Football in Copenhagen
For a long time, football in Copenhagen was largely identical to football in Denmark, and until 1953 all Danish football champions came from the capital or the capital area without exception .
The capital clubs, which have been represented in the top division over time, came from five of the ten districts of Copenhagen as well as the independent enclave Frederiksberg and a few suburbs north and south of the Danish capital. As a rule of thumb for regional differences, the associations from the north and in the city center basically had a bourgeois to elitist orientation, while the associations based in the south tended to be associated with the working class. An outstanding example of the “ class struggle ” was the derby between the workers' association BK Frem and the bourgeois-elitist KB 1876 , both of which were able to attract around 25,000 spectators in the years after the Second World War. After Frem had to file for bankruptcy and "disappeared" in 1992 in the lower leagues as well as KB 1876 after the merger of its professional department with that of the neighboring club B 1903 Copenhagen to form FC Copenhagen , today the New Firm between the "bourgeois" FCK and the Brøndby IF “Workers' Club ” as the “Game of the Year” in Denmark .
How it all started
English industrial workers and railway engineers brought football to Denmark early on, and English railway engineers founded their first football club in Copenhagen as early as 1876 . In the same year KB 1876 was founded by locals and since autumn 1878 it has also had a soccer team.
The Dansk Boldspil Union was founded in 1889, making it one of the oldest football associations in the world. In the same year, the København A-Raeken, the city championship of Copenhagen, was launched and held for the first time in the 1889/90 season.
The Copenhagen City Championship
The first decade of the Copenhagen city championship was marked by the dominance of two clubs that divided all nine titles awarded in the 19th century: the Akademisk Boldklub was successful six times, KB 1876 was able to win the other three championships. The dominance that these two clubs exercised at the end of the 19th century becomes even clearer when one considers that the team that failed to win the championship title ended the season in second place.
Immediately after the turn of the century, the AB fell back and the clubs B.93 and BK Frem developed into the new rivals of the KB for the city championship. If the previous top clubs in the city (AB, KB and B.93, champions in 1900 and 1901) came from the upscale neighborhoods in the center and north of the city, a team won for the first time in the 1901/02 season with BK Frem from a working-class district in the south of the city won the championship.
The Danish championship
An all-Danish championship has been held since the 1912/13 season, with the winner of the København A-Raeken playing in the final against the winner from the provinces in the beginning. In these comparisons, the capital city clubs always had the upper hand.
As a round-robin tournament , the Danish football championship was introduced in the 1929/30 season with ten teams, seven of which came from the capital or its vicinity. Until the season 1952/53 all national champions from Copenhagen came before 1953/54 of Køge BK could kidnap the title for the first time in the province, bringing the supremacy of the Copenhagen clubs was broken more than a decade; because only in 1966 could another capital club win the championship with the Hvidovre IF . After BK Frem from the southern district of Valby , which was successful six times between 1923 and 1944 , the HIF from the southern suburb of Hvidovre was only the second club from the southern part of the capital region to receive championship honors. The HIF won two more championship titles in 1973 and 1981 , but was relegated from the first division in 1985 and was later only able to return to the top division twice for one season each time. Its decline coincided with the rise of its southwestern neighbor Brøndby IF , which was only created in 1964 as a merger project between two local clubs from Brøndby and has so far won the Danish football championship ten times. Its former dominance has now passed to local rivals FC Copenhagen , who have already won the Danish football championship eleven times.
Overview of the first division clubs from Copenhagen
The table below contains the previous first division clubs from Copenhagen and the connected capital area . In order to enable a geographical sorting, the suburbs in the north (from north to south) were marked with A1 to A3 (column "Geo-Kz."). This is followed by the five district associations from the capital itself. They are marked B1 to B5 (starting with the northernmost Østerbro and then counterclockwise). In its center is the independent municipality of Frederiksberg , which is marked with C1. This is followed by the southern suburbs (from west to east) with the designations D1, D2 and D3.
The first division times (column “First League”) are given at the beginning of the 1929/30 season, in which the first division was held as a round-robin tournament for the first time. The Danish championship titles won (since 1912/13) are taken into account in the successes, but not the Copenhagen city championship. The successes in the cup competition introduced in 1955 are also listed there.
| Geo-Kz. | society | founding | place | First League | successes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A1 | Lyngby BK | 1921 | Lyngby | 1980–2000/01, 2007/08, 2015/16 | twice champions and three times cup winners |
| A2 | B 1903 | 1903 | Gentofte | 1929 / 30–1956 / 57, 1959–1967, 1969–1983, 1985–1991 / 92 1 | seven times champion and twice cup winners |
| A2 | Hellerup IK | 1900 | Gentofte | 1936 / 37–1939 / 40 | 8th place (1938/39) |
| A2 | Skovshoved IF | 1909 | Gentofte | 1933/34, 1951 / 52-1961 | Runner-up (1952/53) |
| A3 | Akademisk Gold Club | 1889 | Gladsaxe 2 | 1929 / 30–1960, 1962–1964, 1966–1971, 1973, 1996 / 97–2003 / 04 | nine times champion and cup winner 1999 |
| B1 | B.93 | 1893 | Østerbro | 1929 / 30-1953 / 54, 1959, 1964-1965, 1975-1983, 1985, 1998/99 | nine times champion and cup winner 1982 |
| B1 | FC Copenhagen | 1992 | Østerbro | since 1992/93 | eleven times champions and seven times cup winners |
| B1 | Østerbros Boldklub | 1894 († 1998) 3 | Østerbro | 1946 / 47-1949 / 50 | 4th place (1946/47) |
| B2 | Brønshøj BK | 1919 | Brønshøj | 1962-1964, 1970-1972, 1983-1989 | 5th place (1984) |
| B3 | Vanløse IF | 1921 | Vanløse | 1975-1976 | Cup winner 1974 |
| B4 | BK Frem | 1886 | Valby | 1929 / 30–1960, 1964–1980, 1983–1985, 1989–1992 / 93 | six times champion and twice cup winners |
| B5 | BK Fremad Amager | 1910 | Amager Vest | 1931 / 32-1934 / 35, 1938 / 39-1947 / 48, 1975-1976, 1980, 1994/95 | twice runner-up and cup finalist in 1972 |
| C1 | KB 1876 | 1876 | Frederiksberg | 1929 / 30-1950 / 51, 1952 / 53-1982, 1984, 1986-1988, 1990 | Record champions (15 titles) and cup winners in 1969 |
| D1 | Brøndby IF | 1964 | Brøndby | since 1982 | ten times champions and six times cup winners |
| D2 | Hvidovre IF | 1925 | Hvidovre | 1965-1974, 1979-1985, 1987, 1996/97 | three times champion and cup winner in 1980 |
| D3 | Kastrup BK | 1933 | Tårnby | 1976-1981, 1985-1987 | 4th place (1979) |
1 The first division time ended after the 1991/92 season with the merger of the professional departments of B 1903 and KB 1876 to form FC Copenhagen .
2 The association, which was traditionally closely associated with the University of Copenhagen and whose team initially consisted only of students and professors from the university, was based in the Copenhagen district of Østerbro until 1965 , when it had to move to the northern suburb of Gladsaxe due to a political order.
3 The Østerbros Boldklub, founded in 1894, was the revival of a previously existing club of the same name, which was dissolved in 1893. In 1998 ØB merged with Ryvang FC to form Østerbro IF.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hardy Greens : Encyclopedia of European Football Clubs. The first division teams in Europe since 1885. 2., completely revised. Edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-163-0 , p. 60.
- ↑ Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of European Football Clubs , p. 59
- ↑ Denmark - København A-Raeken and National Playoffs 1889-1927 at RSSSF
- Jump up ↑ Peterjon Cresswell & Simon Evans: The Rough Guide to European Football - A Fan´s Handbook 2000-2001 , London: Rough Guides, 2000, ISBN 1-85828-568-2 , p. 106
- ↑ Vice- champion in the seasons 1939/40 and 1940/41
- ↑ Peterjon Cresswell & Simon Evans: The Rough Guide to European Football - A Fan´s Handbook 2000-2001 , p. 105