Aalborg Chang

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Aalborg Chang
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Full nameAalborg Chang
Nickname(s)Klubben i centrum (English: The club in the center)
Short nameChang
Founded1 September 1912;110 years ago (1912-09-01) [1]
GroundChang Stadium, Aalborg
ChairmanMorten Borregaard
Head coachSteffen Agerbo
League Jutland Series
2022Jutland Series Group 1, 6th of 8
Website Club website

Aalborg Chang is a Danish association football club based in the city of Aalborg, that competes in the Jutland Series, one of the sixth tiers of the Danish football league system, and the top tier of the regional DBU Jutland football association, to which it belongs. It was known as FC Nordjylland from 2001 to 2004. The club, founded in 1912, reached the 1955 Danish Cup final, and has played a number of seasons in the Danish divisions, most recently the 2003–04 Danish 1st Division season.

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History

The club was founded in 1912 by three 14-year-olds, and had initially teams in football and cricket, until the cricket club split off to become Aalborg Cricketklub in 2001. A tennis department was also added. The Chang football team established itself in the Danish divisions during World War II. [2] The club grabbed the national headlines in 1955, as Chang reached the final of the inaugural Danish Cup tournament, [3] while playing in the third-tier of Danish football. They lost the game 0–4 to that year's Danish champions AGF. [4] In the following decades, the club was a constant part of either the Danish divisions or the Denmark Series, the single exception being the 1980 season in the Jutland Series. [5]

In 2001, former professional footballer Ole Bach Jensen invested in Chang, and a professional team was established under the name FC Nordjylland. [5] In 2004, Ole Bach Jensen withdrew his money, and the club went bankrupt. [6] Aalborg Chang underwent forced relegation from the second-tier Danish 1st Division to the lowest-league Danish Series 6. [5] When former player Per Krøldrup was transferred between professional European clubs in 2005 and 2006, a part of the transfer fee was taken as UEFA-mandated monetary compensation to his youth clubs, giving Aalborg Chang an economic kick-start following their bankruptcy. [5]

Seasons

Home of Aalborg Chang seen from the football pitches, 2019. Aalborg Chang.jpg
Home of Aalborg Chang seen from the football pitches, 2019.

Aalborg Chang has played the following seasons in the Danish divisions: [2]

Year(s)DivisionTier
1931–19332nd Division West2nd
1942–1945War Tournaments1st
1945–19532nd Division2nd
1953–19653rd Division3rd
1966–19683rd Division West3rd
1970–19713rd Division West3rd
19863rd Division West3rd
19922nd Division West4th
19942nd Division West4th
1996–19972nd Division West3rd
1997–19981st Division2nd
1998–20032nd Division3rd
2003–20041st Division2nd

Notable former players

Notable former coaches

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