Sports Club Egedal (; simply known as SC Egedal or SCE) was a

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club from

Egedal Egedal Kommune is a municipality (Danish, '' kommune'') in Region Hovedstaden in Denmark. It covers an area of with a total population of 42,297 (1 April 2014). Its mayor is Karsten Søndergaard, a member of the Liberal Party (''Venstre'') politic ...

which was founded on 1 July 2011. The club was the result of a partial merger between the women's and men's senior teams of

Stenløse Boldklub Stenløse may refer to: * Stenløse, Denmark **Stenløse Municipality ** Stenløse station **Stenløse BK Stenløse Boldklub is an association football club based in the town of Stenløse. The team currently plays in the Zealand Series, the fif ...

and

Ølstykke FC Ølstykke Fodbold Club ; also known as Ølstykke FC or ØFC) is an association football club based in the town of Ølstykke on Zealand, Denmark. The men's team competes in the Series 1, the sixth tier of the Danish football league system and the ...

. At the extraordinary general assemblies of the two parent clubs in January and February 2011, the members of the clubs voted by a large majority to merge the two senior departments, and the

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(DBU) approved the partial merger on 2 April 2011. The

Zealand Zealand ( da, Sjælland ) at 7,031 km2 is the largest and most populous island in Denmark proper (thus excluding Greenland and Disko Island, which are larger in size). Zealand had a population of 2,319,705 on 1 January 2020. It is the 1 ...

-based team played their home matches at

Ølstykke Stadium Ølstykke Stationsby, commonly known as Ølstykke, is a town in Egedal Municipality, serving as its municipal seat. Until January 1, 2010, Ølstykke was an independent city, but today it has merged with Stenløse, Denmark, Stenløse and forms the ...

, which has a total capacity of 3,000 spectators (of which 752 seated). The club was a member of DBU and the local football association,

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, and played in red jersey, navy blue shorts and navy blue socks. The club's logo symbolized the

Veksø helmets Veksø is a small town located between Ballerup and Ølstykke- Stenløse in Egedal, some 20 km northwest of Copenhagen, Denmark. The town is on a hill, surrounded by meadows and bogland. Veksø station is served by the Frederikssund radial of the ...

, which are unique to both Egedal's local history and Danish cultural perception. The two helmets can be dated to the Late

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, approximately 1,000 to 800 BC. After a historically strong

Danish 2nd Division The 2nd Division ( da, Danmarksturneringens 2. division or Herre-DM 2. division) is a semi-professional association football league for men and the third division in Denmark. It is organised by the Divisionsforeningen on behalf of the Danish Footb ...

East group in 2011–12, SC Egedal suffered relegation to the fourth-tier

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(2012–13) despite achieving 32 points and a goal score of only −3. Despite the relegation, SC Egedal managed to hold on to a core group of players, and mixed with a larger group of young talents from Team Egedal, the red-blues managed to return to the higher divisions after only a season's absence. The team won the Denmark Series Group 2 ahead of GVI on goal difference, to which especially Thomas Wagner was a major contributor with no less than 40 season goals. The following season in the 2nd Division East 2013–14 was one long battle for avoiding relegation, and the team eventually had to see themselves suffered relegation to the Denmark Series again at the end of the season. At the start of the new season, SC Egedal dismissed head coach Jimmy Kastrup on 6 October 2014, after disappointing results, and the club ended the season as 11th in the league table. On 24 February 2015, Stenløse Boldklub held an extraordinary general meeting, where it was decided that at the end of the season, Stenløse Boldklub would withdraw from SC Egedal. This meant that the club was dissolved as of 30 June 2015,Stenløse Boldklub kører solo
/ref> and that Stenløse Boldklub had to continue the upcoming season in the fifth-tier

Zealand Series Zealand Series ( da, Sjællandsserien, SS, Herre Sjællandsserien) is the highest division for men organized by the regional association DBU Sjælland and one of the sixth-highest divisions overall in the Danish football league system. The Zeala ...

while

had to compete in the DBU Zealand Series 3, the eight-tier in the

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References

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