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FCK competed in the 2007–08 season in the
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,
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and
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Competitions

In this season, F.C. Copenhagen participated in the
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,
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,
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and
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.


Danish Superliga

FCK's Superliga campaign began on 2007-07-18, when they played away at
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against
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. The match was equal, but in the added time of the second half, substituted
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scored the winning goal for the home team. The second match was also away, against the
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winners, AaB. This time FCK also were down with a goal, but in the 75th minute,
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made it equal, 1–1. After the unsuccessful beginning followed 7 victories and 4 draws before losing home to
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on 2007-10-28. After a massive pressure from FCK, Kenneth Møller Pedersen scored on
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for Randers in the end of first half, and although FCK had the most of the play, they were not able to score in the game. FCK ended the autumn with 2 victories and 2 drawn matches, and when they drew against local rivals
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in the last match of the autumn, took AaB the leading position of the league from FCK, who spend the winter placed 2nd. In the autumn Copenhagen has been criticised for not scoring enough goals, when they were only able to score 23 times in 18 fights. That means 7 teams have scored more goals than FCK, who is equal with Brøndby IF on the ninth place. The spring season began on 2008-03-16 with a 4–1 victory against
Lyngby Boldklub Lyngby Boldklub () is a Danish professional football club founded in 1921. It is based at Lyngby Stadion in Kongens Lyngby, Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality, a northern suburb of Copenhagen. From 1994 to 2001 the club was known as Lyngby FC. The clu ...
at
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. The spring was disappointing for FCK as they lost 5 matches and drew two matches. A period from March 31 to April 27 was without any victories for the defending champions. On May 15 was AaB guaranteed the championship. At the time was Copenhagen placed 2nd. Three days later waited the New Firm derby against Brøndby away from home. When FCK lost this match 1–2 and
FC Midtjylland FC Midtjylland (, "Central Jutland") is a Danish professional football club based in Herning and Ikast in the western part of Jutland. The club is the result of a merger between Ikast FS and Herning Fremad. Midtjylland competes in the Danish Su ...
won 3–2 against AGF, Midtjylland took over the 2nd place. FCK could still get the silver medal, if they won the last match of the season against Lyngby, while Midtjylland lost points against FC Nordsjælland. Although Copenhagen won 3–1, FC Midtjylland also won 3–0, and FCK ended with the bronze medals.


Danish Cup

In the Danish Cup FCK started in third round. Here they drew
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from the 1st Division. The match was played on 2007-09-26 at Fredericia Ny Stadion.
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scored the first goal of the match after just 4 minutes, but only 14 minutes later made Fredericia's Rasmus Katholm it equal again. In second half
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showed his qualities with two goals, which determined the match. In the fourth-round draw, came the 2nd Division West side Varde IF up from the hat. This match was played on 2007-10-31 at
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, where the most of
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's stores closed, so the inhabitants could go to football. In the first half showed FCK their strength with 4 goals in 34 minutes, which determined the match. On 2008-03-08 FCK faced the 1st Division team
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. This match was disfigured by spectator riots in the first half. The match on the pitch ended 2–0 to Copenhagen after two Brazilian goals by Aílton Almeida and
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. In the semifinals Copenhagen drew
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. The first match at
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EfB won 1–0 on a goal by Michaël Murcy in the second half. In the second leg scored Mathias "Zanka" for Copenhagen, in a match FCK dominated. In the
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scored
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for Esbjerg and
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for FCK. In the last minute of the extra time score Jesper Lange the goal, that sent EfB to the final. Manager
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was so frustrated that he kicked some water bottles, which led to exclusion from the bench and a ban in the next Superliga match.


UEFA Champions League

In the UEFA Champions League was FCK seeded in the second qualifying round, where their campaign started. Here they drew
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i
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. In the first match at
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on 2007-07-31 won FCK 1–0 on a goal in the ninth minutes, by
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, called the "international goalscorer", because of his many important goals in European matches. In the return match at
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was exiting as Barak Yitzhaki scored for the home team, so the aggregate goal score was 1–1 as the 90 minutes had passed. This meant that the clash were going in
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and again showed Allbäck his international strength as he scored the winning goal after just 7 minutes. In the third qualifying round was
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drawn. FCK played also against Benfica in the 2006–07 season in the Champions League group stage. This time started FCK away at
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, but in defiance of a good effort
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did the evil to the Danes, when he scored twice, while
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scored for FCK. To qualify for the group stage Copenhagen needed a 1–0 win at home in the second leg. FCK played a fabulous match, but when
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scored after 17 minutes for Benfica, was the European dream ended. By way of consolation entered the Danish champions the UEFA Cup first round.


UEFA Cup

F.C. Copenhagen entered the first round of the UEFA Cup as the best of the unseeded teams. Ironical they drew the team with the highest
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of the possible teams,
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. The battle started on 2007-09-19 at
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and after just 5 minutes of play scored Marcus Allbäck an important away goal. Lens pressed the rest of the game and in second half scored
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for the home team to the score 1–1. In the second leg scored
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after just 14 minutes of play for RC Lens, but with fight, will and high morale succeeded FCK in coming back in the game by a Marcus Allbäck scoring in second half, and in the extra time scored
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on a penalty kick, after
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was shown the red card. In the group stage were FCK in group B with Panathinaikos F.C.,
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,
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and Aberdeen F.C. The match against Panathinaikos was played at Parken Stadium and although the big expectations to the home team, won the
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on a goal by
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. In the matched missed Hjalte Nørregaard a penalty kick. The second match was away against Lokomotiv Moscow at Lokomotiv Stadium, who came to the group stage by knocking out fellow Danes,
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. In the match were Copenhagen dominating, but the victory was only secured by a penalty goal by
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. The last home match were against mighty Atlético Madrid, which showed quality as they won 2–0 against F.C. Copenhagen. After the match confessed the players of FCK that Atlético was at least one class better than themselves. Although FCK only had scored a single goal in three matches could they qualify for the round of 32 by a draw against Aberdeen. The match at
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were a terrible experience for the Copenhagen players and fans, as they in second half were played out and lost 4–0. Especially
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, who played instead of banned Brede Hangeland, were vilified after the match, as he were involved in all 4 goals – one of them were an
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. FCK ended fourth in the group, and as in the Superliga were they criticized for not scoring enough goals – 1 goal in 4 matches – and it was a penalty kick. F.C. Copenhagen were sent out of Europe.


Squads

The following squads, are lists with all the players, who have played in FC København in the 2007–08 season.


First team


Reserve team


Transfers


Players In


Players out


Competition statistics


Danish Superliga


Classification


Results summary


Results

Results for F.C. Copenhagen for season 2007–2008. NOTE: scores are written FCK first Key: *DSL = Danish Superliga *DC = Danish Cup *CLQ = UEFA Champions League Qualifier *UC1 = UEFA Cup 1st Round *UCB = UEFA Cup Group B *F = Friendly match


Report explanation


FCK
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UEFA
in English


Player statistics


Honours

*Profile of the Year in the Superliga (2007):
Jesper Grønkjær Jesper Grønkjær (; born 12 August 1977) is a Danish former professional footballer. A pacey winger, Grønkjær played primarily on the right or left wing, or as a second striker. He played a total 400 league games for a number of European cl ...
*Superliga Player of the Year (2007):
Jesper Grønkjær Jesper Grønkjær (; born 12 August 1977) is a Danish former professional footballer. A pacey winger, Grønkjær played primarily on the right or left wing, or as a second striker. He played a total 400 league games for a number of European cl ...
*Manager of the Year (2007):
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*The Autumn Profile (2007):
Jesper Grønkjær Jesper Grønkjær (; born 12 August 1977) is a Danish former professional footballer. A pacey winger, Grønkjær played primarily on the right or left wing, or as a second striker. He played a total 400 league games for a number of European cl ...
* Danish Goalkeeper of the Year (2007): Jesper Christiansen *Team of the Year (Denmark) (2007): Jesper Christiansen,
Jesper Grønkjær Jesper Grønkjær (; born 12 August 1977) is a Danish former professional footballer. A pacey winger, Grønkjær played primarily on the right or left wing, or as a second striker. He played a total 400 league games for a number of European cl ...
,
Morten Nordstrand Morten Nordstrand Nielsen (; born 8 June 1983) is a Danish former professional footballer, who played as a striker. He is currently the assistant coach of F.C. Copenhagen U17. He has played eight times for the Denmark national football team. C ...
*Team of the Year (Norway) (2007):
Brede Hangeland Brede Paulsen Hangeland (born 20 June 1981) is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a central defender. He began his career with Viking, where he won the Norwegian Cup in 2001. In 2006, he moved to Copenhagen, and went on to ...


See also

*
2007–08 Danish Superliga The 2007–08 Danish Superliga season was the 18th season of the Danish Superliga league championship, which determined the winners of the Danish football championship. It was governed by the Danish Football Association. It started with the firs ...
* 2007–08 Danish Cup *
2007–08 UEFA Champions League The 2007–08 UEFA Champions League was the 16th season of UEFA's premier European club football tournament, the UEFA Champions League, since it was rebranded in 1992, and the 53rd tournament overall. The final was played on 21 May 2008 at the ...
*
2007–08 UEFA Cup The 2007–08 UEFA Cup was the 37th edition of the UEFA Cup, UEFA's second-tier club football tournament. The final was played at the City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester, England on 14 May 2008 between Rangers of Scotland and Zenit Saint Pet ...


References

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