FC Midtjylland

This article covers the football section. For the handball department see FC Midtjylland Håndbold .

FC Midtjylland
Basic data
Surname	Football Club Midtjylland
Seat	Herning , Denmark
founding	February 2, 1999
Colours	Red Black
president	Bo Olesen
Website	fcm.dk
First soccer team
Head coach	Jess Thorup
Venue	MCH Arena , Herning
Places	11,809
league	Super league
2019/20	1st place
home Away Alternatively

The FC Midtjylland is a Danish football club . It emerged in 1999 from the merger of the 1st teams from Herning Fremad (founded in 1918) and Ikast FS (founded in 1935).

history

The clubs Herning Fremad and Ikast FS , from whose teams the first team of FC Midtjylland was formed, continue to exist and maintain their own youth teams. This was a continuation of a concept practiced especially in Denmark, which should enable smaller clubs to establish themselves economically and sportily in the top division (see also FC Copenhagen , FC Nordsjælland ).

The club logo is adorned with the stylized head of a wolf . Although there have been no wild wolves in Denmark for more than 200 years, the wolf was chosen as a symbol because wolves were very common in the area around today's cities of Herning and Ikast . Hence the nickname of the team is Ulvene ("The Wolves").

At the end of the 1999/2000 season, the first after the club was founded, FC Midtjylland became champions of the 1st division (second highest division) and rose to the SAS league . In 2003 and 2005 Midtjylland reached the final of the Danish Football Cup , but lost both times to Brøndby IF . In 2007 and 2008 they were runner-up in the league. In 2010 and 2011, Midtjylland lost two more cup finals, both times against FC Nordsjælland . In 2015 the club won the Danish championship for the first time.

In the 2015/16 season following the first championship, they therefore took part in qualifying for the Champions League . In the second qualifying round they prevailed against the representative of Gibraltar , Lincoln Red Imps FC and were eliminated in the third qualifying round against APOEL Nicosia . So they played in the qualifying for the UEFA Europa League . In the play-offs , FC Midtjylland prevailed against FC Southampton and qualified for the first time to participate in the Europa League . In the group stage, the Danes faced Legia Warsaw , Club Brugge and SSC Napoli . FC Midtjylland qualified as second in the group for the round of 32 . There he was eliminated by Manchester United after the home game could be won in their own stadium, but the second leg at Old Trafford was lost.

In 2018 FC Midtjylland won their second Danish championship. The Danish Cup was won for the first time in 2019 when Brøndby IF was defeated 5: 4 on a pen.

title

• Danish football champions (3): 2015 , 2018 , 2020
• Danish Cup Winner (1): 2019
• Danish cup finalist (4): 2003, 2005, 2010, 2011

European Cup balance sheet

season	competition	round	opponent	total	To	Back
2001/02	Uefa cup	qualification	Glentoran FC	5: 1	1: 1 (H)	4: 0 (A)
		1 round	Sporting Lisbon	2: 6	0: 3 (H)	2: 3 (A)
2002/03	Uefa cup	qualification	FK Pobeda Prilep	3: 2	0: 2 (A)	3: 0 a.d. (H)
		1 round	NK Varteks Varaždin	2: 1	1: 0 (H)	1: 1 (A)
		2nd round	RSC Anderlecht	1: 6	1: 3 (A)	0: 3 (H)
2005/06	Uefa cup	2nd qualifying round	B36 Tórshavn	4: 3	2: 1 (H)	2: 2 (A)
		1 round	CSKA Moscow	2: 6	1: 3 (A)	1: 3 (H)
2007/08	Uefa cup	1st qualifying round	Keflavík ÍF	( a ) 4: 4(a)	2: 3 (A)	2: 1 (H)
		2nd qualifying round	FC Haka	7: 3	2: 1 (A)	5: 2 (H)
		1 round	Moscow locomotive	1: 5	1: 3 (H)	0: 2 (A)
2008/09	Uefa cup	1st qualifying round	Bangor City	10: 10	6: 1 (A)	4: 0 (H)
		2nd qualifying round	Manchester City	1: 1 (2: 4  i.E. )	1: 0 (A)	0: 1 a.d. (H)
2011/12	UEFA Europa League	2nd qualifying round	The New Saints FC	8: 3	3: 1 (A)	5: 2 (H)
		3rd qualifying round	Vitória Guimarães	1: 2	0: 0 (H)	1: 2 (A)
2012/13	UEFA Europa League	Play-offs	BSC Young Boys	2: 3	0: 3 (H)	2: 0 (A)
2015/16	UEFA Champions League	2nd qualifying round	Lincoln Red Imps FC	3-0	1: 0 (H)	2: 0 (A)
		3rd qualifying round	APOEL Nicosia	(a)2: 2 ( a )	1: 2 (H)	1: 0 (A)
2015/16	UEFA Europa League	Play-offs	Southampton FC	2: 1	1: 1 (A)	1: 0 (H)
		Group stage	Legia Warsaw	1: 1	1: 0 (H)	0: 1 (A)
			Club Bruges	4: 2	3: 1 (A)	1: 1 (H)
			SSC Naples	1: 9	1: 4 (H)	0: 5 (A)
		Round of 16	Manchester United	3: 6	2: 1 (H)	1: 5 (A)
2016/17	UEFA Europa League	1st qualifying round	Sūduva Marijampolė	2-0	1: 0 (H)	1: 0 (A)
		2nd qualifying round	FC Vaduz	5: 2	3: 0 (H)	2: 2 (A)
		3rd qualifying round	Videoton FC	2: 1	1: 0 (A)	1: 1 a.d. (H)
		Play-offs	Osmanlıspor FK	0: 3	0: 1 (H)	0: 2 (A)
2017/18	UEFA Europa League	1st qualifying round	Derry City	10: 2	6: 1 (H)	4: 1 (A)
		2nd qualifying round	Ferencváros Budapest	7: 3	4: 2 (A)	3: 1 (H)
		3rd qualifying round	Arka Gdynia	( a ) 4: 4(a)	2: 3 (A)	2: 1 (H)
		Play-offs	Apollon Limassol	3: 4	2: 3 (A)	1: 1 (H)
2018/19	UEFA Champions League	2nd qualifying round	FK Astana	1: 2	1: 2 (A)	0: 0 (H)
2018/19	UEFA Europa League	3rd qualifying round	The New Saints FC	5: 1	2: 0 (A)	3: 1 (H)
		Play-offs	Malmö FF	2: 4	2: 2 (A)	0: 2 (H)
2019/20	UEFA Europa League	3rd qualifying round	Glasgow Rangers	3: 7	2: 4 (H)	1: 3 (A)
2020/21	UEFA Champions League	2nd qualifying round	Ludogorez Razgrad	1-0	1: 0 (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: 69 games, 32 wins, 11 draws, 26 defeats, 114: 101 goals (goal difference +13)

2018/19 season

As of August 31, 2018

Current squad

goal	Defense	midfield	attack
01 Jesper Hansen 30th Oliver Ottesen 31 Mikkel Andersen	02 Kian Hansen 04th Zsolt Korcsmár 05 Marc Dal Hende 06th Joel Andersson 13 Alexander Munksgaard 14th Alexander Scholz 20th Rasmus Nicolaisen 24 Mads Døhr Thychoses 25th Bubacarr Sanneh 27 Oliver Olson 28 Erik Sviatchenko	03 Tim Sparv 07th Jakob Poulsen 08th Ayo Simon Okosun 10 Evander 15th Boschidar Kraew 17th Michael Baidoo 22nd Mikkel Duelund 29 Frederik Brandhof 36 Rilwan Hassan 38 Frank Onyeka 40 Jens-Lys Cajuste 43 Nicolas Madsen 45 Awer Mabil 88 Gustav Wikheim	19th Mayron George 26th Artem Dovbyk 33 Paul Onuachu

Coaching staff and officials

function	Surname	nationality
Chief trainer	Jess Thorup
Assistant coach	Kristian Bach Bak
Assistant coach	Brian Briske
Goalkeeping coach	Nikolai Pold
Fitness trainer	Christian Clarup

Trainer

• Ove Pedersen (July 1, 1999 to June 30, 2002)
• Troels Bech (July 1, 2002 to December 31, 2003)
• Erik Rasmussen (January 1, 2004 to June 30, 2008)
• Thomas Thomasberg (July 1, 2008 to August 11, 2009)
• Allan Kuhn (August 12, 2009 to March 30, 2011)
• Glen Riddersholm (April 1, 2011 to June 25, 2015)
• Jess Thorup (July 12, 2015 - present)

Known players

• Morten Skoubo (joined Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2002 )
• Mohamed Zidan ( Werder Bremen , 1. FSV Mainz 05 , Hamburger SV , Borussia Dortmund )
• Peter Skov-Jensen (joined VfL Bochum in 2005 )
• Frank Kristensen , the "Farlige Frank"
• George Florescu , Romanian international
• Simon Poulsen , Danish international, played in the international match against Germany on March 28, 2007
• Dennis Sørensen , Danish international; 2007 to Energie Cottbus
• Kolja Afriyie (2010 on Energie Cottbus)
• Leon Jessen , Danish international; 2010 for 1. FC Kaiserslautern
• Simon Kjær , Danish international; 2010 to VfL Wolfsburg
• Winston Reid , joined West Ham United in 2010
• Ken Ilsø , 2011 at Fortuna Düsseldorf
• Mads Albæk , 2013 at Stade Reims
• Rafael van der Vaart (2016-2018)

Web links

• Association website