Danish Superliga 2017-18

Alka Superliga 2017–18
Season information
Winners	Midtjylland
Relegated	Helsingør Lyngby Silkeborg
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League	Midtjylland
Europa League	Brøndby Nordsjælland Copenhagen
Season statistics
Matches played	250
Goals scored	731
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The 2017–18 Danish Superliga season was the 28th season of the Danish Superliga, which decides the Danish football championship. Copenhagen is the defending champions. The season started on 14 July 2017 and will run to a date to be announced.

Teams

Esbjerg fB finished as loser in the relegation play-offs in the 2016–17 season and was relegated to the 2017–18 1st Division along with Viborg FF who lost their relegation play-off as well.

The relegated teams were replaced by 2016–17 1st Division champions Hobro IK (returned after one year of absence) and 3rd place finisher FC Helsingør (returned to the top division for the first time since the 1936–37 season), who defeated Viborg FF in the two legged play-off finals.

Stadia and locations

Club	Location	Stadium	Turf	Capacity	2016–17 position
Aab !AaB	Aalborg	Aalborg Portland Park	Natural	13,797	10 !10th
Agf !AGF	Aarhus	Ceres Park	Natural	20,032	11 !11th
Brondby !Brøndby	Brøndby	Brøndby Stadium	Natural	29,000	02 !2nd
Fck !FCK	Copenhagen	Telia Parken	Natural	38,065	01 !1st
Helsingør !Helsingør	Helsingør	Helsingør Stadion	Natural	4,500	14 !1D, 3rd
Hobro IK !Hobro	Hobro	DS Arena	Natural	10,700	13 !1D, 1st
Horsens !Horsens	Horsens	CASA Arena Horsens	Natural	10,400	13 !13th
Midtjylland !Midtjylland	Herning	MCH Arena	Natural	11,800	04 !4th
Nordsjaelland !Nordsjælland	Farum	Right to Dream Park	Artificial	9,900	05 !5th
Lyngby BK !Lyngby	Lyngby	Lyngby Stadion	Natural	8,000	03 !3rd
Ob !OB	Odense	EWII Park	Natural	15,633	08 !8th
Randers Fc !Randers	Randers	BioNutria Park Randers	Natural	12,000	07 !7th
Silkeborg IF !Silkeborg	Silkeborg	MASCOT Park	Natural	10,000	09 !9th
Sonderjyske !SønderjyskE	Haderslev	Sydbank Park	Natural	10,000	06 !6th

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
AaB	Morten Wieghorst	Rasmus Würtz	Hummel	Spar Nord
AGF	Glen Riddersholm	Morten Rasmussen	Hummel	Ceres
Brøndby	Alexander Zorniger	TBD	Hummel	Bet25.dk
København	Ståle Solbakken	William Kvist	Adidas	Carlsberg
Helsingør	Christian Lønstrup	Andreas Holm	Diadora	Spar Nord
Hobro	Thomas Thomasberg	Mads Justesen	Puma	DS Gruppen, Spar Nord
Horsens	Bo Henriksen	Mathias Nielsen	Hummel
Midtjylland	Jess Thorup	Jakob Poulsen	Nike	Det Faglige Hus
Nordsjælland	Kasper Hjulmand	Patrick Mtiliga	Diadora	DHL
Lyngby	David Nielsen	Mathias Tauber	Adidas	Hellerup Finans
OB	Kent Nielsen	Kenneth Emil Petersen	Hummel	Carlsberg
Randers	Ólafur Kristjánsson	Mads Fenger	Puma	Verdo
Silkeborg	Peter Sørensen	Dennis Flinta	Uhlsport	Mascot International
SønderjyskE	Claus Nørgaard	Marc Pedersen	Hummel	Frøs Herreds Sparekasse

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
AGF	Glen Riddersholm	Sacked	30 September 2017	David Nielsen	30 September 2017	7th
Lyngby	David Nielsen	Recruited by AGF	30 September 2017	Thomas Nørgaard	30 September 2017	12th
Randers	Ólafur Kristjánsson	Mutual consent	5 October 2017	Ricardo Moniz	8 October 2017	14th
Randers	Ricardo Moniz	Sacked	26 January 2018	Rasmus Bertelsen	26 January 2018	14th

Regular season

2017–18 Danish Superliga Regular Season table table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Brøndby	26	18	6	2	58	24	+34	60	Qualification for the Championship round
2	Midtjylland	26	19	3	4	60	29	+31	60
3	Nordsjælland	26	15	5	6	62	41	+21	50
4	Copenhagen	24	13	5	6	50	33	+17	44
5	Aalborg	26	8	12	6	28	27	+1	36
6	Horsens	26	7	14	5	32	34	−2	35
7	Hobro	26	8	8	10	34	34	0	32	Qualification for the Relegation round
8	SønderjyskE	26	8	7	11	36	34	+2	31
9	OB	26	8	7	11	32	31	+1	31
10	Aarhus	26	7	8	11	23	36	−13	29
11	Silkeborg IF	26	8	4	14	31	48	−17	28
12	Lyngby	26	4	9	13	31	53	−22	21
13	Randers FC	26	4	8	14	23	46	−23	20
14	Helsingør	26	6	2	18	22	52	−30	20

Updated to games played on 21 May 2018
Source: Danish Football Association (Danish), Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Positions by round

Team \ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Brøndby	1	5	2	2	2	5	3	3	4	4	3	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1
Midtjylland	14	10	5	8	4	2	4	4	3	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2
Nordsjælland	5	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Copenhagen	7	4	6	9	8	6	7	6	5	3	5	6	5	5	5	6	5	5	6	4	5	4	4	4	4	4
AaB	6	11	13	13	13	12	12	10	11	8	9	8	8	9	8	8	8	7	7	8	8	8	7	6	5	5
Horsens	3	1	3	3	3	3	5	5	6	6	4	4	6	7	6	5	7	8	5	7	4	5	5	5	6	6
Hobro	2	8	8	6	7	4	2	2	2	5	6	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	6	7	7	8	8	7	7
SønderjyskE	9	3	7	4	5	7	6	8	8	9	11	11	12	12	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	10	10	9	9	8
OB	12	6	4	5	6	8	8	7	9	7	7	7	7	6	7	7	6	6	8	5	6	6	6	7	8	9
AGF	10	7	9	10	11	10	10	11	7	10	8	10	10	10	12	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	10
Silkeborg IF	13	14	11	11	9	9	11	13	10	11	12	12	11	11	11	13	13	12	10	10	10	9	9	10	11	11
Lyngby Boldklub	4	9	12	12	12	13	13	12	12	12	10	9	9	8	9	10	10	10	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12
Randers FC	8	12	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	12	12	13	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	13
Helsingør	11	13	10	7	10	11	9	9	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	14	14	14	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	14

Last updated: 18 March 2018
Source: Weltfussball

Championship round

2017–18 Danish Superliga Championship Round table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Midtjylland  (C)	36	27	4	5	80	39	+41	85	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	Brøndby	36	24	9	3	82	37	+45	81	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
3	Nordsjælland	36	17	8	11	76	58	+18	59	Qualification to Europa League first qualifying round
4	Copenhagen  (O)	36	17	7	12	65	47	+18	58	European play-off match
5	Aalborg	36	10	15	11	38	44	−6	45
6	Horsens	36	8	16	12	43	57	−14	40

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Positions by round

Below the positions per round are shown. As teams did not all start with an equal amount of points, the initial pre-playoffs positions are also given.

Team \ Round	Initial	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10
Midtjylland	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1
Brøndby	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2
Nordsjælland	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	3	3
Copenhagen	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	4	4
AaB	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Horsens	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6

Last updated: 21 May 2018
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Relegation round

Group A

2017–18 Danish Superliga Relegation Round Group A table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Hobro	32	12	8	12	41	39	+2	44	Qualification to European play-off quarter-finals
2	Aarhus	32	11	8	13	35	43	−8	41
3	Silkeborg IF  (R)	32	9	5	18	39	60	−21	32	Qualification to Relegation play-offs
4	Helsingør  (R)	32	8	3	21	28	61	−33	27

Updated to games played on 2 May 2018
Source: [ Soccerway]
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Group B

2017–18 Danish Superliga Relegation Round Group A table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	OB	32	11	9	12	43	37	+6	42	Qualification to European play-off quarter-finals
2	SønderjyskE	32	11	8	13	42	40	+2	41
3	Randers FC	32	7	9	16	32	52	−20	30	Qualification to Relegation play-offs
4	Lyngby  (R)	32	4	11	17	35	65	−30	23

Updated to games played on 29 April 2018
Source: [ Soccerway]
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

European play-offs

The winning team from the 4-team knock-out tournament will advance to a Europa League play-off match. If the 2017–18 Danish Cup winner, found on 25 May in the final, is involved in the play-offs, they will be withdrawn, as they will enter the Europa League second qualifying round.

European play-off match

25 May 2018	Copenhagen	4–1	Aarhus	Telia Parken, Copenhagen Attendance: 16379 Referee: Michael Tykgaard
	Santander  10' Johansson  23' Ankersen  51' Fischer  76'		Stage  13'

Relegation play-off matches

Second Round

17 May 2018 18:00	Helsingør	1–1	Silkeborg	Helsingør Stadium, Helsingør Attendance: 2060 Referee: Jens Maae
	Douglas Starnley  14'		Nilsson  90+4'

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21 May 2018 16:00	Silkeborg	4–3	Helsingør	JYSK Park, Silkeborg Attendance: 5396 Referee: Anders Poulsen
	Okkels  20' Skhirtladze  24' Nilsson  48' Mattsson  86'		Matheus Leiria  4' Douglas Starnley  64' Mortensen  87'

Silkeborg won 5–4 on aggregate. As a result Helsingør was relegated, while Silkeborg face Esbjerg fB in round 3 to avoid relegation.

Third Round

24 May 2018 18:00	Vendsyssel FF	1–0	Lyngby	Hjørring Stadium, Hjørring Attendance: 2800 Referee: Jørgen Burchardt
	Anderson  23'

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24 May 2018	Silkeborg	1–0	Esbjerg fB	JYSK Park, Silkeborg Attendance: 4949 Referee: Jens Maae
	Nilsson  72'

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27 May 2018 16:00	Lyngby	1–2	Vendsyssel FF	Lyngby Stadium, Kongens Lyngby Attendance: 5121 Referee: Anders Poulsen
	Kjær  80'		Jensen  71' Mikael Anderson  90+2'

Vendsyssel won 3–1 on aggregate. As a result Lyngby was relegated, and Vendsyssel promoted.

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27 May 2018 18:00	Esbjerg fB	3–0	Silkeborg	Blue Water Arena, Esbjerg Referee: Peter Kjærsgaard-Andersen
	Dreyer  76', 80', 90+3'	Report

Esbjerg won 3–1 on aggregate. As a result Silkeborg was relegated, and Esbjerg promoted.

Top goalscorers

As of 25 May 2018

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Pål Alexander Kirkevold	Hobro	22
2	Emiliano Marcondes	Nordsjælland	17
	Teemu Pukki	Brøndby
4	Ernest Asante	Nordsjælland	16
5	Anders K. Jacobsen	OB	15
	Kamil Wilczek	Brøndby
7	Pieros Sotiriou	Copenhagen	14
8	Federico Santander	Copenhagen	12
	Saba Lobzhanidze	Randers
	Mathias Jensen	Nordsjælland

External links

• Superliga (uefa.com)

2017–18 in Danish football
Domestic leagues
Superliga · 1st Division · 2nd Division
Domestic cups
Danish Cup, (Final)
European competitions
Champions League (Final) · Europa League (Final)
National teams
2018 FIFA World Cup · 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group E
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