FC Copenhagen

FC Copenhagen
Basic data
Surname	Football Club København
Seat	Copenhagen , Denmark
founding	July 1, 1992
Colours	White blue
president	Hans Munk Nielsen
Website	fck.dk
First soccer team
Head coach	Ståle Solbakken
Venue	Park
Places	38,065
league	Superligaen
2019/20	2nd place
home Away Alternatively

FC Copenhagen at Frederiksberg Idrætspark .

Exterior view of the parking

The FC Copenhagen ( Danish FC København , short: FCK ) is a Danish sports club from Copenhagen , which is best known for its football team . Since it was founded in 1992, the association (motto: Gør drenge til mænd - og mænd til drenge , in German: "Make boys into men - and men into boys") has already won several national titles, most recently in 2019.

By winning the Royal League in 2004/05 , FC Copenhagen was able to record its first international success and qualify for the group stage of the Champions League for the first time in 2006/07 . The club achieved its greatest success so far when it made it to the round of 16 of the Champions League 2010/11 . Against Chelsea they were eliminated with 0-2 and 0-0.

history

Origins

Although the FC Copenhagen team did not appear for the first time in 1992, this very young club can claim to be the oldest football club in Northern Europe outside of Great Britain . Because it was created through the merger of the professional teams of two Copenhagen clubs, the older of which dates from 1876 (football department from 1879):

• Kjøbenhavns Boldklub (KB) was founded in Copenhagen on April 26, 1876. In addition to football, the club's members also play cricket and tennis . KB has already won the first two Danish championships held in 1913/14 and 1914/15. Thirteen more titles, most recently in 1980, were added, and so the Boldklub can still claim the title of Danish record champion, even though it no longer has its own professional team. The club was only able to win the national cup competition once, despite five finals.
• The Boldklubben 1903 (B1903) has always been a pure football club since it was founded at the beginning of the 20th century. At the first Danish championship held in 1913/14, the team finished fourth, and in 1924 the title was won for the first time. Six other championships followed, most recently in 1976 , and two cup wins. The 1986 cup win was also the last national title of one of the two traditional capital city clubs. Torben Piechnik was the last “3” (that's what fans often called their players, alluding to the year they were founded in 1903) who, in addition to the red and black 1903 jersey, also wore the red jersey of the Danish national team - as part of the legendary European championship team from 1992 .

The merger

In the course of the 1980s, however, KB lost more and more ground, and ultimately, despite the continued high popularity of the fans, they found themselves in the second division again. The 3ers, however, plagued another problem: although the club was still able to keep up in terms of sport ( they were runner- up in 1992 and in the same season they were able to defeat Bayern Munich 6-2 in the UEFA Cup ), there were no more than 2000 spectators on average the home games.

At the same time, another club emerged during this time that became the series winner of the Danish league out of nowhere: Brøndby IF from the town of the same name on the outskirts of Copenhagen brought the long-established capital city clubs increasingly into trouble.

In addition, the Danish national stadium Parken (“the Park”) at Copenhagen's Østerport was rebuilt during this time and, as the largest and most modern stadium in the country, would have been empty from 1993 if no high-class club had been found to fill it with spectators.

As a last resort, they decided to take a drastic step: they combined the strengths of KB (the strong fan scene and the support of the regional economy) and B1903 (a strong team and the starting place in the first division) and put under the name FC København a common professional team together. The name was chosen to clearly distinguish itself from the suburban club Brøndby IF , which was not seen as a “real” Copenhagen club. The two clubs as such were not merged, they only merged the game operations of their respective first team. Both clubs continue to exist and have their own youth teams.

The first team to play for FCK at the beginning of the 1992/93 season consisted almost entirely of former B1903 players. As a concession to the KB fans, who were suddenly supposed to cheer on a completely different team, and also bearing in mind the tradition of the Boldklub as record champions, the club colors white and blue, the old KB colors, were chosen. The new coat of arms showed a blue lion head and a stylized Dannebrog . The lion was chosen because so far not a single large Danish club has had one in its coat of arms.

History as FC Copenhagen

The time for the merger seemed well chosen: when FCK took the stage in autumn 1992, enthusiasm for football in Denmark was just at its peak - in the summer, Sweden had surprisingly become European champions . Broad sections of the population suddenly became interested in football for the first time and found a new favorite club in FC Copenhagen. With the highest average attendance in Danish football history to date, FCK won the championship at the first attempt and since then has been in a head-to-head race with Brøndby for supremacy in Danish football in the local derby New Firm .

The club's preliminary sporting highlight so far has been the 2003/04 season, in which it was able to win both the championship and the cup (the third win in this competition so far). In the 2006/07 season , the FC were Danish champions for the sixth time in the club's history. In 2006 , FC reached the group stage of the Champions League with a 2-1 and 2-0 win over Ajax Amsterdam . In the group stage they met Benfica Lisbon , Celtic Glasgow and Manchester United . The group ended as the bottom of the table, which was equivalent to the elimination.

In 2010 , the capital club reached the group stage of the Champions League again with a win in the play-offs against the Norwegian club Rosenborg Trondheim (1: 2/1: 0). This time they met Rubin Kazan , Panathinaikos Athens and FC Barcelona . Unlike the first time, they surprisingly occupy second place in the table behind FC Barcelona and ahead of Rubin Kazan and Panathinaikos Athens. In the last sixteen they were eliminated from Chelsea (0: 2/0: 0). Reaching the round of 16 - as the first Danish team - is their greatest success so far on an international level.

The FCK merger concept was perceived as a complete success across Europe and has already been imitated several times - both in Denmark (e.g. FC Midtjylland ) and outside (such as at SpVgg Greuther Fürth ).

The club caused a sensation in September 2013 with the controversial measure of selling tickets for the 2013/14 UEFA Champions League only to fans with Danish names. This was justified with alleged security concerns to prevent the acquisition of tickets by opposing fans.

Sporting successes

• Danish champion (13): 1993 , 2001 , 2003 , 2004 , 2006 , 2007 , 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2013 , 2016 , 2017 , 2019
• Royal League winners (2): 2005 and 2006
• Danish Cup Winner (8): 1995, 1997, 2004, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017
• Danish League Cup winner (1): 1996
• Danish Super Cup winners (3): 1995, 2001, 2004
• Ørestad Cup winners (2): 2000, 2002
• Kings Cup Winner (1): 1994

Economic expansion

Today, FC Copenhagen is without a doubt Denmark's richest club - a result of good management on the part of Flemming Østergaard (the patron saint of FCK is often called Don Ø ). Østergaard, the board member of the stadium operating company Parken Sports & Entertainment A / S , of which FCK is now a subsidiary, gradually expanded the Parken area into a prosperous office and event center, which has made FCK one of the few today European football clubs regularly generate profits.

At the same time, Østergaard is expanding into other sports with its FCK brand - in 2002, it took over the women's and men's team of the handball club Frederiksberg Idrætsforening , which has since been known as FCK Håndbold .

On January 3, 2017, FC Copenhagen announced the signing of a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team and secured the former players from Team Dignitas . From now on, Mathias “MSL” Lauridsen, Kristian “k0nfig” Wienecke, Ruben “RUBINO” Villarroel, René “cajunb” Borg, Emil “Magiskb0y” Reif and coach Casper “ruggah” Due are under the flag of the sports club, but they are going under the Name " North ".

Squad for the 2019/20 season

As of March 14, 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Stephan Andersen 2 FROM Guillermo Varela 3 FROM Pierre Bengtsson 4th FROM Sotirios Papagiannopoulos 5 FROM Andreas Bjlland 6th MF Jens Stage 7th ST Viktor Fischer 8th MF Nicolai Thomsen 10 MF Zeca ( ) 11 ST Mohammed Daramy 13 TW Sten Grytebust 14th ST Dame N'Doye

No. position Surname 16 ST Pep Biel 17th FROM Karlo Bartolec 18th ST Michael Santos 19th FROM Bryan Oviedo 20th FROM Nicolai Boilesen 21st TW Karl-Johan Johnsson 23 ST Jonas Wind 24 MF Robert Mudražija 25th FROM Victor Nelsson 27 FROM Ragnar Sigurðsson 29 ST Mikkel Kaufmann 33 MF Rasmus Falk

Accesses

No. position Surname TW Sten Grytebust ( Odense BK (free transfer)) TW Karl-Johan Johnsson (from EA Guingamp (unknown)) FROM Karlo Bartolec (from FC Nordsjælland (€ 2,670,000)) FROM Victor Nelsson (from FC Nordsjælland (€ 3,600,000)) FROM Bryan Oviedo ( Sunderland AFC (free transfer)) MF Jens Stage (from Aarhus GF (€ 2,000,000)) ST Nicklas Bendtner (from Rosenborg Trondheim (free transfer)) ST Pep Biel (from Real Saragossa (€ 5,000,000)) ST Carlo Holse (from Esbjerg fB (was on loan)) ST Michael Santos (from Malaga FC (€ 2,200,000)) ST Mikkel Kaufmann (from Aalborg FK (January 2020))

Winter break

No. position Surname ST Mikkel Kaufmann (from Aalborg BK (3,000,000 €)) FROM Ragnar Sigurðsson (from FK Rostov (free transfer))

Departures

No. position Surname TW Jesse Joronen (to Brescia Calcio (€ 5,000,000)) FROM Peter Ankersen (to FC Genoa (€ 1,000,000)) FROM Denis Vavro (to Lazio Rome (€ 10,500,000)) MF William Kvist (retired) ST Robert Skov (to TSG Hoffenheim (€ 10,000,000))

Winter break

No. position Surname ST Nicklas Bendtner (without association) ST Carlo Holse (to Rosenborg Trondheim ) TW Frederik Ibsen (at Kolding IF ) ST Pieros Sotiriou (to FK Astana (€ 2,000,000))

Awarded Players

No. position Surname MF Michael Lüftner (to Omonia Nicosia until June 30, 2020) MF Uros Matic (to APOEL Nicosia until June 30, 2020)

European Cup balance sheet

season	competition	round	opponent	total	To	Back
1992/93	Uefa cup	1 round	Mikkelin Palloilijat	10: 10	5: 0 (H)	5: 1 (A)
		2nd round	AJ Auxerre	0: 7	0: 5 (A)	0: 2 (H)
1993/94	UEFA Champions League	1 round	Linfield FC	4: 3	0: 3 (A)	4: 0 a.d. (H)
		2nd round	AC Milan	0: 7	0: 6 (H)	0: 1 (A)
1994/95	Uefa cup	1 round	ŠK Slovan Bratislava	1: 2	0: 1 (A)	1: 1 (H)
1995/96	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	SK Hradec Králové	2: 7	0: 5 (A)	2: 2 (H)
1996	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Group stage	Örebro SK	2: 2	2: 2 (H)
			NK Maribor	1-0	1: 0 (A)
			FK Austria Vienna	2: 1	2: 1 (H)
			Keflavik IF	2: 1	2: 1 (A)
1997/98	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	FC Ararat Yerevan	5-0	3: 0 (H)	2: 0 (A)
		2nd round	Betis Seville	1: 3	0: 2 (A)	1: 1 (H)
1998/99	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	qualification	Qarabağ Agdam	10-00	6: 0 (H)	4: 0 (A)
		1 round	Levski Sofia	6: 1	2: 0 (A)	4: 1 (H)
		2nd round	Chelsea FC	1: 2	1: 1 (A)	0: 1 (H)
1999	UEFA Intertoto Cup	2nd round	Polonia Warsaw	1: 4	0: 3 (H)	1: 1 (A)
2001/02	UEFA Champions League	2nd qualifying round	Torpedo Kutaisi	4: 2	1: 1 (A)	3: 1 (H)
		3rd qualifying round	Lazio Rome	3: 5	2: 1 (H)	1: 4 (A)
2001/02	Uefa cup	1 round	FK Obilić	4: 2	2: 0 (H)	2: 2 (A)
		2nd round	Ajax Amsterdam	1-0	0: 0 (H)	1: 0 (A)
		3rd round	Borussia Dortmund	0: 2	0: 1 (H)	0: 1 (A)
2002/03	Uefa cup	qualification	Locomotive Tbilisi	7: 2	3: 1 (H)	4: 1 (A)
		1 round	Djurgårdens IF	1: 3	0: 0 (H)	1: 3 (A)
2003/04	UEFA Champions League	2nd qualifying round	Sliema Wanderers	10: 10	4: 1 (H)	6: 0 (A)
		3rd qualifying round	Glasgow Rangers	2: 3	1: 1 (A)	1: 2 (H)
2003/04	Uefa cup	1 round	Ferencváros Budapest	2: 2 (3: 2  i.E. )	1: 1 (A)	1: 1 a.d. (H)
		2nd round	RCD Mallorca	2: 3	1: 2 (H)	1: 1 (A)
2004/05	UEFA Champions League	2nd qualifying round	ND Gorica	2: 6	2: 1 (A)	0: 5 (H)
2005/06	Uefa cup	2nd qualifying round	Carmarthen Town	4-0	2: 0 (H)	2: 0 (A)
		1 round	Hamburger SV	1: 2	1: 1 (A)	0: 1 (H)
2006/07	UEFA Champions League	2nd qualifying round	Myllycosken Pallo -47	4: 2	2: 0 (H)	2: 2 (A)
		3rd qualifying round	Ajax Amsterdam	3: 2	1: 2 (H)	2: 0 (A)
		Group stage	Benfica Lisbon	1: 3	0: 0 (H)	1: 3 (A)
			Celtic Glasgow	3: 2	0: 1 (A)	3: 1 (H)
			Manchester United	1: 3	0: 3 (A)	1: 0 (H)
2007/08	UEFA Champions League	1 round	Beitar Jerusalem	2: 1	1: 0 (H)	1: 1 a.d. (A)
		2nd round	Benfica Lisbon	1: 3	1: 2 (A)	0: 1 (H)
2007/08	Uefa cup	1 round	RC Lens	3: 2	1: 1 (A)	2: 1 a.d. (H)
		Group stage	Panathinaikos Athens	0: 1	0: 1 (H)
			Moscow locomotive	1-0	1: 0 (A)
			Atlético Madrid	0: 2	0: 2 (H)
			Aberdeen FC	0: 4	0: 4 (A)
2008/09	Uefa cup	1st qualifying round	Cliftonville FC	11: 00	4: 0 (A)	7: 0 (H)
		2nd qualifying round	Lillestrøm SK	7: 3	3: 1 (H)	4: 2 (A)
		1 round	FK Moscow	3: 2	2: 1 (A)	1: 1 (H)
		Group stage	AS Saint-Etienne	1: 3	1: 3 (H)
			Valencia CF	1: 1	1: 1 (A)
			Rosenborg Trondheim	1: 1	1: 1 (H)
			Club Bruges	1-0	1: 0 (A)
		Round of 16	Manchester City	3: 4	2: 2 (H)	1: 2 (A)
2009/10	UEFA Champions League	2nd qualifying round	FK Mogren	12: 00	6: 0 (H)	6: 0 (A)
		3rd qualifying round	Stabæk IF	3: 1	3: 1 (H)	0: 0 (A)
		Play-offs	APOEL Nicosia	2: 3	1: 0 (H)	1: 3 (A)
2009/10	UEFA Europa League	Group stage	CFR Cluj	2: 2	0: 2 (A)	2: 0 (H)
			Sparta Prague	4-0	1: 0 (H)	3: 0 (A)
			PSV Eindhoven	1: 2	0: 1 (A)	1: 1 (H)
		Round of 16	Olympique Marseille	2: 6	1: 3 (H)	1: 3 (A)
2010/11	UEFA Champions League	3rd qualifying round	BATE Baryssau	3: 2	0: 0 (A)	3: 2 (H)
		Play-offs	Rosenborg Trondheim	( a ) 2: 2(a)	1: 2 (A)	1: 0 (H)
		Group stage	Rubin Kazan	1: 1	1: 0 (H)	0: 1 (A)
			Panathinaikos Athens	5: 1	2: 0 (A)	3: 1 (H)
			FC Barcelona	1: 3	0: 2 (A)	1: 1 (H)
		Round of 16	Chelsea FC	0: 2	0: 2 (H)	0: 0 (A)
2011/12	UEFA Champions League	3rd qualifying round	Shamrock Rovers	3-0	1: 0 (H)	2: 0 (A)
		Play-offs	Viktoria Plzen	2: 5	1: 3 (H)	1: 2 (A) 1
2011/12	UEFA Europa League	Group stage	Vorskla Poltava	2: 1	1: 0 (H)	1: 1 (A)
			Standard Liege	0: 4	0: 3 (A)	0: 1 (H)
			Hannover 96	3: 4	2: 2 (A)	1: 2 (H)
2012/13	UEFA Champions League	3rd qualifying round	Club Bruges	3: 2	0: 0 (H)	3: 2 (A)
		Play-offs	Lille OSC	1: 2	1: 0 (H)	0: 2 a.d. (A)
2012/13	UEFA Europa League	Group stage	Molde FK	4: 2	2: 1 (H)	2: 1 (A)
			Steaua Bucharest	1: 2	0: 1 (A)	1: 1 (H)
			VfB Stuttgart	0: 2	0: 0 (A)	0: 2 (H)
2013/14	UEFA Champions League	Group stage	Juventus Turin	2: 4	1: 1 (H)	1: 3 (A)
			real Madrid	0: 6	0: 4 (A)	0: 2 (H)
			Galatasaray Istanbul	2: 3	1: 3 (A)	1: 0 (H)
2014/15	UEFA Champions League	3rd qualifying round	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	2-0	00-0 (A) 2	2: 0 (H)
		Play-offs	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	2: 7	2: 3 (H)	0: 4 (A)
2014/15	UEFA Europa League	Group stage	HJK Helsinki	3: 2	2: 0 (H)	1: 2 (A)
			Torino FC	1: 6	0: 1 (A)	1: 5 (H)
			Club Bruges	1: 5	1: 1 (A)	0: 4 (H)
2015/16	UEFA Europa League	2nd qualifying round	Newtown AFC	5: 1	2: 0 (H)	3: 1 (A)
		3rd qualifying round	FK Jablonec	(a)3: 3 ( a )	1: 0 (A)	2: 3 (H)
2016/17	UEFA Champions League	2nd qualifying round	Crusaders FC	9-0	3: 0 (A)	6: 0 (H)
		3rd qualifying round	Astra Giurgiu	4: 1	1: 1 (A)	3: 0 (H)
		Play-offs	APOEL Nicosia	2: 1	1: 0 (H)	1: 1 (A)
		Group stage	FC Porto	1: 1	1: 1 (A)	0: 0 (H)
			Club Bruges	6-0	4: 0 (H)	2: 0 (A)
			Leicester City	0: 1	0: 1 (A)	0: 0 (H)
2016/17	UEFA Europa League	Round of 16	Ludogorets Razgrad	2: 1	2: 1 (A)	0: 0 (H)
		Round of 16	Ajax Amsterdam	2: 3	2: 1 (H)	0: 2 (A)
2017/18	UEFA Champions League	2nd qualifying round	MŠK Žilina	4: 3	3: 1 (A)	1: 2 (H)
		3rd qualifying round	Vardar Skopje	4: 2	0: 1 (A)	4: 1 (H)
		Play-offs	Qarabağ Agdam	(a)2: 2 ( a )	0: 1 (A)	2: 1 (H)
2017/18	UEFA Europa League	Group stage	Moscow locomotive	1: 2	0: 0 (H)	1: 2 (A)
			Sheriff Tiraspol	2-0	0: 0 (A)	2: 0 (H)
			FC Fastav Zlín	4: 1	1: 1 (A) 3	3: 0 (H)
		Round of 16	Atlético Madrid	1: 5	1: 4 (H)	0: 1 (A)
2018/19	UEFA Europa League	1st qualifying round	Kuopion PS	2: 1	1: 0 (A)	1: 1 (H)
		2nd qualifying round	UMF Stjarnan	7-0	2: 0 (A)	5: 0 (H)
		3rd qualifying round	CSKA Sofia	4: 2	2: 1 (A)	2: 1 (H)
		Play-offs	Atalanta Bergamo	0: 0 (4: 3 on  perk )	0: 0 (A)	0: 0 (H)
		Group stage	Zenit St. Petersburg	1: 2	1: 1 (H)	0: 1 (A)
			Girondins Bordeaux	2: 2	2: 1 (A)	0: 1 (H)
			Slavia Prague	0: 1	0: 1 (H)	0: 0 (A)
2019/20	UEFA Champions League	2nd qualifying round	The New Saints FC	3-0	2: 0 (A)	1: 0 (H)
		3rd qualifying round	FK Red Star Belgrade	2: 2 (6: 7 on  behalf )	1: 1 (A)	1: 1 a.d. (H)
2019/20	UEFA Europa League	Play-offs	Riga FC	3: 2	3: 1 (H)	0: 1 (A)
		Group stage	FC Lugano	2-0	1: 0 (H)	1-0 (A) 4th
			Malmö FF	1: 2	1: 1 (A)	0: 1 (H)
			Dynamo Kiev	2: 2	1: 1 (A)	1: 1 (H)
		Round of 16	Celtic Glasgow	4: 2	1: 1 (H)	3: 1 (A)
		Round of 16	Istanbul Başakşehir FK	3: 1	0: 1 (A)	3: 0 (H)
		Quarter finals	Manchester United	0: 1	0: 1 a.d.

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

¹The second leg was played in the Synot Tip Aréna in Prague, as the Pilsen stadium has no floodlights.

²Due to the tense security situation in eastern Ukraine , the first leg was played in the Olympic Stadium in Kiev .

³The first leg was played in the Andrův stadium in Olomouc , as the Zlin stadium is not approved for the European Cup.

^4thThe second leg was played in the Kybunpark in St. Gallen , as the Lugano stadium is not approved for the European Cup.

competition	Games	S.	U	N	T +	T-
UEFA Champions League	86	37	19th	30th	1230	100
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	12	06th	03	03	25th	13
UEFA Cup / Europa League	111	41	32	38	1400	120
UEFA Intertoto Cup	06th	03	02	01	08th	08th
total	2180	87	56	72	2960	2380

As of August 10, 2020

Trainer

Nat.	Trainer	from	to
	Benny Johansen	07/01/1992	06/30/1994
	Keld Kristensen	07/01/1994	09/05/1994
	Benny Johansen	09/06/1994	06/30/1995
	Michael Schäfer	07/01/1995	06/30/1996
	Kim Brink	07/01/1996	06/30/1997
	Kent Karlsson	07/01/1997	09/23/1998
	Kim Brink	09/24/1998	December 31, 1998
	Christian Andersen	03/01/1999	December 31, 1999
	Kim Brink	March 16, 2000	06/30/2000
	Roy Hodgson	07/01/2000	06/30/2001
	Niels-Christian Holmstrøm	07/01/2001	09/14/2001
	Hans Backe	09/15/2001	December 31, 2005
	Ståle Solbakken	01/01/2006	06/30/2011
	Roland Nilsson	07/01/2011	01/08/2012
	Karsten Jensen	01/09/2012	06/03/2012
	Ariël Jacobs	07/01/2012	08/21/2013
	Ståle Solbakken	08/22/2013	today

Web links

Commons : FC Copenhagen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the association (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.fck.dk/indhold/ffekta-om-telia-parken
2. ↑ Champions League: FC Copenhagen excludes fans with foreign names , Spiegel Online from September 15, 2013
3. ↑ FC Copenhagen sign ex-dignitas. hltv.org, January 3, 2017, accessed January 3, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Byens Hold. In: fck.dk. FC Copenhagen, accessed October 8, 2019 (Danish).