Kjøbenhavns Boldklub

Kjøbenhavns Bold Club is one of the oldest football clubs outside the UK. The traditional Danish club was founded on 26 April 1876 in Copenhagen. Football is played since 1879. The first team of the club formed in 1992 together with the first team of FC Copenhagen Boldklubben 1903. However, the junior teams continue to exist separately.

The oldest club in continental Europe?

The Bold Kjøbenhavns club was founded in 1876, however, association football until 1879 has been introduced. In the same year on 19 April, the Swiss club FC St. Gallen was founded. However, it is mainly in the Swiss Romandie earlier have given football clubs, however, were long since dissolved.

Although the French club Le Havre AC existed since 1872, but this date is not secured and association football ( what is today understood by football) to have been introduced until 1892 there. Before that rugby should have been played. In Europe also exist many multi-sport clubs such as TSV 1860 München or SSV Ulm 1846, their football departments, however, arose later founded earlier.

Thus, according to current knowledge, the Kjøbenhavns Boldklub together with FC St. Gallen 1879, the oldest existing football club in continental Europe.