Tag: FC Midtjylland
Sports Round-Up: The royal family will not travel to Qatar for the 2022 World Cup
There will not be a member of the Danish royal family in Qatar for the World Cup in 2022. The royal family has decided to follow the line of the acting government. This means that Denmark will not be officially represented during the competition. The royal family was completely free to make its own choice, […]
No surprises in Denmark’s WC 2022 squad… for now
Five tickets are still up for grabsDue to injuries and form situations, Hjulmand will wait to reveal his final five selections. He said there were about 10-12 candidates still fighting for the last five seats. One will be a goalkeeper and if he can shake off his injury, Frederik Rønnow will be called up. Otherwise, […]
Sport Round-Up: FCM draw Sporting Lisbon in the Europa League Round of 16
As group runners-up, FC Midtjylland drew Sporting Lisbon in the Europa League final this afternoon. The first match will be in Lisbon on February 26 and the second leg on February 23. Sporting previously finished third in their Champions League group. Insane qualificationFC Midtjylland’s qualification last Thursday could not have been more epic: their 2-0 […]
Sport Round-Up: Brøndby bought by American company
Today has been a historic day for Danish football! Brøndby IF’s chairman, Jan Bech Andersen, has today sold the majority of shares in the club to the American company Global Football Holdings. Participating in a pan-European stableAround 30 million euros will be injected into the club. The new owner has already acquired several European football […]
World Cup stars of the future? Eleven to watch in 2026
A decent track recordNevertheless, CPH POST once in a while gives its best offer in relation to the stars of the future on Denmark’s national team. We did it ten years ago in 2012, listing six players aged 15-18 to look out for going forward. Not to toot our own horn, but four out of […]
Danish news Round-Up: Avoiding the draft with the state’s blessing
There will be no Defense Day this year if a bill from the Ministry of Defense were to be adopted by the Folketing. Defense Day is the name given to the process by which young men are selected for national service by lottery. Should they be deemed fit enough to serve, an ‘unlucky’ draw will […]
Sport Round-Up: Danish cycling success keeps on coming… this time in the women’s Tour de France
Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig’s win on the third stage of the inaugural Tour de France Femme yesterday was the perfect tonic for her Team Française des Jeux after a brutal Monday in the saddle that sidelined teammate Marta Cavalli after a horror crash. In the history of the men’s race, you’d struggle to find an instance […]
Sport Round-Up: Denmark’s Euro 92 heroes celebrate 30 years later
Against all oddsNo one gave the 92 team a chance to advance from a tough group with England, France and hosts Sweden. Especially when their best player Michael Laudrup was missing after colliding with coach Richard Møller Nielsen. But somehow they overcame the indomitable odds and faced the defending Dutch champions in the semi-finals. Ruud […]
Sport Round-Up: The architect’s solution can revolutionize Copenhagen’s football pitch problem
Stack them high!However, the architectural firm Werk Arkitekter has come up with a cunning plan. The company has proposed to make Copenhagen a pioneer for a solution that involves ‘stacking’ five or more courts on top of each other to form a kind of wooden-based sports tower. “The huge space-consuming sport is a challenge in […]
Sport Round-Up: Denmark scores big on Russia’s football exclusion
Women qualify for the World Cup 2023Denmark has already secured a European group place via the Superliga winner this year, and the Russian expulsion also affects this. Instead of getting into the Champions League qualifier in the third round, the upcoming Superliga winners will instead go into the playoff round. Finally, the Russian women’s team […]
Sports Round-Up: Awarding World Cup games bad news for the many who do not subscribe to TV2
Similarly for women’s EuroTV2 has the rights to Denmark’s next match (France) on 25 November at 17.00, before DR takes over the third match on 30 November at 16.00 against either Peru, Australia or the UAE. Should Denmark get out of the group, the two TV stations will change each round, with TV2 starting with […]
The Danish Football Association regrets Qatar investments
More on the way? Højer said that the shares in question make up just 0.1 percent of the association’s portfolio of DKK 219 million. According to radio station 24syv, DBU held shares in several large banks in Qatar as well as bonds in the state-owned energy company Qatar Energy. The media revealed that the DBU […]
Sports Round-Up: Premier League enemy for Danish teams in Europe
Hunter 15 Brøndby finished last in their Europa League group and have finished playing European football this season. With three teams left in Europe, Denmark has the most teams out of the countries aiming for the top 15 in the European coefficient ranking. Turkey is currently in 15th place and has two teams left, just […]
FC Copenhagen qualifies for the knockout phase of the Conference League on good night for Danish clubs
FC Copenhagen has qualified for the knockout phase of the UEFA Conference League by topping Group F. However, qualification has not been a formality. A 1-2 home defeat to PAOK in their third match threatened to derail their bid, but they got back on track with an impressive win in the return leg. Last night, […]
Sports Round-Up: Pious, pious Miss Brown! Danish women on fire in the World Cup qualifier in 2023
Signe Bruun set a new record by scoring five goals when the women’s national team beat Bosnia-Herzegovina 8-0 in their World Cup qualifier in 2023 at home in Viborg. Pernille Haarder was also on the team magazine as the women ran with riots and scored four in each half. It takes their goal difference to […]
Sports Round-Up: Superliga or the Golden Goose?
Market at the right time For Henrik Tønder, the head of Vejle Boldklub, who sold the young striker Wahid Faghir to Bundesliga clothes Stuttgart for around DKK 50 million, “the overall goal has been to create stability in our economy”. Rasmus Klarskov Storm, head of research at the Sports Analysis Institute, confirmed the economic turmoil […]
Sports Round-Up: Denmark’s miraculous golf twins make European tour history with back-to-back victories
The Danish golf twins Rasmus and Nicolai Højgaard, 20, have written history over the last eight days. A brilliant behind nine First, Rasmus won the Omega European Masters in Switzerland on August 29 – his third European Tour victory since becoming a professional. He started the final day in 15th place, but played holes 13-15 […]
Sports round • FC Bestseller – the richest man in Denmark turns to football
New vision, new coach Povlsen has reportedly decided to pump 125 million kroner into FCM to take over 25 percent of the shares in the club. The billionaire has previously been seen at FCM’s home games, and Bestseller’s headquarters are located in Brande, just south of Herning. As part of the move, the club has […]
Brøndby finally returns to the top of the Super League
No accident this time Three years ago, Brøndby’s fans had persevered their team throws a seemingly certain title bid in dramatic fashion. But there was no accident for Brøndby today, when coach Niels Frederiksen, the team and the fans celebrated the final whistle with enormous enthusiasm (see the video below). The title was Brøndby’s 11th […]
Henrik Larsson’s son is part of Sweden’s Eurotrupp
Sign up Jordan Larsson (file image). Image: Imago / PA Images Jordan Larsson (file image). Image: Imago / PA Images SWEDEN COACH Janne Andersson named Henrik Larsson’s son Jordan in his squad for the European Championships 2020 on Tuesday, with veteran striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic excluded from the tournament with a knee injury. Spartak Moscow’s forward […]
Sorrow and ecstasy: Brøndby like a phoenix, while Denmark’s Eurovision dreams are up in flames
Thursday night was a drama for armchair fans flickering between channels while watching the Super League and Eurovision. Scene vs stadium By representing Denmark in Rotterdam, Fyr og Flamme was last in the 17-strong second semifinal and needed a top ten finish to advance, and eerie players expected this to be an advantage. Brøndby, meanwhile, […]
Sport Round-Up: Denmark achieves top-15 coefficient mark
The Chelsea routeDenmark needs every point it can get next season as it loses 8,500 points gained from the very successful 16/17 season. But another good news is that if Chelsea do not win the Champions League this season, the Danish champions will be guaranteed a place in the Europa League group stage if they […]
Therefore, Stig Tøftning must walk 167 kilometers
The former national team player in football, Stig Tøftning, has lost a bet. That is why he is currently embarking on a longer walk – 167 kilometers from his home in Aarhus and to the border. A trip that is meant to take six days. The long walk was due to Stig Tøftning back in […]
Sports round: Do not forget Grinch, Denmark is trying to steal the world championship!
Denmark landed its easiest World Cup qualifying group in December, when it drew Austria, Scotland, Israel, the Faroe Islands and Moldova, but now a new opponent has raised its head – from within. Over 5,300 Danes have already signed a citizens’ proposal to boycott the tournament in late autumn next year based on host Qatar’s […]
Magical shapes the next generation
Here he not only shapes young football talents in life on the pitch, but also off the pitch in terms of his role as a family teacher. Here, the flamboyant Zealander can share the experiences from a long life in the world of football and festivities. The midfielder with the nickname “Tryllerik” could probably have […]
Sport Round-Up: Denmark mourns Diego Maradona
THE GOAT is gone A controversial figure during and after his playing days, only a few can argue for Maradona’s brilliance. Who else could score the biggest and most infamous goals in world championship history … just four minutes apart in the same game! Maradona only played against Denmark once: in a penalty shootout victory […]
Danish club has the youngest team in Europe
For the second year in a row, FC Nordsjælland is ranked as the youngest team in Europe after the first five matches in the Superliga season. According to CIES Football Observatory, FCN’s average age of 22.7 years is unparalleled in the top 20 UEFA leagues – right in front Famalicão (23.1) and The Hague (23.4). […]
Sport Round-Up: Denmark qualifies for tenth euro
With a 3-1 victory over Italy on Tuesday night, Denmark’s women’s team sealed their European Championship qualification with one game left. It was the first time in nine years that Italy lost at home, and the result goes through Denmark to their tenth European final. It was also the first game during the qualification that […]
Sports Round-Up: Denmark’s road to Qatar looks smoother thanks to top sowing
FIFA has confirmed that the draw for the European qualifying rounds of football’s biggest tournament will be revealed on December 7, when 55 nations are pulled out of the hat. This time, the World Cup qualifiers will take a more compressed schedule, with all games played between March and November 2021. Very likely to be […]
Sports Round-Up: Denmark’s road to Qatar looks smoother thanks to top sowing
FIFA has confirmed that the draw for the European qualifying rounds of football’s biggest tournament will be revealed on December 7, when 55 nations are pulled out of the hat. This time, the World Cup qualifiers will take a more compressed schedule, with all games played between March and November 2021. Very likely to be […]
Ronaldo again against Messi: “The obvious narrative”
Cristiano Ronaldo is again set against Lionel Messi. Now in the Juventus shirt when the team was drawn against Messi Barcelona, as well as Dynamo Kiev and Djurgården’s bosses Ferencváros. Otherwise, Henriksson is mainly looking forward to Danish FC Midtjylland’s group – where they will face Liverpool, Atalanta and Ajax. The expert is also curious […]
Unpolished performance: FC Copenhagen is approaching the Europa League group stage
FC Copenhagen is a step away from reaching their 14th European group stage appearance for 15 years after defeated Polish side Piast Gliwice 3-0 at home in the third round of the Europa League qualifying round last night. The Lions started nicely and went on after 14 minutes through Kamil Wilczek before a finish by […]
Sports Round-Up: FCM pay attention to Champions League football
FC Midtjylland moved one step closer to the group stage in football’s leading club competition with a 1-0 victory over Bulgaria’s PFC Ludogorets on Wednesday. The victory means that the Danish champions are one game away from the Champions League final, which decides which teams join the giants in the lucrative group game. Draw on […]
