Aarhus GF

Aarhus GF
Basic data
Surname	Aarhus gymnastics forum af 1880
Seat	Aarhus , Denmark
founding	September 26, 1880
Colours	white-navy blue
president	Lars Fournais
Website	agf.dk
First soccer team
Head coach	David Nielsen
Venue	Ceres Park
Places	19,433
league	Super league
2019/20	3rd place
home Away Alternatively

The Aarhus Gymnastikforening af 1880 (Gymnastikverein Aarhus von 1880, AGF for short ) is a sports club from Aarhus , Denmark's second largest city. He is particularly known for his soccer team , which has been Danish champions several times and plays in the highest Danish league, the Superliga . AGF is Jutland record champions (this title is no longer played today) and Danish record cup winners. The club plays its games in Ceres Park .

Founding time

AGF was founded on September 26, 1880 as a pure gymnastics club . But as early as 1902, the AGF fodbold football division was set up and won its first title just six years later: that of Jutland champions, at that time the highest achievable title, because the Danish championship was not played until 1913. As one of Jutland's leading teams, the AGF-Elf attracted more and more spectators, and so it was decided in Aarhus to build a sports stadium: in 1920 the Aarhus Stadium south of the city was inaugurated, not far from the royal Marselisborg Castle . Until then, the home games had been played on the club's premises. In parallel with the construction of the stadium, the sporting advancement continued: in the following year, AGF reached the final of the Danish championship for the first time, which, however, was lost just like in 1923 and 1925. In that season, the team wore today's club colors for the first time: white shirt and navy blue trousers.

In 1942, today's club area Fredensvang in the Aarhus district of Viby was inaugurated, since then the team has been known as de hvide fra Fredensvang (the whites of Fredensvang).

The golden years

In the mid- 1950s , AGF (the club was still called Aarhus GF, although the city had spelled itself “Århus” instead of “Aarhus” since 1948 - the handball team is now known as ÅGF) had long since established itself among the best Danish clubs, but the most important titles continued to go mainly to the big teams from Copenhagen . By 1955, de hvide had been runner-up four times and third four times, but they were denied great success. But in 1955, the year in which the Danish Cup was played for the first time, the knot burst: the AGF won the Cup and the championship straight away and also represented Denmark in the first ever European Cup . Another five national titles were to follow in the next five years. Even today, people in Aarhus fondly remember the “Golden Team” of those years (in Denmark the champions are traditionally awarded gold medals) around players like John Admisen, Aage Rou and Gunnar Kjeldberg.

AGF in professional football

After the Aarhusians lost touch with the top again in the 1960s and spent most of the 1970s as a classic elevator team (they were unable to reach the final of the Cup, their declared favorite competition, for 13 years), they were at the 1978 The introduction of paid football as a founding member of the Danish professional league was part of the game and until the end of the 2005/06 season was the only team that had always played in the top division. A second small golden era took place in the mid- 1980s , when one again became champions and three times cup winners. One of the most important players of those years was Flemming Povlsen , who later became German champions with Borussia Dortmund .

In the 2006/07 season Aarhus played gymnastics forening in the Viasat Sport Division , the second Danish division. After the direct rise in the following season, Aarhus played again in the Danish first division. At the end of the 2009/10 season they rose again from the Viasat Sport Division, but immediately on again in the following season. In 2012, Aarhus finished fifth and qualified for the second qualifying round for the Europa League , where they were eliminated against Georgian club FC Dila Gori .

After the 2013/14 season, the club rose as penultimate in the 1st division , but managed direct resurgence in the following season as second in the table.

successes

• Danish champion (5): 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1986
• Danish Cup Winner (9): 1955, 1957, 1960, 1961, 1965, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1996

European Cup balance sheet

season	competition	round	opponent	total	To	Back
1955/56	European Champions Cup	1 round	Stade Reims	2: 4	0: 2 (H)	2: 2 (A)
1956/57	European Champions Cup	Preliminary round	OGC Nice	2: 6	1: 1 (H)	1: 5 (A)
1957/58	European Champions Cup	Preliminary round	Glenavon FC	3-0	0: 0 (H)	3: 0 (A)
		1 round	Sevilla FC	2: 4	0: 4 (A)	2: 0 (H)
1960/61	European Champions Cup	Preliminary round	Legia Warsaw	3: 1	3: 0 (H)	0: 1 (A)
		1 round	Fredrikstad FK	4-0	3: 0 (H)	1: 0 (A)
		Quarter finals	Benfica Lisbon	2: 7	1: 3 (A)	1: 4 (H)
1961/62	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	2nd round	Werder Bremen	2: 5	0: 2 (A)	2: 3 (H)
1965/66	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Preliminary round	Vitória Setúbal	4: 2	2: 1 (H)	2: 1 (A)
		1 round	Celtic Glasgow	0: 3	0: 1 (H)	0: 2 (A)
1979/80	Uefa cup	1 round	FKS Stal Mielec	2: 1	1: 1 (H)	1: 0 (A)
		2nd round	FC Bayern Munich	2: 5	1: 2 (H)	1: 3 (A)
1983/84	Uefa cup	1 round	Celtic Glasgow	1: 5	0: 1 (A)	1: 4 (H)
1984/85	Uefa cup	1 round	Widzew Łódź	1: 2	0: 2 (A)	1: 0 (H)
1985/86	Uefa cup	1 round	KSV Waregem	2: 6	2: 5 (A)	0: 1 (H)
1987/88	European Champions Cup	1 round	Jeunesse Esch	4: 2	4: 1 (H)	0: 1 (A)
		2nd round	Benfica Lisbon	0: 1	0: 0 (H)	0: 1 (A)
1988/89	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	Glenavon FC	7: 2	4: 1 (A)	3: 1 (H)
		2nd round	Cardiff City	6: 1	2: 1 (A)	4: 0 (H)
		Quarter finals	FC Barcelona	0: 1	0: 1 (H)	0: 0 (A)
1992/93	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	AIK Solna	( a ) 4: 4(a)	3: 3 (A)	1: 1 (H)
		2nd round	Steaua Bucharest	(a)4: 4 ( a )	3: 2 (H)	1: 2 (A)
1995	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Group stage	Górnik Zabrze	4: 1	4: 1 (H)
			Karlsruher SC	0: 3	0: 3 (A)
			FC Basel	2: 1	2: 1 (H)
			Sheffield Wednesday	1: 3	1: 3 (A)
1996/97	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	NK Olimpija Ljubljana	(a)1: 1 ( a )	1: 1 (H)	0: 0 (A)
1997/98	Uefa cup	2nd qualifying round	Újpest Budapest	3: 2	0: 0 (A)	3: 2 (H)
		1 round	FC Nantes	3: 2	2: 2 (H)	1: 0 (A)
		2nd round	FC Twente Enschede	(a)1: 1 ( a )	1: 1 (H)	0: 0 (A)
2001	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1 round	NK Celje	2: 7	1: 0 (H)	1: 7 (A)
2012/13	UEFA Europa League	2nd qualifying round	FC Dila Gori	2: 5	1: 2 (H)	1: 3 (A)

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 : 60 games, 20 wins, 14 draws, 26 defeats, 76:92 goals (goal difference −16)

Known players

Erik Kuld Jensen (bronze medal in the soccer tournament at the 1948 Olympic Games )0 0 Flemming Povlsen , played after his time at Aarhus GF (for Real Madrid's 2nd team ), later also for 1. FC Cologne and Borussia Dortmund Gunnar Kjeldberg (top scorer in the Danish league 1955/56) Hans Christian Nielsen (silver medal in the football tournament at the 1960 Olympic Games )0 0 Henning Enoksen (silver medal in the football tournament at the 1960 Olympic Games )0 0 Henry From (silver medal in football tournament at the 1960 Olympic Games )0 0 Henning Jensen Jakob Poulsen Jan Bartram Johnny Mølby John Sivebæk Kent Nielsen Lars Bastrup

Leon Andreasen Per Knudsen (bronze medal in the soccer tournament at the 1948 Olympic Games )0 0 Stig Tøfting Troels Rasmussen Aage Rou Jensen Nando Rafael Scott Sellars Liam Miller Håvard Flo Tobias Grahn Dioh Williams Benny Feilhaber Steffen Ernemann (2002-2003)

Coach chronicle

AG Pettersson (1919-1922) Mr. Brown (1922-1924) Harald Hansen (1925-1927) Alfred Rasmussen (1927–1931) Fritz Molnar (1932–1935) William of Dignity (1936–1937) Søren Jensen (1938–1939) Knud Aage Andersen (1939-1940) Gerhard Müller (1941–1951) Peter Vesterbak (1952–1954) Géza Toldi (1954–1956) Peter Vesterbak (1956-1958) Walther Pfeiffer (1959–1960) Géza Toldi (1960–1964) Henry From (1965-1966) Erik Kuld Jensen (1967–1968) Kaj Christensen (1969–1973) Jimmy Strain (1974) Henry From (1974-1975) Jørn Bjerregaard (1976) Erik Christensen (1977–1979)

Poul Erik Bech (1980-1983) Jürgen Wähling (1984–1986) Jens Harmsen (1986) Allan Hebo Larsen (1987–1988) Jens Harmsen (1989) Ole Brandenborg (1990) Lars Lundkvist (1990-1993) Peter Rudbæk (1993-2000) Lars Lundkvist & Kent Nielsen (2000) Ove Christensen (2000-2001) John Stampe (2001-2002) Hans Petersen (2002) Poul Hansen (2002-2003) Sören Åkeby (2004-2005) Brian Steen Nielsen & Jesper Tollefsen (2005) Ove Pedersen (2006-2008) Erik Rasmussen (2009 to May 20, 2010) Peter Sørensen (July 1, 2010 to February 26, 2014) Jesper Fredberg (February 27, 2014 to May 30, 2014) Morten Wieghorst (June 1, 2014 to December 5, 2015) Glen Riddersholm (since December 6, 2015)

Web links

Commons : Aarhus GF  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Stadion

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fakta ( Danish ) agf.dk. Retrieved January 18, 2016.