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Danish Football Association
Founded 18 May 1889
Fifa affiliation 21 May 1904
Subregion UEFA
Subregion affiliation 1954

The Danish Football Association is the governing body of football in Denmark. It is the organization of the Danish football clubs and runs the professional Danish football leagues and the men's and women's national teams. It is based in the city of Brøndby and is a founding member of both FIFA and UEFA. From 2008, the DBU is also the governing body of futsal in Denmark.

Beginnings[]

The DBU was founded in 1889, but did not register games officially before the 1908 Summer Olympics, meaning that the win in the 1906 Intercalated Olympics tournament was not officially recorded by DBU.

DBU Competitions[]

Men's[]

Women's[]

  • Elite Division (Elite Divisionen)
  • First Division (1. Division)
  • Danish Series (Danmarksserien) (3 groups)
  • Cup (Landspokalturneringen)

Regional structure of the FA[]

The Danish FA (Dansk Boldspil-Union, DBU) is separated into 6 regional associations, based on the former counties of Denmark:

  • DBU Jutland, which in turn is separated into 4 regions:
    • Region 1: Nordjylland County
    • Region 2: Viborg and Ringkøbing counties
    • Region 3: Århus and Vejle counties
    • Region 4: Ribe and South Jutland counties
  • DBU Funen: Funen County
  • DBU Zealand: West Zealand, Roskilde, Frederiksborg, Copenhagen counties and Zealand part of Storstrøm County
  • DBU Copenhagen: Frederiksberg and Copenhagen municipalities
  • DBU Lolland-Falster: Non-Zealand part of Storstrøm County
  • DBU Bornholm: Bornholm municipality

Faroe Islands and Greenland, which are autonomous territories within Kingdom of Denmark, have their own football associations and are not part of the DBU. Greenland is not a member of FIFA or any continental federation, but Faroe Islands is a member of FIFA and UEFA.

Yearly honours[]

The DBU awards the best national team players each year, with an award to the best senior team player, as well as the best player in three of DBU's six national youth teams.

Player of the Year

Since 1963, DBU has awarded the Danish Player of the Year in a vote amongst the Danish players. In the time of amateur football, only players in the domestic league could achieve the prize, and even after the emergence of paid football in 1978, no players in foreign clubs were eligible for the award. When the award was finally opened to all Danish players, domestic and abroad, in 1983, national team captain Morten Olsen was the first player to win the Player of the Year award taking all Danish players into consideration. The record number of award wins is four, by Brian Laudrup (1989, 1992, 1995, and 1997).

Young Players of the Year

The Young Players of the Year Awards on the other hand are sponsored by Arla Foods, the awards were initially known as Mælkens talentpriser (the milk's talent awards) in order to promote the line of dairy products of the company then known as "MD Foods". DBU found new sponsor DONG (later DONG Energy), an oil company, in 2004 but Arla went on to sponsor the prize which was renamed Arla's talentpriser (Arla's talent awards) in 2005.[1][2][3]

External links[]


Football in Denmark
League competitions The DFA Cup competitions
Superliga Denmark (U-21) Danish Cup
1st Division List of clubs
2nd Division List of stadiums
3rd Division List of leagues
(Denmark Series · Copenhagen Series · Funen Series · Jutland Series · Zealand Series)
International football
FIFA · World Cup · Confederations Cup · U-20 World Cup · U-17 World Cup · Minor tournaments · World Rankings · Player of the Year · Teams · Competitions · Federations · Codes
Confederation Competitions
AFC Asian Cup
CAF Africa Cup of Nations
CONCACAF Gold Cup
CONMEBOL Copa América
OFC Nations Cup
UEFA European Championship
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National football associations of Europe (UEFA)
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