Kjøbenhavns Boldklub or KB is a Danish
sports club
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based in
Copenhagen
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. The club was founded 26 April 1876 on the grassy fields in outer Copenhagen which later became
Fælledparken
The park Fælledparken in Copenhagen, Denmark, was created 1906–1914 by landscape architect Edvard Glæsel in cooperation with the Copenhagen Municipality on the commons (Danish: ''fælled'') previously named ''Nørrefælled'' and ''Østerfæl ...
.
Tennis
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has been played since 1883. The club hosted, in 1921, one of the early tennis majors: the World Covered Court Championships, won by
William Laurentz
William Laurentz (; 26 Feb 1895 – 7 March 1922) was a French tennis player of the early 20th century whose main achievements were winning the singles title at the World Hard Court Championships and World Covered Court Championships.
Career
La ...
that year. Today, along with the sports already mentioned, the club also has facilities for
badminton
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,
swimming
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and
pétanque
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.
Football
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and
cricket
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has been played in KB since 1879, meaning that KB's football team was the very first club on continental Europe and it went on to become the most successful club in Denmark, winning a record 15
Danish championship titles from 1913 to 1980. In 1991, KB and
B 1903
Boldklubben 1903 or B 1903 is a football club founded on 2 June 1903, located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Seven times winner of the Danish championship (introduced 1913) in 1920, 1924, 1926, 1938, 1969, 1970 and 1976 and twice winner of the Dan ...
merged their professional football teams and formed
F.C. Copenhagen
Football Club Copenhagen ( da, Football Club København, ), commonly known as FC København, FC Copenhagen, Copenhagen or simply FCK, is a professional Danish football club in Copenhagen, Denmark. FCK was founded in 1992 as a superstructure on ...
. Until 1 January 2009, the F.C. Copenhagen reserves played under the KB name.
Logo
KB's logo is designed by architect and designer
Thorvald Bindesbøll
Thorvald Bindesbøll (21 July 1846 – 27 August 1908) was a Danish National romantic architect, sculptor and ornamental artist. He designed the Dragon Fountain, Copenhagen (''Dragespringvandet'') and is perhaps best known as the creator of t ...
(1846–1908). Bindesbøll also designed the
Carlsberg logo, and KB's logo is believed to be sponsored by Carlsberg.
History
KB was founded as a result of Copenhageners' burgeoning interest in
sport
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, which increased significantly throughout the second half of the 1800s. In particular, ball games such as
long-ball,
stick-ball and
round-ball were popular in the capital, and when the
Copenhagen Municipality
Copenhagen Municipality ( da, Københavns Kommune), also known in English as the Municipality of Copenhagen, located in the Capital Region of Denmark, is the largest of the four municipalities that constitute the City of Copenhagen (), the other ...
demolished the
rampart
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* Rampart (fortification), a defensive wall or bank around a castle, fort or settlement
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s and tore down the
city gate
A city gate is a gate which is, or was, set within a city wall. It is a type of fortified gateway.
Uses
City gates were traditionally built to provide a point of controlled access to and departure from a walled city for people, vehicles, goods ...
s in 1852, the Copenhageners found it easier to search out for
common areas to practice sports. The club's official four founders were
printer
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People
* Nariman Printer (fl. c. 1940), Indian journalist and activist
* James ...
F. V. Levison,
treasurer
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Government
The treasury o ...
August Nielsen, and
wholesalers
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Carl Møller and E. Selmer. Among the co-founders was also
Frederik Markmann
Frederik Joachim August Markmann (13 October 1848 – 15 July 1927) was a Danish football executive, who was the first chairman of the Danish Football Association from May 1889 to 1890.
Official career
Born in 1848 as the son of a master baker, ...
, who later became the first chairman of the
Danish Football Association
The Danish Football Union ( da, Dansk Boldspil-Union; DBU) 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 t ...
(DBU), which was founded in May 1889.
Football
Football was added to the club's programme on 24 October 1878, making it the oldest football club in the world outside of the
United Kingdom
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and the oldest football club on continental Europe. The first advertised games were scheduled to be held in a military exercise ground ("Exercerplads") near
Rosenborg Castle
Rosenborg Castle ( da, Rosenborg Slot) is a renaissance architecture, renaissance castle located in Copenhagen, Denmark. The castle was originally built as a country summerhouse in 1606 and is an example of Christian IV of Denmark, Christian IV's ...
on 5 January 1879 (at 11am). Nine months later, on 7 September 1879, the first-ever football match in Denmark was held in
Eremitagen in
Klampenborg
Klampenborg is a northern suburb to Copenhagen, Denmark. It is located in Gentofte Municipality, directly on Øresund, between Taarbæk and Skovshoved. Like other neighbourhoods along the Øresund coast, Klampenborg is an affluent area with many ...
, where
Birkerød Kostskole Boldklub faced KB's juniors, with the Birkerød school students team winning 3–0.
[ Other sources claim this match was actually held at Rosenborg's Exercerplads on 16 December 1883.
In 1888, KB, which was by the far leading club of the time, organized the very first Danish football tournament in 1888, which was attended by 15 clubs and bore the official name "Medaille Fodbold-Konkurrencen i 1888". KB's dominance and undisputed status as Denmark's best football club was also reflected in the fact that the club paid a significant part of the total expenses for the completion of the tournament.] KB were the pre-tournament favourites and lived up to it by comfortably winning the tournament, beating BK Haabet in the final on 29 April 1888 with a resounding 14–0, scoring 40 goals in total and not conceding a single one.[
In the first years of football in Denmark, the sport was played in places such as Rosenborg's Exercerplads and Eremitagen, but this changed in 1893, when KB become the first Danish club to get its own football field, being quickly followed up by AB, ]BK Frem
Boldklubben Frem (also known as Frem, BK Frem or BK Frem Copenhagen) is a Danish sports club based in the Valby- Sydhavnen area of Copenhagen. It is best known for its semi-professional football team. Since its foundation in 1886, Frem has wo ...
and B93, who also got their own tracks. In 1893, KB gathered its activities in Frederiksberg (where Forum Copenhagen
Forum Copenhagen ( da, Forum København, italic=no) is a large multi-purpose, rentable indoor arena located in Frederiksberg, Denmark. It hosts a large variety of concerts, markets, exhibitions and other events. The venue can hold up to 10,000 p ...
is located today), where surrounded by 10 tennis courts was the larger court ''Granen'' (K.B.'s Skt. Markus), which in 1910 was the home ground for Denmark's first international football match under DBU
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auspices, a 2–1 win over England Amateurs.
The Danish Football Association
The Danish Football Union ( da, Dansk Boldspil-Union; DBU) 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 t ...
(DBU) was founded by Frederik Markmann
Frederik Joachim August Markmann (13 October 1848 – 15 July 1927) was a Danish football executive, who was the first chairman of the Danish Football Association from May 1889 to 1890.
Official career
Born in 1848 as the son of a master baker, ...
on May 1889, a former cricket
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and tennis
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player who, among other things, had been a co-founder and chairman of KB. In the same year, DBU organized the first edition of Fodboldturneringen, which was held between 1889 and 1903, with KB winning on four occasions, including back-to-back titles in 1896–97 and 1897–98. The Fodboldturneringen was the forerunner for the Danish National Football Tournament, which was held for the first time in 1912–13, and ended with a KB triumph, thus becoming the first Danish champions.
In 1908, when Denmark
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made their international debut at the Olympic Games
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, the club provided seven players to the 17-man squad, three defenders (the Middelboe brothers, Einar
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, Nils
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*Nils Björk (1898–1989) ...
and team captain
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Kristian), three forwards ( Oskar Nielsen, Rasmussen
The surname Rasmussen () is a Danish and Norwegian surname, meaning '' Rasmus' son''. It is the ninth-most-common surname in Denmark, shared by about 1.9% of the population. and Vilhelm Wolfhagen, Wolfhagen) and the team's goalkeeper
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Ludvig Drescher, of which six started in the final
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against Great Britain
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in a 0–2 loss. They were the fundamental players behind Denmark's silver medal campaign, with Nils Middelboe scoring Denmark's first-ever official goal in a 9–0 victory over France
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on 19 October 1908, while Vilhelm Wolfhagen scored 8 goals in just two matches, a poker in both the quarter and the semi-finals.
The club began to spread its activities beyond Copenhagen. Among other things, they moved the football team into the Københavns Idrætspark
Københavns Idrætspark, in daily use Idrætsparken, also known as Parken, was a multi-purpose stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was initially used as the stadium of Denmark national football team and Kjøbenhavns Boldklub. It was replaced by the ...
(today's Parken Stadium
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) on Østerbro
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, which was inaugurated on 25 May 1911 with a football match between a combined team from B93 and KB against the English side Sheffield Wednesday
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, ending in a 3–2 to the latter. Later in the year, an audience record for a football match in Denmark was set with 11,233 spectators when a selected Copenhagen team with six KB players met the Scottish champion Rangers FC
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from Glasgow
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, who won by the score of 4–1. This attendance record only lasted three years, until Denmark met England Amateurs on 5 June 1914 and won 3–0 in front of 18,500 spectators in Idrætspark.
Danish national football team all-time top scorer Poul Nielsen
Niels Poul "Tist" Nielsen (25 December 1891 – 9 August 1962) was a Danish footballer who is the joint all-time best goalscorer for the Denmark national team with 52 goals in 38 matches.
Nielsen won a silver medal with the national team at ...
(1891–1962) played for KB during all of his career. One of Denmark's all-time greatest players, Michael Laudrup
Michael Laudrup (, born 15 June 1964) is a Danish professional football coach and former player. He is considered to be one of the greatest players of all time. He is the older brother of fellow retired footballer Brian Laudrup.
During his pl ...
, played for the club from 1980 to 1982 before rejoining Brøndby IF
Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening (, usually abbreviated to Brøndby IF (), is a professional association football club based in Brøndbyvester, Capital Region of Denmark. The club was founded in 1964 as a merger between two local clubs and was p ...
. Legendary striker Preben Elkjær
Preben Elkjær Larsen (; born 11 September 1957) is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Amongst others, he played with Hellas Verona in Italy, helping the club to the only major title of its history, the 1985 Serie ...
played for KB for one season as a trainee (1973–1974), while Nicklas Bendtner
Nicklas Bendtner (; born 16 January 1988) is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a forward. His preferred position was centre-forward, but he has also played on the right side of attack, and occasionally on the left. A large, ...
, who plays for FCK, was a former trainee at KB between the years of 2002 and 2004.
Since November 2018, KB is a member of the Club of Pioneers
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The Club of Pioneers was founded in 2013 by Sheffield FC, the first and oldest association football
Association football, mor ...
.
Tennis
In 1883, tennis
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became part of the club's activities, first at Rosenborg's Exercerplads, while the first actual tennis courts were built in 1889 by KB in Dronningens Mølle at Rosenkrantz Bastion (where Østerport station is today). In the late 19th century, KB established a large tennis facility called Porcelainsfabrik, which in 1902 laid the courts for the first major international tournament in Denmark. At one point in the 1920s, the club had more than 50 tennis courts, but as of 2021, the number has been reduced to just under 40. For a few years around World War I
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(1913 and 1919–23), the International Tennis Federation
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held the World Covered Court Championships
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, and in 1921 they took place in KB's first tennis hall at Pile Allé in Frederiksberg
Frederiksberg () is a part of the Capital Region of Denmark. It is formally an independent municipality, Frederiksberg Municipality, separate from Copenhagen Municipality, but both are a part of the City of Copenhagen. It occupies an area of ...
, and KB won the tournament.
Honours
Danish championship
*Champions (15) (record): 1912–13, 1913–14, 1916–17, 1917–18, 1921–22, 1924–25, 1931–32, 1939–40, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1952–53, 1968
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide.
Events January–February
* January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
* Januar ...
, 1974
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, 1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – ...
Danish Cup
The Danish Cup ( da, Landspokalturneringen; often referred to as Pokalen) is the official "knockout" cup competition in Danish football, run by the Danish Football Association. The cup has been contested annually since 1955.
The winner will quali ...
*Winners: 1968–69
*Runners-up: 1957–58, 1960–61, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1983–84
*53 ''seasons'' in the '' Highest Danish League''
*6 ''seasons'' in the '' Second Highest Danish League''
*1 ''season'' in the '' Third Highest Danish League''
Notable players
* Nils Middelboe
Nils Middelboe (5 October 1887 – 21 September 1976) was a Danish amateur track and field athlete and football player as well as a football referee and leader. He represented the Denmark national football team at the 1908, 1912 and 1920 Su ...
* Vilhelm Wolfhagen
Vilhelm "Wolle" Wolfhagen (11 November 1889 – 5 July 1958) was a Danish footballer who scored 14 goals in 18 games for the Denmark national team and won silver medals at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics. He played his entire career with K ...
* Poul Nielsen
Niels Poul "Tist" Nielsen (25 December 1891 – 9 August 1962) was a Danish footballer who is the joint all-time best goalscorer for the Denmark national team with 52 goals in 38 matches.
Nielsen won a silver medal with the national team at ...
* Preben Elkjær
Preben Elkjær Larsen (; born 11 September 1957) is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Amongst others, he played with Hellas Verona in Italy, helping the club to the only major title of its history, the 1985 Serie ...
* Michael Laudrup
Michael Laudrup (, born 15 June 1964) is a Danish professional football coach and former player. He is considered to be one of the greatest players of all time. He is the older brother of fellow retired footballer Brian Laudrup.
During his pl ...
* Nicklas Bendtner
Nicklas Bendtner (; born 16 January 1988) is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a forward. His preferred position was centre-forward, but he has also played on the right side of attack, and occasionally on the left. A large, ...
50 or more appearances
All players who have played in 50 or more such matches or played international football during their time at the club are listed below. Players are listed according to the date of their first professional contract signed with the club. Appearances and goals are for first-team competitive matches only; wartime matches are excluded, but substitute appearances are included.
Poul Nielsen
Niels Poul "Tist" Nielsen (25 December 1891 – 9 August 1962) was a Danish footballer who is the joint all-time best goalscorer for the Denmark national team with 52 goals in 38 matches.
Nielsen won a silver medal with the national team at ...
holds both the appearance and goalscoring records, with 201 appearances and 276 goals between 1907 and 1927. Torben Piechnik
Torben Piechnik (born 21 May 1963) is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a centre back. He made a total of 15 appearances for the Denmark national team, which he represented in the 1992 European Championship and 1996 Europe ...
is the only other player with over 100 appearances, with 175 between 1980 and 1987.
International players
In the first official game of the Denmark national football team
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on 19 October 1908, at the 1908 Summer Olympics
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, five players represented KB in that team, including team captain Kristian Middelboe. Since then, a total 75 players have represented KB in the senior Danish national team.
:''Listed according to the year of debut.''
* 1900s: Ludvig Drescher (1908), Kristian Middelboe (1908), Nils Middelboe
Nils Middelboe (5 October 1887 – 21 September 1976) was a Danish amateur track and field athlete and football player as well as a football referee and leader. He represented the Denmark national football team at the 1908, 1912 and 1920 Su ...
(1908), Vilhelm Wolfhagen
Vilhelm "Wolle" Wolfhagen (11 November 1889 – 5 July 1958) was a Danish footballer who scored 14 goals in 18 games for the Denmark national team and won silver medals at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics. He played his entire career with K ...
(1908), Oskar Nørland (1908), Bjørn Rasmussen
Bjørn Vilhelm Ravn Rasmussen (19 May 1885 – 9 August 1962) was a Danish amateur football (soccer) player in the striker position, who won a silver medal with the Danish national team in the 1908 Summer Olympics football tournament. R ...
(1908)
* 1910s: Poul 'Tist' Nielsen (1910), Ivar Lykke (1911), Svend Aage Castella
Svend Aage Castella (15 March 1890 in Copenhagen – 28 November 1938 in Copenhagen) was a Danish amateur football (soccer) player, who played for 13 games and scored one goal for the Denmark national football team.
Castella played his entire car ...
(1911), Kristian Gyldenstein (1911), Christian Morville (1912), Georg Brysting (1912), Alf Olsen (1917), Steen Steensen Blicher
Steen Steensen Blicher (11 October 1782, Vium – 26 March 1848 in Spentrup) was an author and poet born in Vium near Viborg, Denmark.
Biography
Blicher was the son of a literarily inclined Jutlandic parson whose family was distantly rela ...
(1918), Valdemar Laursen
Valdemar Kristian Laursen (30 August 1900, in Frederiksberg – 14 April 1989, in Frederiksberg), known simply as Valdemar Laursen, was a Danish amateur football (soccer) player, who played 44 games and scored one goal for the Denmark national foo ...
(1918)
* 1920s: Leo Dannin (1920), Poul Graae (1920), Axel V. Preno (1922), Svend Aage Remtoft (1923), Aage Jørgensen (1923), Wilhelm Nielsen (1925), Erik Eriksen
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(1929)
* 1930s: Henning Jensen
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(1931), Oscar Jørgensen (1932), Georg Taarup (1932), Eli Larsen (1933), Hans Christensen (1934), Egon Andersen (1936), Helge Jørgensen (1937), Jørgen Iversen (1938), John Nielsen (1938), Erik Glümer (1938)
* 1940s: Harald Lyngsaa (1940), Eigil Nielsen (1940), Jørn Jegsen (1943), Niels Bennike
Niels Bennike (6 August 1925 – 8 March 2016) was a Denmark, Danish Football (soccer), football player.
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2016 deaths
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(1945), Gustaf Pålsson (1945), Jørgen W. Hansen (1947), Dion Ørnvold (1947), Axel Pilmark
Axel "Pap" Pilmark (23 November 1925 – 13 July 2009) was a Danish footballer, who played as an amateur for Kjøbenhavns Boldklub (KB) and professionally for Italian club Bologna FC. He played 18 games and scored one goal for the Denmark nat ...
(1947), Erik Køppen (1949)
* 1950s: Arnold Olsen (1950), Erik Hansen (1951), Jørgen Johansen (1952), Martin Kristensen (1952), Per Jensen
Per Alex Jensen (10 December 1930 – 14 December 2009), known as Per Jensen, was a Danish football (soccer) player. He started his career as an amateur player with Kjøbenhavns Boldklub (KB) and was the top goalscorer of the 1959 Danish foot ...
(1952), Vagn Birkeland (1954), Jens Torstensen
Jens Torstensen (11 November 1928 – 30 November 2003) was a Danish footballer. He was part of Denmark's squad at the 1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officiall ...
(1956), Finn Alfred Hansen (1957), Jørn Sørensen
Jørn Sørensen (born 17 October 1936) is a retired Danish association football striker. He played 31 games and scored six goals for the Denmark national football team, and won a silver medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He started his career wi ...
(1958), Per Funch Jensen (1959), Arne Karlsen
Arne Karlsen (13 October 1939 – 16 July 1960) was a Danish footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American ...
(1959)
* 1960s: Bent Krog (1961), Ole Sørensen (1961), Henning Helbrandt (1961), Nils Jensen (1961), Gert Hansen (1961), Eyvind Clausen (1962), Niels Møller (1966), Kurt Præst (1968), Niels-Christian Holmstrøm
Niels-Christian Holmstrøm (born 23 February 1947) is a Danish former football player, manager, chief consultant in Team Danmark and sports director of Danish football club F.C. Copenhagen. Currently he is the chairman of Kjøbenhavns Boldklub ...
(1968)
* 1970s: Flemming Pedersen (1970), Niels Hagenau (1971), Eigil Nielsen (1971), Niels Sørensen (1974), Anders Sørensen (1974), Karl Aage Skouborg (1974), Torsten Andersen (1977), Klaus Nørregaard (1977), Henrik Agerbeck
Henrik Herbert Agerbeck (born 10 September 1956), known as Henrik Agerbeck, is a Danish former football player in the striker position. He started his career with Kjøbenhavns Boldklub, with whom won the 1974 Danish 1st Division championship. He ...
(1978), Ole Højgaard (1979), Finn Laudrup
Finn Laudrup (born 31 July 1945) is a Danish former association football player who played as a forward. He represented a number of Danish clubs and played professionally with Wiener Sport-Club in Austria. He played 19 matches and scored six goa ...
(1979), Ole Qvist (1979), Palle Hansen (1979)
* 1980s: Henrik Eigenbrod (1981)
Further reading
*Jens Jam Rasmussen and Michael Rachlin, "''Slaget om København''" (The battle of Copenhagen), Denmark, 2005, .
*Allan Mylius Thomsen, "''K.B. – 125 år. Et kalejdoskopisk billede af en boldklub og dens by''"
References
External links
Danish Football Association profile
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Kjobenhavns BK
Football clubs in Copenhagen
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Multi-sport clubs in Denmark
Sports clubs in Copenhagen
1876 establishments in Denmark
Cricket in Denmark