FBUs Pokalturnering (unofficial
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translation: ''FBU Cup'' or ''Funen Cup'') was a
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regional
knockout
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association football
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competition contested annually from 1920 to 1953 by members of the regional football association
Funen FA (FBU). Organised by and named after
FBU, it was the third regional cup competition introduced on a national level, and the second in the province, after the
KBUs Pokalturnering in 1910 and the
LFBUs Pokalturnering in 1915.
The 1953 season of the cup tournament became the last edition due to the
Danish FA's introduction of a new
national-wide cup competition in 1954.
For the most part, the matches in the competition took place during the course of the fall season, beginning in the summer months with the first round, and culminating in a final match later in the same half season, but due to scheduling issues some finals and replay matches were not played until the following year.
Despite a modest start for the tournament, several cup matches evolved into major events, receiving much media coverage at both regional and national level, becoming topics of prolonged conversation in the local community and marking cities and villages for a few days.
History
![1948 FBUs Pokalturnering final, trophy award ceremony, Fyns Social-Demokrat](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/1948_FBUs_Pokalturnering_final%2C_trophy_award_ceremony%2C_Fyns_Social-Demokrat.png)
In the summer of 1920, the board of
Funen FA formed a new cup tournament, named ''FBUs Pokalturnering'', initially intended to be held during the months of August and September, hence taking place before the start of the regional association's own league tournaments.
The reasoning behind its establishment was to include an additional competitive tournament, that could function as training for players aiming towards being selected on the regional squad for the recently installed
Sylow-Tournament
Sylow-Tournament ( da, Sylow-Turneringen) was a knockout association football competition contested annually between 1918 and 1926, organised by the Danish FA (DBU), which determined the championship of the representative teams, referred to as ''Sy ...
, gather more interest from spectators and give the clubs an additional source of income.
The tournament was installed with rules applied for a
knockout competition
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with the composition of the each match being determined by drawing lots.
In order to determine a match winner if a game was tied, an additional
extra time
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(two periods of 15 minutes each) was to be played followed by 15 minutes with an early implementation of the ''
golden goal
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'' format (g.e.t./g.g.) — the first team to score a goal would win the match giving a maximum of 135 minutes of total match play.
Between 1920 and 1928, the tournament rules stated that an additional extra time (two periods of 15 minutes each) should be played to determine cup finals, that were tied after full time (90 minutes).
In 1929, the rules were changed, so that a replay match was scheduled, if a semi-final or final match was tied.
The rules has varied throughout the years, but the competition has always remained open to all Funen FA member clubs, both clubs playing in the association's city league tournaments (''byklubber'') and in village league tournaments (''landklubber''), basing participation on registration rather than qualification.
As a consequence the number of participants have varied greatly throughout the tournamenty's history starting with seven teams (B 1909, B 1913, Odense BK, Svendborg BK, Kerteminde FK, Assens G&IK and Hundslev BK) in the
1920 edition and steadily increasing the number to 66 teams in the
1944 edition.
First introduced at the
ninth cup edition, the tournament also began being open to
reserve teams, who on several occasions were matched against the same club's first teams.
B 1909's reserve team reached the semi-finals of the 1942 edition, where they were drawn against the club's first team, and losing the match 8–1.
On 4 October 1919, the Danish government placed an ''amusement tax'' of 40% on certain sport events, which affected the conduct of and attendance figures at association football matches with admissions, causing either entrance fees to be abolished, making competitive and exhibition matches completely free or having clubs limit their games to active and passive members-only to avoid the taxation.
Hence, in order to attend the first cup final match on 29 August 1920 between
Odense BK
Odense Boldklub (; also known as Odense BK or the more commonly used OB) is a Danish professional football club based in the city Odense. The club has won three Danish championships and five Danish Cup trophies. OB play in the Danish Superliga ...
and reigning
regional league champions B 1909
Boldklubben 1909, known as B1909, is a Danish association football club currently playing in the Denmark Series. They play at Gillested Park in Odense on Funen, which has a capacity of 6,000. Founded in 1909, the club spent a total 38 seasons i ...
, spectators had to already be (or become beforehand) a member of one of the regional football association's clubs.
If a club decided to take admission to a cup match, the Funen FA had determined the entrance fee should be minimum DKK 1 (as per 1920) and half the price for children.
Despite the
Danish FA
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establishing the short-lived nation-wide cup tournament,
Danmarkspokalturneringen in 1940, the regional Funen Cup tournament continued its existence.
At a meeting on 15 June 1945, the Funen FA cancelled the 1945 edition due to the difficult travel conditions in place at the end of
Denmark's occupation in World War II, and instead focusing their efforts on rebooting the regional league tournaments.
The
Funen
Funen ( da, Fyn, ), with an area of , is the third-largest island of Denmark, after Zealand and Vendsyssel-Thy. It is the 165th-largest island in the world. It is located in the central part of the country and has a population of 469,947 as of ...
cup tournament was discontinued after the
1953 edition ahead of the introduction of the national-wide cup competition beginning in 1954, the
DBUs Landspokalturnering, organised by the
Danish FA
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(DBU).
The most successful club in the history of the tournament's 33 editions was
B 1909
Boldklubben 1909, known as B1909, is a Danish association football club currently playing in the Denmark Series. They play at Gillested Park in Odense on Funen, which has a capacity of 6,000. Founded in 1909, the club spent a total 38 seasons i ...
, who won a total of fourteen cup titles and appeared as a losing finalist on nine occasions.
Only seven clubs, and mostly clubs from the main city on the island of Funen,
Odense
Odense ( , , ) is the third largest city in Denmark (behind Copenhagen and Aarhus) and the largest city on the island of Funen. As of 1 January 2022, the city proper had a population of 180,863 while Odense Municipality had a population of 20 ...
(especially
B 1909
Boldklubben 1909, known as B1909, is a Danish association football club currently playing in the Denmark Series. They play at Gillested Park in Odense on Funen, which has a capacity of 6,000. Founded in 1909, the club spent a total 38 seasons i ...
,
B 1913
Boldklubben 1913 is a Danish football club which plays in Albani Series. They play at Campus Road, in Odense on Funen. B1913 spent one season in the ''1961–62 European Cup'', which is the club's most notable international appearance.
From ...
and
Odense BK
Odense Boldklub (; also known as Odense BK or the more commonly used OB) is a Danish professional football club based in the city Odense. The club has won three Danish championships and five Danish Cup trophies. OB play in the Danish Superliga ...
), appeared in the finals. A club had to win five cup championship finals, also known as ''lots'', in order to keep the silver trophy permanently — the trophy was distributed as a perpetual prize kept by the winner until the next season.
The first trophy was financed by
Fyns Boldspil-Union and was eventually won by
B 1909
Boldklubben 1909, known as B1909, is a Danish association football club currently playing in the Denmark Series. They play at Gillested Park in Odense on Funen, which has a capacity of 6,000. Founded in 1909, the club spent a total 38 seasons i ...
in
1930
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, the second trophy was won by
B 1913
Boldklubben 1913 is a Danish football club which plays in Albani Series. They play at Campus Road, in Odense on Funen. B1913 spent one season in the ''1961–62 European Cup'', which is the club's most notable international appearance.
From ...
in
1939
This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history.
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, while the third trophy, valued at DKK 600 (as per 1941), was won by
B 1909
Boldklubben 1909, known as B1909, is a Danish association football club currently playing in the Denmark Series. They play at Gillested Park in Odense on Funen, which has a capacity of 6,000. Founded in 1909, the club spent a total 38 seasons i ...
in
1944
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after five consecutive cup titles and having the only club name on the trophy.
A fourth version of the trophy was installed by the ''
Foreningen til Indkøb af Boldspilrekvisiter A/S'' (F.I.B.).
Finals
Results by team
Teams shown in ''italics'' are no longer in existence.
B 1909
Boldklubben 1909, known as B1909, is a Danish association football club currently playing in the Denmark Series. They play at Gillested Park in Odense on Funen, which has a capacity of 6,000. Founded in 1909, the club spent a total 38 seasons i ...
won the second and last edition, won the most cup titles and lost the second largest number of final matches.
References
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