Aarhus GF
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Basic data | ||||
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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 | |||
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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 |
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1955/56 | European Champions Cup | 1 round |
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2: 4 | 0: 2 (H) | 2: 2 (A) |
1956/57 | European Champions Cup | Preliminary round |
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2: 6 | 1: 1 (H) | 1: 5 (A) |
1957/58 | European Champions Cup | Preliminary round |
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3-0 | 0: 0 (H) | 3: 0 (A) |
1 round |
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2: 4 | 0: 4 (A) | 2: 0 (H) | ||
1960/61 | European Champions Cup | Preliminary round |
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3: 1 | 3: 0 (H) | 0: 1 (A) |
1 round |
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4-0 | 3: 0 (H) | 1: 0 (A) | ||
Quarter finals |
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2: 7 | 1: 3 (A) | 1: 4 (H) | ||
1961/62 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 2nd round |
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2: 5 | 0: 2 (A) | 2: 3 (H) |
1965/66 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | Preliminary round |
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4: 2 | 2: 1 (H) | 2: 1 (A) |
1 round |
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0: 3 | 0: 1 (H) | 0: 2 (A) | ||
1979/80 | Uefa cup | 1 round |
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2: 1 | 1: 1 (H) | 1: 0 (A) |
2nd round |
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2: 5 | 1: 2 (H) | 1: 3 (A) | ||
1983/84 | Uefa cup | 1 round |
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1: 5 | 0: 1 (A) | 1: 4 (H) |
1984/85 | Uefa cup | 1 round |
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1: 2 | 0: 2 (A) | 1: 0 (H) |
1985/86 | Uefa cup | 1 round |
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2: 6 | 2: 5 (A) | 0: 1 (H) |
1987/88 | European Champions Cup | 1 round |
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4: 2 | 4: 1 (H) | 0: 1 (A) |
2nd round |
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0: 1 | 0: 0 (H) | 0: 1 (A) | ||
1988/89 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1 round |
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7: 2 | 4: 1 (A) | 3: 1 (H) |
2nd round |
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6: 1 | 2: 1 (A) | 4: 0 (H) | ||
Quarter finals |
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0: 1 | 0: 1 (H) | 0: 0 (A) | ||
1992/93 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1 round |
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( a ) 4: 4 | 3: 3 (A) | 1: 1 (H) |
2nd round |
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a ) | 4: 4 (3: 2 (H) | 1: 2 (A) | ||
1995 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | Group stage |
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4: 1 | 4: 1 (H) | |
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0: 3 | 0: 3 (A) | ||||
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2: 1 | 2: 1 (H) | ||||
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1: 3 | 1: 3 (A) | ||||
1996/97 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1 round |
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a ) | 1: 1 (1: 1 (H) | 0: 0 (A) |
1997/98 | Uefa cup | 2nd qualifying round |
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3: 2 | 0: 0 (A) | 3: 2 (H) |
1 round |
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3: 2 | 2: 2 (H) | 1: 0 (A) | ||
2nd round |
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a ) | 1: 1 (1: 1 (H) | 0: 0 (A) | ||
2001 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | 1 round |
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2: 7 | 1: 0 (H) | 1: 7 (A) |
2012/13 | UEFA Europa League | 2nd qualifying round |
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2: 5 | 1: 2 (H) | 1: 3 (A) |
Overall record : 60 games, 20 wins, 14 draws, 26 defeats, 76:92 goals (goal difference −16)
Known players
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Coach chronicle
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