DBU Bornholm (Bornholm Football Association da, Bornholms Boldspil-Union until 1 February 2011) is a district branch 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 te ...

, DBU Bornholm representing the Danish FA's

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly ...

clubs on the island of

Bornholm Bornholm () is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea, to the east of the rest of Denmark, south of Sweden, northeast of Germany and north of Poland. Strategically located, Bornholm has been fought over for centuries. It has usually been ruled by ...

. The Danish FA's is a member of both

FIFA FIFA (; stands for ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' (French), meaning International Association Football Federation ) is the international governing body of association football, beach football and futsal. It was found ...

and

UEFA Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; french: Union des associations européennes de football; german: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs fo ...

. DBU Bornholm was founded on 28 March 1907 and is based in

Rønne Rønne ( sv, Rönne) is the largest town on the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. It has a population of 13,807 (1 January 2022). It was a municipality in its own right from 1970 until 2002, when Bornholm was a county (Danish: ''Bornh ...

. It is a member of the Association of Local Football Unions in Denmark ''Foreningen af Lokalunioner i Danmark (FLU)'' which associated with both the

(DBU) and the Sports Confederation of Denmark (''Danmarks Idræts-Forbund, (DIF)''). Only clubs based on Bornholm are eligible for membership of DBU Bornholm. DBU Bornholm is the youngest and smallest of the DBU's district branches, and has a membership of 19 clubs, representing roughly 1.2% of the DBU's total number of football clubs (2005-figures).

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