Akademisk Boldklub

The Bold Akademisk Club København (AB ) is a Danish football club and was founded in 1889 as a fusion of Fredericia student teres cricket club with the Polyteknisk Club.

General

The home jersey of the club are green and white vertical stripes. Shorts and socks are completely white.

History

The club was founded in 1889 by a group of students. The only requirement for inclusion was the membership at the university. Between 1889 and 1903 the club took part in a competition in which the unofficial championship was held. Already in the first season of the new club could win a Danish championship. Seven teams took part at the time. Played was once against everyone. With six wins from six games AB Copenhagen was the most successful team and won logically the title. With 32 goals scored and just four hits, the team had the best goal difference. The following year, you had to admit defeat Kjøbenhavns Bold club, but could then 1891/92 win the title again. Of the five teams had three the same score. AB won due to goal difference. 1894, 1895 and 1896, this triumph was defended. It was not until 1896/97 made ​​it Kjøbenhavns Boldklub to overthrow the University Club. 1898/99 then after two years of the new title. 1903/ 04 AB Copenhagen took part in a Copenhagen Championship, which for the first year with five teams (BK Frem København, Kjøbenhavns Boldklub, B.93 Copenhagen, Østerbros BK and AB Copenhagen) was held. For the season 1912/13, the national in the championship was converted. Until 1918 AB was there but rather less successful. 1909, 1911 and 1917, the Vice- rank was earned in 1919 and won the team for the first time after twenty years of the championship. 1921 was followed by another success. Heyday of the club 1943-1952. Within nine years the Copenhagen have won four championships. Between 1943 and 1957 the team cut never worse than fourth place. 1960 it rose as Tabellenelfter (of twelve) from the second division, but returned after only one year back immediately to 1964 again to be in the basement table and step off. Again, the revival lasted only one season and was announced in 1966 an impressive sixth place back.

History's last title success there was in 1967. Fourteen wins and 31 points ABK had two more as a competitor BK Frem København. Since then wait fans and board on winning the championship. 1968 took part in the ABK 2 Intertoto Cup, but resigned in group B7 with only one win from the last. Only in the 1-0 win against FC Tirol Innsbruck kept up the points. Against the German representatives Eintracht Braunschweig put it away a 0-2 defeat, but came back home to fight for a point in a 0-0 draw.

As early as the 1970s, but completely after the introduction of professional football in the 80s, the club sank more and more into insignificance. 1973 we got off for the umpteenth time. This time was not possible, the immediate resurgence. 1985 even followed the crash in the third division, of which only 1994 managed to return in the second league, but two years later, 1996, the date last promotion to the excellence and initial membership are celebrated for Super League, as one behind Hvidovre IF Vice- champion of the second division was. In April 1998 Per Frimann took over as the President in ABK. Shortly after, he made ​​headlines when he suspended the former coach Christian Andersen, as it announced to change in October 1998 to league rivals FC Copenhagen. Gritting his teeth, he let him go. 1999 was the club the land Turner Cup rings, the Danish Cup win for the first time in the club's history, as well as earn third place in the league, which was defended in the following year. Already in 1956 and 1995 was the team in the final of the Cup, but first had to pass against BK Frem København and beaten nearly forty years later with 0:5 against FC Copenhagen 0-1. In the final game of 1999 we faced Aalborg BK and beat them 2-1. To the Man of the Match then AB player René Henriksen was chosen. Two years later, they stood again in the final, but Silkeborg IF was beaten with 1:4. With Jan Michaelsen was again an AB player best player in the encounter.

By the third place in the league in 1999, the association was entitled to participate in the UEFA Cup 1999/2000. There, however, one difference already after the first round with 0:2 and 1:1 against Grasshopper Zurich. The following year, one difference already out in the qualifying round of the UEFA Cup.

The 2003/ 04 was disappointing. After four games without a win early in the season, they found themselves quickly in the basement table again. With only a total of seventeen points from 33 games, missing fourteen counter to a non- relegation zone.

Since relegation in 2004, AB plays in the second highest Danish league, the Viasat Sport Division. After the descent we reached only the rank sparkled in the second division and moved temporarily in danger descend again. In the following year it was enough even just to twelfth place - only three points ahead of the first relegated Lolland-Falster alliances. Only in 2007 /08 is recovered again and was able to gamble with a seventh digit table space. A year later, the team missed the rise in short supply. Behind Herfølge BK and Silkeborg IF it was only enough for third place.

In the run up to the 2009/10 season, the club has invested a lot of money in new players to play top notch again. Were obliged inter alia Casper Henningsen, Simon Bræmer and Carsten Fredgaard, who can look back in part to national activities. But ranged all efforts only to a disappointing fourth place. In the season 2011/12 AB was able to leave the relegation zone with a win away to Hobro IK only on the final day.

Find out more

The AB is known, among other things, that the physicist Niels and Harald Bohr played for the club. Other significant players were Knud Lundberg, the Danish football, handball and basketball international was, and Karl Aage Hansen, who scored 17 goals in 22 international appearances for Denmark. During the drilling brothers, at the turn of the century played for the AB, were Lundberg and hands in the second period of success of the association between the end of World War II and the mid-1950s active.

Stadium

The Gladsaxe Stadium is a multipurpose stadium. In addition to football, other sports competitions and there are performed. The 1971 inaugurated stadium is located in the Copenhagen suburb of Gladsaxe and has a capacity of 13,507 spectators.

Achievements

• Danish champion ( 1890, 1893-1896, 1899) 1919, 1921, 1937, 1943, 1945, 1947, 1951, 1952, 1967
• Country Cup Turner Ingen: 1999
• Danish Super Cup: 1999

Internationally

AB took part seven times in European competitions, but never got beyond the second round.

Former notable players

(Selection)

• Kenya Emmanuel Ake (Current Kenyan national football team )
• Denmark Charles Buchwald (Former Danish international footballer and Olympian in 1902 and 1906)
• Denmark Carsten Fredgaard (Former Danish national football team )
• Denmark Andreas Granskov -Hansen (active in Germany for Werder Bremen II )
• Denmark Karl Aage Hansen (Former Danish national football team )
• Denmark René Henriksen (Former Danish national football team )
• Faroe Høgni Christian Jacobsen (Current national football team of the Faroe Islands )
• Denmark Knud Lundberg (Former Danish football, handball and basketball national team )
• Denmark Peter Lovenkrands (Current Danish national football team )
• Denmark Brian Steen Nielsen (Former Danish national football team )
• Denmark Johnny Petersen ( In the Bundesliga for FC St. Pauli active)
• Denmark Kenneth Perez (Former Danish national football team )
• Nigeria Abdul Sule (Former Nigerian football national team )
• Denmark Claus Thomsen (active in the Bundesliga for VfL Wolfsburg and former Danish national football team )
• Egypt Mohamed Zidan ( 1999-2003, later at Werder Bremen, 1 FSV Mainz 05, Hamburger SV and Borussia Dortmund)

Coach

( incomplete)

President

( incomplete)

• ?: Unknown Jens Hjortskov
• ?: Unknown Thoms Gram