Kastrup Boldklub (Kastrup BK or KB for short) is a
Danish
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* Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish a ...
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
club based in the
suburb of
Kastrup
Kastrup () is a suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark, on the east coast of Amager in Tårnby Municipality. It is the site of Copenhagen Airport. In Danish, the airport is often called ''Kastrup Lufthavn'' (Kastrup Airport) or ''Københavns Lufthavn, Kast ...
(
Tårnby Municipality
Tårnby Kommune () is a municipality ( Danish, '' kommune'') bordering Copenhagen Municipality on the island of Amager just east of Zealand (''Sjælland'') in eastern Denmark. The municipality includes the islands of Saltholm (16 km2;2 inh ...
) on
Amager. As of the
2017/18-season, the club's first senior men's team play in
Denmark Series (
level 4). The club was founded on 4 May 1933 as Boldklubben Funkis and changed to the current name in 1941.
The senior men's football team have since 1985 primarily played their home games at Kastrup Idrætsanlæg located at Røllikevej, Kastrup next to the club house, but have previously played their matches at
Tårnby Stadium during their tenure in the higher ranking leagues, and occasionally still do.
Kastrup Boldklub has spent a total of 9 seasons in the
highest football league in Denmark, the last in 1987. Their best result was set in the 1979 season, when the first team finished in fourth place in the top league and thus qualified for the
1980 Intertoto Cup. The club has participated in two elite superstructures,
Amager United (2002–2006) and
FC Amager (2008–2009) and enjoy long-standing rivalries against neighbouring clubs
BK Fremad Amager
Boldklubben Fremad Amager (meaning in English: The Ball Club Forward Amager ; abbreviated Fremad A) is a Danish professional football club based in the district of Amager Vest, Copenhagen. As of the 2020–21 season, the club's senior men's team ...
and
AB Tårnby (previously
Tårnby Boldklub
Tårnby Boldklub (or Taarnby Boldklub, ) were a Danish football club based in Tårnby on Amager, which played their home games at Taarnby Stadium. The club was formed on 21 April 1935 as Arbejdernes Idræts Klub Tårnby (AIK Tårnby) and becam ...
). The Tårnby-based club has fielded eight active players on the national football teams, seven youth male players for the teams of
Under-17,
Under-19,
Under-21, Denmark national amateur football team, Denmark national B-football team, and a senior player (
Adam Fogt) on the
Denmark national football team, including one female player on a youth team.
Head coach history
The person responsible for direction of the first senior team has traditionally been given the title of
head coach/trainer.
Achievements
:
*9 ''seasons'' in the ''
Highest Danish League''
*5 ''seasons'' in the ''
Second Highest Danish League''
*13 ''seasons'' in the ''
Third Highest Danish League''
*4 ''seasons'' in the ''Fourth Highest Danish League''
Club's honours
Domestic
*
2nd Division (II)
** Winners (1):
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
* January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
*
3rd Division East (III)
** Winners (1):
1974
*
Denmark Series (IV)
** Winners (1):
1969
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon.
Events January
* January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
* January 5
**Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
(Group 1)
** Runners-up (1):
2015–16 (Group 1)
*
Copenhagen Series
Copenhagen Series for men ( da, Københavnsserien for Herrer; Herre Københavnsserien), unofficially also known as Københavnerserien and often shortened to KS serien and KS Herre, is the highest division for men organised by the regional football ...
(IV/V)
** Winners (6): 1954–55, 1959, 1966, 1967, 1985
, 2013–14
** Runners-up (3): 1964, 1984
, 2011–12
* Mellemrækken (''V'' under
KBU)
** Winners (1): 1952–53
* Triangelpokalen
** Winners (2): 1949,
1950
: Won by reserve team
References
External links
Official website for the amateur section{{in lang, da
Football clubs in Denmark
Football clubs in Copenhagen
1933 establishments in Denmark
Association football clubs established in 1933