The Region of Southern Denmark is an administrative region of Denmark established on Monday 1 January 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, which abolished the traditional counties ("amter") and set up five larger regions. At the same time, smaller municipalities were merged into larger units, cutting the number of municipalities from 271 before 1 January 2006 to 98. The Region of Southern Denmark has 22 municipalities. The reform was implemented in Denmark on 1 January 2007, although the merger of the Funish municipalities of Ærøskøbing and Marstal, being a part of the reform, was given the go-ahead to be implemented on Sunday 1 January 2006, one year before the main reform. It borders Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) to the south and Central Denmark Region to the north and is connected to Region Zealand via the Great Belt Fixed Link.
Vejle Boldklub, founded in 1891, is a Danish professional football club from the town of Vejle. The club has won the Danish championship five times and the Danish cup title six times.
Jesper Ringsborg Christiansen is a Danish professional footballer, who plays as a goalkeeper. He is currently the goalkeeper coach of Fremad Amager, also available as a player.
John Sivebæk is a Danish former football defender. He won the 1984 Danish championship with Vejle Boldklub and played for English club Manchester United. He scored one goal in 87 appearances for the Danish national team, and represented his country at the 1986 World Cup as well as three European Championships, including the triumphant 1992 European Championship tournament.
Jimmy Nielsen is a retired Danish professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is the first head coach of Hartford Athletic in the USL Championship.
Brian Steen Nielsen is a former Danish professional footballer from Denmark, who most notably played 66 matches as a defensive midfielder for the Denmark national team between 1990 and 2002, scoring three goals. After his retirement from his active career, he worked as the sports director of former club AGF Aarhus until 2014.
Peter Kjær is a Danish former football player, current television commentator, and sporting director of Silkeborg IF. During his active career as a goalkeeper, he played the bulk of his career with Danish clubs Vejle Boldklub and Silkeborg IF. He played for Turkish club Beşiktaş before ending his career with Aberdeen in Scotland, retiring in 2003. He represented the Denmark national football team in four matches.
Allan Gaarde is a Danish former professional football player in the midfielder position, who played 227 games and scored 48 goals for AaB, and won the 1999 Danish Superliga championship with the club. He also played abroad for Italian club Udinese Calcio and Norwegian club Viking FK, before ending his career with Vejle Boldklub in Denmark.
Jacob Thaysen-Laursen is a Danish retired professional footballer, who played as a defender. He most notably played for English club Derby County and won the Danish Superliga championship with Silkeborg IF and F.C. Copenhagen. He played 25 matches for the Danish national team, with whom he won the 1995 King Fahd Cup and participated in the 1996 European Championship and 1998 FIFA World Cup tournaments.
Erik Bo Andersen is a Danish former professional footballer who played six matches for the Danish national team and represented Denmark at UEFA Euro 1996. He played in the striker position and won the 1995 Danish Superliga championship with Aalborg Boldspilklub, the Scottish Premier Division twice with Rangers F.C., and the Norwegian Cup with Odd Grenland. Andersen also played for German club MSV Duisburg, as well as Odense BK and Vejle BK in Denmark.
John Klebér Saarenpää is a Swedish football manager and a former footballer who won 11 caps for the Swedish national team. He is the head coach of IK Brage in Superettan.
Brian Nielsen is a Danish footballer who most recently played for New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer.
Kim Poulsen is a Danish football (soccer) manager, who most recently managed Silkeborg IF. He most notably guided Viborg FF to the 2000 Danish Cup.
Steen Thychosen is a former Danish footballer, who played 252 games and scored 101 goals for Vejle Boldklub. He was a forward, who also represented German club Borussia Mönchengladbach, Belgian club RWD Molenbeek and Lausanne in Switzerland. He played two games for the Denmark national football team.
The 1999 Denmark Open in badminton was held in Vejle, from October 13 to October 17, 1999. It was a four-star tournament and the prize money was US$120,000.
The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification UEFA Group 3 was a UEFA qualifying group for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. The group comprised Denmark, Scotland, Greece, Bulgaria and Georgia.
The 2009–10 Danish Cup was the 56th season of the Danish football cup competition. For the second year, the sponsor of the competition was Ekstra Bladet, a daily newspaper, who signed a 3-year contract with the Danish Football Association (DBU) in 2008, making the official name Ekstra Bladet Cup 2009–10.
Erik Boye is a former Danish footballer, who played as a goalkeeper.
