Spillerforeningen (or SPF or The Danish Player Association) is the

Danish Danish may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark People * A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark * Culture of Denmark * Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish a ...

representative organisation for professional

footballers 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 football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

. It was founded in 1977, and has approximately 1,000 members, of which 250 are full-time professional players both in Denmark and abroad. The association maintains the rights of the professional footballers against

Divisionsforeningen Foreningen af Divisionsklubber i Danmark ( en, Danish League), commonly referred to as Divisionsforeningen or shortened to DF (or FDD), is a trade, special interest and employers' organization for men's professional association football in Den ...

and

Dansk Boldspil-Union 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 ...

Jeppe Curth Jeppe Lund Curth (born 21 March 1984) is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a forward. He played 43 matches and scored 15 goals for various Danish youth national teams, most recently the Danish national under-21 team. Caree ...

is the current chairman of the organisation, elected in June 2016, while Mads Øland ( in Danish) is the CEO. The association is a part of the international organization FIFPro.

Presidents

:1977: Torsten Andersen :c.1980: Alex Nielsen :1980s: Lars B. Christensen :1980s: Bent Wachmann :1990:

Per Frimann Per Frimann Hansen (born 4 June 1962) is a Danish former football player. He played 158 matches as a midfielder for Belgian club RSC Anderlecht, with whom he won three Belgian championships, as well as the 1983 UEFA Cup. He played 17 matches an ...

:1990: Mads Øland :1997:

Mogens Krogh Mogens Krogh (; born 31 October 1963) is a Danish former professional football player who was most recently manager of Næstved BK. In his playing career, Krogh was the first choice goalkeeper of Ikast fS between 1981 and 1991 and of Brøndby f ...

:2000:

Søren Colding Søren Colding (; born 2 September 1972) is a Danish former professional football player, who most prominently captained Danish club Brøndby IF and VfL Bochum in Germany from his position of right-back. He represented the Denmark national f ...

:2002:

Palle Sørensen Palle Mogens Fogde Sørensen (26 March 1927 – 1 February 2018) was a Danish convicted murderer who shot and killed four police officers in 1965 on his way home after a break-in. Early life In 1949, shortly after his release from juvenile det ...

:2005:

Peter Møller Peter Møller Nielsen (born 23 March 1972) is a Danish former professional football player who became a sports journalist after ending his football career in December 2005. In 2018 he became sporting director of Dansk Boldspil Union. He won fo ...

:2006: Thomas Lindrup :2016:

References

External links

Official website
Trade unions established in 1977 Organizations based in Copenhagen Association football trade unions Football in Denmark {{footy-org-stub