division (2nd)	12
2006/07	1st division (2nd)	10
2007/08	1st division (2nd)	6th
2008/09	1st division (2nd)	3
2009/10	1st division (2nd)	4th
2010/11	1st division (2nd)	9
2011/12	1st division (2nd)	11
2012/13	1st division (2nd)	10
2013/14	1st division (2nd)	10
2014/15	1st division (2nd)	11
2015/16	2nd division (3rd)	1
2016/17	1st division (2nd)	12
2017/18	2nd division (3rd)	14th
Note : yellow = ascent / master, red = descent

The last title so far was in 1967. With 14 wins and 31 points, AB had two more than competitor BK Frem København . In 1968 AB took part in the 2nd Intertoto Cup , but retired in Group B7 with only one win as the last. Only in the 1-0 win against FC Tirol Innsbruck did they keep the points. They lost 2-0 away against German representatives Eintracht Braunschweig , but were able to win a point at 0-0 at home.

Since the 1970s, and especially after the introduction of professional football in the 1980s, the club sank more and more into insignificance. In 1973 they were relegated again. This time the immediate ascent did not succeed. In 1985 there was even a crash into the third division, from which the return to the second division only succeeded in 1994. Two years later, in 1996, followed the last ascent to the first class and the first membership in the super league , when they were runner-up in the second division behind Hvidovre IF . In April 1998 Per Frimann became president of the association. Shortly thereafter, he suspended the then coach Christian Andersen after he had announced that he would switch to league rivals FC Copenhagen in October 1998 . In 1999, the club won the Landspokalturneringen , the Danish Cup, for the first time in the club's history , and achieved third place in the league, which was defended the following year. Already in 1956 and 1995 the team had been in the final of the cup, but had to admit defeat 0: 1 to BK Frem København and almost forty years later 0: 5 to FC Copenhagen. In the 1999 final they faced Aalborg BK and won 2-1. At that time, AB player René Henriksen was chosen for the Man of the Match . Two years later they were in the final again, but had to admit defeat to Silkeborg IF 1: 4. With Jan Michaelsen an AB player was again the best player of the match.

By finishing third in the league in 1999, the club was eligible to participate in the 1999/2000 UEFA Cup . There they were eliminated after the first round with 0: 2 and 1: 1 against Grasshopper Zurich . The following year they were eliminated in the qualifying round for the UEFA Cup . In the 2003/04 season they found themselves in the table basement after four games without a win at the start of the season. With 17 points from 33 games, 14 points were missing from a non-relegation zone. Since relegation in 2004, AB has been playing in the second highest Danish division, the Viasat Sport Division . After relegation, they reached eleventh place in the second division and were temporarily in danger of being relegated again. In the following year it was only enough for twelfth place, three points before the first relegated Lolland-Falster Alliances . It was not until 2007/08 that they recovered and achieved a single-digit place in the table with seventh place. A year later, the team just missed promotion. Behind Herfølge BK and Silkeborg IF it was only enough for third place.

In the run-up to the 2009/10 season, the club invested a lot of money in new players in order to be able to play first-class again. Among others, Casper Henningsen , Simon Bræmer and Carsten Fredgaard were signed up , some of whom can look back on national team activities . But all efforts were only enough for fourth place. In the season 2011/12 AB left the relegation ranks only on the last day of the game by an away win at Hobro IK .

useful information

The physicists Harald and Niels Bohr once played for the club. Other players were Knud Lundberg , who was a Danish national football, handball and basketball player, and Karl Aage Hansen , who scored 17 goals for Denmark in 22 international matches. While the Bohr brothers played for the AB at the turn of the century, Lundberg and Handen were active in the club's second successful period between the end of World War II and the mid-1950s.

Stadion

→ Main article : Gladsaxe Stadium

successes

• Danish champion (9): 1919, 1921, 1937, 1943, 1945, 1947, 1951, 1952, 1967
• Landspokalturneringen (1): 1999
• Danish Supercup (1): 1999

European Cup balance sheet

AB took part in European competitions seven times, but never got past the second round.

season	competition	round	opponent	total	To	Back
1968/69	European Champions Cup	1 round	FC Zurich	4: 3	3: 1 (A)	1: 2 (H)
		2nd round	AEK Athens	0: 2	0: 0 (A)	0: 2 (H)
1970/71	Exhibition cities cup	1 round	Sliema Wanderers	10: 20	7: 0 (H)	3: 2 (A)
		2nd round	RSC Anderlecht	1: 7	1: 3 (H)	0: 4 (A)
1971/72	Uefa cup	1 round	Dundee FC	2: 5	2: 4 (A)	0: 1 (H)
1998	UEFA Intertoto Cup	2nd round	Vorskla Poltava	(a)3: 3 ( a )	2: 2 (H)	1: 1 (A)
1999/2000	Uefa cup	1 round	Grasshopper Club Zurich	1: 3	0: 2 (H)	1: 1 (A)
2000/01	Uefa cup	qualification	B36 Tórshavn	9-0	8: 0 (H)	1: 0 (A)
		1 round	Slavia Prague	0: 5	0: 3 (A)	0: 2 (H)
2002	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1 round	BATE Baryssau	0: 3	0: 1 (A)	0: 2 (H)

Legend: (H) - home game, (A) - away game, (N) - neutral place, (a) - away goal rule , (i. E.) - on penalties , (n. V.) - after extra time

Overall record : 20 games, 5 wins, 4 draws, 11 defeats, 30:33 goals (goal difference −3)

Former known players

selection

• Emmanuel Ake (current Kenyan national soccer player)
• Harald Bohr (Former Danish national soccer player, Olympic participant 1908 and professor of mathematics)
• Niels Bohr (Professor of Physics and Nobel Prize Winner)
• Charles Buchwald (Former Danish national soccer player and Olympic participant in 1902 and 1906)
• Carsten Fredgaard (Former Danish national soccer player)
• Andreas Granskov-Hansen (active in Germany for Werder Bremen II)
• Karl Aage Hansen (Former Danish national soccer player)
• René Henriksen (Former Danish national soccer player)
• Christian Høgni Jacobsen (Current Faroe Islands football player)
• Knud Lundberg (Former Danish national soccer, handball and basketball player)
• Peter Løvenkrands (Former Danish national soccer player)
• Brian Steen Nielsen (Former Danish national soccer player)
• Johnny Petersen (active in the Bundesliga for FC St. Pauli )
• Kenneth Perez (Former Danish national soccer player)
• Abdul Sule (Former Nigerian National Football Player)
• Claus Thomsen (active in the Bundesliga for VfL Wolfsburg and former Danish national soccer player)
• Mohamed Zidan (1999 to 2003, later with Werder Bremen , 1. FSV Mainz 05 , Hamburger SV and Borussia Dortmund )

Trainer

time	Surname	nationality
1963-1965	Ivan Jensen
1965	Frank Soo
1966-1968	Mario Astorri
1968-1969	Ernst Netuka
1970	Karl Aage Hansen
1970-1971	Jørgen Hvidemose
1972	Karl Aage Hansen
1973-1975	Jack Cummings
1975	Niels Erik Rasmussen
1976	Rudi Strittich
1977	Arne Borsdal
1978-1983	Christian Andersen
1983	Jan Andersen
1984	Peter Dahl
1985-1986	Christian Andersen
1986	Henning Kurland
1987	Kresten Bjerre
1988-1990	Claus Bo Hansen
1990	Henning Kurland
1990	Jan Larsen
1991	Peter Jensen
1992-1995	Johnny Petersen
1995	Christian Andersen
1996	Tonni Nielsen
1996-1998	Christian Andersen
1999-2000	Ole Mørch
2000	Peter Frandsen / Flemming Christensen
2001-2002	Ove Christensen
2003-2005	Henrik Jensen
2005-2007	Christian Andersen / Allan Michaelsen
2007	Johnny Petersen
2007-2010	Flemming Christensen
2010–2012	Kasper Kurland
2012	Henrik clay
2013-2015	Thomas Nørgaard
2015-2016	Per Frandsen
2017	Søren Bjerg
2017–	Michael Madsen

President

incomplete

• 1998–2002: Per Frimann
• ?: Jens Hjortskov
• ?: Leif Vejhe Djurhuus
• ?: Thomas Gram
• ?: Torben Oldenborg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Akademisk Boldklub Gladsaxe ( Memento from July 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Official homepage of the association
• League results between 1889 and 1927
• League results from 1927/28 onwards
• Profile on weltfussball.de
• Profile on transfermarkt.de