Brøndby IF

The Brøndby Idrætsforening ( German sports club Brøndby ) from Brøndby, a suburb of Copenhagen, is a well known abroad as the Danish football club. With ten championships in twenty years, six cup victories and numerous successful European Cup appearances the club is one of the most successful Danish clubs in the recent past. The motto of the club is Latin: Supra Societatem Nemo (Eng. " No one is above the Community ").

History

On 3 December 1964, the two ambitious but lower class neighborhood clubs Brøndbyøster IF and IF Brøndbyvester merged to Brøndby Idrætsforening and took the game mode in the regional Sjællandske Series 1 ( the second division of the island of Zealand ). From the beginning, the club sought to rise to athletic and relied heavily on youth work (Brøndby exhibits regularly in several age classes of the national youth champion ). Just three years later, the first rise - it should not be the last.

Already another four years we got back on and soon the first big name was committed: the former national player Finn Laudrup took over the team as a player-coach, but the greatest achievement that he should provided for the club are his two sons, Brian and Michael. In between was - time for the introduction of professional football in Denmark - the football team of the club under the name Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening Fodbold A / S hived off into a separate company, and after a further rises in 1977 and 1981, the team reached the first division for the first time.

Even the first game of the Yellow - Blue in the House of Lords came to triumph: Mitaufsteiger B1909 was beaten 7:1. Two goals drove a young player at that should be not only the first national player of his club, but one of the greatest talents of Danish football history with 18 years Michael Laudrup. With Laudrup and some other players who should form the backbone of the national team soon, 1985, the first championship was won. The winning streak that started then, did not break until 1992 when it was founded by a merger of the two clubs KB Copenhagen and Boldklubben 1903, in the immediate vicinity of the FC Copenhagen, Brøndby rival in the coming years. But until then, they had already won the championship five times in seven years.

Team name

In the German -speaking world is the club often - erroneously called " Brøndby Copenhagen " - because of its proximity to Copenhagen.

Brøndby in the European Cup

Brøndby is the end of the 1980s belonged to the country and crowned these achievements regular appearances in UEFA competitions. Since her debut in 1986 in the European Champions Cup, they were primarily repeatedly successfully against German teams: as the Danes have already Dynamo Berlin, Eintracht Frankfurt, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Karlsruher SC, Bayern Munich and defeat to FC Schalke 04. But the greatest triumph of the yellow and blues, the finals of the UEFA Cup in 1990/91 prevented all things, a German: on 29 April 1991 Rudi Völler scored in the 88th minute of the semi-final game 2-1 for his club AS Rome on Brøndby, which would have a 1:1 served for the collection to the final. Nevertheless, this marked the biggest success of the Danish team on the international stage.

Eight years later managed Brøndby as the first Danish team to move into the main round of the Champions League.

Achievements

• Danish champion: 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1995/96, 1996/97, 1997/98, 2001/ 02, 2004 /05
• Danish Cup Winner: 1989, 1994, 1998, 2003, 2005, 2008
• Royal League 2007

Known (former) players

• Kim Vilfort (* 1962), scorer for the winning goal in the European Championship final in 1992, played before his move to Brøndby, inter alia, in Division 1 (for the OSC Lille)
• Peter Schmeichel ( born 1963 ), goalkeeper of the European Champions League, later at Manchester United
• Michael Laudrup (born 1964 ), youngest Danish national player of all time, among other things, later at Juventus, FC Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid, Ajax Amsterdam
• Brian Laudrup (born 1969 ), among others, later Bayer Uerdingen, Bayern Munich, Fiorentina, AC Milan, Glasgow Rangers, FC Chelsea and Ajax Amsterdam
• Morten Wieghorst (born 1971 ), played before his arrival in Brøndby for FC Dundee and Glasgow Celtic, is Footballer of the Year in Denmark 2003
• Ebbe Sand (born 1972 ), later at FC Schalke 04 and after his playing career in the coaching staff of the Danish national team
• January Kristiansen ( born 1981 ), previously played in the Bundesliga (47 missions for the 1st FC Nuremberg). With the 1st FC Nuremberg, he won the 2007 DFB-Pokal. In the final, he scored the winning goal.
• Daniel Agger ( born 1984 ), since 2006 at Liverpool

Women's Soccer

Also, the first women's football team Brøndby IF plays in the Danish first division, the 3F Ligaen. From 2002 to 2008 the club won six times in a row the championship. In addition, they won since 2004 the Danish Cup five times. At European level, the semi-finals of the UEFA Women's Champions League 2003/ 04 was the greatest success.

Achievements

• Danish Champion 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013
• Danish Cup winners 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

Known players

• Catherine Paaske Sørensen ( b. 1978 )
• Anne Dot Eggers, Player of the Year 2003
• Mia B. Brogaard

Visions of the Future

In 2004, the club's management Hoje Taastrup decided to build a multi-purpose arena. The construction of the Hans Christian Andersen Park Arena, however, was not realized until today. Instead, the Brøndby Stadium is now gradually expanded.

In addition, Brøndby IF has a new sports boarding school for up to 300 young people opened on 1 March 2005 under the name Brøndby high school in order to intensify the youth work.