| Season | 2008–09 | |
|---|---|---|
| ||
The 2008-09 season is the 119th season of competitive football in Denmark.
| Season | 2008–09 | |
|---|---|---|
| ||
The 2008-09 season is the 119th season of competitive football in Denmark.
The following players appeared for Denmark during the 2008-09 season. All caps and goals are tallied for the 2008-09 season only.
The home team is on the left column; the away team is on the right column.
| 20 August 2008 | Denmark  | 0 – 3 |  Spain | Parken Stadium, Copenhagen |
| 20:15 | Report | Alonso  50'90'Xavi 73' | Attendance: 26,155 Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden) |
| 19 November 2008 | Denmark | 0 – 1 |  Wales | Brøndby Stadium, Brøndby |
| 20:15 | Report | Bellamy 77' | Attendance: 10,271 Referee: Michael Weiner (Germany) |
| 11 February 2009 | Greece  | 1 – 1 | Denmark | Karaiskakis Stadium, Athen |
| 20:15 | Gekas 62' | Report | Borring 49' | Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain) |
Denmark competed in Group 1 of the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification tournament. [1]
The home team is on the left column; the away team is on the right column.
| 2008-09-06 | Hungary  | 0 – 0 | Denmark | Stadium Puskás Ferenc, Budapest |
| 19:45 UTC+2 | Report | Attendance: 18,984 Referee: Alain Hamer (Luxembourg) |
| 2008-09-10 | Portugal  | 2 – 3 | Denmark | Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon |
| 20:45 UTC+1 | Nani 42' Deco 86' (pen.) | Report | Bendtner 84' Poulsen 90'Jensen 90+2' | Attendance: 33,000 Referee: Howard Webb (England) |
| 2008-10-11 | Denmark | 3 – 0 |  Malta | Parken Stadium, Copenhagen |
| 20:00 UTC+2 | Larsen 10'47' Agger 29' (pen.) | Report | Referee: Levan Paniashvili (Georgia) |
| 2009-03-28 | Malta | 0 – 3 | Denmark | Ta' Qali Stadium, Ta' Qali |
| 20:00 UTC+1 | Report | Larsen 12'23' Nordstrand 89' | Referee: Tomasz Mikulski (Poland) |
| 2009-04-01 | Denmark | 3 – 0 |  Albania | Parken Stadium, Copenhagen |
| 20:15 UTC+2 | Andreasen 31' Larsen 37'Poulsen 80' | Report | Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia) |
| 2009-06-06 | Sweden  | 0 – 1 | Denmark | Råsunda Stadium, Solna |
| 20:00 UTC+2 | Report | Kahlenberg 22' | Attendance: 33,619 Referee: Mike Riley (England) |
On December 5, 2008, a 20-man squad Denmark League XI national football team was named to play the 2009 King's Cup in Thailand. [2] In the following month, a total ten players pulled out of the squad and had to be replaced in turn.
Olsen had initially refrained from selecting players from AaB due to their participation in the UEFA Cup, and when F.C. Copenhagen also advanced in that tournament, Copenhagen players Mathias Jørgensen, Hjalte Bo Nørregaard, Thomas Kristensen, and Martin Vingaard were replaced. [3] [4] Additionally, Mikkel Bischoff, Steffen Kielstrup, Anders Randrup, Thomas Rasmussen, Christopher Poulsen, as well as replacement player Jonas Troest, all had to pull out due to injuries. [5] [6] [7]
The team played two games, as it won the tournament. The number of caps and goals reflect performances during the two matches.
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GK | Kim Christensen | July 16, 1979 | 1 | 0 | IFK Göteborg | ||
| 16 | GK | Kevin Stuhr Ellegaard | May 23, 1983 | 1 | 0 | Randers FC | ||
| 5 | DF | Anders Møller Christensen | July 26, 1977 | 2 | 0 | OB | ||
| 11 | DF | Jan Frederiksen (replacement) | June 20, 1982 | 1 | 0 | Randers FC | ||
| 15 | DF | Chris Sørensen (replacement) | July 27, 1977 | 2 | 0 | OB | ||
| 20 | DF | Kenneth Emil Petersen (replacement) | January 15, 1985 | 2 | 0 | AC Horsens | ||
| 3 | MF | Jens Gjesing (replacement) | January 13, 1986 | 0 | 0 | AGF | ||
| 4 | MF | Jonas Borring | January 4, 1985 | 2 | 0 | FC Midtjylland | ||
| 7 | MF | Ken Ilsø | December 2, 1986 | 2 | 1 | SønderjyskE | ||
| 8 | MF | Johnny Thomsen (replacement) | February 26, 1982 | 1 | 0 | SønderjyskE | ||
| 10 | MF | Danny Olsen | June 11, 1985 | 2 | 1 | FC Midtjylland | ||
| 12 | MF | Jakob Poulsen (replacement) | July 7, 1983 | 2 | 0 | AGF | ||
| 13 | MF | Jesper Jørgensen (replacement) | May 9, 1984 | 2 | 0 | Esbjerg fB | ||
| 17 | MF | Søren Rieks | April 7, 1987 | 1 | 1 | Esbjerg fB | ||
| 18 | MF | Nicolai Stokholm (replacement) | April 1, 1976 | 2 | 0 | FC Nordsjælland | ||
| 19 | MF | Mikkel Thygesen | October 22, 1984 | 2 | 0 | FC Midtjylland | ||
| 2 | FW | Martin Bernburg | December 26, 1985 | 2 | 0 | FC Nordsjælland | ||
| 6 | FW | Bajram Fetai (replacement) | September 7, 1985 | 2 | 0 | FC Nordsjælland | ||
| 9 | FW | Michael Krohn-Dehli | June 6, 1983 | 2 | 0 | Brøndby IF | ||
| 14 | FW | Morten Rasmussen | January 31, 1985 | 2 | 0 | Brøndby IF | ||
| 21 January 2009 2009 King's Cup | Denmark | 1 – 0 |  North Korea | Phuket, Thailand |
| 16:15 CET | Rieks 22' | Report | Stadium: Surakul Sports Stadium Attendance: 3,500 |
The Denmark national football team represents Denmark and Greenland in men's international football competitions. It is controlled by the Danish Football Association (DBU), the governing body for the football clubs which are organised under DBU. Denmark's home stadium is Parken Stadium in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen; their head coach is Morten Wieghorst.
The Danish Football Union is the governing body of football in Denmark. It is the organization of Danish football clubs and runs the professional Danish football leagues, alongside the men's and women's national teams. Based in the city of Brøndby, it is a founding member of both FIFA and UEFA. The DBU has also been the governing body of futsal in Denmark since 2008.
Morten Per Olsen is a Danish football manager and former player. He was the head coach of the Denmark national team for 15 years from 2000 until 2015, guiding Denmark to the 2002 FIFA World Cup, 2004 European Championship, 2010 FIFA World Cup and 2012 European Championship. He has also managed Brøndby to two Danish Superliga championships and Ajax to the Double of the 1998 Eredivisie championship and Dutch Cup trophy. He is one of only two persons ever in football, alongside Didier Deschamps, to achieve 100 national matches for his country both as player as well as coach.
Thomas Lund Helveg is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a right-back. He began and ended his career with Odense Boldklub in the Danish Superliga, with whom he won the 1989 Danish championship. The most prominent periods of his career were five years at Udinese and five years with club A.C. Milan. With Milan he won the 1999 Serie A championship and 2003 UEFA Champions League tournament.
Lars Martin Jørgensen is a Danish former professional footballer who currently works as a scout for AGF. Starting his career as a full-back, he eventually spent most of it in midfield. In his 20-year playing career, he played for AGF in his homeland, as well as Italian clubs Udinese and Fiorentina.
William Vitved Kvist is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Danish club Copenhagen as well as for the Denmark national team.
Boldklubben Fremad Amager is a Danish professional football club based in the district of Amager Vest, Copenhagen. As of the 2024–25 season, the club's senior men's team play in 2nd Division, the third tier in the Danish football league system. The club have primarily played their home games at Sundby Idrætspark since the stadium's inauguration in 1922.
Boldklubben af 1893, commonly referred to as B.93, is a football club based in Østerbro, Copenhagen, Denmark. The team competes in the Danish 1st Division, the second level of the Danish football league system, after achieving promotion in the 2022–23 season. The club has won nine league titles and one Danish Cup.
Jacob Thaysen-Laursen is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Chris Sørensen is a retired Danish professional football player. He has played five matches for the Denmark national football team.
Kim Damgaard Christensen is a Danish retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He got his breakthrough with Danish club FC Nordsjælland in 2004, before moving to Swedish club IFK Göteborg, with whom he won the 2008 Swedish Cup. He joined F.C. Copenhagen in June 2010. He played one game for the Denmark national team.
Martin Vingaard is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He currently manages the under-17 team of FC Copenhagen.
KBUs Pokalturnering was a Danish regional knockout association football competition contested annually from 1910 to 1953 by clubs that were members of the regional football association Copenhagen FA (KBU). Organised by and named after KBU, the competition rules has varied from being open to all Copenhagen clubs and being a closed tournament (1920–1946) reserved only for the highest ranking clubs, and as a consequence the number of participants have varied greatly throughout its history. For the first 10 seasons, between 7 and 13 teams participated until a fixed number of 8 teams was introduced from 1920 until 1946. When both the Sommerpokalturneringen and the KBUs B-Pokalturnering, both featuring the lower ranking KBU teams, were discontinued after their 1946 edition, the Copenhagen FA again allowed lower ranking clubs to participate in the association's primary cup competition, increasing the number of teams to 52. For the most part, the competition took place in the fall season and since the 1913 edition culminating in a final played at Københavns Idrætspark that saw large attendance figures and generated much media coverage.
The 1964 Danish 1st Division was the 37th season of Denmark's top-flight association football division since the establishment of Danmarksturneringen's nation-wide league structure in 1927, and the 51st edition of the overall Danish national football championship since its inception in 1912. Governed by the Danish FA, the season was launched on 26 March 1964 with a clash between last season's third-placed B 1903 and Østerbro-based and local rivals B.93 with the last round of six matches concluding on 15 November 1964. Esbjerg fB were the defending league champions, having won their third consecutive league title last season, while BK Frem and B.93 entered as promoted teams from the 1963 Danish 2nd Division. Fixtures for the 1964 season were announced by the Danish FA's tournament committee on 6 January 1964, featuring a nine weeks long summer break.
The Denmark League XI is an unofficial national football team run by the Danish Football Association.
Danny Kwasi Amankwaa is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a winger. He previously played for F.C. Copenhagen, Heart of Midlothian and Denmark at youth level.
Copenhagen Series for men, unofficially also known as Københavnerserien and often shortened to KS serien and KS Herre, is the highest division for men organised by the regional football association DBU København (DBUK) and one of the sixth-highest divisions overall in the Danish football league system.
The 1964 Danish Cup final was a men's association football match between Esbjerg fB and Odense KFUM played at Københavns Idrætspark on 7 May 1964. It was the final match to determine the winner of the 1963–64 Danish Cup, the 10th season of the Danish national-wide annual football knockout competition, the Danish Cup, open to all DBU member clubs. This was the first time that two sides had ever met in a domestic cup competition and only the third time in a competitive league game. For Odense KFUM, the match represented their first opportunity to win a title on a national level, having never reached the quarterfinals in previous seasons in the cup's current incarnation, while Esbjerg fB were participating in their third cup final, having lost on both previous occasions. This was the third consecutive year the tournament's final featured a team from Odense.
Carl Werner Hansen, commonly known as Carl W. Hansen, is a Danish former football referee and linesman, who officiated in the Danish top-flight, second-tier and third-tier including lower ranking leagues in the 1950s and 1960s and in both European and UEFA sanctioned club tournaments. From 1962 until 1969, he was a full international for FIFA, and officiated international friendlies and competitive games at senior, secondary 'B' team and under-19 level.
The Danish football league system, also known as the football league pyramid, refers to the hierarchically interconnected league structure for association football in Denmark, in which all divisions are bound together by the principle of promotion and relegation. Within men's association football, the top two professional levels contain one division each. Below this, the semi-professional and amateur levels have progressively more parallel divisions, which each cover progressively smaller geographic areas. The top four tiers are classed as nationwide, while the fifth tier and below are classed provincial leagues. Teams that finish at the top of their division at the end of each season can rise higher in the pyramid, while those that finish at the bottom find themselves sinking further down. In theory it is possible for even the lowest local amateur club to rise to the top of the system and become Danish football champions one day. The number of teams promoted and relegated between the divisions varies, and promotion to the upper levels of the pyramid is usually contingent on meeting additional criteria, especially concerning appropriate facilities and finances.
