Brøndby IF

danish affiliation football club based in Copenhagen
This article is about the men ‘s football club. For the women ‘s team, see Brøndby IF ( women )
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Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening ( danish pronunciation : [ ˈpʁɶnˌpyˀɐnəs ˈitʁætsfɒˌe̝ˀne̝ŋ ], normally abbreviated to Brøndby IF danish pronunciation : [ ˈpʁɶnˌpyˀ ˌiˀˈef ] ), is a master association football golf club based in Brøndbyvester, Capital Region of Denmark. The club was founded in 1964 as a amalgamation between two local clubs and was promoted to the danish top-flight football league in 1981. Brøndby IF has won 11 danish championships and 7 danish Cups. Brøndby ‘s most successful period was from 1985 to 2005 when, in twenty years, they won ten league titles. In 1991, Brøndby reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup and became the inaugural and only danish club to ever reach a european semi-final. Since the establish of F.C. copenhagen in 1992, they have had a ferocious competition. Matches between the two clubs are referred to as the Copenhagen Derby .

history [edit ]

Formation ( 1964–1977 ) [edit ]

Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening was formed on 3 December 1964 following a amalgamation between two local anesthetic rivals – Brøndbyøster IF and Brøndbyvester IF. The fusion was to be completed as a prerequisite for the construction of a new stadium by Brøndby Municipality. [ 2 ] Brøndby IF spent its inaugural address season as an amateurish club in the 6th tier of the 11 Danish leagues, the Serie 1, where they finished their two first seasons in fourthly home. Among the players of the early years was team captain Per Bjerregaard, a repair who had moved to Copenhagen from Randers in Jutland, and Hans Gregersen, who was the mascot of the team until his death by syphilis in 1967. In 1967, the club hired bus Leif Andersen who instantaneously secured promotion to Sjællandsserien ( the Zealand series ). After a few average years, a newfangled bus, John Sinding, was brought in, and the club won promotion to Danmarksserien ( the Denmark serial ). In 1973, Per Bjerregaard stopped his active career at 27 years of old age and became president of Brøndby ; his first action was to sack head coach Sinding. In his place, Brøndby hired former professional and Denmark national team actor Finn Laudrup, who took over as mind bus while he still took actively part in the matches as a actor. Laudrup joined his brother-in-law Ebbe Skovdahl in the Brøndby team, and he brought his two young sons Brian and Michael Laudrup with him to the club. Under Finn Laudrup ‘s influence, the club ‘s act style was changed to a more attack scheme, flush though Laudrup decided to in full concentrate his efforts as a player after only a year. After winning promotion in 1974, Laudrup left Brøndby in the 3rd part in 1976 to play for KB in the danish top-flight league ( then named the 1st Division ) and a class late Michael Laudrup, the brightest endowment in Danish football, followed .
In 1977, Brøndby moved up into the 2nd Division, and were one of the clubs who cursorily adapted to the new times of pay football in the best danish leagues in 1978. Per Bjerregaard persuaded Finn Laudrup into returning to Brøndby in 1981 on a professional condense, and following a season of 85 goals in 30 matches, Brøndby won promotion to the top-flight 1st Division under coach Tom Køhlert. Finn Laudrup subsequently ended his career at long time 36, but in his place Michael Laudrup returned for the 1982 season, being one of ten-spot players leaving KB that class. Brøndby won their 1st Division debut match 7–1 over companion promoted team B 1909 in a match which featured two goals from Michael Laudrup. He was subsequently called up for the Denmark national team, and on 15 June 1982 he became the first Brøndby actor to win a cap for the national team. Brøndby finished their first 1st Division season in fourthly locate with Laudrup the league ‘s third top goal scorer with 15 goals, earning him the Danish Player of the Year prize. In 1983, Laudrup was sold to Juventus in the then-biggest transfer consider in Denmark, giving Brøndby the economic foundation to expand far. After four years in the top division, Brøndby won their first base danish backing in 1985 and played its first european match when the club beat hungarian champions Budapest Honvéd 4–1 in the 1986 european Cup. In 1986, Brøndby became the first Danish club of fully professionals when ten players were signed full-time, and the club was introduced at the Copenhagen Stock Exchange in 1987 .

european achiever ( 1987–1992 ) [edit ]

Throughout the irregular half of the 1980s, the team dominated the league and did not finish lower than second place until 1992. The team was built around talented Danish players, and from 1987 to 1991 players from Brøndby won the Danish Player of the Year award every year. The recipients formed the spinal column of the Denmark national team which subsequently won UEFA Euro 1992, and was the first base goalscorer in the 2–0 Euro 1992 final succeed John “ Faxe ” Jensen ( 1987 ), national team captain Lars Olsen ( 1988 ), the World ‘s Best goalkeeper 1992 and 1993 award winner Peter Schmeichel ( 1989 ), four-time Danish Player of the Year award winner Brian Laudrup ( 1990 ) and the second goalscorer of the Euro 1992 final examination Kim Vilfort ( 1991 ). The club became used to winning the national title and turned its care towards european success. In 1990, Brøndby hired early national team captain Morten Olsen as coach, and under his reign, the 1990–91 UEFA Cup became the high point in the short history of the clubhouse. specially the deserve wins over german sides Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayer Leverkusen, and russian club Torpedo Moscow saw the many danish profiles glitter, and the club was minutes from qualifying for the final match of the tournament. In the 88th minute of the semi-final, however, a Rudi Völler goal denied Brøndby a tripper to the UEFA Cup concluding in party favor of Roma. Following the impressive european expose by the relatively little club, important members of the team, including Lars Olsen, top seduce striker Bent “ Turbo ” Christensen and leading goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel, left the baseball club. The take after year, 1992, was the worst year in the club ‘s history as the intended coup d’etat of the Danish bank Interbank went awry. It was expected that european Cup success would boost the Brøndby stock prize in order to finance the buy, but as the club was beaten by Dynamo Kyiv in the 1991–92 european Cup reservation, the stocks never reached the value necessity to finalize the deal. It had been arranged for fiscal backers Hafnia Insurance Company to step in and take over the buy in event Brøndby could not finance it, but as Hafnia went bankrupt, Brøndby were forced to buy Interbank and fiscal collapse was at hand as club debts amassed to 400 million DKK. [ 3 ] A long-run rescue design was initiated to save the baseball club, but these events influenced the performance of the team and the championship, immediately called the Danish Superliga, was not won again until 1996 .

Rebuilding ( 1992–2002 ) [edit ]

The rebuild of the team was led by promontory coach Ebbe Skovdahl, who deployed the team in a 4-4-2 formation. The render to the club of Euro 1992 veterans John Jensen and captain Lars Olsen combined with the emergence of goalkeeper Mogens Krogh and hitter Ebbe Sand got the club second on its feet. The rebuild culminated in the 1995–96 UEFA Cup elimination of Liverpool, though Roma once again knocked Brøndby out. Including that class, Brøndby won three danish championships in a row, and the following year ‘s UEFA Cup saw one of the biggest upsets in Brøndby history, as a 3–1 home plate get the better of to Karlsruher SC was changed to an aggregate succeed when Brøndby beat the team of Euro 1996 winner Thomas Häßler 5–0 aside in Germany. Most importantly for the club ‘s economy, Brøndby qualified for the new format of the european Cup, rebranded as the UEFA Champions League. [ A ] The Champions League qualification meant six guarantee matches in a group stage with three of the biggest teams of Europe, and when they were paired with Barcelona and late finalists Manchester United and Bayern Munich, Brøndby faced very economically attractive matches. Despite winning 2–1 over Bayern in the first match of the group stage, Brøndby conceded 18 goals in 6 matches and were eliminated with a single gain to their name. Skovdahl decided to take a stab at coaching at scots club Aberdeen and Brøndby took a more scandinavian approach, in search of stable achiever in the european competitions with norwegian cabaret Rosenborg the character model. [ 4 ] The baseball club hired norwegian coach Åge Hareide in 2000, who proclaimed a shift in line-up to a more assail 4–3–3 system. With Hareide came a handful of scandinavian players of whom particularly Sweden national team musician Mattias Jonson became a fan favorite. The year 2000 was besides the year the club finalized a plan expansion of Brøndby Stadion from a 20,000 to a 29,000 capacity, making it the second largest stadium in Denmark, lone trailing the Parken Stadium of F.C. Copenhagen. At the monetary value of 250 million DKK, the huge consumption was seen as a sign that the cabaret was out of its early fiscal crisis. [ 5 ] The building project was finalized in Autumn 2000, and on 22 October, 28,416 spectators saw Brøndby beat Akademisk Boldklub 4–2 in the open match of the rebuild stadium. Hareide ‘s visions of a 4–3–3 arrangement never worked out, and the team soon returned to the well-known 4–4–2 frame-up. As he lento lost declare of a ten-point lead to rivals F.C. Copenhagen, gained in a great first half of the 2001–02 Superliga season, Hareide took his leave in jump 2002 before the final matches of the season. [ 6 ] He was replaced by youth team bus Tom Køhlert, who, though reluctant to take the speculate, gave first team debuts to the top youth team players, most notably Thomas Kahlenberg, who helped the club narrowly secure the championship win on goal dispute .

The Laudrup years ( 2002–2006 ) [edit ]

In the 2002–03 pre-season, Brøndby announced that danish icon Michael Laudrup was taking the coach seat in his old baseball club with John Jensen, besides a golf club legend, as his assistant. In their first season, there were massive cuts from the very large police squad ; ten players were put in the reserves squad or sold and a talent team was established. The club was to rely even more home develop players as Brøndby was already celebrated for developing very talented players. In the process, Laudrup told respective players to find new clubs as he thought they would not fit in the play vogue he wanted to implement .
Laudrup as Brøndby coach During the Laudrup era, Brøndby won the Double in 2005. The golf club was relatively successful in the european competitions as Schalke 04 was beaten 2–1 [ 7 ] in the 2003–04 UEFA Cup but was late beaten by Laudrup ‘s former clubhouse Barcelona, 0–1. [ 8 ] In May 2006, it was announced that Laudrup and Jensen could not agree with the board of Brøndby regarding an extension of their contracts, and the duet left the club. [ 9 ]

Years of crisis ( 2006–2013 ) [edit ]

The two were replaced by Dutch coach René Meulensteen, who had a uncut start in mission of the first team. [ 10 ] together with newly appointed Anders Bjerregaard – son of film director Per Bjerregaard – Meulensteen bought a number of questionable players in the final days of the summer transplant window. In the inaugural matches, the raw coach struggled with injuries among the key players and the team had problems living up to the expectations. Meulensteen resigned after six months, leaving Brøndby in seventh situation halfway through the 2006–07 Superliga. The official explanation for his departure was that his syndicate could not settle in Denmark, [ 11 ] but soon after, the former coach revealed major infrastructural problems in the baseball club ‘s organization, calling the club “ a very nauseated patient requiring immediate attention ”, [ 12 ] a well as cliques inside the first team. In order to solve the clique problems, he had gone to film director Per Bjerregaard to fire three key players – Marcus Lantz, Thomas Rytter and one club man Per Nielsen – in order to reestablish the poise in the first team team, a demand Danish football experts late described as the quickest way of getting sacked. [ 13 ] Tom Køhlert took the managerial reins once more, this time as a permanent wave solution on a two-and-a-half-year shrink. After losing 2–4 to Horsens on 26 August, their 23rd back-to-back away match without a victory, the team was met by approximately 200 angry fans and cries like “ die mercenaries ” and “ we are Brøndby, who are you ? ” on their fall to Brøndby. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] On 31 August 2007, Per Bjerregaard announced that he resigned from the put as director of Brøndby IF, and alternatively took over as chair of the board. curtly after his resignation, Peter Schmeichel announced that he was quick to purchase Brøndby and become a director. The announcement divided the fans. Some praised the erstwhile player for trying to save the cabaret, while others criticized him for bringing investor Aldo Petersen along, a lament patron and former stockholder of rivals F.C. Copenhagen. Schmeichel ‘s offer, however, was rejected. On 1 April 2008, Hermann Haraldsson was appointed to the vacant position. [ 16 ] Following a disappoint begin of the 2007–08 Superliga season with only five points gained from seven matches, coach Tom Køhlert made it clear in August 2007 that the danish Cup nowadays had a higher priority for the club. [ 17 ] The change of priorities was successful, and Brøndby won their first domestic deed in about three years on 1 May 2008 when Esbjerg were defeated 3–2 in the final of the 2007–08 danish Cup. soon after, coach Køhlert declared his job complete, prompting baseball club president Bjerregaard to search for his substitute. On 16 June 2008, the club announced the date of erstwhile actor and question coach of Horsens, Kent Nielsen. [ 18 ] Nielsen took charge of the first team on 1 January 2009. Former legendary passenger car Køhlert in the meanwhile led Brøndby to the first set, where they stayed until Nielsen arrived. On 1 July 2008, KasiGroup replaced Codan as the main sponsor of the club. The partnership involved a cooperation with UNICEF, making Brøndby the third club in Europe following to Barcelona and swedish side Hammarby to wear the UNICEF logo on their shirts. furthermore, KasiGroup entered a sponsorship for the stadium and promised solid funds for strengthening the first-team team. During the 2008 summer transmit window, this contributed to Brøndby signing five newfangled players with national team have in regulate to strengthen the team. On 30 December 2009, KasiGroup owner Jesper Nielsen got in trouble oneself with Brøndby and refused to pay the remainder of the pledge money. On 31 August 2012, Brøndby told the danish media B.T. that KasiGroup owed the clubhouse more than DKK 45 million ( €6,000,000 / £5,000,000 ). [ 19 ] Nielsen told B.T. that he could recognize the measure but that his lawyer thought they could make a settlement at a much lower digit than the 45 million. Nielsen was the owner of AG København, which went bankrupt on 31 July 2012. He was frankincense chased both by Brøndby and the danish tax authorities, and a lawsuit followed. [ 20 ] The case came to a close years late, in 2018, when Brøndby IF and Nielsen reached a multi-million danish norwegian krone settlement depending on Nielsen ‘s active arbitration case against jewelry manufacturer Pandora. [ 21 ]

revival, Zorniger and Strategy 6.4 ( 2013–2020 ) [edit ]

In May 2013, the golf club was again close to bankruptcy, but was taken over and saved by a small group of investors led by Ole Abildgaard and Aldo Pedersen. [ 22 ] On 10 April 2014, the new chief investor, Jan Bech Andersen, took over as president and replaced the board with his own team. [ 23 ] On 14 July 2014, the club announced they had signed a annual shrink with danish betting company Bet25 as their main sponsor, with the option to extend the contract for an extra two years. [ 24 ] The deal was said to be worth “ a significant sum in the million Danish danish krone stove ”. [ 25 ] The deal includes a strategic partnership between Brøndby and Bet25. As separate of the abridge, danish telecommunications company TDC A/S ( which owns 51 % of Bet25 ), installed Wi-Fi in Brøndby Stadion in December 2014. On 15 January 2015, it was announced Brøndby and Bet25 extended their shrink until summer 2017. [ 26 ] In 2016, Thomas Frank announced his resignation as Brøndby IF coach after president Jan Bech Andersen had discredited him on an on-line chat-forum under the name of “ Oscar ”, the case being referred to as “ Oscar-gate ” by the media. Bech Andersen stepped down as president after the incidental but continued as board member. [ 27 ]

The Redemption ( 2021– ) [edit ]

On 24 May 2021, Brøndby won its foremost Danish league title in 16 years with a 2–0 gain over Nordsjælland. Brøndby finished the temper ahead of Midtjylland and arch-rival FC Copenhagen. [ 41 ]

stadium [edit ]

Panorama view of Brøndby Stadion at the 3–0 gain against Horsens on 5 August 2006 2005 : The facade of the rebuild Brøndby Stadion. Brøndby have constantly played their matches at Brøndby Stadion. A part of the unify of Brøndbyvester IF and Brøndbyøster IF was a promise by the Brøndby municipality mayor to build a labor, and in 1965 it was ready for the club to play in. Through the first years in the secondary coil Danish leagues, the stadium was short more than a grass field with an athletics track circling the field of turn. It was not until 1978 that the chief stall was built, sporting a capacity of 1,200 seat spectators. As newly promoted to the crown Danish league in 1982, concrete terraces opposite the independent rack were constructed, allowing for a crowd of 5,000 extra people. Following the first years of achiever in the top-flight, the acrobatic track was discarded and a far 2,000 seats were installed on lead of the concrete stands from 1989 to 1990. When Brøndby played matches against other successful european teams in the 1990–91 UEFA Cup, the then capacitance of up to 10,000 spectators was quickly dwarfed by the ticket interest. As the Denmark national stadium Idrætsparken in Copenhagen was being rebuilt, the club found no early means to host the matches but to get a dispensation to use scaffolding stands, which boosted the stadium capacity to 18,000 in the semi-final leg of the tournament, a 0–0 draw with Roma. Following the european venture, the club inaugurated its end stands in 1992, allowing for a sum of 22,000 spectators. In May 1998, the golf club bought Brøndby Stadion from the Brøndby municipality for 23.5 million DKK [ 42 ] and immediately spent bivalent that come to modernize the stadium. When the club qualified for the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League, the stadium was still under construction and the matches were moved to archrival F.C. Copenhagen ‘s Parken Stadium. In 2000, all stands were standardized and built to the like altitude, allowing for crowd of 29,000 at domestic matches and 22,000 in the european matches, which allow only all-seated push. Since then, the stadium has seen a number of lesser or larger infrastructural and technical enhancements, and the February 2004 European match against Barcelona was played in front of a 26,031-spectator crowd .

support [edit ]

Brøndby are the most wide popular football club in Denmark, with a 2015 sketch having showed that Brøndby matches have by far the most viewers, both in terms of attendance and television ratings, with Brøndby ‘s rivals FC Copenhagen coming in second. [ 43 ] Copenhagen later surpassed Brøndby in terms of attendance. [ 44 ] Brøndby Support is the official fanclub of Brøndby IF. [ 45 ] It was founded in 1993 and has approximately 12,000 members. [ 46 ] Brøndby is besides renowned for its extremist fanscene. The most outstanding group is Alpha. Founded in 2006, the group is placed in the center of the Southside Stand and are the chief organizers of songs, flags, banners and tifo. [ 47 ] other outstanding groups are Svinget, Deling 43 and Fri Sport. Compared to the rest of the extremist scene in Denmark, Brøndby are by far superscript .

Honours [edit ]

Players [edit ]

See also Brøndby IF players

More than 300 players have represented Brøndby in the Danish leagues, cups and the european competitions since 1964 .

current squad [edit ]

As of 1 September 2021[48]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on loanword [edit ]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

player of the year [edit ]

Starting from 1980, the club has annually named its musician of the year. [ 49 ] Players still playing for the club are marked in bold :

Wall of Honour [edit ]

Since Michael Laudrup became the first player to represent Brøndby on the Denmark national team in June 1982, more than 80 players have donned the national team jersey of their respective countries. apart from Denmark, players from Nigeria, Norway, Lithuania, Burkina Faso, Sweden, Faroe Islands, Morocco, Iceland, Zambia, Australia, Gambia, United States, Finland, North Macedonia, South Africa, Costa Rica, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Kosovo, South Korea, Tunisia and Paraguay have represented their countries. The players are displayed on the “ Wall of Honour ”, according to their year of national team debut. [ 50 ] Players hush playing for the club are marked in bold :

Coaching staff [edit ]

As of 1st oktober 2021[51]

First team [edit ]

senior Management [edit ]

As of 23 September 2019[51]

Head coach history [edit ]

The person responsible for direction of the first senior team has traditionally been given the title of promontory coach/trainer .

Managers with this symbol in the “Name” column are italicised to denote caretaker appointments.
Persons with this symbol in the “Name” column denote status as a playing head coach/trainer.

Records [edit ]

late history [edit ]

Season

Pos.

Pl.

Cup

Europe

1995–96

33
20
7
6

71
32
67

Runner-Up

Third Round UEFA Cup

1996–97

33
20
8
5

57
38
68
Semi-Finals

Quarter-Finals UEFA Cup

1997–98

33
24
4
5

81
33
76
Winners

First Round UEFA Cup

1998–99

33
19
4
10

73
37
61
Semi-Finals

Group Stage UEFA Champions League

1999–00

33
15
9
9

56
37
54
Semi-Finals

Third Qualifying Round UEFA Champions League/First Round UEFA Cup

2000–01

33
17
7
9

71
42
58

Quarter-Finals

First Round UEFA Cup

2001–02

33
20
9
4

74
28
58

5th Round

Third Round UEFA Cup

2002–03

33
17
11
7

51
32
56
Winners

First Round UEFA Cup

2003–04

33
20
7
6

55
29
67
Semi-Finals

Third Round UEFA Cup

2004–05

33
20
9
4

61
23
69
Winners

Second Qualifying Round UEFA Cup

2005–06

33
21
4
8

60
32
67
Semi-Finals

Third Qualifying Round UEFA Champions League/Group Stage UEFA Cup

2006–07

33
13
10
10

50
38
49

Fourth Round

First Round UEFA Cup

2007–08

33
11
10
12

44
44
43
Winners

First Round UEFA Cup

2008–09

33
21
5
7

55
31
68
Semi-Finals

First Round UEFA Cup

2009–10

33
15
7
11

57
50
52

Fourth Round

Playoff Round UEFA Europa League

2010–11

33
9
9
15

35
46
36

Third Round

Playoff Round UEFA Europa League

2011–12

33
13
12
8

52
39
51

Fourth Round

Third Qualifying Round UEFA Europa League

2012–13

33
9
12
12

39
45
39
Semi-Finals
2013–14

33
13
13
7

47
38
52

Second Round

Third Qualifying Round Europa League

2014–15

33
16
7
10

43
29
55

Quarter-Finals

Playoff Round Europa League

2015–16

33
16
6
11

43
37
54
Semi-Finals

Playoff Round Europa League

2016–17

36
18
8
10

62
40
62

Runner-Up

Second Qualifying Round Europa League

2017–18

36
24
9
3

82
37
81
Winners

Third Qualifying Round Europa League

2018–19

36
15
7
14

60
52
52

Runner-Up

Playoff Round Europa League

2019–20

36
16
8
12

56
42
56

Quarter-Finals

Third Qualifying Round Europa League

2020–21

32
19
4
9

58
38
61

Fourth Round

Brøndby in european competitions [edit ]

Brøndby ‘s inaugural competitive european match was on 17 September 1986 in the 1986–87 european Cup, defeating Budapest Honvéd 4–1 en route to a spot in the quarter-finals, where they lost to Porto. Since then, the club has been a regular fastness in european competition, doubly advancing to the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round .

UEFA club coefficient ranking [edit ]

current [edit ]

As of 24 May 2021, Source: [1]

A. ^Aalborg BK played in the 1995–96 Champions League tournament as a result of the bribing scandal of Dynamo Kyiv, thus they did not qualify through the qualification rounds.

References [edit ]

bibliography [edit ]

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Thyboe, Kurt (1997). Brøndby forever : et fodboldeventyr – om en drøm, der blev født, mellem to motorveje! (1. udgave, 1. oplag ed.). Valby: Borgen. ISBN 87-21-00678-4.
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Jam Rasmussen, Jens; Rachlin, Michael (2005). Slaget om København : Den store bog om Brøndby-FCK. København V: People’sPress. ISBN 87-91693-55-1.